With his name and fame, perhaps Kanhaiya should lead a Kanshi Ram-style all-India campaign which had once energised the Dalit movement in the 1980s.
Mayawati's refusal to club the Rohith Vemula issue with JNU indicates that Dalits see their fight as an autonomous one.
The left has been put on the backfoot, and is on the verge of swapping Kanhaiya Kumar with Umar Khalid…
Those defending tolerance and communal peace are now presented as the dominant sections oppressing 'Hindus in their own land'.
Gandhi contributed to the feeling that cow-slaughter is a deep violation of something fundamental to Indian society.
The sooner a spineless Left dies, the better it is for Left politics generally…
Kejriwal clearly does not want to pick up the threads from where he left it last as CM of Delhi: the FIR against Ambani.
What we see today is the banality of moralising: Progressive elites seem to assume that once they declare Narendra Modi evil, the rest of the population will or should just follow this diktat and reject 'fascism' resoundingly.
The mainstream fight against corruption today might deliver itself at the feet of Hindutva
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