[Towards the 25th Memorial Day of Comrade Vinod Mishra - 18 December - we are reproducing this article, originally appeared in The Telegraph and from Liberation, January 1999.] Other than politics which to me means. . .

Was Nupur Sharma’s speech “free speech” that is being threatened by the protests demanding her arrest for “hate speech”? The iconic African-American writer James Baldwin said, “We can disagree and still love each other unless. . .

Confronted by a flood of condemnations by a wide range of nations, of a piece of Islamophobic hate speech about Prophet Mohammed by a prominent spokesperson of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party, the Modi Government. . .

(Excerpts from statement by All India Lawyers’ Association For Justice (AILAJ)) The protests (by Muslims against Islamophobic hate-speech) that were witnessed in nine states and union territories, were followed by numerous reported instances of arbitrary. . .

From hate speech to state-led terror, resist the trajectory! The storm triggered by the Islamophobic bigotry and derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad by well-known BJP national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and the party's Delhi media head. . .

(Today, Hindu-supremacist fascists are in power in India, and are busy trying to write themselves into the history of India’s freedom movement; while distorting the role of the movement’s actual key actors. In this feature. . .

(As independent India approaches 75 years, Liberation marks the occasion with a series - starting with the August 2021 issue – of commentaries and features on the richly diverse freedom struggle, especially on under-represented aspects. . .

PM Modi says the pandemic is not a political issue, it is a human issue. Is that an admission that human concerns have no place in his politics? The Union Health Minister told Parliament that. . .