The scene of violence in the name of emotive issues has been continuously throwing new patterns of instigating and orchestrating violence. In recent times we saw the major violence following the demolition of Babri Mosque (1992), Godhra train burning (Gujarat…
A mature response from Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan
Chandra Shekhar Azad ' Ravan' has been released from the jail by the Uttar Pradesh government. The police says that the cases were not pursued because…
Taj Mahal and games of divisive politics
Apart from natural beauty with which India has been bestowed with, it also has manmade marvels. And these are attracting not only Indians but people from…
Inter-Generational Poverty in Bihar-UP: Any Light at end of Tunnel?
Inequality is a consequence of development in the conventional sense we understand post-cave life. The problem is absolute poverty and inter-generational confinement of the same set of people in that poverty trap. Let me reject some dominant views that the…
Education in Bihar – Uttar Pradesh: Shocking or Illuminating?
Some months back a boy in his early twenties entered into my academic office to give me photo-copy of a paper. He seemed to be a little bit frightened or maybe it was my optical illusion. After all, it was extremely cold in Allahabad and all had reasons to…
Vicious – lawless action of the UP police, on girl students, at Benaras Hindu University
The All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) condemns the vicious and lawless action of the Uttar Pradesh police force in lathi-charging peaceful women students of Benaras Hindu University (BHU) on the night of 23 September 2017. The girls’ hostel…
Dangers of Vigilante Politics
The country is experiencing a spate of violence with cases of lynching in different parts of India. The citizen is hapless and government is unresponsive betraying its authoritarian tendencies rooted in its ideology. Over a couple of decades , BJP has grown…
Thakur Rogues in Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh is on the boil for over one month as the Thakurs who are also known as Kshatriyas or Rajputs have been engaged in violent attacks on the Dalits in which several people have been killed, several other injured and houses…
Yogi as CM: Portents for Politics in India
The spectacular victory of BJP in UP Assembly poll was capped by choosing of Adityanath Yogi as the Chief Minister of UP. He had not contested for the Assembly nor was he projected as the Chief Minister by BJP before polls. Why so many eyebrows have been raised…
Time for like minded “Secular Liberal” grand alliance
Yogi Adityanath has been appointed Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. That shows the power of 'mobocracy' when we call it 'democracy' and paid thugs define it in their different ways wasting time of the nation and confusing people further. I am not surprised…