Amit Shah

Jan

13

2021

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Defecting Democracy: The New Normal of Party-politics in India

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialAmit Shah, BJP, democracy, India, Indian Politics, Trinamul Congress

Written by : Pratip Chattopadhyay Illustration : Avijit Ghosh Summary: Presently defection in party-politics is becoming the new norm to smoothen the rise of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in the era of second coming of one-party system in Indian democracy. Defection as a practice is as old as party system in a democracy. However the new normaility of defection in Indian context is that defection is not resulting in new party formation or apolitical position but resulting in joining the bandwagon of BJP-ism thereby distorting the very essence of democracy itself, i.e. pluralism. In this context, this article claims that Indian…

Jun

28

2020

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INDIA – Illusive Unity ?

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialAmartya Sen, Amit Shah, Arvind Kejriwal, Diversity, India, Kerala, Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Union of States

Written by : Dr. Anjan Chakrabarti Photo credit : Shutterstock.com With our independence, we emerged as a democratic, pluralist, federal, secular, and socialist country, or nation. The 42nd Amendment Act of Constitution added the words socialist and secular in 1976. However, in the last 72 years, the way Indian body polity changed substantially. It implicitly or explicitly contested the concept of India as a nation, India as a secular country, pluralistic nature of Indian society and the very idea of social, economic and political equality embedded in the term socialistic. India as a nation emerged as an outcome of freedom…

Jun

24

2020

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The Pandemic and Dystopia: Complicating the coming of the Virus to India

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialAmit Shah, CAA, Indian federalism, Indian Government, Liberal India, Narendra Modi, Nationalism, NRC

Written by : Dr. Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Photo credit : Shutterstock.com From the Rhythm to Dystopia Pre-COVID 19 India was engaged in altering its Federal rhythm while the world embattled the novel coronavirus. The monolith of exceptional leadership within the BJP came to be questioned with conflicting commands from the PMO and the Home Ministry on issues such as the NRC and Modi’s weakening position in front of the surge of Amit Shah amidst the Delhi riot during Trump’s 24-25 February 2020 visit. The tensions in the altering federal rhythm were furthered by the failure of the opposition parties and…

Feb

12

2020

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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 : Win of Collective Conscience over Religious Jingoism

Current Affairs, Politics & Social, PopularAAP, Amit Shah, Arvind Kejriwal, BJP, CAA, Delhi Assembly Election, Narendra Modi, NRC, Shaheen Bagh

From director’s desk Written by : Jayanta Chakrabarty Illustration by : Suman Choudhury In the beginning of January 2014, I was in Delhi. Dhoom 3 was released in theatres a few days back and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had formed a minority government in a hung assembly with outside support of 8 legislative members of Indian National Congress, with Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was biting the dust instead of being the signal largest party with 31 elected members in an Assembly of 70 seats. It was a tumultuous political situation; it was…

Jan

15

2020

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Smells of teen power : The ongoing revolution in India

Politics & SocialAishee Ghosh, Amit Shah, CAA, Delhi, Jamia Millia, JNU, Narendra Modi, NRC, Shaheen Bagh, Visva-Bharati

Written by : Debkumar Mitra Kolkata, India Illustration : Suman Choudhury A little more than 50 years after that famous student uprising in the streets of Paris, 1968 is being replayed in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, and other cities of India. While, the French students led by people such as Danny the Red fought with President Charles de Gaulle’s gendarme for sexual freedom, war in Vietnam and jobs, in India the students are out in the openapparently, if one goes by the official media versions,to protest police excesses on university campuses. The situation has been on the boil on the…