विश्व
May 21, 2016
‘शब्द हिरासत में हैं और हत्यारे खुलेआम घुम रहे हैं’
( Photo Courtesy : freethinker.co.uk, Martyr Rajib Haider who was killed by the Islamists on 15 th February 2013)
आम दिनों में ऐसे बयानों पर कोई गौर नहीं करता, मगर एक ऐसे समय में जबकि आप के कई साथी इस्लामिस्टों के हाथों मारे गए हों और उनके द्वारा जारी हिट लिस्ट में आप का नाम भी शुमार हो और उधर अपने आप को सेक्युलर...
May 20, 2016
Research on the collective violence against Armenians almost always concentrates on events between 1915-1917, this book instead considers the violence against Armenians preceding and succeeding these years.
Employs a systematic analysis of over 300 memoirs in the Turkish language to show how a narrative of denial was constructed over the course of history.
May 13, 2016
Protect the rights to freedom of religion, belief, and expression.
STATEMENT ON ATTACKS ON ATHEISTS, SECULARISTS, AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN BANGLADESH
May 3, 2016
We, the undersigned academics, intellectuals, human rights advocates, and organizations from Bangladesh and around the world, unequivocally condemn recent statements by Bangladesh government officials appearing to blame...
April 12, 2016
Ninety Seven Years Ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British Rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims at the Jallianwala Bagh. The firing was ordered by an officer of the British colonial power, General Dyer. While the official figure for lives lost was 1,526 the actual figure was reportedly much higher
Brutal: A painting of British soldiers...
March 16, 2016
In Arab countries, openly declaring a disbelief in God is a shocking and sometimes dangerous thing to do. Many have been imprisoned for it, some have been forced into exile and others threatened with execution.
And yet, in a region where the influence of religion is almost inescapable, growing numbers are claiming a right to believe – or disbelieve – as they see fit. Social media...
January 16, 2016
Wilhelm Reich’s significance in terms of a history of the Left is that he was probably the only major figure on the Left in the interwar years to argue strongly for the integration of a cultural politics into revolutionary political work, anticipating a strand of politics that only the emergence of feminism would foreground in a major way, and this decades later.
Book title: Unpolitische...
December 31, 2015
‘The Freedom Theatre’ troupe from Jenin refugee camp of Palestine and Jana Natya Manch of Delhi have hit the road with ‘FREEDOM JATHA’, as they call their joint tour of 11 Indian cities this winter. They enthralled Lucknow (18-19 Dec) and Bhopal (20-21 Dec) with amazing performances. See, attached, a picture from a performance in Bhopal and also the tour itinerary. Their...