India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On 9 August, St Xavier’s College Mumbai was scheduled to hold ‘The Annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture’. On 4 August, representatives of the ABVP met the college authorities and demanded its cancellation. Very sadly, the Jesuit management and other officials cancelled the lecture. For this, “Sorry, Stan!”
It has not been easy for Savitribai and Fatima, for Nagarathna and Bilkis and for several other women who have dared the system and worked towards change! These are women who have risen against all odds, ploughed the lonely path and courageously decided to embrace equity.
If Ambedkar were alive and in Gujarat today, he and his followers would have been hauled up, fined and imprisoned under the provisions of the amendments of the ‘Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act’ which was passed by the Gujarat State Assembly on April 1, 2021.
12th March is the date of two significant anniversaries!
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