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Three Farm Laws Repealed: Farmers, Nehru, Rahul Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and...

The Centre has decided to repeal the three contentious farm laws, PM Modi announced this morning. It is a day for farmers victory, and a great victory for people’s movement all over the world.  “Next...

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Rajiv Gandhi Government Wanted to Oppose Bill That Overturned Shah Bano...

Rajiv Gandhi was not the monster he is made out to be for passing the Muslim Women Bill in response to the Supreme Court verdict in Shah Bano case, it wasn’t the greatest disaster India has seen, the...

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11 Convicted In Gulberg Society Massacre Case Out On Bail: India’s Illogical,...

Reading the morning newspaper is a daily reminder of what a “Sh*t show in f**k factory” the state of things in this nation is. When you zoom out and see the entire picture, when you put it all in one...

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Muslim Comedian Munawar Faruqui’s Show Cancelled Due to Threats From Hindutva...

Bangalore Police wrote a letter suggesting that Munawar Faruqui’s show should be cancelled because he is a “controversial figure” who has made “controversial statement on other religion Gods”. The...

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Interview with Pargat Singh, Education Minister, Government of Punjab

Recently, on Twitter the Punjab Education Minister Sh Pargat Singh and Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia engaged in a Twitter brawl in which Pargat Singh saw Sisodia’s challenge and raised it to...

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Did Lakhs Of People Really Hail Godse On Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary? Truth...

On Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary his assassin’s name trended on Twitter. The hashtag #नाथूराम_गोडसे_जिंदाबाद remained among the top 5 trends with around 103k Tweets at last count. Right wing...

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Jeremey Renner Biography: An Underrated Avenger, Underrated Star, A...

Today, 7th January is two-time Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner’s birthday and, on that occasion, this is a Jeremey Renner appreciation post, rather a short biography of one of the most amazing...

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[Published] RSS Using Gandhi To Invent a Legacy For Savarkar, Real Historians...

As RSS seek to invent a legacy they don’t have in the independence movement, self-proclaimed right wing historians appear on the scene to quickly create new histories, dispute existing facts and earn...

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Demands For Uniform Civil Code Rises Amidst Karnataka Hijab Row, Pushkar...

The right-wing eco-system have started raising the demands of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) amidst the ongoing Hijab row in Karnataka. On Twitter and Facebook thousands of users are creating a narrative...

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Jeremy Renner Hates The Internet, I Understood Why When Disney+ Announced His...

Jeremy Renner and Brie Larson, both stars from the Marvels Avengers franchise, will exec produce their own new unscripted series on Disney Plus soon. “Disney+ has ordered two non-scripted series exec...

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Bail Rule, Jail Exception – Supreme Court Guideline – White Paper

This is a short white paper on the legal principle of bail rule, jail exception laid down by the Supreme Court of India. I prepared it as part of my research for an article for Sunday Navjivan and...

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My Thoughts on 5 States Assembly Polls, Exit Polls, Results, Why BJP Wins,...

On the Exit Polls: Exit Polls results were drastically different from what we have been seeing and hearing on ground but predictable so far as BJP’s winning spree is concerned. Experts on TV gave the...

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India’s Place In The World – In 2021 India Declined in 10 out 18 Key Global...

India’s global status is consistently falling as indicated by its ranking in 18 Key global performance indexes. Modi government’s go to response to this consistent decline is to shoot the messenger and...

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2017 Chandigarh Stalking Case: Varnika Kundu Alleged BJP Leader’s son Vikas...

In 2017 Varnika Kundu, a Panchkula-based disc jockey and daughter of an IAS officer registered an FIR against Vikas Barala, the son of the Haryana BJP president and his friend one Ashish Kumar. She...

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Why Even a Mind-Controlled Hawkeye Is The Most Formidable Force – Neither...

“Hawkeye, let’s face it, he’s nobody’s favourite Avenger.” Popular YouTube channel and web portal Screen Rant opened their video on “5 Hawkeye Theories That Could Change the MCU” with those damning...

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Another Battle Of Narratives In The Continued Trend of Post-Truth Politics In...

Another battle of narratives has broken out in the continued trend of post-truth politics in India. This time it is about the anti-Muslim hate and violence spread by Hindu supremacists in various parts...

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A Response to Prof Ranjit Goswami’s Claim That India Was Already A Post-Truth...

A counter narrative has emerged in India that there is nothing to talk about post-truth politics since India was already a post-truth society. Prof Ranjit Goswami’s 2017 article on The Conversation is...

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From Ukrainian President Zelensky to Elon Musk Buying Twitter: Things That...

Jeremy Renner started trending on Twitter as soon as the news broke that Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Hundreds of people used the occasion to troll Renner’s now defunct Jeremy Renner App. The joke...

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Role of Media and Journalists In Today’s Far Right Authoritarian Regimes...

In January this year I gave a guest lecture at a Webinar ‘Mass Media as a Career’ organized by POLIENZ (The Political Science Society) and IQAC of Deshbandhu College, Delhi University. You can watch...

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Vlog: Why Is Media Called Fourth Pillar Of Democracy? The Origin Of Media In...

According to Jurgen Habermas the concepts of media, free press, public opinion, critical debates, personal liberty, liberalism and democracy have all emerged from the 17th-18th century bourgeoise...

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