The new contemporary term for what Europe experienced a century ago holds sway over a significant population in the US, but also in many countries around the world

What struggle is harder than The keeping up of hope

While the apex court on January 6 will take up pleas for anti-conversion laws, two views of citizen’s rights will be in direct contention – one propagated by the right-wing and the other enshrined in the constitution

How is it that ‘reform’ only means throwing the food-grower open to the cut-throat vagaries of a so-called ‘free-market’ always in the clutches of the corporate?

The year is ending, But time carries on. As do madness and cupidity

The core of Kashmir’s secular politics remains in place, and Kashmiriyat has yet again triumphed over sectarian majoritarianism

There is bitter cold At the borders of the city Of indifference

All protesters are being branded ‘Maoists’, and those who dare to love beyond the boundaries of their faith ‘jihadists’

Where mobs flail to a tune set into motion by some dog-whistle, refuse reasoned debate, take recourse to abuse, vilification, threat, and finally, the strong arm, democratic mass actions bank on the power of knowledge

Poems are often cussed things, So they do not sell. What market affords a bankruptcy With poems that truths may tell.  …