Elections to the 17th Lok Sabha are under way. The election process is spread over two months, from the Election Commission’s announcement of the elections to the coming into being of the 17th Lok Sabha. It is important at this juncture to take stock of the impact of the Modi-led BJP government’s policies on the people and the economy of India.
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Kerala, Bengal, nor for that matter no part of India are new to the politics of hate.
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The erection of a woman fort on the new year day in Kerala, and the entry of two women of 40s in Sabarimala temple on the very next day, with the backing of the strong determination of the left Government of the state to honour the Apex Court of country, have scripted a history in the struggles for gender equality and gender justice.
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Simon Britto was born on the 24th of March 1954, and I was born just ten days after. We stepped into student activism together, shared the same politics, read together, and studied together. Soul mates, almost. However, it never crossed my mind that someone so close could just leave one fine day. Someone who fought hard for centuries to survive, live. Someone who lived beyond his physical limitations, quite extraordinarily. I haven’t uttered a word to the media. The truth that Britto is not a phone call away any more is something I have not been able to cope with.
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Former Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju’s comment on the ongoing ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’ row is self-contradictory.
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Just a few years back, it was sheer current of political vendetta laid down by the reactionary unholy nexus of oppositions against the Left Front Government in West Bengal.
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