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The NCERT has released a ‘Special Module’ titled as ‘Partition Horrors’, as a supplementary resource for Classes 6 to 8. It is actually not supplementary resource material for searching the guilty men / organisations for Partition of India as claimed but presents an altogether sectarian narrative as per the wishes of NCERT’s RSS masters.
In one year of the BJP rule in Odisha, there have been multiple and recurring incidents of atrocities on women including the recent death of 20-year-old college student who set herself ablaze because her complaints, accusing her teacher of sexual harassment, were not acted upon by authorities.
On our 79th Independence Day, it is worth reflecting on why these words matter more than ever.
Ammamma’s muggu on our balcony represented the shared history and spirit of her village, reminding us of our collective struggles, resistance and strength.
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!”
By the late 1970s, the Nehru model was in crisis. In the early 1980s, the Indian Government decided to approach the IMF for a huge foreign loan, in return for which it offered to voluntarily implement economic reforms and partially liberalise the economy.
‘The People of Uttarakhand and Himachal Want Roads, Not Landslides’: An interview with environmentalist Ravi Chopra. Also: ‘Flash Flood in the Himalayas Reignites Debate on Development’.
‘“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’.
Each large-scale demolition inflicts a thousand quietly weeping wounds on our democracy: by stripping citizens of their constitutional right to vote under Article 326 of the Constitution, it erodes the very soul of India’s democratic fabric, leaving behind a legacy of disenfranchisement and despair.
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