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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!”
‘“Sedition” Case: Supreme Court Protects The Wire from “Coercive Action” by Assam Police’; ‘Assam Police Invoke Sedition Law in Second Case Against The Wire’; ‘Indian Journalists’ Union Hails Supreme Court’s Interim Protection of The Wire’; ‘Journalists’ Organisations Speak Against Assam Police’s Actions’.
‘Kashmir: Ink, Irony and Insecurity’: As the J&K Home Department bans 25 books by intellectuals, we must understand that it is not just the ink, but the imagination, the inquiry and the unforgetting histories which are under attack. Also: ‘In Kashmir, Bookshop Raids Follow No Laws, Books Seized are Available in Other States and Online’.
Fifty years after Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency, history is turning a harsher gaze not just on her authoritarian turn but on Jayaprakash Narayan’s fateful alliance with Sangh. Legitimised by JP’s misjudgment, the RSS has wrecked India’s democracy, institutions and political culture.
The sheer economic difficulties faced by academics in India in the last few years testifies to the fact that the fates of the intelligentsia and of the working people get linked together during the crisis of neo-fascism, which itself moves centre-stage in a situation of such crisis.
‘Ali Khan Mahmudabad has Fulfilled the Task of a Political Scientist’: Ali has been penalised because our society has been taught to distrust intellectuals. It should realise that intellectuals are the lifeblood of our society because they advocate the thinking human being. Also: ‘For Mahmudabad’s Bail Observations, We Cannot Blame Just the Supreme Court’.
The publication faced Income Tax and Enforcement Directorate raids this week, and a co-owner was arrested.
We need to speak up for Kamra not because he is a headliner. We need to speak up because there are Kunals among the marginalised who are hit by the legitimation of reactionary brutality.
Students in one of India’s leading minority institutions fight for free speech. The administration has responded with heavy police deployment and invoking the law to curb demonstrations.
Earlier this month, Tamil website ‘Vikatan’ published a cartoon of Prime Minister Modi. The government’s blocking of the website without supplying any reasoning is another blow to press freedom in the country.
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