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Farmers' agitation

Popular resentment against the BJP-led Centre rises as ongoing farmers' agitation spreads, shows effects in Punjab local body elections

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The spread of the farmers’ agitation to many parts of northern India, the traction it gets from other sections of society and the decimation of the BJ

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Farmers' Movement

The BJP government's Goebbelsian campaign against the farmers’ agitation

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The BJP government has resorted to a Goebbelsian campaign against the farmers’ agitation. But the protesting farmers are firm that they will overcome

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Farmers’ protest gets a second wind with people in Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh drawing up new strategies

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Even as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre persists with its attempts to grind down the agitation of the farm

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Farmers reject abeyance ploy

Government running out of options in face of resolute farmers' agitation

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Agitating farmers reject the government’s ‘abeyance ploy’, leaving the BJP with no room to save its face, while the opposition gets ready to grill the

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Covid vaccine and farmers' agitation

Diversion vs determination: Government plan to overshadow farmers' protest with COVID-19 vaccine dry run fails

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The Modi regime’s latest attempt to overshadow the growing farmers’ agitation with a grandiose vaccine dry run hits a roadblock, with many experts rai

Case against Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu for his comments on television on the farmers' protests

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The Sangh Parivar’s and the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s efforts to brand the farmers’ siege on the borders of De

Farmers' Agitation

Farmers in Punjab stand in for those involved in the Delhi agitation by fulfilling their farming roles

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Giving a boost to the agitation, the practice of friends and neighbours standing in for the agitating farmers by collectively carrying out farming act

COVID-19 patients are being treated with drugs such as itolizumab even though there is insufficient evidence on their efficacy against the disease

Divya Trivedi Siddhartha Das Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Some pharma companies appear to be using the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to bypass some of the necessary steps to get government approvals so that t

The Delhi siege

Political impact of the farmer unions’ Delhi siege and Modi government’s deceitful games

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Farmers emerge as a major political entity as their Delhi siege mounts a concrete challenge to the BJP and the Narendra Modi government even as the Pr

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Punjab farmers' agitation

Despite the Central government's strong-arm tactics, farmers stand their ground against new farm laws

Ziya Us Salam Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Despite economic distress, tragic deaths of fellow fighters and the Central government’s strong-arm tactics such as starving Punjab of train services

Bihar Assembly election

Lessons from the Bihar Assembly election

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The resonance the Mahagathbandhan’s campaign has generated will have a bigger impact on the national polity than the BJP-led National Democratic Allia

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Farmers' protest

A different Dasara: Farmers use unconventional methods to protest against the farm laws

Ziya Us Salam Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh use unconventional methods to protest against the Centre’s farm laws.

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Can there be something such as an honest critic?

The critic is a persona largely missing from India’s classical music and dance scene.

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Out at sea

The month-long fishing trips of migrant fishermen at Veraval port in Gujarat are the stuff of adventure, endurance, and life lessons.