by Subhash Rai | Apr 27, 2022 | India
First some history. According to a report in The Hindu, residents of Harijan Colony, also known as Punjabi Colony, Sweepers Colony, and Them lew Mawlong, is home to 342 families of Dalit or Mazhabi Sikhs. According to the Harijan Panchayat Committee, they “were...
by Subhash Rai | Dec 14, 2021 | India
The BJP’s Piyush Goyal, who is the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, claimed at a CII meet that India “plans to produced 5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines next year.” For that to really fructify, and for our concern about “equitable...
by Subhash | Aug 16, 2019 | India
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that there may be a better chance of peace talks with India if Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the general election. The assumption is that peace talks with Pakistan means talks on...
by Subhash | Jan 2, 2019 | India
An avid supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently asked me to name at least three of his foreign policy successes to be fair to the woefully biased leader of the nation. I am not particularly interested in being fair to those of the right and communal,...
by Subhash | Oct 10, 2012 | India
Sweet! RT @NewIndianXpress: Court asks Sahara to return Rs.17,000 crore to investors https://t.co/vaEyiwS4 #Sahara # RT @E_P_W: Revisiting Communalism and Fundamentalism in India – comprehensive review of the literature on communalism https://t.co/NmzD4TbJ # RT...
by Subhash | Jul 17, 2010 | India
One finding of the Arjun Sengupta Commission’s final report, The Challenge of Employment in India: An Informal Economy Perspective, should make us balk, but more importantly, should guide our assessment of “India”: “77% of the population in 2004-05 had to make...
