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October 24, 2016
Agitating JNU students today formed a human chain from the administrative block to the Vice-Chancellor’s residence to protest the university administration’s “inaction” in tracing a missing student of the varsity.
A student of School of Biotechnology, Najeeb Ahmed, allegedly went missing on last Saturday following a brawl on the campus allegedly with members of ABVP...
October 24, 2016
Some Summations from India’s Partition Story
My engagement with partition and separatism is largely confined, I must confess, to South Asia, where I have studied the India/Pakistan question, the break-up of Pakistan into two, and the Sinhala/Tamil issue in Sri Lanka.
In my research I have focused also on India’s freedom movement, the movement for Pakistan, and the...
October 24, 2016
Ever since the present Modi government came to power, there appears to have been a clear set of orders issued from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters to its student organization, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), to go on the rampage in university campuses all over India. From getting specific parts of syllabuses changed under threat of violence, disrupting events by...
October 22, 2016
On the afternoon of Friday, August 5, 2016, reports started coming in that the Bajrang Dal activists looted and burnt shops owned by Muslims in the town of Chhapra, the district headquarters of Saran in North Bihar. One of the shops happened to have been owned by Balaghul Mobin of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) – the dominant ruling alliance.
Image: Rediff
When the police officers in...
October 22, 2016
As the dust surrounding the issue of abolition of triple talaq and reform in Islam refuses to settle, another altercation took place on Friday in Govandi, (Mumbai), where local women running a signature campaign against the controversial practice of instant divorce were allegedly ill-treated and abused verbally by some of the locals.
Representational Image: Indiatimes
Women activists from...
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
नई दिल्ली। उत्तर प्रदेश चुनाव से पहले भाजपा एक बार फिर विज्ञापनों से गांव-शहर के चप्पे-चप्पे को रंगने की तैयारी कर रही है। जिससे जिधर जिसकी नजर जाए उधर भाजपा ही दिखे और जनता को लहर मालूम पड़े। जानकारी के मुताबिक इसके लिए दो विज्ञापन कंपनिया चुन ली गई हैं जिसमें Ogilvy & Mather and crayons नामक विज्ञापन कंपनियों को चुन लिया गया है।
साल 2014 के लोकसभा चुनावों के तर्ज पर भाजपा...
October 22, 2016
मुंबई। पाकिस्तानी कलाकारों के अभिनय वाली हिंदी फिल्मों पर प्रतिबंध लगाने की मांग को लेकर बढ़े बवाल पर अब अभिनेता अभय देओल ने चुप्पी तोड़ी है। उन्होंने सिर्फ सरकार ही नहीं उन लोगों को भी निशाने पर लिया है जो पाकिस्तान के साथ बिजनेस तो बढ़ाना चाहते हैं लेकिन कलाकारों के काम करने पर ऐतराज जता रहे हैं। अभय देओल ने कहा कि सिर्फ फिल्म बनाने वालों पर प्रतिबंध मत लगाइए। बल्कि...
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 22, 2016
The protests across Maharashtra, which are drawing lakhs of people, are silent. But they aren't leaderless.
Image credit: Mridula Chari
Prajakta Sankpal’s voice rang out through the bustling hall in the heart of Kolhapur last week, cutting through the commotion of people entering and leaving, holding private conversations.
“Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj was the one...