संस्कृति
March 11, 2016
Having chosen to be part of the sanghi lynch mob, Zee News has cast aside every pretense of journalistic ethics. Already in the dock for doctoring videos to aide the ABVP's sinister agenda of raising the bogey of 'anti-nationals' at JNU, in its ongoing witch-hunt it has found fresh targets in poet and scientist Gauhar Raza and academic Nivedita Menon. Reproduced below is the...
February 25, 2016
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Muslim Auraton ki Awaaz: Sadak se Sansad tak
Dear Friends and Comrades,
Let us all gather in the national capital on 27th and 28th February 2016 to demand the fundamental rights to life, dignity, equality and non-discrimination, for freedom of religion and expression for Muslim women. Let us bring together the visions and struggles of women’s movements,...
February 25, 2016
First Published on: April 1, 2004
Towards impartial education
Education is fertile ground for transformation and, equally, a potent tool for breeding bigots. A study of science, literature, the arts, theology and history the world over reveals in equal measure both human tendencies. For us South Asians, born on a terrain that is uniquely diverse – where pluralism is at once...
February 24, 2016
The NDA-government and sangh parivar backed crackdown on JNU on the alleged ground of ‘anti-national’ slogans such as ‘kitne Afzal maaroge’ and ’Pakistan Zindabad‘ having been raised on the campus has, among other things, given a fresh lease of life to the Kashmir issue. Some might see it as the ‘law of unintended consequences’ in motion....
February 15, 2016
अगर परम पुनीत राष्ट्रवादी धारा रामजदगी और हरामजदगी के ढलानो से उतरती हुई देश के सबसे बड़े विश्वविद्यालय में जा घुसी और उसे वेश्यालय में बदल दिया तो कौन सी आफत आ टूट पड़ी? धाराओ का काम बहना है और अपने साथ बहा ले जाना है। धाराएं पहले भी बहती रही हैं, बहाती और डुबाती रही हैं।
पहले तो कभी किसी ने शोर नहीं किया तो फिर आज इतना शोर क्यों है, भाई? सवालों के जवाब नहीं हैं, क्योंकि सवालों के...
February 6, 2016
On the occasion of the anniversary of the formation of the Left front Government in Tripura in 1978, January 5, this year, in 2016, Teesta Setalvad at Sabrangindia.in had requested chief minister Manik Sarkar of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for an exclusive interview. Manik Sarkar has been Chief Minister of Tripura since March 1998. He is a Politburo Member of Communist Party...
January 31, 2016
Amendments in the Central University law as well as all the statutue(s) under which Central Universities have been established, to ensure that discrimination and harassment are defined crimes punishable under the Indian Penal Code are urgently required, says Prakash Amdedkar, in an interview to Teesta Setalvad.
Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar, grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, formerly a Member...
January 25, 2016
प्रकाश साव
मयंक सक्सेना
प्रकाश साव से मुलाक़ात का श्रेय, रंगकर्मी और थिएटर एक्टिविस्ट राजेश चंद्र को देता हूं, लेकिन उनसे मिलने के कुछ मिनट बाद, यह लगना ही बंद हो गया कि उनसे पहली बार मिल रहा हूं...न जाने कितनी पुरानी जान-पहचान हो...ऐसा लगा और फिर अर्से बाद इतनी आत्मीयता से प्रकाश भाई के आगरा के उस छोटे से कमरे में ज़मीन पर बैठ कर खाना खाया कि आत्मा कई दिन तक तृप्त रही...फरवरी 2013 का...