Mutual Aid and Solidarity in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests
Nigerian #EndSARS protesters were successful in getting a notorious police unit disbanded. But their real legacy is the unity it inspired among the people.
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How Modi’s BJP Ensures that the Two-Nation Theory Flourishes in India
The creation of Bangladesh in December 1971 was supposed to put an end to the two-nation theory. However, in one of history’s cruel ironies, 50 years later, a version of that theory is alive and flourishing in India, the very nation which had rejected the theory in the first place.
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The Troubled Legacy of General Rawat Needs to Be Rolled Back
The rulers of “Naya Bharat” have introduced an imbalance in the civil-military equation. And if the politicians seek acceptability on the back of the soldiers’ sacrifice, the generals in turn will aspire to a louder voice in shaping the republic’s collective destiny.
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Call for Nationwide Protests on 16 December Against Unconstitutional CAA-NPR-NRC
Press Release: The Shaheen Bagh movement never ended, it continues to inspire us in our ongoing struggles to defend democratic rights and assert equal citizenship. On its 2nd anniversary, let us remember this powerful struggle, and organise solidarity actions across the country on 16 Dec 2021.
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Democracy Crumbling: How Did India End Up Among Top 3 ‘Backsliders’?
A recent report by International IDEA, an inter-governmental think tank, finds that “70% of the global population now live either in non-democratic regimes or in democratically backsliding countries”. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally.
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How India’s Govt Is Setting in Place a New Structure for a Dysfunctional Parliament
The government of PM Modi is increasingly bypassing Parliament through executive fiat by promulgating an average of 11 ordinances a year. Legislative scrutiny is at its lowest point: from 70% of bills referred to committees in the previous Lok Sabha to 11% during the current.
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The Fierce Determination of Ordinary People to Build an Extraordinary World
United States President Joe Biden has suborned 111 countries to attend his Summit for Democracy on December 9–10, ending on Human Rights Day. In the name of democracy, the U.S. government is pushing its own agenda to consolidate power and further its national interests.
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Farmers Head Back Home: Five Articles
The last night at Singhu; Tikri Border: The day the farmers’ protest ended; Police brutality, FIRs and a hostile Khattar govt: what Haryana farmers overcame; As farmers head back home, they’re taking unity and a renewed faith in democracy with them; Six major phases that defined the farmers’ movement.
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Connect the Dots from Doval and Rawat to Arun Mishra and a Disturbing Picture Emerges
Not only these three statements, but several other actions by the highest in the land as also by the political leaders need to be put under the scanner. They go against the fundamental principles of our constitution.
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Comedians Point to the Sheer Absurdity of Hindutva – and That’s Why BJP Can’t Face Them
Comedians are feared because they ridicule, mock, taunt and, through that, point to the sheer absurdity of Hindutva. Also: Seen as Variant of Virus Now’ Says Kunal Kamra, as Comedian’s Bengaluru Shows Cancelled
