Justice AP Shah: ‘India is moving towards a form of elected autocracy. We must keep speaking up’

The former chief justice of Delhi High Court spoke at the inaugural session of the Janta Parliament organised by civil society groups on August 16.

AP Shah

· Aug 17, 2020 · 09:38 pm

Full text: Narayana Murthy on the true meaning of patriotism and the path to building a great nation

Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy’s address at the convocation of Gorakhpur’s Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology on August 22.

NR Narayana Murthy

· Aug 23, 2019 · 06:40 pm

‘India is fighting for her soul’: Arundhati Roy on fascism, Modi and being a writer in today’s world

‘In this blitzkrieg of idiocy, fascist marches, fake-news coups, and what looks like a race toward extinction – what is the place of literature?’

Arundhati Roy

· May 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘An illness is upon us’: Arundhati Roy on activist Anand Teltumbde’s impending arrest

‘His impending arrest cannot but be seen as a political act. It will be a shameful and shocking moment in our history.’

Arundhati Roy

· Jan 16, 2019 · 06:50 pm

Full text: ‘I am devastated by the prospect of imminent arrest’, writes author Anand Teltumbde

The police claim he is involved in a conspiracy that resulted in caste violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune lat year.

Anand Teltumbde

· Jan 16, 2019 · 05:57 pm

Jairam Ramesh: Lessons from reorganising India's states – and why Uttar Pradesh needs to be divided

India needs a second States Reorganisation Commission. And it needs to split up its most populous state into smaller, manageable states.

Jairam Ramesh

· Jan 15, 2019 · 07:30 am

Jerry Pinto on fear, hate – and the magical power of words

What were MM Kalburgi and Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar and Gauri Lankesh doing that they were so feared?

Jerry Pinto

· Dec 08, 2018 · 08:00 am

A public philosophy of non-violence, a culture of peace – that’s the diplomacy the world needs today

Full text of former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao’s speech at the Gandhi Memorial Center’s ‘Fellowship of Peace Award’ ceremony.

Nirupama Rao

· Nov 19, 2018 · 08:00 am

‘The tide will turn’: Arundhati Roy’s letter to jailed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam

On PEN International’s ‘Day of the Imprisoned Writer’, Roy says his arrest ‘is an attack not on intellectuals but on intelligence’.

Arundhati Roy

· Nov 15, 2018 · 06:30 am

‘Unlike his imitators and those who claim his legacy, Patel worked tirelessly for communal harmony’

‘The man who literally created the Indian Union as we know it, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a giant in more senses than one.’

Shivshankar Menon

· Oct 31, 2018 · 05:30 pm

India has become ‘a republic of fear for thinkers and writers’: Critic and novelist Shanta Gokhale

Speaking at the Ooty Literary Festival, the writer said today’s India has turned into a place where ‘truth-tellers are arrested and imprisoned’.

Shanta Gokhale

· Sep 19, 2018 · 08:00 am

Release the wrongfully arrested activists: Full text of petition filed by Romila Thapar and others

Five prominent civil society members petition the Supreme Court against the arrest of five activists.

Romila Thapar

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Devaki Jain

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Prabhat Patnaik

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Satish Deshpande

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Maja Daruwala

· Aug 29, 2018 · 03:53 pm