भेदभाव
November 27, 2016
नई दिल्ली। 8 नवंबर को 1000 और 500 के नोटों को रद्दी करार देने वाली सरकार इससे पहले कालाधन सफेद करने के मौके दे चुकी है। उस वक्त सरकार ने कहा था कि आप अपने अघोषित कालेधन को 45 प्रतिशत टैक्स देकर सफेद कर सकते हैं। इस स्कीम के तहत बहुत सारे लोगों ने अपने धन की घोषणा की।
सेंट्रल बोर्ड ऑफ डायरेक्ट टैक्स (सीबीडीटी) ने इनकम टैक्स डिपार्टमेंट को देशभर में अपने ऑफिस 30 सितंबर को...
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
Eduardo Galeano’s Portrait of #Fidel
The following passage is excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s history of humanity, Mirrors (Nation Books).
His enemies say he was an uncrowned king who confused unity with unanimity.
And in that his enemies are right.
His enemies say that if Napoleon had a newspaper like Granma, no Frenchman would have learned of the...
November 27, 2016
Statement issued at a 'Pinjra Tod' Winter Afternoon In Jamia Millia Islamia, November 17, 2016
A fiery anonymous open letter by a women resident of Jamia Millia Islamia to the VC on the arbitrary cancellation of late nights in August last year, marks the inception of Pinjra Tod as a movement. It has been an incredible year of reaching out to each other, connecting,...
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
Photo credit: New Delhi News
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 26, 2016
Image Courtesy: Kashmir Life: Omkar Nath Bhat outside his home in Haal Shopian.
Pic: Bilal Bahadur
Since July 2016, sustained threats and some sporadic attacks have left the 808 Kashmiri Pandit families in the Valley, threatened. On October 29, 2016, Sabrangindia had reported how a petrol bomb was flung at the home of one such cluster of Pandits living in the Valley. A...
November 26, 2016
Late in the evening of Friday, November 25, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Friday quashed the orders of PSA detention of human rights activist, Khurram Parvez saying that authorities have abused their powers to detain him.
“The detention of the detenue is not only illegal but the detaining authority has abused its powers in ordering his detention,” observed the court of...
November 26, 2016
Glossy pamphlets, catchy slogans tell us building toilets at home is all about protecting the honour of bahu-betis. And who else but Dalits will clean them later?
As a development professional, I have walked into the offices of many NGOs and read many a lop-sided, glossy pamphlet with slogans that have made me flinch. As someone working on hygiene and sanitation issues, one among those...
November 25, 2016
Hindus and Christians can enter shrines at Nankana Sahib, but a security protocol keeps Muslims out.
Image credit: Wikipedia Commons
On the occasion of the 548th Nanak Gurpurab earlier this month, Siddiq-ul-Farooq, the chairman of the Evacuee Trust Property Board, the government organisation responsible for looking after non-Muslim property in Pakistan, announced the opening of...
November 24, 2016
Image Courtesy: BBC
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...