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• Shraddha’s Murder By Aftab - Six Ways To Fight Violence Against Women | Kavita Krishnan

  26 November 2022, by Kavita Krishnan

  Nov 15, 2022
  Aftab must be tried, convicted and punished for murdering Shraddha, chopping up her body and covering up his crime. But that’s a job for police and prosecution. What can we, ordinary people shocked by this killing, do to bring change and prevent such violence faced by women? Here are six thoughts from me, about what needs to change in society to prevent such murders, and what each of us can and must do to help bring about such change.
  1) Campaign For Timely Action Against (…)

• History of the Naga Conflict: Looking Back in Time | Chinmay Bendre, K. Gireesan, Neelam Pandit

  26 November 2022

  The British left India with numerous conflicts to deal with. The Naga insurgency is one such conflict. The Nagas have long demanded nationhood for their people. For them, people from India, and Bangladesh (former East Pakistan) are akin to foreigners. They constituted a threat to the Naga people and their territories and their culture. This gave rise to a sense of resentment among the Nagas and led to the creation of an underground federal Government and federal Army. The first anti-national (…)

• Does Savarkar qualify as a Hero | Faraz Ahmad

  26 November 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  In the runup to the 2014 general elections, a well-known TV channel anchor, an unapologetic Modi acolyte sought and got a much publicised interview with Rahul Gandhi where he kept pestering him why he had never apologised for the 1984 Sikh massacre in Delhi and neighbouring Haryana in reaction to two of her Sikh security officials gunning down the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi inside her official bungalow.
  Rahul had only made a reference to Muslim pogrom under the then Gujarat chief (…)

• Constitution is Our Sword and Shield | D. Raja

  26 November 2022

  by D. Raja*
  Some dates are intractably linked with our life as a nation. Along with our Independence Day and Republic Day, the day our Constitution was adopted by the Constituent Assembly is one of those solemn occasion which have impacted our lives deeply. On 26th November 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India, under the stewardship of Dr. BR Ambedkar passed and adopted the Constitution of India. Our life as a democratic republic may have begun on 26th January 1950, but the role of (…)

• Narendra Modi’s new found love for Tamil | Sandeep Pandey

  26 November 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) or the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have long argued for ‘Hindu-Hindi-Hindustan’, which into recent years has translated into a crisper English expression: ‘One Nation-One Religion-One Language’. Given this backdrop, it is curious that the BJP government has organised the Kashi Tamil Sangamam in Varanasi, the Prime Minister’s constituency.
  Why did the BJP and RSS feel the need for such an event? All Narendra Modi events are highly publicised and have (…)

• US Democracy Never Really Recovered from the Shock of Kennedy’s Sudden Death— Wider Story of A Coup Attempt and Three Assassinations | Bharat Dogra

  26 November 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  [On Death Anniversary of President John Kennedy —November 22, Tuesday]
  It was on November 22 1963 that John F. Kennedy, the hugely popular President of the USA, was assassinated. This extremely tragic death had a special historical importance as it signified a very violent signal from the right wing, militarist forces in the USA that they will not allow a President (or a popular leader with mass support) to survive for long if he/she is determined to pursue an agenda of peace and civil (…)

• A groundbreaking platform for educators provides new ways to collaborate | Nadra Huma Quraishi

  26 November 2022

  by Nadra Huma Quraishi *
  14 November 2022: The best educators are perpetual learners, gaining from their students and their peers. Many from across Asia recently participated in a groundbreaking ‘Teacher Stories’ competition, sharing and learning how their peers face and overcome challenges.
  The idea behind this unique initiative was to create “a forum to inspire the professional development of novice teachers,” says eminent teacher trainer Zakia Sarwar, who founded the competition three (…)

• The Qatar World Cup: Soccer upsets, politics, and sensitive situations | James M. Dorsey

  26 November 2022

  by James M. Dorsey
  Nov 24, 2022
  Barely out of the starting blocks, the Qatar World Cup has already produced a fair share of upsets as well as politically and personally sensitive situations and incidents.
  Qatar’s 2:0 loss to Ecuador in the tournament’s opening match will have reinforced critics’ conviction that the Gulf state should never have been awarded World Cup hosting rights, among other things, because of its alleged lack of a soccer legacy.
  Leaving aside the merits of the (…)

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  NFIW Petition to Supreme Court on Women’s Reservation - Statement by CPI

  26 November 2022

  The Communist Party of India
  Central Office
  Ajoy Bhawan
  New Delhi
  New Delhi,
  November 22, 2022
  SC Accepts NFIW Petition on Women’s Reservation
  The Supreme Court has accepted the petition moved by Annie Raja, general secretary of National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) on reservation for women and posted the case for hearing on March 3, 2023. The apex court has sent notices to the central government and ten political parties including Communist Party of India (CPI). Counsel for (…)

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  2022 Edition of ’Less Than Gay’ - Citizens’ Report on the status of Homosexuality in India is released | ABVA

  26 November 2022

  AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA)
  PRESS RELEASE
  [Nov 25, 2022]
  The AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA) is releasing the second edition of ‘Less than Gay’ – A Citizens’ Report on the status of Homosexuality in India. The first edition of the Report – co-authored by seven members – was published in November 1991.
  This edition has a long essay running into 18,360 words in the form of an introduction written by Shobha Aggarwal, advocate and member, ABVA. It details the struggle of (…)