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November 27, 2016
The Bharatiya Janta Party government has amended the land tenancy laws to allow use of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes.
Image credit: Manob Chowdhury
Offices and markets remained shut in Jharkhand on Friday after protests broke out over the amendments to land tenancy laws governing predominantly Adivasi regions in the state by the Raghuvar Das-led government. As...
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 26, 2016
भटिंडा में जिस समय पीएम मोदी अपने भाषण के दौरान लोगों को कैशलैस व्यवस्था के बारें में समझा रहे थे उसी समय गुरजिंदर कौर नामक एक महिला ने नारे लगाने शुरू कर दिए कि ये सब झूठ है। बताया गया कि गुरजिंदर कौर ने एक चिट फंड कंपनी में डेढ़ लाख रुपये लगाए थे और इसमें हुए घोटाले से वह नाराज थीं।
पीएम मोदी अखिल भारतीय चिकित्सा विज्ञान संस्थान (एम्स) के शिलान्यास के मौके पर...
November 26, 2016
In a grand show, made more ostentatious in the presence of prominent industrialists today, (while detaining pollution-affected activists Salim Patel and Jayesh Patel) Anil Dave, Union Environment Minister accompanied with Mr. Vijay Rupani, the Chief Minister of Gujarat lifted the earlier imposed moratorium on polluting industries in this belt recently.
Vowing to continue the...
November 26, 2016
Viewing the world in absolute terms only serves to encourage propaganda and make simplistic scenarios seem like real solutions. The current public discourse on the refugee crisis is like a piece of political satire, says Ilija Trojanow
Thinking in dichotomies is an early stage of idiocy. Anyone who doesn't believe this yet will find plenty to convince him on...
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
एक्सक्लूसिव : मोदी सरकार के नोटबंदी का फैसला बुरी तरह सवालों से घिरता जा रहा है। ताजा सवाल यह है कि आखिरकार इस सरकार ने आरबीआई की ओर से प्रतिबंधित कंपनी डेलारू को ही नोट छापने की मशीनें मुहैया कराने का कांट्रेक्ट क्यों दिया। वह भी बगैर किसी आधिकारिक घोषणा के।
अप्रैल, 2016 तक डे ला रू लगातार नोटों की छपाई के लिए कागज की सप्लाई कर रही थी। इसके बाद मोदी सरकार ने इस बेहद संवेदनशील...
November 26, 2016
महाराष्ट्र के बीजेपी विधायक राम कदम ने अपने बेटे को बेहद कीमती मर्सिडीज कार जन्मदिन के गिफ्ट के तौर पर दी है और सोशल नेटवर्किंग पर लिखते हुए कहा कि ”मेरे सबसे प्यारे बेटे अरुण कदम को जन्मदिन की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं!!!”
नोटबंदी के कारण जहां लाइनों में खड़े आम लोग मर रहे है और देश में कहीं ना कहीं रोज़ मौत की खबरें नोटबंदी की वजह से आ रही हो ऐसे में बीजेपी विधायक की ये...
November 26, 2016
No work or cash: Bihari Migrant workers leave Gujarat for home
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Workers from Bihar, who came to Gujarat for work some five years ago are the worst hit after de-monetization, as they cannot be paid due to the cash crunch. As many as 60 workers have already moved back to their native villages in Bihar. A few others who could not return to their villages, said they are...