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With Rahul Gandhi’s boldly informed enunciation of the difference between being Hindu or Hindutvadi in his address to a massive gathering at Jaipur on December 12, the Congress party may have ceased to walk over egg shells.
The letter says: While on the face of it this proposed law seems quite pro-women, however it is our assessment that this form of State action does not align with its stated intent of empowerment of women, particularly as nutrition, education, maternal and infant mortality levels need to be improved.
The Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, currently being finalised by the Joint Parliamentary Committee, does not protect citizens from illegal surveillance and the wrongful use of data collected by state or private parties.
A critique of the ideological justifications given by extremely rich people today to justify their obscene wealth.
November was a good month for sanity and anti-capitalism. A leftist won the presidency in Honduras. Socialists prevailed in elections in Nicaragua and Venezuela. And the supposedly massive, U.S.-backed protest in Cuba against the communist government simply fizzled out.
bell hooks, a colossus of Black feminist thought, died on December 15 in her home in Berea, Kentucky. She was 69. Her writings are foundational to contemporary movements for justice and have opened countless doors in radical thought on race, class, gender and other forms of oppression.
The Kirti Kisan Forum, comprising retired IAS, IPS and Army officers as well as civil society members, noted that the peaceful protests brought about unity among the country’s masses and provided a cause which they could all rally behind.
“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.
The very existence of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act undermines constitutional principles such as the right to life and liberty.
The political formations and other organisations who were deviously engaged in the destroying Babri Masjid on 6th December 1992 are celebrating the day as Saurya Divas. In doing so they are celebrating the “egregious violation of the rule of law”.
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