Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s Iconic Speech at Jama Masjid, 23 October 1947
Transcript of the speech delivered by Maulana Azad to a congregation of Muslims at Jama Masjid shortly after India attained independence.
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Transcript of the speech delivered by Maulana Azad to a congregation of Muslims at Jama Masjid shortly after India attained independence.
As anti-government protests continue to grow, and revolutionary forces in Turkey launch a new opposition alliance, the United Fighting Forces, the government is seeking to break its back with indiscriminate arrests.
Capitalism will not and cannot prevent climate disaster. A socialist response at governmental and societal level is an historic necessity.
The model the Modi Government is seeking to impose on Indian agriculture is similar to that imposed on Mexican agriculture since the onset of IMF-dictated ‘reforms’ in the 1980s.
The fighting spirit of the farmers has kept the agitation alive through the past two months. The farmers on the ground at the Delhi siege and those supporting them from the villages assert that this will see their struggle through all the machinations of the propagators of the “Big Lie”.
The metaphoric Fortress Delhi crept up on us over years, but the physical Fortress Delhi has been achieved in days.
The budgetary allocation for 2021-’22 for the rural jobs programme is 35% lower than the 2020-’21 revised estimate.
Why is it that mass injustice in the face of mass communal crimes has become such an established pattern of state practice in modern India?
Several young Muslims have been locked up because they had the temerity to assert their right to equal citizenship.
The draft National Land Reforms Policy recommended that states reduce land ceilings and distribute surplus agricultural land to the landless poor. However, several states have amended their land ceiling laws in favour of industry, six in the last three years alone.
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