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The Curious Case of Sanjiv Bhatt’s Sacking & 2002 Godhra Riots

There are some stories in Gujarat which don’t require any special investigation. Just a cursory look at the facts is sufficient.


Ehsan Jafri's daughter Nishrin writes an open letter to Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt

Dear Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt,

Fighting for Justice and human rights in India is a long and lonely battle. Once Teesta Setalvad mentioned this in an interview and for days I kept to myself trying to understand the depth of her sentence. I felt this loneliness from day one but I didn’t know how to express myself. So let me tell you how lonely this road that your husband has taken is and how long, lonely and difficult is the road ahead for you, your children and family, just in case you have not figured it out yet.



Once great legacy of Arabs, India reviving ancient underground water channels

One of the great legacies of Arabs and Persians to the world, the Qanat (Arabic for conduit) or Karez (Persian for smaller channels) system of irrigation – which made agriculture and town life possible in areas that would otherwise have been too arid – is now being revived in semi-arid Bidar, Karnataka’s less developed district in India.

The Many Plots To Assassinate Narendra Modi

On 28 August, the Pune Police arrested five activists—the trade-unionist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, the writers Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao, the lawyers Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves—and conducted search raids at the homes of several others. 

Why it's important to understand Karunanidhi's fight against Hindi imperialism

It is only because of the politics of Karunanidhi that English TV channels, English textbooks, a whole employment ecology with English as currency, exists in India.

Jailed For Waving A Black Flag At Adityanath, This 23-Year-Old Girl Is The Face Of Dissent In UP

A few hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a forum of investors in the city last month, police constables surrounded Pooja Shukla as she stepped out of her friend's house in Ismailganj.

Shukla, a 23-year-old activist with the Samajwadi Party (SP), said the policemen and women dragged her to a waiting jeep, snatched her phone, drove her around the city for five hours and only let her go when she pretended to be ill. Another group from the police, she said, raided her house in Sarojini Nagar, where she lives with her parents.

Viral Video: False testimony by journalist that Umar Khalid was not attacked

In the afternoon of August 13, reports emerged from New Delhi that JNU student leader Umar Khalid was shot at by an unknown assailant. According to these reports, the incident took place outside the Constitution Club of India. Khalid escaped unhurt while the assailant fled the spot after discarding the weapon.

PM Modi Makes The Internet ROFL With His Strange Theory On Fuel, ‘Gutter Ka Paani’ & Chai

The current state of Indian comedy is booming. People from all across the nation are putting up their content on YouTube, performing overseas and are even helping budding stand-up artists to get proper exposure. But, to be honest, they’ve tough competition from our country’s politicians. 

Amit Shah Omits Liability That Secured Credit For Son’s Business In Electoral Affidavit

Amit Shah mortgaged two of his properties for his son Jay Shah’s business venture Kusum Finserve LLP, which has recorded dramatic increase in credit facilities in recent years despite its poor finances. The BJP national president’s contingent liability with respect to this credit facility is, however, missing from his 2017 electoral affidavit. Publicly available documents indicate that in 2016, two of Amit Shah’s properties were mortgaged to the Kalupur Commercial Co-operative Bank, one of Gujarat’s largest cooperative banks, to secure Rs 25 crore in credit for Kusum Finserve. New documents accessed by The Caravan show that since 2016, Kusum Finserve has secured credit facilities amounting to Rs 97.35 crore—in tranches of Rs 10.35 crore, Rs 25 crore, Rs 15 crore, Rs 30 crore, and Rs 17 crore—from two banks, and one government undertaking. The credit extended to Kusum Finserve has gone up by nearly 300 percent in the last year, even while its latest reported balance sheets show a net worth of only Rs 5.83 crore.

Exclusive: In Punya Prasun Bajpai's Own Words, the Story Behind His Exit From ABP

This is an English translation of the exposé written by the former ABP News anchor Punya Prasoon Bajpai for The Wire Hindi about the circumstances of his departure from the channel and the official diktats which preceded it.

On July 14, 2018, the proprietor-cum-editor-in-chief of the national news channel ABP, owned by the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group, had a conversation with me along these lines:

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