India

The Pandemic Is A Portal

April 13, 2020 Arundhati Roy, Information Clearinghouse. Educate! COVID-19, India, Solidarity Economy, Workers

Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten themselves on to our lungs? Who can think of kissing a stranger, jumping on to a bus or sending their child to school without feeling real fear? Who can think of ordinary pleasure and not assess its risk? Who among us is not a quack epidemiologist, virologist, statistician and prophet? Which scientist or doctor is not secretly praying for a miracle? Which priest is not — secretly, at least — submitting to science? And even while the virus proliferates, who could not be thrilled by the swell of birdsong in cities, peacocks dancing at traffic crossings and the silence in the skies?

These Migrant Workers Did Not Suddenly Fall From the Sky

April 5, 2020 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! COVID-19, Global Recession, Hunger, India, Poverty

Madness engulfs the planet. Hundreds of millions of people are in lockdown in their homes, millions of people who work in essential jobs – or who cannot afford to stay home without state assistance – continue to go to work, thousands of people lie in intensive-care beds taken care of by tens of thousands of medical professionals and caregivers who face shortages of equipment and time. Narrow sections of the human population – the billionaires – believe that they can isolate themselves in their enclaves, but the virus knows no borders. The global pandemic driven by the variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus holds us in its grip; even as China seems to have bent the curve of infections, the charts for the rest of the world are forbidding: the light at the end of the tunnel is as dim as it has ever been.

Women Protesting India’s Anti-Muslim Citizenship Law Are Undeterred By Violence

March 12, 2020 By Mehk Chakraborty, Wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Citizenship, India, Protests, Reform, Women

Starting in the early morning of Feb. 24, sectarian violence between Hindus and Muslims broke out in several neighborhoods in northeast New Delhi — all while Donald Trump was on a visit to India. Videos emerged on social media of Hindus chanting “Jai Shri Ram,” or “Hail Lord Ram,” pelting Muslims with stones...

Riots In India During Trump’s Visit Expose Brutal Nature Of Indian Ruling Class

March 7, 2020 Adam Pal, Marxist.com Resist! India, Riots, Trump Administration

Trump's visit to India on 24-25 February saw deadly riots in Delhi in which at least 46 people were killed, while hundreds were injured. Many houses, shops and religious buildings were burnt or destroyed in northeast Delhi during these riots, which continued for more than four days. The violence, spearheaded by the Modi government, started after goons were unleashed...

Protesters Decry Delhi Violence Outside London’s Indian Embassy

March 3, 2020 Red Revolution. Resist! Immigrant Rights, India, Modi, Muslim

Protesters gathered outside the Indian Embassy in London on Saturday, to decry the ongoing violence in New Delhi as well as the policies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. “I think they need to repeal this amendment called the CAA. It’s anti Muslim, it’s anti-overseas Indian citizens, and it’s anti national,” said Vepari, a protester. At least 38 people have died in India’s capital since protests against the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which began on Monday, triggered violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims. At least 38 people have died in India’s capital since Sunday, February 23, after violent clashes broke out between Hindus and Muslims, triggered by continuing protests against the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

New Shared Values Between US And India — Arms Sales

February 25, 2020 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Educate! Donald Trump, Fascism, India

"For decades, the U.S.-India relationship was anchored by claims of shared values of human rights and human dignity. Now, those shared values are discrimination, bigotry, and hostility towards refugees and asylum seekers." U.S. President Donald Trump got a warm welcome from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to kick off a whirlwind 36-hour tour of the world's largest democracy and announced the two countries were finalizing a $3 billion arms deal.

How India Became Fascist, And Why Pockets Of Resistance Matter

January 13, 2020 Isaac K. Oommen, Towardfreedom.org Resist! Class Struggle, Fascism, India

A number of years ago, I was visiting my native Kerala to celebrate finishing my Master’s. My driver from the airport to my town was a family friend from the Nair caste. The Nairs were Kshatriya (warriors) that were integral to the resistance against the British. They invented the world’s oldest martial art, Kalaripayattu, which was so deadly that the British declared it illegal to carry the Kalari arms in 1804.

Largest Ever Strike In India Shakes Up Modi Govt

January 10, 2020 Subodh Varma, Newsclick.in Resist! India, Strikes, Workers

Besides industries, employees in banks, transport, ports, government offices, scheme workers and farmers and rural labourers stopped work. India woke up on January 8, to witness the largest ever strike with an estimated 25 crore (250 million) workers, employees, farmers and rural labourers stopping work and hitting the streets to protest against the Modi government’s economic policies and divisive politics.

The People Of India Are Taking It To The Streets

December 28, 2019 By Vijay Prashad, Socialistproject.ca Resist! India, Nationalism, Religion, Uprising

Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people – mainly young people – gather on the streets to express their anger at the government. Their protests, like those of the protests in Chile, emerged out of one particular grievance but then have cascaded outward. They are angry at the government’s attempt to define citizenship in a narrow and bigoted way; but they are also angry at the arrogance of the government and at the disastrous way in which the government has managed the economy.

Citizenship Law Protests Shut Down India’s Capital

December 20, 2019 By Saikat Datta, Asiatimes.com Resist! Citizenship, India, Nationalism, Protests, Racism

India’s national capital, New Delhi, faced a lockdown unprecedented in history on Thursday as protests over the religion-based Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) broke out across the country. The Act allows refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to become Indian citizens but bars Muslims. This, many have complained, violates the constitution of India – a country whose population includes 200 million Indian Muslims. Anger against the amended law had spread across India after students were beaten up in Delhi on Sunday and more protests were planned.

India’s Government Is Going To War Against Its Own People

December 19, 2019 By Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Educate! Immigration, India, Nationalism, Ruling Class

On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights released a powerful statement that criticized India’s new citizenship law. This “fundamentally discriminatory” Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 would expedite citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from India’s neighboring countries. But in the list of those minorities, it names only Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians. It does not name Muslims, despite the fact that there have been several important cases of Muslims being persecuted in Pakistan (the Ahmadis), in Afghanistan (the Hazaras), and in Myanmar (the Rohingyas).

Kashmir- The Curious Case Of Indian Collective Conscience

October 23, 2019 Mudasir Firdosi, Countercurrents.org Educate! India, Kashmir, Repression

Kashmir has been cut off from the rest of the world for more than two months now, with little certainty about what is coming next. Kashmiris living in and outside the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir remain disconnected with hardly any means to communicate with each other. Just a few days ago some mobile connectivity was restored. Terrible stories of loss, grief, and mourning are making rounds on social media, few news outlets, and mostly within the minds of Kashmiris. The days of siege have become another statistic with most losing count.

Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research Newsletter On Syria, Ecuador And India

October 11, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Educate! Ecuador, India, Syria

Turkey has invaded Syria. In particular, Turkey has crossed the border to destroy the largely Syrian Kurdish province of Rojava, south of the Turkey-Syria border and east of the Euphrates River. The green light for this invasion came from Washington, DC, when US President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the US would withdraw its troops from the area. Syria’s Kurdish population – no more than two million people – seized control of their own lands, built a creative society in the area, and fought for it against the various jihadi groups, most recently the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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