A poem that calls out the so-called elite and their support of the present regime in India.
Tag: communalism
UP Police Arrests 19-Year-Old for Social Media Post Against Adityanath
Police have taken suo motu cognisance of painter Akram Ali's WhatsApp status and charged him with promoting enmity, intent to insult religion and intentional insult to cause breach of …
Is India Really a Democracy? The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in the Wind: Nayantara Sahgal
The author's lament about the attacks on individual rights and freedoms in present-day India.
Intolerance
A poem on how in contrast to lactose and gluten intolerance, the cure for the social malady lies within us.
The Voice of a Party Worker
'I am assigned all the jobs that are dirty, for which I am incentivised with debauchery.'
Not Being the Other
The author recounts a dinner conversation in 2017 where statements against Muslims were accompanied by an acknowledgement of him being an exception.
UP College Sends Prof on Leave After BJP, Hindutva Groups Protest Against Namaz on Campus
The Sri Varshney College in Aligarh has also ordered an 'inquiry' into the issue, following pressure from saffron groups.
Lament of a Small Man
A squabbling, rioting nation can only reverse towards medievalism and never march forwards – only to become an object of ridicule and derision in the world.
My Faith Is Wavering…
The writer describes how her faith is being dented in today's times and laments about how she has begun to fear her own name.
The India I Live In
'I no longer belong to an India whose pride possession is secularism, or where the right to live isn't a privilege.'