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Ram Mandir Without Ram Rajya And a ‘Regime’ Driven By Fear of Loss
In Ram Rajya, King is “guardian of righteousness and glorious refuge of his people,” and “the protector of his subjects”. Can the BJP govt claim that they are the protectors of all their citizens after the chants of, “Goli Maaro Saalon Ko”?…
Davinder Singh embodies the dark, dirty underbelly of Kashmir’s security apparatus
SAWM member journalist Anuradha Bhasin writes how the arrest of Davinder Singh a deputy superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police has opened the dark side of the security apparatus in Kashmir. Beside delving deep into the layers of thus…
Satisfied with GoI Handling of Kashmir: Maldives Foreign Minister
In an exclusive interview with Maldives' Foreign Minister Abdulla Sahid senior journalist and SAWM member Smita Sharma finds out that Maldives consider the CAA and abrogation of 370 in Kashmir as India's internal matter and the ambassador…
A beloved jurist passes on
Journalist and SAWM member Beena Sarwar writes about Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim whom the writer lovingly called Fakru Uncle. Not only an emotional tribute to the man who wore many hats in his lifetime but an in-depth discussion on why he should…
Sri Lankan academics, activists ‘deeply concerned’ by CAA, NRC
Academicians from Sri Lanka have condemned the Government of India for introducing the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizen. More than 50 academicians and researchers have expressed their shock and…
Exclusion and ethnic strife: Story of Sri Lanka’s citizenship law
Senior journalist and SAWM member Nirupama Subramanian writes about an important but not much discussed political issue - the Indian Origin Tamils. Even before independence the treatment of Indian Tamils used to cast shadow over…
The new worry of depleting diplomatic capital
Suhasini Haidar, SAWM membervand senior journalist pens down why it will not be right for India to not pay attention to the global reactions on the internal political issues of the country write now. It's not interfering in domestic affairs…
Just 48 hours into 2020, and PM Modi has already obsessed over Pakistan twice
The New year has just begun. But Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has started to blame Pakistan for almost all the failures of his government. Jyoti Malhotra comments on not so surprising trait of the Prime Minister of India.
Theatre of Violence: What Vijay Tendulkar Would Have Written Today
Nishtha Gautam, journalist and SAWM member writes about how in today's time the exceptional play-write Vijay Tendulkar would have written. He who always defied propaganda and never sacrificed his empirical understanding of the society…
Wielding a pen amidst placards and pellet guns
SAWM member and journalist Suhasini Haidar pens down her own experiences of covering mass protests to elaborate on the points of what journalists should and should not do while doing their jobs of covering such situations.