Apoorvanand

Karl Marx envisioned a world where humans are not abstracted by societies or commodities

Let silence, the absence of language force us to look at crime non-poetically

Think about it: Liberals and RSS both want Muslims to shed their Muslimness.

Mahatma Gandhi blamed no one, but if the “Hindus and Sikhs insisted on turning out Muslims from Delhi, they would be betraying India and their own faith”.

That an individual can source divinity within herself was unimaginable for religious institutions. But for the institution of the nation state, the individual remains as suspect.

Orders to madrasas in UP and MP bear a dangerous message of domination.

The lynching of Ayub Pandit must make people of the Valley pause and ask: Is the Kashmiri soul being brutalised ? Kashmiri leaders will have to talk to their people frankly like Gandhi did after Chauri Chaura.

Relationship between government, army and us is being rewritten, disturbingly so

By siding with a politics which marginalises minorities and seeks to subjugate them, Hindus are losing the essence of their religion

As a Communist student activist, I was never attacked by your members. That was another era.

Digital education isn’t democratic, it creates deep inequalities between universities.

Attacks on Nivedita Menon, Rajshree Ranawat show the decline of state universities, perversion of student politics

Government directive to educational institutions to execute the digital financial literacy mission subverts the idea of the university.

Muktibodh was a Marxist writer, seeking the self’s freedom.

The UP government’s move to pay relief to the family of an accused in the Dadri lynching turns the principle of justice on its head.

Modi regime’s obsession with the ‘new’ and ‘historic’ is reminiscent of other attempts in history to purge the ‘old’, and to create the ‘non-people’.

Democracy in India, affirmed through elections, is pushing Muslims to the margins.

Because to rebel is to affirm and renew one’s humanity.

Like anti-blasphemy laws across the border, India’s legislation on cow slaughter and protection may have become a tool to harass and intimidate minorities.