I Raise My Voice for Adivasis, am I a Traitor?
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I Raise My Voice for Adivasis, am I a Traitor?

In this open letter written in August 2018 after he was charged with sedition, Fr Stan Swamy listed all the activities that have made him a ‘Desh Drohi’: “During the past two decades, I have identified myself with the Adivasi people and their struggle for a life of dignity and self-respect….”

Stan, Now Part of the Adivasi Folklore of Resistance – Judicial and Jail Systems Guilty in ‘Death by Default’
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Stan, Now Part of the Adivasi Folklore of Resistance – Judicial and Jail Systems Guilty in ‘Death by Default’

Fr Stan Swamy, the Jesuit, has now become part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance. He is also a martyr to their cause of protecting their heritage, their ‘Jal, Jangal, Zameen’ from the lusting eyes of the men in political power and their crony corporate friends.

Former Bureaucrats, Civil Society Express “Deep Anguish” on Violations and Breakdown of Governance in UP
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Former Bureaucrats, Civil Society Express “Deep Anguish” on Violations and Breakdown of Governance in UP

In their open letter, they condemn the ‘complete breakdown’ of governance and blatant violation of the rule of law in Uttar Pradesh, and say that the Yogi Adityanath government has “ushered in a model of governance which swerves further and further away from the values of the Constitution”.

A Young Farmer Leader on how Seven Months of Protests Created Democratic Spaces
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A Young Farmer Leader on how Seven Months of Protests Created Democratic Spaces

Rajinder Singh Deepsinghwala, the vice president of the Kirti Kisan Union, says that despite their core demands not being met, the past seven months of protests had won a major victory in how they had democratised politics in northern India.