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  • | Illustration The Wire | MR Online

    The importance of Anand Teltumbde’s thoughts in a Republic of Caste

    Originally published: The Wire on August 5, 2022 by M.S. Sriram (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 09, 2022)

    Anyone engaging seriously with Teltumbde’s work will know his beliefs are antithetical to the crimes he is being accused of.

  • | A Reserve Bank of India RBI logo is seen at the gate of its office in New Delhi India November 9 2018 REUTERSAltaf HussainFile Photo | MR Online

    Despite domestic priorities, RBI will have to follow the U.S. Fed

    Originally published: The Wire on July 2022 by M.K. Venu (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 29, 2022)

    India will have to respond by increasing interest rates further sooner rather than later. Higher U.S. interest rates make global capital abandon other countries and rush to American bonds whose market yields have doubled at the shorter end.

  • | The 16 arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case One of them Father Stan Swamy passed away in custody Photo The Wire | MR Online

    Despite the evidence, courts yet to take note of spyware used against Elgar Parishad accused

    Originally published: The Wire on July 18, 2022 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2022)

    The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.

  • | MK Stalin and Pinarayi Vijayan at the CPIMs congress | MR Online

    ‘After all, my name is Stalin’: in a Speech at CPI(M) Congress, a roadmap to counter BJP

    Originally published: The Wire on April 11, 2022 by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2022)

    The DMK’s chief’s speech at the CPI(M)’s congress has reflected the assonance between communist and Dravidian politics.

  • | Lynching postcard from the United States circa 1900 BJP cartoon Cartoon depicting Jews communists and other enemies of the Nazis hanging on a gallows 1935 Source truthinphotographyorg Instagram US Holocaust Museum Collage The India Cable | MR Online

    For the BJP, the Muslim is not just the message, it is the only message

    Originally published: The Wire on February 22, 2022 by Siddharth Varadarajan (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Feb 24, 2022)

    The reason the party’s cartoon has evoked horror is because we have seen this sort of singular obsession with a targeted religious minority before and know where it leads.

  • | Father Stan Swamy | MR Online

    Ill-treatment of Stan Swamy in jail should ‘shake foundation of democracy’: Fellow prisoner

    Originally published: The Wire on January 6, 2022 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2022)

    Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, prisoners like Swamy are denied even the most basic rights.

  • | The street food festival organised by DYFI with several varieties of meat Photo Twitterdyfikerala | MR Online

    In Kerala, a street food festival takes on communal forces

    Originally published: The Wire on November 2021 by Rajeev Ramachandran (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Dec 01, 2021)

    The DYFI took on the Sangh Parivar’s attempts to polarise people with misinformation on halal by serving beef, pork, chicken and mutton in most towns of the state.

  • | Students Federation of India SFI activists protest against alleged communal violence in Tripura at Tripura Bhawan in New Delhi Friday Nov 05 2021 | MR Online

    Tripura Police books 102 people under UAPA for social media posts against communal violence

    Originally published: The Wire on November 6, 2021 by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Nov 08, 2021)

    Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police’s ‘highhanded’ behaviour.

  • | A Muslim bangle seller being attacked in Indore Photo Video screengrab | MR Online

    The World must pay attention to the violence against Muslims in India

    Originally published: The Wire on August 24, 2021 by Apoorvanand (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2021)

    From Ajmer to Indore, recent incidents show that the continuing hate-mongering by right-wing forces is having a direct impact.

  • | World Health Organization WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | MR Online

    With COVID-19, World Health Organisation’s fall from grace is complete

    Originally published: The Wire on August 6, 2021 by David Bell and Toby Green (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2021)

    In complete contrast to its founding ideals, the WHO is now captured by wealthy countries and corporations at the cost of millions of poor globally.

  • | Top Benito Mussolini António de Oliveira Salazar Miklos Horthy and Narendra Modi Bottom Adolf Hitler Francisco Franco Ion Antonescu and Augusto Pinochet | MR Online

    Fascism come in all shapes and sizes but the ‘family resemblances’ can no longer be denied

    Originally published: The Wire on July 31, 2021 by Anjan Basu (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2021)

    Umberto Eco’s inventory of proto-fascist characteristics comprised 14 elements. It will not be difficult for us to recognise the variant of many of these in Narendra Modi’s New India.

  • | Photo ReutersB Mathur | MR Online

    The new ‘Republic of Fear’

    Originally published: The Wire on July 12, 2021 by N.C. Asthana (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 13, 2021)

    The Indian state today seems to proclaim that everything in the country is in danger–whether it is religion, culture, communal harmony or public peace and tranquillity.

  • | Brazils health minister Marcelo Queiroga and Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro Photo ReutersUeslei MarcelinoFile Photo | MR Online

    Brazil suspends Covaxin contract as scandal becomes too hot for Bolsonaro

    Originally published: The Wire on June 29, 2021 by Shobhan Saxena and Florencia Costa (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 01, 2021)

    An invoice for advance payment of $45 million raised by the offshore partner of Bharat Biotech is certain to become the reason for the impending cancellation of the contract.

  • | The 16 arrested in connection with the Elgar ParishadBhima Koregaon case Photo The Wire | MR Online

    ‘Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 Immediately’: Nobel Laureates, EU MPs Write to Indian Authorities

    Originally published: The Wire on June 12, 2021 (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2021)

    The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.

  • | People carry the body of a man who died from COVID19 at a crematorium in New Delhi May 3 2021 Photo ReutersAdnan Abidi | MR Online

    COVID-19: Like in Dante’s ‘Inferno’, Indians are going through nine circles of hell

    Originally published: The Wire on May 19, 2021 by Debasish Chakraborty (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 21, 2021)

    Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.

  • In the era of fake news, we must celebrate the journalist in Karl Marx

    Originally published: The Wire on May 12, 2021 by Naren Singh Rao (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 14, 2021)

    His stance on free press stands in sharp contrast to the status of the press–being totally subservient to the state–in the communist countries of the 20th century.

  • | The cow dung cakes found in a suitcase that arrived on an Air India flight at the Dulles Washington airport in the US Photo US Customs and Border Protection | MR Online

    U.S. Customs to Indian travellers: Don’t carry cow dung in your luggage

    Originally published: The Wire on May 13, 2021 (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 14, 2021)

    In India, doctors recently had to issue a warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off COVID-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases.

  • | Ashish Pande Pandit at Ghazipur Crematorium Photo Naomi BartonThe Wire | MR Online

    Sacred Bones: Caste and COVID-19 in Delhi’s crematoriums

    Originally published: The Wire on May 9, 2021 by Naomi Barton (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 12, 2021)

    With an unprecedented volume of dead bodies, Brahmins and workers from other castes are working side by side in the crematoriums of Delhi. But caste defines every choice made among the pyres.

  • | A man carrying wood walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease COVID19 during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi India April 26 2021 Photo ReutersAdnan Abidi | MR Online

    Behind the lives lost during the pandemic lie India’s failing public institutions

    Originally published: The Wire on May 4, 2021 by A.R. Vasavi (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    The privatisation model pursued by successive governments, in health to education, has led to the perpetuation of class and caste divides, with the poor often left to suffer.

  • | Noam Chomsky in 2011 Photo Andrew RuskWikimedia Commons CC BY 20 | MR Online

    The pandemic has only exposed the suicidal tendencies of capitalism: Noam Chomsky

    Originally published: The Wire on May 18, 2020 (more by The Wire)  |

    ‘Another, probably more severe pandemic has been predicted. Scientists know how to prepare, but someone must act. If we choose not to learn the lessons that are right before our eyes, the consequences will be dire.”

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