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  Fr. Stan is dead! Salutes to an extraordinary rights fighter! | Press Relese by PUCL, July 5, 2021

  9 July 2021

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES 332, Patpar Ganj, Opposite Anand Lok Apartments, Mayur Vihar I, Delhi 110 091 Phone 2275 0014 PP FAX 4215 1459 Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde President: Ravi Kiran Jain; General Secretary: Dr. V. Suresh E.mail: puclnat[at]gmail.com& pucl.natgensec[at]gmail.com
  05th July, 2021
  Fr. Stan is dead! Salutes to an extraordinary rights fighter!!
  PUCL is extremely saddened and anguished by the death of Fr. Stan Swamy today, (…)

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  Table of Contents, July 3, 2021

  2 July 2021

  * Contesting the Monolithic Idea of India | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Dharwar Firing Centenary | Anil Nauriya
  * A short note on Shapurji Saklatvala (1874–1936) | Jairus Banaji

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 3, 2021

  2 July 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 3, 2021
  In the past weeks and months, the opposition parties and independent social movement organisations have called upon the state to provide social and economic assistance to people who have been pushed into poverty and debt due to the loss of jobs caused by a major economic slowdown of the economy due to Covid-19. There have also been calls to assist the large numbers of people who have had to undergo medical treatment are reeling from huge (…)

• You are not repeat not allowed to attend Indian History Congress at Aligarh Muslims University - Gagging retired bureaucrats? | AK Biswas

  2 July 2021, by A K Biswas

  In 1994, Government of Bihar in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms refused me permission to attend the 55th Indian History Congress for presentation of a dissertation, captioned “Paradox of Anti-Partition Agitation and Swadeshi Movement in 1905 in Bengal” at Aligarh Muslim University, though it was approved duly by India’s highest and oldest historical body.
  Part-I
  Synopsis of my dissertation captioned Paradox of Anti-Partition Agitation and Swadeshi Movement in (…)

• Political Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir at Last Welcome Step but are Intentions Clear: Delimitation and Election | Gautam Sen

  2 July 2021

  by Gautam Sen*
  Government of India has initiated a dialogue with the mainstream political parties of the country operating in Jammu & Kashmir (J& K) with a view to initiating the exercise for delimitation of its increased number of 114 legislative constituencies. Prime Minister Modi has held a meeting on 24th June, 2021 with 14 top political leaders of J&K including Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and Ghulam Nabi Azad. This is a welcome development after the reduction in status (…)

• There is Freedom, But No Mercy | T J S George

  2 July 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  June 27, 2021
  Freedom is a funny thing. When it is there, we don’t notice it. When it is not there, we don’t notice anything else. In a country as populous as India, half the people can take their freedom for granted without knowing that the other half is denied basic freedoms. This half-half reality is the defining feature of Narendra Modiji’s India.
  People are getting arrested as in the days of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. And, as in those days, people know only (…)

• Illusions of empire | Amartya Sen

  2 July 2021

  by Amartya Sen
  June 29, 2021
  It is true that before British rule, India was starting to fall behind other parts of the world – but many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itself
  The British empire in India was in effect established at the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757. The battle was swift, beginning at dawn and ending close to sunset. It was a normal monsoon day, with occasional rain in the mango (…)

• Resumption of terrorism in the subcontinent: nascent | Mustafa Khan

  2 July 2021

  by Mustafa Khan*
  Terror came to India via the US and Russia. This willy-nilly precludes the phrase ‘thanks to’. What was there to thank anyone. This also includes the assassination of the magistrate of Nasik by the gun supplied by VD Savarkar. It happened in 1909 Arthur Jackson had earned name for his scholarship in Sanskrit, his scholarship in orientalism and praise by the ‘nationalist’ leaders of India then. But those who subscribed to Abhinav Bharat Society of Savarkaer were (…)

• Gagged Media, Jailed Journos | John Dayal

  2 July 2021, by John Dayal

  With an obliging police, the State is doing everything to control the media. Draconian laws are being employed to intimidate journalists not toeing the government’s line on what the media must say.
  The Editors Guild of India, representing the major media organisations in the country in a statement in June 2021 said it was “shocked by the cavalier manner in which Uttar Pradesh Police is treating the mysterious death of TV journalist, Sulabh Srivastava, in Pratapgarh. Srivastava, who had (…)

• The Inauthentic and Anxious Life of the Married Woman | Gaganjot Kaur

  2 July 2021

  by Gaganjot Kaur*
  “I know a woman who hates domestic work, but she pretends that she likes it, because she has been taught that to be ‘good wife material’, she has to be — to use that Nigerian word — homely. And then she got married. And her husband’s family began to complain that she had changed. Actually, she had not changed. She just got tired of pretending to be what she was not.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All be Feminists
  A very prominent existentialist philosopher, (…)