Today is the third death anniversary of Rohit Vemula, who tried his best to fight against casteist forces in Hyderabad University, and ended his life unable to put up with the mammoth political pressure that was exerted on him. Though wide protests and demonstrations happened over his death and the circumstances that forced him to take that decision, the situation in the country remains unchanged. 

Ever since this country got independence, the nation hadn’t seen such divisive and ill minded government. No other government gave so much troubles to people as much as this government did, continuing to assault and defeat the tenets of constitution in the last four and half years since they have been in power.

The incident of JNU student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and seven others allegedly shouting anti-national slogans in the precincts of JNU campus in 2016 has again come to light with Delhi police drawing up the chargesheet against them on Monday.

The core of literature is protesting the power politics. This has been its lifeblood since long. The literature that seeks to stand on the side of power does not have a long shelf life.

Reservation is not a low hanging fruit for the exploited in this country. It has a history of centuries of fighting for this, and the sacrifice people like Ambedkar had to make for this to materialize. 

Though the Supreme Court had ordered CBI chief Alok Verma to be reinstated into his position, the government has taken less than 24 hours to unseat him through a committee led by PM Narendra Modi. The objections recorded by Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge did not make a cut.

Sabarimala which was in news just a few months ago owing to a grand show of solidarity at times of natural disaster, is now in news again thanks to Sabarimala.