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State and Indian media: The gloves are off; Where are the arbiters?

Ashish Shukla - May 16, 2020

I am in the middle of writing a book on World History where I show strands vastly different to the narrative we have been...

Growing worry on Corona in Bengal: Has the horse already bolted?

Ashish Shukla - May 2, 2020

All this while, we have been fretting upon Mumbai and Delhi. It now seems Kolkata was ignored as the wool had been pulled over...

India is now poking China openly; pay close attention to its message

Ashish Shukla - April 29, 2020

India has been rather loose with its pronouncements on “fishing” in China’s troubled waters and gain by having world shift its manufacturing epicenter to...

Migrants: Know the ‘dark’ forces feeding on their misery

Ashish Shukla - April 18, 2020

People-on-the-street is citizenry against the State. It affected the United States from continuing the Vietnam War. It brought down Charles de Gaulle in France...

Death in the slum: India holds its breath; world gasps

Ashish Shukla - April 8, 2020

India panicked. The world broke into a sweat. A man had died in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, to the ever-so growing shadow of killer...

Indian Muslims: Rise and find a voice against Jamaat; Win the nation’s trust

Ashish Shukla - April 3, 2020

Indian Muslims can no longer blame others of Islamophobia if they continue to defend or ignore what has happened in the wake of Tablighi...

Why Indian Express doesn’t want to stay on the Tablighi story?

Ashish Shukla - April 2, 2020

Yes. That's the charge. A charge its' readers like me are levelling: Why Indian Express doesn't want to stay on the Tablighi story? Express has...

Tablighi Jamaat: Why FBI finds it a ‘recruiting ground’ for Al Qaeda?

Ashish Shukla - April 1, 2020

Tablighi Jamaat hates attention from the world. They prefer secrecy. But once Corona Vurs patients narrated their travel history from around India, the Nizamuddin...

India counts its eggs while Corona hatches its killer plan: Who blinks first?

Ashish Shukla - March 31, 2020

(The figures in this piece were valid till early Monday). India mutated into 36 new Indias on Sunday. All the 29 states and 7 union...

An open letter to Prime Minister Modi: 21-day lockdown is not enough

Ashish Shukla - March 25, 2020

Mr Prime Minister, The Indian state would be making a fatal mistake if it chooses to sit on its haunches just because a 21-day lockdown...

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