सांप्रदायिक संगठन
October 22, 2016
झारखंड में आरएसएस आदिवासियों और किसानों की जमीन जबरन छीने जाने के प्रावधान वाले एसपीटी-सीएनटी अध्यादेश के विरोध में एकजुट हो रहे आदिवासियों को गुमराह करके, अल्पसंख्यकों के खिलाफ भड़काने में लगा हुआ है। संघ की नीति गुजरात की तरह यहाँ भी आदिवासियों को अल्पसंख्यकों से लड़वाकर अपनी राजनीति सेंकने की दिख रही है।
आदिवासियों और पिछड़ों की एकजुटता से परेशान संघ ने आदिवासियों में बेहद सम्मानित सिदो...
October 22, 2016
On 20th October a demonstration was held at Arts Faculty in north campus of Delhi University. Attended by more than a hundred students from universities all across Delhi and outside, predominantly women, it was a protest against the members of the political outfit ABVP for their alleged harassment of the students on 23rd September night, when the group had organized a Night March. On the...
October 22, 2016
Following is the text of a letter to the Vice Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, sent by some academics protesting the attacks on Dr Snehsata Manav and Dr Manoj Kumar regarding the students’ production of the play ‘Draupadi’:
To the Vice Chancellor,
Central University of Haryana
Dear Vice Chancellor:
We write in support of Dr. Snehsata...
October 21, 2016
The JNU student Najeeb Ahmed continues to be untraceable days after he went missing under mysterious circumstances. Najeeb’s friends alleged that he had disappeared soon after his altercation with some ABVP students.
Najeeb’s mother on Friday made a desperate plea saying that she wanted her son back as she alleged that the administration had been “insensitive”...
October 21, 2016
For all who are terrified of real baddies such as Dracula and Satan, and have not known where to look, help is finally at hand: sprinkle cow urine and all ghosts will run for cover.
Such is the advisory put out in the public interest by the Gujarat Gauseva and Gauchar Vikas Board, a government body, the Times of India has reported.
The Aarogya Geeta, while elaborating on the importance...
October 21, 2016
The Self reliance of Made in India VS the neoliberal sweatshops of Make in India
Fake nationalism of the Hindutva variety is not limited to only the national movement, where the RSS was conspicuous by its absence. It is also manifested in Modi's Make in India, which is an offer to global capital to exploit India's cheap labour, along with various tax breaks and subsidised...
October 21, 2016
It is time for the Muslim community to introspect on how things have come to such a pass. Practices like triple talaq, halala and polygamy, steeped in patriarchal and medieval narratives, can hardly be regarded as just and fair.
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In the background of a bunch of writ petitions filed before the Supreme Court by some Muslim women’s organisations and individual victims...
October 20, 2016
When the US pulled out of Vietnam it was at least clear who would take over. The same can't be said of Yemen which, for most purposes, is now a failed state and likely to remain so for a long time.
Photocredit: Common Dreams
On October 16, the United States, Britain and the UN's special envoy issued a joint call for a rapid and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen.
"We are...
October 20, 2016
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने 18 अक्टूबर से कुछ ऐसी याचिकाओं पर सुनवाई शुरू कर दी है, जिसका भारतीय चुनावी प्रक्रिया और भारतीय संविधान पर दूरगामी असर पड़ सकता है।
पिछले कई दशकों से खास कर कर इधर, धार्मिक भावनाओं को उभारने ( भड़काने और अन्य कार्रवाई के जरिये ) वाली राजनीतिक पार्टियों के सामने आने के बाद चुनावी प्रक्रिया सांप्रदायिक रंग में रंग दी गई है।(1)
आजकल सुप्रीम कोर्ट उन याचिकाओं पर फिर विचार कर...
October 20, 2016
Growing confidence among resurgent Sikh fundamentalist networks in the UK was evident in recent protests against inter-faith marriage. A desire to control Sikh women’s relationship choices is a key focal point for their mobilisation.
Masked men disrupt an inter-faith marriage at Leamington and Warwick gurdwara, UK. Image: Independent.
On Sunday 11th September 2016, as world...