
Asim Ali
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Political Researcher & Columnist. Words @ttindia @the_hindu @timesofindia @Diplomat_APAC Email [email protected]
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Eric Hobsbawm defined darkness not as a apocalyptic break but as the state where everyone "gets used to living under conditions which should not be tolerated". Getting used to livestream genocide, carpet bombings and now threat of imminent nuclear attack is living in darkness.
Asim Ali541,409 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Indira Gandhi receiving Castro at Delhi airport in Sept 1973, the same week in which Salvador Allende was overthrown in a US sponsored coup in Chile. Contrast this with the grovelling of present day Savarkarputras when bullied by America over Russian oil etc.
Asim Ali107,295 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

A good time to flag the caste-class based pro-establishment bias of the mainstream news media. In particular the implicit reservation of business families of Marwari bania caste (hardly 2% of the population) on ownership of almost 95% of the national media. Hartosh Singh Bal
Asim Ali28,234 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

This bit of the speech of Indrajit Gupta (CPI) in Parliament in 1992 on MMS economic reforms seems sort of prophetic. To paraphrase, he says 10 crore of the population (upper middle class consuming classes) might benefit. Besides corporates & NRIs. But 70 crores would be left out
Asim Ali23,356 просмотров • 1 год назад

P Sainath in a recent keynote speech on the structural casteism of the Indian media: "the most exclusionist institution of India". Advocates anti-monopoly mechanism and legislative control to combat problems of entrenched corporate control and unequal access ailing the news media
Asim Ali13,029 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад
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