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• The largest minority community in the country is battling on all fronts | Humra Quraishi

  27 May 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  25 May 2022
  With the Yogi Adityanath government’s acceptance of the state cabinet’s proposal to exclude new madrasas in the state of Uttar Pradesh, from the government’s grant list, it is getting to be more than obvious the establishment of the day will not extend support or give grants for educational facilities for children run by the minority community.
  After all, what are madrasas? An affordable place for learning, both religious text as well as mainstream education. Though in (…)

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  Volcanic Islands of hate have brought India to a boil | Statement by All India Catolic Union

  27 May 2022

  All India Catholic Union
  Dated: 23/05/2022
  Volcanic Islands of hate have brought India to a boil, warns Catholic Union AICU says Government must act urgently to reverse trend, check targeted violence
  PRESS STATEMENT
  The All India Catholic Union is deeply disturbed at the targeted hate against religious minorities which has in recent months erupted like so many volcanos in the sea of religious harmony in India. If not checked now, it may do untold damage to national peace and (…)

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  Statement from Committee For the Defense of G N Saibaba - May 26, 2022

  27 May 2022

  COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE AND RELEASE OF DR. G. N. SAIBABA PRESS STATEMENT
  26 May 2022
  Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail
  Dr. G.N. Saibaba, a 90% physically disabled person languishing in Nagpur central Jail started a hunger strike for the second time from Saturday 21st May 2022 seeking immediate resolution of his demands. Dr. G.N. Saibaba, also sat on hunger strike one and half years ago during lockdown in the jail demanding (…)

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  Field Notes - Distress and Violence in Rural Bengal | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  27 May 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Book Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy __0__
  Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok
  by Parimal Bhattacharya
  HarperCollins India;
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354894372 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354894374
  299 pages; Price: Rs 499
  This is an extraordinary book, written with a passion about those who are not normally ignored and who, as the title reveals, live in far-flung areas where Bengal’s mostly upper-caste Hindu Bhadralok are normally absent. The book is a mirror to the (…)

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  Review: Rani and Raza on Heewon Kim’s The Struggle for Equality

  27 May 2022

  Reviewed by: Chanda Rani and Aamir Raza
  __0__ The Struggle for Equality: India’s Muslims and Rethinking the UPA Experience by Heewon Kim
  Cambridge University Press 2019 Pages‘s: 247 Online ISBN: 9781108235839
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  The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government (2004-14) led by the congress came to power with strong policy initiative for the religious minorities of India more specifically aiming at Muslims. A series of measure were identified for the implementation to create (…)

• “Duende Thoughts” — Real, Reel and Literature – A Mere Coincidence? or A Beautiful Scientific Prophecy | A. K. Sinha

  27 May 2022

  by Dr. A. K. Sinha *
  Covid 19 is a pandemic known to each and every individual of the globe today in all its unforeseen dimensions, severity and catastrophic casualties, which is unparallel in the history of mankind. COVID 19 stands for—Co-Corona, Vi-Virus, D-Disease-2019, though, more scientifically, it is called as SARS-C0 V—2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus-2) —both names given by WHO on 11 February, 2020. By then (11th February, 2020), globally, more than 1,18,000 cases (…)

• The Recent Amendment of Flag Code of India: A Sacrilege? | Siby K. Joseph

  27 May 2022

  by Siby K. Joseph
  The National Flag of India has a special place in the hearts of every Indian. It was unique due to the Khadi fabric with which it was made and one could easily distinguish it from flags of other countries. It was a symbol of the historic struggle of freedom led under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and other great patriots of India. When Gandhi took the leadership of the country in 1920s, he called the British Government and it flag as Satanic which made us slaves in our (…)

• An Ode to Liberal Democracy (No Apologies to Francis Fukuyama) | Murzban Jal

  27 May 2022

  We came out from the brothel,
  Daddy, mummy and me,
  Shouting at the top of our voices
  “Long live the bourgeoisie!”
  Daddy is a celibate,
  I know for certainty,
  When my hands went round and round his buttocks,
  He sang: “God save the bourgeoisie!”
  When organs and circles go round and round
  And round and round...
  And round
  And round
  .............and round.
  To metaphysical silence,
  I am permanently bound,
  And when the fascists appear,
  I go hunting with both hare and hound. (…)

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  Cartoon: Kapil Sibal Resigns from Congress Party | Jayaraj Vellur

  27 May 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: Jawaharlal Nehru’s study on 27 May 1964, Nehru Memorial Museum, Teen Murti House, New Delhi

  27 May 2022