The Indian community organised a rally to show support for farmers protesting against the Indian government's attempts to privatise and corporatise the agricultural sector, reports Jacob Andrewartha.
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麻豆传媒's Alex Bainbridge interviewed Aamer Manzoor from the Kashmiri community about solidarity with Kashmir one year after the Indian regime's brutal crackdown and suspension of formal autonomy there.
The Indian left is facing tough challenges following the reelection of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Elections in India will take place from April 11 to May 23. 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Susan Price spoke to Kavita Krishnan, a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) about their campaign to challenge Narendra Modi鈥檚 far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Up to 20,000 Indian students and their supporters from around the country took to the streets of Delhi on February 7 to protest the Modi government鈥檚 attacks on students and universities, and to demand the right to education and employment.
Flooding due to monsoon rains in mid-August has devastated the southern Indian state of Kerala. Hundreds have been killed and hundreds of thousands evacuated.
In the August 19 statement below the accuses India鈥檚 hard right BJP government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of deliberate neglect of flood victims.
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Concerns over the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of the Hindu nationalist BJP government continuing in power into the indefinite future were partially allayed by the December elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 home state of Gujarat.聽
Modi was Gujarat鈥檚 longest ruling chief minister and used his 鈥淕ujarat model鈥 as the vehicle of his rise to power. This model was based on large-scale handouts of land, public assets and subsidies to corporate houses in return for media hype and enthusiastic endorsement by an increasingly shrill, intolerant and hectoring corporate media.
A sea of red swept the Indian state of Maharastra as tens of thousands of farmers joined the Long March to demand agrarian reform, with protesters reaching Mumbai, India鈥檚 financial capital. In response, Prime Minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 government has agreed to resolve the farmers' issues within six months.
Ahead of the crucial Gujarat elections, the chinks in the propaganda armour of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 Gujarat model of development continue to get brutally exposed. Indeed, the popular narrative on development that has emerged from within Gujarat 鈥 where Modi was chief minister prior to becoming PM 鈥 and that has taken social media by storm is that 鈥vikas gando thayo chhe鈥 鈥 鈥渄evelopment has gone crazy鈥.
The rise to power of India鈥檚 prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been built on a paradigm of development and anti-corruption that has enabled him to develop sustained electoral support among the Indian middle classes and rehabilitate his image as a statesman on the international stage.
But the neoliberal model of development that Modi represents is one that comes at great cost in terms of economic inequality and basic civil rights.
The rise to power of India鈥檚 prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been built on a paradigm of development and anti-corruption that has enabled him to develop sustained electoral support among the Indian middle classes and rehabilitate his image as a statesman on the international stage.
But the neoliberal model of development that Modi represents is one that comes at great cost in terms of economic inequality and basic civil rights.
With the appointment of hardline Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath as chief minister of India鈥檚 most populous state, Uttar Pradesh (UP), the Indian Peoples鈥 Party (BJP) government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown what an extremist force can do when freed of the restraints of coalition partners or parliamentary numbers.
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