Remember the Teenager Named Junaid Khan?
His lynching had sparked the #notinmyname campaign. However, four years later communal lynchings no longer seem to shock the public. A scary sign of the times.
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George Orwell’s Review of ‘Mein Kampf’ Tells Us as Much About Our Own Time as Hitler’s
On his birth anniversary, a look at a short essay by George Orwell which anticipated the clever narratives future dictators up until our times would weave assiduously.
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Creative Understanding of the UAPA Grants Freedom from Jail for Activists: Delhi HC
Judgments of the Delhi High Court in Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha’s cases, come as a whiff of fresh air which hopefully the Supreme Court will allow us to breathe.
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IT Rules Flout Intl Human Rights Norms, Say UN Experts; ‘Misplaced Concern,’ Says India
Three UN Special Rapporteurs have noted that the broad phrasing of the IT Rules stand to seriously harm privacy and freedom of expression. The government has replied that it doesn’t think so.
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As an Indian Muslim, Here’s Why I Object to Dhannipur Complex Being Built in Lieu of Babri Masjid
By accepting land in lieu of justice, Muslims have sanctified their secondary status as a community that does not need justice.
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The Techfare State: The ‘New’ Face of Neoliberal State Regulation
Neoliberalism has yielded specific forms of state intervention to discipline and normalize the surplus population and to regulate social insecurity – workfare, debtfare, and prisonfare. They have also enormously benefited the growth and profitability of Big Tech.
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Stan Swamy’s Endurance Has Left a Message for the World
The Archbishop, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, writes that 84-year old Father Stan Swamy who had spent decades serving the tribal people of Jharkhand, has been arrested on trumped up charges and confined to jail for nearly a year now. As he battles illness, his endurance has left a message for the world.
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‘Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 Immediately’: Nobel Laureates, EU MPs Write to Indian Authorities
The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.
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Remembering Birsa Munda, the Social Reformer and Revolutionary Leader
For the Hindutva movement, Birsa Munda is an icon only because he and his followers attacked missionaries and the church. But this is a deliberate misreading of history and a willful deception.
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Academic Freedom Is at Stake. We Must Stand in Solidarity With Professor Gilbert Sebastian.
Teachers have a right to have their opinion. They do not have to set aside their political opinions and ideologies before entering a classroom.
