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Qurban Ali; Centre for Study of Society and Secularism The dominant discourse on nationalism in the country today has narrowed down to superficial parameters and litmus test of chanting of slogans like Vande Mataram and organising aggressive bike rallies by Hindu supremacists in Muslim majority areas as a show of strength and assertion of their…
Pannalal Surana Son of a great freedom fighter and first Chief Minister of the undivided State of Punjab, Bhimsen Sachar, Rajinder Sachar had imbibed the values of our national freedom struggle. He was deeply impressed by the thoughts of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia. While he was practicing at the bar, he also participated in organisational…
Press Release, May 1, 2018 Dr. Prem Singh, Socialist Party (India) The Socialist Party considers the BJP government’s recent decision to place the Red Fort on mortgage with Dalmiya business house to be a crime against the nation. The party opposes this decision of the government and, in this regard, would like to place four…
Gabriel Rockhill, April 13, 2018 In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of May 1968, the Macron government had been making plans to commemorate this historic uprising by celebrating how it had purportedly contributed to the liberal “modernisation of French society”. Allied with the mass media and the ownership class, what better way for the relatively…
It is sheer arrogance. True, Chief Justice Dipak Mishra denied permission to the Allahabad High Court judge Nayaran Shukla to prosecute the Lucknow-based Prasad Education Trust, which runs a medical college. But this is not such a violation of law which should invite impeachment of the Chief Justice of India. The Congress Party was divided…
He had forbidden us to call him ‘Justice Sachar’. So I began to call him Sachar Saheb. Four days after his death, I sit down to write this tribute. The personality of Sachar Saheb was like a masterpiece, epic in its dimensions. A classic personality in this absurd period! In a tribute like this, written…
This 14th April the 127th birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar was marked by heightened celebrations of the occasion by most political formations, but more so by BJP. Prime Minister Modi while paying tributes to Babasaheb said that the Congress was against Ambedkar, that his government has given him the honor due to him, and that…
Government doctors (and other employees) demanding salary hike is common news. Succumbing to the temptation of greener pastures, government doctors moving to private hospitals in the country or migrating abroad is also fairly common. But what is turning heads around is the news of Canadian doctors declining a salary hike! Amazing as it may sound,…
– All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) In Justice Sachar’s demise, the nation has lost one of the last representatives of the generation that carried forward the socialist vision from the freedom movement for post-independence India. He would be remembered for his uncompromising commitment to building a secular, just, democratic society where civil…
In recent times the rapid increase in sexual violence against women and children has become one of the most worrying and shameful trends in India’s society. Several factors are important for this trend. One of these is the proliferation of pornography, particularly violent pornography. Several studies in various parts of the world have established a…
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