Will ‘apologists’ take a bullet for the nation?

PUCL, PEN International condemn FIR against Scroll.in’s Supriya Sharma, The Scroll

The Scroll 23 June 2020 While PUCL called the charges ‘bizarre’, PEN International said that the FIR showed that the real intention of the Indian state was to stifle dissent. Human rights organisation People’s Union of Civil Liberties and global writers’ association PEN International on Tuesday condemned the first information report filed against Scroll.in Executive Editor Supriya […]

Tripura tribal bodies, royal scion move Supreme Court against CAA

The Sentinel Published on 17 December 2019 AGARTALA: Different tribal-based parties including a CPI-M’s frontal body and Tripura’s royal scion have decided to move the apex court against the new Citizenship Amendment Act, claiming that the new law is against the interest of the people of the Northeast. Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (TRUGP), state’s oldest […]

The Lock Down Diaries (XV) – Journalism As News Laundering And Bhakti, The Hill Post

The Hill Post 12 July 2020 Move over, Arnab Goswami and Sambit Patra- the putrefying corpse of Indian journalism has a new poster boy! None other than our resident, apoplectic walrus, Major General G.D.Bakshi. The good general has ascended/ descended ( depending on whether you are a bhakt or a gentleman) to hitherto unplumbed heights/depths […]