सांप्रदायिक संगठन
November 27, 2016
Border Guard Bangladesh in Cox's Bazar district has pushed back at least 95 Rohingya Muslims who fled the country in the face of ongoing crackdown in Rakhain state by Myanmar troops
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The 95 Rohingyas including women and children were sent back home from different border points of Teknaf till Sunday morning starting in the dead hours of the night....
November 27, 2016
Poems in Right filled Anger, Of Resistance
On November 16, 2016, the occasion of the KG Kannabiran Memorial Lecture at Madurai, feminist activist Vasanth Kannabiran read our three powerful pieces of writing. Teesta Setalvad, co-editor, Sabrangindia delivered the lecture. We reproduce these powerful poems of Vasanth Kannabiran, a fellow traveler in the democratic rights struggle, with a...
November 27, 2016
For the political alliance of convenience to mature into a social alliance with Dalits, Muslims have to engage with the entrenched caste practices and ideas within their own community
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The recently held Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Conference in Ajmer gave a call for Dalit Muslim unity. Laudable in its objectives because of the marginal positions of both these communities...
November 25, 2016
The disappearance of JNU student, Najeeb Ahmad, now in its 41st day, has been one of the stories to drop off the national radar after the government’s move to abruptly, without proper consultation, de-monetize Rs 500 and Rs 1000 Rs Notes. Huge number of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) along with other universities staged a protest outside the Delhi Police Headquarters. The...
November 24, 2016
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After 1,322 days in arbitrary detention, journalist Mr. Mahmudur Rahman has been finally released on bail late on Wednesday afternoon (November 23). The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) have welcomed his long-overdue release, and urge authorities to drop all pending charges against him.
Acting editor of the Daily Amar Desh, a...
November 23, 2016
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PATNA: Police in Bihar’s eastern Madhepura district on Tuesday arrested two of the six menaccused of setting afire as many as 18 houses belonging to a Mahadalit community — the poorest among the Dalit communities living in Bihar.
Media reports say that nearly 50 people from the distressed Mahadalit community in Udakishan area, many of them...
November 23, 2016
A video of Bajrang Dal goons in Bulandshahr’s Khurja in Uttar Pradesh mercilessly thrashing a Muslim couple because they felt both were ‘dirtying’ Hindu neighbourhood has surfaced.
In the video, the Hindutva brigade goons are seen mercilessly thrashing the man and the woman. We’ve edited the part of the video, where the woman’s identity could be revealed....
November 23, 2016
कर्नाटक सरकार द्वारा गत 10 नवंबर, 2016 को टीपू सुल्तान की जयंती मनाए जाने के मुद्दे पर जमकर विवाद और हंगामा हुआ। पिछले वर्ष, इसी कार्यक्रम का विरोध करते हुए तीन लोग मारे गए थे। टीपू सुल्तान की जयंती मनाए जाने का विरोध मुख्यतः आरएसएस-भाजपा और कुछ अन्य संगठनों द्वारा किया जा रहा है। इनका कहना है कि टीपू एक तानाशाह था, जिसने कोडवाओं का कत्लेआम किया, कैथोलिक ईसाईयों का धर्मपरिवर्तन करवाया और उनकी...
November 23, 2016
SILENCED: Rationalists Dr Narendra Dabolkar, Govind Pansare and M M Kalburgi were murdered in cold blood by fascist elements Dakshinayan Abhiyan, an initiative taken by Padma Shri Dr Ganesh Devy, is organising a convention to bring rationalist and liberals together to preserve the freedom of speech and thought guaranteed by the constitution. The convenor of the three-day convention starting...
November 22, 2016
Members of the muslim Rohingya minority are fleeing Myanmar after government troops poured into their land since a series of attacks on police border posts last month
Rohingya refugees sit as they wait to enter the Kutupalang Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 21, 2016REUTERS
Hundreds of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in neighbouring...