Author Archives: walkerjay
ON SENIOR ADVOCATE MENAKA GURUSWAMY APPEARING FOR THE RSS
Senior Advocate Dr Menaka Guruswamy’s appearance last week alongside Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani before a two-member bench of the Supreme Court of India to oppose the Tamil Nadu government’s setting some conditions to the grant of permission to the Rashtriya … Continue reading
GORBACHEV IN BEIJING (1989)
Memories of reporting a momentous event in late 20th century world history Throughout the mid-1980s onwards, if there was one event that was being most eagerly awaited worldwide – as a welcome one or as an inevitability – it was … Continue reading
ANTI-CONVERSION BILL: OPEN LETTER TO KARNATAKA C.M.
Dear Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, You had once been a member of a secular party but seem to have converted to Hindutva, abandoning the anti-Brahminical Lingaayath faith founded by the great Basavanna in whose followers’ family you were born. Your … Continue reading
WHY I WISH THERE WERE TENS OF MILLIONS MORE OF ‘RICEBAG’ CONVERTS
Many of my talented friends who happen to be indefatigable activists seeking nothing but the fulfilment of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India and in the international declarations and treaties India is party to[1], are often derided by … Continue reading
SAINT STAN
Some people in India have called for campaigning for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Father Stan Swamy (Stanislaus Lourduswamy) who’d been working on behalf of the oppressed indigenous peoples of India, and who was framed in a … Continue reading
POLITICAL PRISONERS/PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE IN INDIA
In a country that used to preen itself as the ‘world’s largest democracy’ Does it still? A list, most likely incomplete: Professor Hany Babu Sudha Bharadwaj (Do google her illustrious name and the “five books” rule with added conditions. Precisely … Continue reading
GOOD BYE, 2020! AND GOOD RIDDANCE!
A year ago this day, Dec 26, I got invited to meet Father Cedric Prakash, SJ, one of our most prominent of human rights activists, who was briefly in Bangalore and who said then that 2019 had been among the … Continue reading
CELEBRATING JESUS CHRIST, POLITICIAN AND REVOLUTIONARY
For many people, all through two millennia, the story of Jesus Christ has been that of the son of god. Those rebelling against oppression and injustice, struggling for human rights and democracy, have drawn inspiration from the same story of … Continue reading
GLORIOUS MUSIC: A POLITICAL POST
As 2020 has been The Worst Year in my living memory [update: 2021 was even worse and 2022 …] — and I speak as a south Indian and not as a Kashmiri Muslim, Palestinian, Rohingya, Sri Lankan Tamil, Syrian, Tibetan, … Continue reading
NO TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT/DEATH PENALTY!
A large number of people, albeit not constituting majorities in many climes — blood lust, alas, being default response in rather too quick-fire opinion surveys — are implacably opposed to the death penalty in all, repeat, ALL cases. Especially most … Continue reading
ANOTHER BRIEF HOSPITAL CHAT AND RANDOM THOUGHTS
Last Saturday evening a receptionist at a private hospital showered praises out of the blue while I was admitting my father for Intensive Care. “I compliment you, sir…” she repeatedly said expressing amazement that a 92-year-old’s son was actually present to … Continue reading
RESIST THE INDIAN REGIME’S GENOCIDAL PLANS
China has been running concentration camps in occupied East Turkestan — due north of Pakistani-Chinese-Indian-occupied Kashmir and Chinese-occupied Tibet — or what the Beijing regime calls ‘Xinjiang’ for an estimated 1.5 million Muslims. The Chinese ruling party which continues to … Continue reading
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