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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The creation of Bangladesh in December 1971 was supposed to put an end to the two-nation theory. However, in one of history’s cruel ironies, 50 years later, a version of that theory is alive and flourishing in India, the very nation which had rejected the theory in the first place.
On the 2nd anniversary of the police crackdown on students protesting in the Jamia Millia University campus against the enactment of the CAA, students and civil society members recounted the police brutality that had left several injured. The PUDR also released a fact-finding report.
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.
A compilation from two articles: China, with 1.4 billion people, has kept total cases below 100,000 and total deaths below 5,000. By comparison, the United States, with less than a quarter of the population of China, has had more than 50 million cases and 800,000 deaths.
India’s graded educational system mirrors the country’s stubbornly rigid social hierarchies. The poorest children attend the free government-run schools and those from the highest echelons of Indian society increasingly attend elite schools, with the rest of the society caught in between.
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