हक़ और आजादी
December 18, 2016
Radhika Vemula was manhandled by the Delhi Police in February 2016 even as then MHRD Minister, Smriti Irani made a speech dis-regarding
the pain of the Dalit students struggle in Parliament
Ambedkarite students of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have in a detailed and strongly worded memorandum to the President of India, substantiated by 26 authenticated annexures, demanded that he...
December 17, 2016
Mirjapur and Indore (Madhya Pradesh): As the sun rose in the morning sky, piles of white chrysanthemums awaited Keshu Singh Patel at his 2.5-acre farm in Mirjapur, a village in western Madhya Pradesh. Everyday in the winter, the short, spry, balding 55-year-old takes about 70 kg of flowers, tied to his bike, to sell in the flower market 15 km away.
Keshu Singh Patel, a flower and vegetable...
December 16, 2016
JNUSU general secretary Satarupa Chakrabarty said signatures would be collected till students return to campus after their holidays in January, following which the protest would be intensified
Just days after the JNU administration installed iron grills at Freedom Square, students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) through tit’s union, the JNUSU, have begun collecting...
December 16, 2016
'Migrants are here, they are living, and we have to guarantee their human rights'
Laia Ortiz discusses how Barcelona is trying to forge its own progressive integration policy for refugees, despite the constraints put on it by the Spanish government and the European Union.
Laia Ortiz is the Deputy Mayor for Social Rights at the City of Barcelona, and a close ally of Mayor Ada...
December 16, 2016
किसी खास समाज, समूह या समुदाय को वहां के मजबूत और सत्ता पर पकड़ रखनेवाले लोग किस नजर से देखते हैं, इसे समझने का एक पैमाना यह भी हो सकता है कि ये समूह किन मुद्दों के लिए आवाज बुलंद कर रहे हैं.
देश के आदिवासी इलाकों से कुछ-कुछ दिनों पर जद्दोजेहद और जल-जंगल-जमीन की हिफाजत की गूंज सुनाई देती है. ताजा गूंज झारखंड से सुनाई दे रही है. पिछले दिनों झारखंड के दो कानूनों- छोटानागपुर...
December 16, 2016
वाराणसी. प्रधानमन्त्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने बीते आठ नवंबर की आधी रात से 500 और 1000 क नोटों का लीगल टेंडर खत्म कर उसे चलन से बाहर कर दिया। शुरू में तो काले धन के खिलाफ सट्राइक के नाम पर लोगों ने खूब समर्थन दिया, पर जैसे-जैस अब कैश की क्राइसिस लम्बी खिंचती जा रही है अब उस फैसले के खिलाफ लोग खुलकर अपनी नाराजगी जताते नजर आ रहे हैं। पीएम ने लोगों से 50 दिनों तक धैर्य रखने को कहा था पर एक महीना गुजरने के...
December 15, 2016
In July 2016, Jignesh Mevani, a practising lawyer and activist, battling for access to land for Dalits through Gujarat’s courts –for close to half a decade before that date-- burst onto the national scene, leading the protests in the state after the Una incident when Dalits were brutally beaten, simply because they were performing their work, cleaning and curing of carcasses of dead...
December 15, 2016
President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said there may be “unrest and frustration” in the country if youth remains unemployed, while stressing on the need to equip them with skills. Mukherjee said with jobs the young workforce can be an asset. Most graduates produced by colleges and universities are “unemployable”, he said.
“India, with the...
December 15, 2016
The recent violent attacks on a Hindu temple in Bangladesh’s Netrokona district, and previous assaults on temples and homes in October in Brahmanbaria are a troubling illustration of Bangladesh’s struggle to protect two of its fundamental values: secularism and pluralism.
Students gathered in 2013 to show their support for the Shahbag movement for freedom and democracy in...
December 15, 2016
As many as 18% positions of teachers in government-run primary schools and 15% in secondary schools are vacant nationwide, according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) by the human resources development minister on December 5, 2016.
Put another way, one in six teaching positions in government schools is vacant, a collective shortage of a million teachers....