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  • 25Apr2024
    Lok Sabha elections 2024: How political families dominate India's discourse
    Published in Hindusthan Times
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  • 22Apr2024
    Doordarshan invites criticism from TMC leader Jawhar Sircar for going saffron
    Published in The Telegraph Online
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  • 21Apr2024
    Doordarshan's 'saffron' logo sparks political slugfest
    Published in Times of India
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  • 20Apr2024
    Doordarshan changes logo colour from red to saffron, sparks row
    Published in India Today
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  • 20Apr2024
    DD News under Opposition fire over new saffron logo
    Published in Indian Express
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  • 20Apr2024
    Doordarshan's New Orange Logo Sparks Criticism, Ex-Boss Takes A Jibe
    Published in NDTV
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  • 20Apr2024
    Doordarshan Logo Colour Change Row: ঐতিহ্যের নীল বদলে গেরুয়া 'দূরদর্শন', মোদীকে তুলোধোনা মমতার...
    Published in Zee news
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  • 19Apr2024
    DD changes logo colours from red to orange
    Published in Hindusthan Times
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    Jawhar Sircar, who was the CEO of Prasar Bharati from 2012 to 2016 and is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Trinamool Congress, called it another form of “saffronisation” and called Prasar Bharati “Prachar Bharati”.

    “This is clearly saffronisation which is happening across institutions. If you enter the Rajya Sabha in the new Parliament building, the colours and aesthetics have been changed from historical maroon/red to saffron. Half the staff of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha now wear saffron bandhgalas which were earlier steel grey/blue. This was seen in the G20 logo as well which was a lotus against a saffron background. This is an optical construct where the identity of the party and the state are merged together. This is part of a totalitarian regime where you cannot differentiate the party from the state,” Sircar said.

  • 19Apr2024
    ‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
    Published in Scroll.in
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    Former Prasar Bharti Chief Executive Officer Jawhar Sircar said that he has been watching Doordarshan’s saffronisation with alarm. “It’s not Prasar Bharati any more – it’s Prachar [propaganda] Bharti,” he remarked.

  • 13Apr2024
    মাছ-মাংসে মোদী দেখছেন মোগল-মন
    Published in Anandabazar Patrika
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  • 29Mar2024
    মদ-সিগারেটে ডুবে নিজেকে ‘আঁতেল’ ভাবে বাঙালি: মোদীর আর্থিক উপদেষ্টা, পাল্টা তোপ তৃণমূলের
    Published in Anandabazar Patrika
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  • 20Mar2024
    জ়োম্যাটোর সবুজ বাহিনী নিয়ে চর্চা রাজনীতিরও
    Published in Anandabazar Patrika
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    রাজ্যসভার তৃণমূল সাংসদ জহর সরকার যদিও জ়োম্যাটোর এই ঘোষণার মধ্যে এক ধরনের রাজনীতিই দেখছেন। তিনি বলছেন, ‘‘একনিষ্ঠ শাকাহারী ভারতে বড়জোর ২৫-৩০ শতাংশ। সেটাও মূলত উত্তর ভারতে। কিন্তু দেশের রাষ্ট্রযন্ত্র তাঁদেরই খাঁটি হিন্দুত্ব বা ভারতীয়ত্বের সঙ্গে মিলিয়ে দিচ্ছে। জ়োম্যাটোর এই উদ্যোগ খানিকটা সরকারি নীতির সঙ্গে তাল মেলানোই, বলব।’’ তিনি মনে করাচ্ছেন, ‘‘বাল্মীকির রামায়ণের রামও শিকার করে দেদার মাংস খেতেন।’’ তাঁর আক্ষেপ, ‘‘কট্টর নিরামিষ আহারের গোঁড়ামি, টেবিলে বা বাসনে ছোঁয়াছুঁয়ির বাইটাও ইদানীং দেশে বাড়ছে। শুনি আইআইটি হস্টেলেও অনেকে আলাদা বসে খেতে চান। জ়োম্যাটোর ১০০ শতাংশ নিরামিষের ধারণাও সমাজে সঙ্কীর্ণতাকেই প্রশ্রয় দেবে।’’

  • 20Mar2024
    The Politics Of Four New Castes: Poor, Women, Farmers, And Youth
    Published in Outlook India
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    Jawhar Sircar, the TMC Rajya Sabha MP, thinks that these new caste categories are the ‘BJP’s four areas of complete defeat’. “If you see the women legislature percentage of the BJP, it is just tokenism. Compare it with the TMC and you can find. As far as the youths are concerned, the unemployment rate of the young people belonging to the age group 20-25 years is 45 per cent. In the case of farmers and poor, we don’t need to even emphasise. Everyone knows it,” says Sircar. He also adds that the BJP always tried to divide the marginalised castes through weighing on the non-dominant castes. “They focused on the non-Jatav Dalits and the non-Yadav OBCs to divide these communities,” says the MP.

  • 07Mar2024
    Historic 7 March: A speech inspiring generations
    Published in Daily Sun
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  • 07Feb2024
    Bill to amend Water Act to decriminalise small offences cleared
    Published in Hindustan Times
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  • 07Feb2024
    Rajya Sabha passes Bill to amend Water Act, decriminalise minor pollution-linked crimes
    Published in The Indian Express
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  • 07Feb2024
    Modi government waters down water offences, imprisonment replaced with fines for violations
    Published in Telegraph india
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  • 07Feb2024
    TMC MP accuses Modi govt of ‘unprecedented borrowings’, putting India in huge debt
    Published in Millennium Post
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  • 05Feb2024
    Jawahar Sircar in RS bats for inclusion of Bangla as a classical language
    Published in Millennium Post
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  • 02Feb2024
    Railways spent Rs 98.10 to earn Rs 100 in 2022-23: Ashwini Vaishnaw
    Published in The Economic Times
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