Cricket in a few countries and over a few centuries has become very much like religion. Therefore, occasionally in some countries its manifestation too became extreme like ‘religion’. However, that happens only when you don’t understand sports or for that matter religion. Conspicuous symptoms of this disorder are very much present in the Indian sub-continent…
Month: February 2016
To Neo-Patriots from a seditious JNUite | Samar Anarya
[ My not so ] dear patriots, I, a JNUite, am overwhelmed with the brave display of your patriotism. I would have been happier if you had displayed the same over Pathankot attack too. The scoundrels attacked us and killed our brave soldiers despite all the shawl-sari-suit-mango-birthday wishes in person-surprise visit to deliver love letters…
नव-देशभक्तों के नाम एक जेएनयू वाले का खुला ख़त | समर अनार्य
[उतने भी प्यारे नहीं] देशभक्तों, कई दिन से आपका पराक्रम, जेएनयू पर आपकी उबल उबल पड़ रही देशभक्ति देखकर अभिभूत हूँ. मुझे अच्छा लगता अगर इतना न सही थोड़ा सा ही पराक्रम आप सूट-साड़ी-प्रेमपत्र-चौंकाऊ सालगिरह बधाई मने सबकुछ कर लेने के बावजूद पठानकोट पर हमला कर देने वालों पर भी दिखाते. आपने नहीं दिखायी, कोई…
Kanhaiya Kumar’s Speech: Full Text
They are the people who burn the tricolour; they are the stooges of Savarkar, who apologised to the British. They are the people who, right now, in Haryana, run the Khattar government that has renamed after a Sanghi an airport named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh. The upshot is, we don’t need a certificate of patriotism…
Statement of Solidarity with JNU from World’s Renowned Scholars
-STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY- We have learnt of the shameful act of the Indian government which, invoking sedition laws formulated by India’s colonial rulers, ordered the police to enter the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus and unlawfully arrest a student leader, Mr. Kanhaiya Kumar, on charges of inciting violence – without any proof whatever of such wrongdoing…
History backs AMU’s claim | Mohammad Sajjad
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi’s stand that AMU is not a minority university reveals the anti-minority stand of the political party now in power, says Mohammad Sajjad, outlining the long history behind one of India’s premier universities. This article was originally published by rediff.com. On January 11, 2016, the attorney general of India, Mukul Rohatgi, stated…
Valentine’s Day: Essentials and Trivialities | Mujahid Mughal
Since the middle ages, 14th of February is the date when couples (both married and unmarried) claim to express their partners some extra-love which they don’t shower them (perhaps) rest of the year. So they come in restaurants or elsewhere, exchange flowers and other gifts apart from doing other things which they believe are beneficial…
Women and the Struggle for Socialism | Alan Woods
brought to you in association with Marxists must fight against oppression and discrimination in all its forms, while pointing out that only a radical transformation of society and the abolition of class slavery can create the conditions for the abolition of slavery in all its manifestations and the establishment of a truly…
Minority Status? | Aftab Alam
Originally published by The Indian Express on 27th of January 2016. Notwithstanding Justice A.P. Sen’s pertinent observation in Lilly Kurian versus Sr Lewina and others (1978), “the protection of the minorities is an article of faith in the Constitution of India”, this principle has been under continuous attack. Earlier this month, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi…