Tag: NARENDRA MODI

CYCLONE FANI / Prime Minister Narendra Modi took an aerial tour of cyclone affected Odisha and praised CM Navin Patnaik’s efforts while West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee refused to hold a meeting with him to review the damage caused by cyclone Fani.

WONDER / Just like India hasn’t preserved its nuclear bombs for Diwali, Pakistan hasn’t preserved its own for Eid either. Let’s uplift the political discourse a bit.

Is it possible to unlearn the lessons of communalism that the ruling regime propagates through the toxic speeches and messages? As the elections approach, the author raises a series of critical questions.

COMMENTARY / Gandhi family’s visit to the Sabarmati Ashram on the 89th  anniversary of the Dandi March ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and Prime Minster Modi’s commentary on the Congress  being essentially an anti-thesis of Gandhian ideals - has revealed how Gandhi continues to be a much appropriated symbol within India’s political culture.

POLITICS/Democracy is not about passive consumption, or merely a routinized act of casting one's vote; as active/reflexive creators, we have to choose our politics. In a way, the act of exercising the voting right is an act of immense responsibility; it needs the willingness to learn and unlearn.

PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Sankalp Rally’ is in full swing as the NDA addresses audiences across states to cast a lasting impact on voters. In the count down to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the mobilization of the voter seems to be a shared political agenda.  

SANITATION WORKERS Amidst the politics of rhetoric and theatrics, a more organised approach is required to deal with the problems of India’s sanitation workers.

VIEWPOINT Amid war and nationalism Mr Narendra Modi unveils yet another spectacular edition of the Bhagavadgita. But then, has he really tried to learn something meaningful from this amazing text?

Here is a perceptive piece that speaks of a kind of politics - beyond a party or a fixed ideology - that seeks to recover the meaning of intense engagement in the micro reality of everyday world.

More than seventy years since independence have passed and yet we see that most of India’s manual scavengers and cesspit cleaners are invariably Dalits or poor Muslims.  Can Clean India become meaningful without cleaning the muck of caste discrimination?