Brinda Karat – Author, NDTV.com

Opinion: After Akhlaq's Murder, The Rampant Injustice Rages On In Dadri

Brinda Karat | Tuesday October 11, 2016

Hardly a year after the dreadful killing of Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri, just a stone's throw away from the capital, tension erupted last week and could have led to the most serious consequences.

Opinion: The Dangerous Precedent Of A Guru Preaching To The House

Brinda Karat | Wednesday August 31, 2016

A religious leader addressing elected members in an official session within the Vidhan Sabha is unheard of in India's parliamentary history.

Opinion: Let France Know We In India Support That Woman In The Burkini

Brinda Karat | Friday August 26, 2016

If French women's groups had a sense of their own history, they would be buying burkinis and wearing them on every beach in France to defy the irrational ban. Here in India, the Embassy of France should be made aware that women in India have a sense of strong solidarity with that burkini-clad woman in Nice.

Opinion: This Is Insha, 14, Blinded By A Pellet Gun In Kashmir

Brinda Karat | Tuesday August 09, 2016

She is no terrorist, she is the price Kashmir is paying for broken promises, for opportunist alliances, for the nature of the Indian State which believes that the force of a bullet or a lathi or a security camp can answer the political questions raised by history.

Opinion: After Dalit Anger, This Could Be The Next Big Upsurge

Brinda Karat | Saturday August 06, 2016

The criminal exclusion of tribal communities in decision-making processes is true not only in connection with the CAF Bill. Tribal voices were ignored when the amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act was pushed through, depriving them of their basic right to consent or withhold consent on takeover of their land.

Opinion: In Abuse Of Mayawati, The Training Of The RSS

Brinda Karat | Thursday July 21, 2016

Upper caste and utterly patriarchal with not a single redeeming feature as far as their approach to women is concerned, this is the BJP's political DNA. It is transmitted, of course, by the RSS.

Opinion: The Atrocious Charge Of Cow Slaughter For Akhlaq's Family

Brinda Karat | Sunday July 17, 2016

There are no timelines for sorrow and grief. Time does not heal, it may help to hone personal survival strategies for those who have to overcome the overwhelming loss of a beloved. But Mohammad Akhlaq's family is being denied even that chance.

Opinion: How A Kerala Mother Copes With Her Daughter's Rape And Murder

Brinda Karat | Thursday June 16, 2016

When class, caste and gender discrimination come together, as in this case, the injustice becomes insurmountable for the families of victims.

Opinion: India's Equivalent Of Pak's 'Beat Wives Lightly'

Brinda Karat | Friday June 03, 2016

Women of the sub-continent have more in common than their shared pre-partition history. At different moments in the evolution of policy frameworks of their respective nations, women of the sub-continent have found themselves marginalized. They are up against a different Line of Control than the one manned by armies. This is an LOC imposed by men who talk in the name o...

Opinion: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Is Your Language Worthy Of A Union Minister?

Brinda Karat | Tuesday May 24, 2016

The name of their game whether in victory or defeat seems to be - accept our suzerainty or else..

Opinion: Ramdev And RSS, A Mutually Convenient Relationship

Brinda Karat | Tuesday April 05, 2016

Ramdev and other RSS speakers did not think it important to condemn the attacks. For them, the rights and security of real flesh and bone women are not part of Bharat Mata.

Opinion: Bhagwat, Owaisi Both Benefit From '<i>Bharat Mata'</i> Row

Opinion: Bhagwat, Owaisi Both Benefit From 'Bharat Mata' Row

Brinda Karat | Friday March 18, 2016

They both seek to polarize society into narrow, windowless compartments, the structure of which is determined by their own sectarian interpretations of religion and religious identity.

Opinion: PM Modi, This Bill Can Be Easily Passed. So What Gives?

Brinda Karat | Monday March 07, 2016

There is a strong dividing line between symbolic actions and just plain tokenism. Alas, the Prime Minister's suggestion that only women members of parliament should speak on March 8, International Women's Day, would fall in the latter category. Tokenism at its worst.

Opinion: Rohith's Mother Has These Questions For Smriti Irani

Brinda Karat | Thursday February 25, 2016

Behind the dreadful institutional murder of Rohith Vemula that has led to anger and outrage is another story - the story of hardship, the story of a daily resilience, the story of hope and courage, a story that is played out in a million Dalit homes every day, that of the Dalit woman, the Dalit mother. Radhika Vemula, now 45, is a symbol of that story that India is ye...

Opinion: Dear Modi Government, This Is Not Sedition

Brinda Karat | Sunday February 14, 2016

The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, the elected President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students' Union, on charges of sedition, and the conversion of JNU's campus into a virtual police camp, has led to a wave of protests across the campuses of India.

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