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• Kim and Trump Tango

  24 June 2018

  by Mahendra Ved
  That the sun rises in the East has never been fully appreciated in a world where the West has dominated for long. The much-trumpeted—and much-doubted—Asian Century may have actually begun now with the Singapore Summit and the historic handshake between leaders of the two nations, the US and North Korea, who have begun a process that hopefully marks the beginning of a process that pulls them—and the world—from the nuclear precipice.
  Although the Kim and Trump tango is more (…)

• Japan Council against A and H Bombs welcomes US-DPRK Summit Call

  24 June 2018

  Yasui Masakazu, Secretary-General, Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo), has issued the following statement welcoming the US-North Korea Agreement on Denuclearisation of and Building a Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula.
  1. On June 12 in Singapore, President Donald Trump of the USA and Chairman Kim Jon Un of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK (North Korea) held the first US-DPRK Summit in history, and signed the Joint Statement.
  The Joint Statement (…)

• Interview of Shujaat Bukhari on the situation in the Valley

  24 June 2018

  The following is the interview of Shujaat Bukhari, Editor-in-Chief of Rising Kashmir, Buland Kashmir (Urdu daily) and Sangarmal (Kashmiri daily) based in Srinagar, on the situation in the Valley and the difficulties and hardships faced by the media in its functioning there. This was published in the August 13, 2016 (Independence Day Special) issue of Mainstream. He replied to a set of questions (including one on what should be done now to improve the situation) from Mainstream. This is being reproduced as a tribute to the abiding memory of Shujaat Bukhari now that he is no more having been assassinated in downtown Srinagar on June 14, 2018.

• PUCL’s Statement nn Shujaat Bukhari’s Assassination

  24 June 2018

  The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) is deeply shocked and strongly condemns the dastardly assassination of Shujaat Bukhari, Editor-in-Chief of Rising Kashmir on Thursday, June 14, 2018 evening by armed gunmen just as he was getting into his vehicle after leaving office. Two of his personal security officers also died as a result of the shooting.
  A very experienced journalist, Shujaat was a strong voice for peace in Kashmir and he very clearly articulated that peace can come to (…)

• On Shujaat Bukhari’s Assassination - Editors Guild’s Condemnation

  24 June 2018

  The Editors Guild of India unequivocally condemns the assassination of Shujaat Bukhari.
  Mr Bukhari was a voice of moderation and a courageous, big-hearted editor who mentored a large cadre of young journalists from Kashmir. The Guild calls upon the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to take urgent steps to bring to book the culprits and ensure safety and security for the media in the State. An attack on a journalist challenges the very foundations of a free press and vibrant democracy and (…)

• The Killing of Shujaat Bukhari - Joint Statement-cum-Resolution issued by Journalist Organisations

  24 June 2018

  A meeting of journalists was organised at the Press Club of India, New Delhi on June 18 to pay homage to the Kashmiri journalist, Shujaat Bukhari, who was assassinated in the heart of Srinagar on June 14, 2018. A joint statement-cum-resolution was adopted by the journalist organisations that organised the meeting—Press Club of India, Indian Women’s Press Corps, Press Association, Editors Guild of India, SAFMA, South Asian Women in Media, IJU, NUJ, FCC and Working News Camerapersons (…)

• In Defending Press Freedom Real Tributes to Shujaat Bukhari can be Paid

  24 June 2018

  by S.N. Sahu
  The killing of a journalist, Shujaat Bukhari, in Kashmir speaks volumes of the safety, security and independence of the press in India and that too in regions which are subjected to conflict and terrorist violence.
  The attack on journalists and journalism is an attack on not only press freedom but also on our very independence. Before the ‘Quit India’ Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 he began individual Satyagraha to protest against censorship imposed on the (…)

• God Votes in India, Abstains in Britain

  24 June 2018

  by L.K. Sharma
  This article is in two parts, the following is the first part. The second part will be carried next week.
  A lot depends on where you come from. It affects your way of seeing.
  Arriving from the India of the eighties, it seemed only normal to hear the Dalai Lama addressing a congregation in a Christian church in London. Coming from India in 2018, one gets anxious hearing Hindu, Buddhist and Sufi chants in a Brighton church. Some fanatic Christians may come and disrupt the (…)

• Progress of RSS is Ominous

  24 June 2018, by Kuldip Nayar

  I find the followers of the secular ideology as fanatic as the others are. There was a furore over the visit of BJP President Amit Shah to my residence a few days ago. Criticism over telephone and e-mails were numberless. And all that they said was: “You should not have allowed him to visit you.”
  I want to put the record straight. A couple of days before Shah’s visit, a few activists came to my house. We were together in the Jaya-prakash Narayan movement. They asked me if I had any (…)

• The Unedifying Spectacle of Educated Indians

  24 June 2018

  by M.A. Sofi
  The BJP juggernaut now sweeping large swathes of India seems unstoppable. Now with twentyone States out of a total of twentynine under its belt, it redounds to the highly effective and efficient administrative structure of the party that despite having precious little to show for its achievements on almost all fronts including economy and employment, its success at the hustings comes across as truly spectacular. However, it stands to reason if indeed its electoral successes (…)