It is the land of Buddha and Gandhi, said our Dear Leader in London, when faced with a sharp query on intolerance by a reporter. He could very well have said that it is the land of Buddha and Gandhi
Reporters on the ground believe that the BJP-led NDA alliance has done “much better” in the fourth phase of the elections in Bihar. The first three phases have reportedly gone against it. The last phase, too, might see a shift
After the farce, truly, comes the nightmare. Happy New Year, says Amit Sengupta, in the time of gaumutra. Avoid plastic surgeries .. They are not them; they too are he, him, his own transparent image, the saffron mirror of Hindutva’s
November 5, 2014 was the 14th anniversary of the world’s longest fast by Irom Sharmila. Amit Sengupta has a conversation with Irom Sharmila in her hospital room and brings us intimate stories from Manipur, of the ‘Malom Massacre’, of women
The BJP government succeeded a period of utter chaos (read UPA II) and ushered in an age of brutal Hindu revivalism. Amit Sengupta wonders what dark times lay ahead and what ghosts haunt us… Four kinds of striking phenomena seem
Lots of polls predicted a big BJP win in the Lok Sabha elections. Yet, as Amit Sengupta explains, something felt hollow about the obvious corporate-media hype, something disconnected with the realities lived by real people… leading many of us to
If the mainstream media is to be believed, the nation is buoyantly swept up by the ‘Modi Wave’ that soaring hope and optimism they are allegedly pinning on Narendra Modi of Gujarat. But, the reality on the ground looks and
The Lok Sabha Election Circus is Back in Town! Amit Sengupta, cuts through the predictable, media-generated hype around the purported groundswell of support for Narendra Modi and his alleged ‘Gujarat Miracle’… It is almost waiting at the next arid
Even as we probe the question of ‘state versus love’ in this issue of Kindle, a ‘state versus hate’ problem remains equally relevant, as local governments and police forces face (or ignore, as is often the case) serious incidents of
Amid the green-revolution-borne extractionist abundance of Western UP, local life remained steeped in stagnant, rotting inertia… until the fascists of the Sangh Parivar decided this was fertile ground for breeding and harvesting the communal hostility they needed to fuel their insurgency…. Amit Sengupta writes…