Weekend Reads A protest that seemed on the backfoot and about to be evicted by the state turned around after an emotional appeal from Bha...
Weekend Reads
- A protest that seemed on the backfoot and about to be evicted by the state turned around after an emotional appeal from Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait. Aditya Menon in The Quint explains why the government underestimated Tikait.
- “The scenes at the Red Fort may have been disturbing. But the real darkness on the horizon is not the protest, or the turn it might have taken. It is the turn Indian democracy is taking, almost as if it is on the road to perdition,” writes Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express.
- “There is a ‘New India’ and it has now acquired its own ‘new ruling elite’ which has enormous faith in the efficacy of heavy-handedness – traditionally a part of the armoury of the Indian state. It has imperious contempt for any resistance to its preferences and prejudices. Nor does this new ruling elite hesitate to maul a section of the society. In its entrenched arrogance, it believes it can live with resentments and can put the resentful in their place,” writes Harish Khare in The Wire.
- Against the backdrop of comedian Munawar Faruqui’s jailing, Shrabonti Bagchi reports on how other Muslim comedians are operating in an India where someone taking offence is always a danger in Mint.
- India Today reportedly penalised anchor Rajdeep Sardesai for allegedly misreporting...
