Gandhi’s Ideas Against Use of Violence to Achieve Political Objectives Ring True Today
Violence stamps the body politic with its cloven hoof; it reduces isolated acts of resistance to spectacle and diminishes the political public to an audience.
The New ‘Republic of Fear’
The law in India has been weaponised by the state as the most effective tool of persecution of all those who dissent. We are now in a paradoxical situation where constitutional values professed by the state are being violated in the name of upholding the law.
How Assam is Turning Beef into a Federal Issue
Assam’s new Cattle Preservation Bill violates Article 48 of the Constitution and will give a fillip to vigilantism.
India Must Halt Mass Eviction that Threatens to Leave 100,000 Homeless – UN Experts
“We call on India to urgently review its plans for razing Khori Gaon and to consider regularizing the settlement so as not to leave anyone homeless,” the experts said. “No one should be forcibly evicted without adequate and timely compensation and redress.”
Over 60 Lakh Central and State Govt Posts Lying Vacant
Filling up these posts itself would contribute to reducing the raging joblessness that has haunted India in the past several years, but the government does not seem to care.
UP Population Bill: Fighting Imaginary Demons
Population growth is already slowing down across faiths. The Bill only serves to foster division. Plus extracts from: “… UP … 50% of party MLAs have more than two children” and “MP: 39 % of BJP MLAs … Including 13 Ministers, Have Three and Above Children, Shows Data”.
UP ATS Wants to Snatch Our Sole Breadwinners, Claim Kin of Those Arrested in Lucknow with Alleged Terror Links
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey alleged that many innocent people were also arrested earlier on “false charges of terrorism”. He said dozens of youth have been later acquitted by courts after they had spent several years behind bars.
The song of a caged bird: A tribute to Fr Stan Swamy
His death is institutional murder by the Indian criminal justice system.
Stan Swamy, the Guardian Angel of Social Movements in Jharkhand
One can find hundreds of committed and fearless activists, scholars and lawyers in the state who drew their inspiration from him.
Stan, Now Part of the Adivasi Folklore of Resistance – Judicial and Jail Systems Guilty in ‘Death by Default’
Fr Stan Swamy, the Jesuit, has now become part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance. He is also a martyr to their cause of protecting their heritage, their ‘Jal, Jangal, Zameen’ from the lusting eyes of the men in political power and their crony corporate friends.