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  Audio: Contested histories - a discussion on Sudhir Hazareesingh’s biography of Toussaint Louverture - Black Spartacus | BBC4

  17 October 2020

  Olivette Otele, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Kate Williams reveal untold histories with Tom Sutcliffe

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  Video: Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1942)

  17 October 2020
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  [bleu]Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 10, 2020 | Lockdown Edition no. 29[/bleu]

  10 October 2020

  * Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, October 10, 2020
  * How safe are Dalit women in Uttar Pradesh | SR Darapuri
  * Culture of Rape | Sukumaran C.V.

• Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, October 10, 2020 | Lockdown Edition no. 29

  10 October 2020

  We live in a very violent, callous and brutalised society. We didn’t become a violent country only after the arrival of the Right-wing conservative government of the BJP led by Narendra Modi in 2014. There is a long pre-history of everyday violence, deep sexism and misogyny in our homes and outside. Every violent moment has sexual undertones in India. The violent crime and the state response in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh (UP) is just one instance in a long series.
  Where do we begin? But just (…)

• How safe are Dalit women in Uttar Pradesh? | SR Darapuri

  10 October 2020

  by S. R. Darapuri
  Recently Crime in India - 2019 report has been released by National Crime Records Bureau. In this report, in the year 2019, the statistics of crime of Dalit atrocities have been published for the whole country. It has emerged that Uttar Pradesh is far ahead in this. The Dalit population of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is the largest population in the country, which is 20.7% percent of the Scheduled Castes population of India. According to the report, in the year 2019, a total of (…)

• Culture of Rape | Sukumaran C.V.

  10 October 2020, by Sukumaran C.V.

  It almost seems as if rape is the favorite pastime of the males of this country.—Saraswati Haider.
  Three women including a well-known dubbing artist in the capital city of Kerala have physically attacked or manhandled (the correct usage is womanhandled) a man for a video he has uploaded on YouTube in which he talks indecent, obscene and abominable things about women.
  It was really nauseating to hear his obscene talk. His indecent blabbering about the feminists in general and in (…)

• Requirement of An Independent Constitutional Body | Chittarvu Raghu

  10 October 2020

  by Chittarvu Raghu
  The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was enacted with the main objective to protect marginalised communities viz. schedule castes and tribes against discrimination and atrocities. Sec.3 of the said Act enunciates the nature of various acts committed against a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe to constitute an offence punishable under the said Act. The said provision stipulates that any act which is derogatory to human dignity (…)

• In the land of Yogi where criminals rule | Arun Srivastava

  10 October 2020

  by Arun Srivastava
  Rajput strongman Ajay Mohan Bisht was voted twice in two years as the nation’s best chief minister. Bisht is none else but the chief of a Hindu math, a yogi, a person who has supposedly renounced earthly luxuries, the materialism, in Gorakhpur of Uttar Pradesh with a number of criminal cases against him. Ever since he became the chief minister of UP he has been donning controversies for his unsavoury actions.
  With the opposition in Uttar Pradesh behaving like a maid (…)

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  Video: Feminist Lawyer Vrinda Grover Reponds To UP Police’s "No Rape" Theory

  9 October 2020
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  Hathras - Statement by The Editors Guild Of India | Oct 4, 2020

  9 October 2020

  The Editors Guild Of India
  Press Statement
  October 4, 2020
  The Editors Guild Of India condemns the manner in which the law enforcement agencies of the Uttar Pradesh government, led by Yogi Adityanath, have prevented media persons from reporting on developments in and around Hathras after a brutal assault on a woman leading to her death and the hurried cremation of her body by the authorities without the presence of the family of the deceased.
  Equally reprehensible is the way the (…)