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Sardar Ajit Singh, uncle of the more famous Indian hero Bhagat Singh, and who was honoured by Tilak as king of peasantry for his contributions to the farmers movement in Punjab, was born on 23 February 1881.
Unless we address Ecocide, the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity, life on earth is in danger; Global ice melt is taking place much faster than predicted; Scientists say freezing Texas linked to warming Arctic.
Punjabi poet Gurbhajan Gill says, “It may have started with farmers, but now this has become an outburst of anger against Modi’s arrogance by all sections of the society in the state.” Support for the movement cuts across community lines in the state.
A report from mahapanchayat in Sampla, Haryana; farmers’ movement intensifying in Rajasthan; after Western UP, farmers now set to organise mahapanchayats in Eastern UP.
This is a government that seeks absolute political, ideological, and personal supremacy. That is why, when challenged by young minds to honour and uphold Constitutional values, the response of the State is to put these young minds in jail.
Summary of the fiery MP’s speech in the Lok Sabha on 5 Feb 2021; also, full text of her first speech in Parliament on 5 July 2019.
AAP has now decided that it is not enough to merely look Hindu. It seeks to replace the BJP by dipping into its poisonous Hindutva lexicon.
The events of the last few decades and more so of the last six years show the rising intimidation, marginalisation and increasing fear among Muslim minorities.
In mid-January 2021, nationwide protests against the government of Emanuel Macron in France entered their seventh continuous week. Lakhs of workers are out on the streets, opposing Macron’s plans to dismantle France’s substantial welfare state.
The Arab Spring that took place a decade should be seen as an ‘initial phase’ in a long-term revolutionary process. The path to salvation is long and arduous, but the determination to take it is enhanced by the awareness that the only alternative is ignominy and extinction.
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