कानून का बोलबाला
February 10, 2016
The body of international law consists of United Nations (UN) treaties that nation states, including India, have ratified. This makes State Parties legally obliged to implement their provisions. The UN human rights system—including treaty bodies and charter-based bodies such as the Human Rights Council and Special Procedures—has also developed mechanisms to report on, assess, and...
February 2, 2016
February 1, 2016
From Byculla to Vidhan Bhavan, Mumbai on 1st February, 2016
Justice for Rohith Vemula - Joint Action Committee (JAC), Mumbai, Maharashtra
The institutional murder of Rohith Vemula, a PhD scholar from Hyderabad Central University (HCU), the latest and most shocking in a long series of such murders, has triggered protest demonstrations and campaigns across the country for the arrest of...
January 31, 2016
Amendments in the Central University law as well as all the statutue(s) under which Central Universities have been established, to ensure that discrimination and harassment are defined crimes punishable under the Indian Penal Code are urgently required, says Prakash Amdedkar, in an interview to Teesta Setalvad.
Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar, grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, formerly a Member...
January 30, 2016
The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January 1948 was a declaration of war and a statement of intent. For the forces who conspired in the killing, the act was a declaration of war against the secular, democratic Indian state and all those who stood to affirm these principles, as well as an announcement of a lasting commitment to India as a Hindu Rashtra . It was also an act to signal the...
January 25, 2016
रोहित वेमुला ने आत्महत्या क्यों की? वह कायर था? अवसाद में था? ज़िन्दगी से हार गया था? उसके मित्रों ने उसकी मदद की होती, तो उसे आत्महत्या से बचाया जा सकता था? क्या उसकी आत्महत्या के ये कारण थे? नहीं, बिलकुल नहीं.
रोहित वेमुला की आत्महत्या (Rohith Vemula Suicide) एक निराश युवा की निजी त्रासदी नहीं है. हाँ, निराशा थी उसमें, लेकिन यह निराशा अपनी स्थितियों को लेकर नहीं थी. यह निराशा अपने...
January 23, 2016
A question of caste
Two years ago, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee toured Gujarat after the national press and several fact-finding teams had established beyond a shred of doubt that his saffron brotherhood had made life hell for Christians in the BJP-ruled state. Not a word from the country’s chief political executive on the shocking incidents of attacks on...