The year of hope. Yes, they are calling 2021 the year of hope. “They”, ie, our hyper-consumerist urban middle-class and elites. It’s not an Indian phenomenon per se. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, globally the middle-class, the driving force behind the market economy, remained inside their homes during the lockdown and harped on whatever essentials they needed. Many of them lost their jobs,...

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@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 115%; background: transparent } a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline } India rose in rebellion all over. Not once, not twice, but it’s regularly waking up to a rebellion. A plethora of political beliefs, a wide range of dissenting thoughts, a large stockpile of democratic gunpowder, and people...

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As the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict paved the way for a Ram Mandir (Hindu temple), which was demanded by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other affiliates of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — the fountainhead of global Hindutva fascism — since years, the Indian state’s metamorphosis into an official Hindu Rashtra, ie, a theocratic Brahminical dictatorship, is nearly done. The Supreme...

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Love is a universally endorsed thing and there are very few places on earth where loving someone is considered as a taboo or is a cause of sectarian belligerence, something that’s taking place in India and is actually being legitimised by the government of the day. The leitmotif of “love jihad”, which has been projected as sacrilege committed by the Muslims, who are...

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