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October 19, 2016
Do recent mass protests by Paraguayan students represent the beginning of a political awakening?
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University students are making history in Paraguay in what is being dubbed La Primavera Estudiantil, or Student Spring. Over the last weeks, students and their allies mobilized one of the largest protest movements in the country’s history, demanding democratic...
October 19, 2016
Justice H Suresh (Retd.) analyses crucial judgements of the Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court (Varma J) in the case of Dr Ramesh Yeshwant Prabhoo (1995 (7) SCALE 1) held Dr Prabhoo and Bal Thackeray guilty of corrupt practice having appealed for votes on the ground of religion (Hindu religion) u/s. 123 (3) of the Representation of People Act, 1951. However, in the next judgement (1995 (...
October 18, 2016
Hearing of the final court appeal of Asia Bibi – accused of blasphemy, in the Pakistan Supreme Court was indefinitely adjourned on October 13, 2016 after one of the judges pulled out of the three-member bench hearing the appeal. As per the media reports, the judiciary is under tremendous pressure from the hardline religious groups who want to ensure execution of “blasphemous”...
October 18, 2016
Amidst a virtual media blackout at the happenings on the JNU campus, an ugly incident involving an undergraduate Muslim student of the prestigious central university points to grave allegations of communal profiling and targeting, with the administration playing silent spectator
Around 500 students assembled at Ganga Dhaba last night in response to the call by the Jawaharlal Nehru Students...
October 18, 2016
A North Dakota judge today refused to authorise riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman for her reporting on an attack against Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters.
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“This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the public’s right to know what is happening with the Dakota Access...
October 18, 2016
The most backward among Muslims come closest to the Dalits when it comes to shared experience in facing Hindutva's wrath.
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Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati’s clarion call to Muslims to unite with Dalits in Uttar Pradesh has an irresistibly seductive charm about it. Both social groups are underprivileged as well as...
October 18, 2016
उत्तर प्रदेश विधान सभा चुनाव 2017
2014 के लोक सभा चुनाव में भाजपा के हाथों कांग्रेस को मिली करारी शिकस्त के बाद उस के रवैय्ये से ऐसा प्रतीत हो रहा था जैसे कांग्रेस अपना संतुलन पूरी तरह से खो चुकी हो और मृत शैय्या पर पड़ी आख़िरी सांसें गिन रही हो. इस मायूसी भरे माहौल में कांग्रेस उपाध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी ने हाल ही में अति-पिछड़ों को उत्तर प्रदेश में आरक्षण देने की घोषणा करके चुनाव प्रचार को एक...
October 18, 2016
For the BJP, the Uniform Civil Code is Simply a Stick to Bash Muslims With
In 1951, India's first Law Minister Dr. B.R. Ambedkar fought to get our parliament to pass the Hindu Code Bill, a bill he had drafted with great love and care which would have granted equal rights to Hindu women denied to them by tradition and religious practice. Had this bill been passed in time the logical...
October 18, 2016
The State Government of Gujarat is in the process of tabling before the Gujarat Legislative Assembly in its forthcoming budget session, a new enactment called Gujarat Protection of Internal Security Act (G-PISA). Under the proposed act, police will be empowered to arrest any person merely on the basis of ‘suspicion’, that he can potentially endanger the internal security. This...
October 18, 2016
फरवरी, 2011 का वक्त था। उन दिनो मैं गुजरात असेंबली की कार्यवाहियां कवर करता था। लेकिन मुझे अमूमन बीजेपी-कांग्रेस की जुबानी जंग के अलावा कोई खास स्टोरी नहीं दिखती थी। यह जुबानी जंग भी पहले से तय स्क्रिप्ट के मुताबिक होती थी। उन दिनों मेरे दोस्त महिंदर जेठमलानी पाठे बजट सेंटर चलाते थे। राज्य के बजट का विश्लेषण करने वाले अहमदाबाद के इस छोटे से सेंटर के चार पेज का प्रकाशन अक्सर मेरे पास पहुंचता...