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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...
March 9, 2016
In Conversation with Teesta Setalvad
This interview with Kanhaiya Kumar, President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) was conducted on the JNU Campus on March 8, 2016. It is a collaborative effort between Communalism Combat, Newsclick and Hillele TV
If the last bus on Delhi’s streets at 11 p.m. had fifty per cent of women, and we as a society...
March 6, 2016
इक्कीस महीनों से इक्कीसवीं सदी के इस महाभारत का चक्रव्यूह रचा जा रहा था. अब जा कर युद्ध का बिगुल बजा. लेकिन चक्रव्यूह में इस बार अभिमन्यु नहीं, कन्हैया है. तब दरवाज़े सात थे, इस बार कितने हैं, कोई नहीं जानता! लेकिन युद्ध तो है, और युद्ध शुरू भी हो चुका है. यह घोषणा तो ख़ुद संघ की तरफ़ से कर दी गयी है. संघ के सरकार्यवाह सुरेश भैयाजी जोशी का साफ़-साफ़ कहना है कि देश में आज सुर और असुर की लड़ाई है...
March 5, 2016
March 3, 2016
The students' struggle in JNU has raised a gamut of issues - from sedition, national/anti-national, free speech, self-determination and secularism to caste, culture, higher education, the role of the media (mainstream and social) and the judiciary, etc.
The core issue ,however,is nationalism.How is nationalism being defined today? Who is setting the agenda?How are the various political...
March 1, 2016
दिल्ली में जेएनयू के मामले पर और हरियाणा में आरक्षण के मुद्दे पर जो कुछ हुआ, उसके संकेत एक बड़ी चेतावनी हैं. हरियाणा में चुन-चुन कर जैसे ग़ैर-जाटों को निशाना बनाया गया, वह भयानक था. देश भीतर-भीतर कितना बँट चुका है, कैसी नफ़रतें पसर चुकी हैं? देश को इस भीड़तंत्र में बदल देने का जुआ बहुत ख़तरनाक साबित हो सकता है.
बात गम्भीर है. ख़ुद प्रधानमंत्री ने कही है, तो यक़ीनन गम्भीर ही होगी! पर इससे...
March 1, 2016
Vimal Thorat, Convenor of the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) and a former professor of Hindi at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), in this exclusive and detailed interview to Teesta Setalvad speaks of her decades long struggle to ensure that Dalit...
February 29, 2016
Continuing their efforts to seek the release of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on charges of sedition, some students and teachers of JNU have launched a ‘Stand with JNU’ campaign on social media. The campaign has its own Facebook page and Twitter handle.
As part of the campaign, a group of teachers will...
February 25, 2016
Goebbels was an interesting and effective man. Held responsible for many of the worst and most supremacist and violent ideas that guided Fuhrer Hitler’s reign, he is recalled in history, more as a frequently used adjective-term, to connote a particular kind of pernicious government propaganda based on lies, or at best half-truths (he headed the Propaganda Ministry of the Nazi...