विश्व
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...
December 2, 2015
This is to update you on the campaign against the India-Japan nuclear agreement. When PM Shinzo Abe comes to India on December 11th, we must mount strong protest across the country. During Shinzo Abe's visit to India last year, protests were organised - both in places like Jaitapur, Mithi Virdi and Koodankulam etc where new nuclear power plants are coming up, as well as in cities like Delhi,...
December 1, 2015
This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India. It argues that Pakistan was not a simply a vague idea that serendipitously emerged as a nation-state, but was...