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PEN International
1 June 2020
PEN International is deeply concerned for the welfare of Indian poet P. Varavara Rao who has been in detention since November 2018. Aged 81 and in poor health, a bail hearing for Rao is due 2 June 2020. (...)
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India: release poet P Varavara Rao on medical grounds - Statement by PEN International
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Provide Immediate Cash Transfers and Free Rations - Statement by Left Parties on 30 May 2020
6 June 2020DOCUMENT
May 30, 2020
Press Statement
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the All India Forward Bloc have issued the following (...) -
Central Vista enshrines the history of the nation’s most central institutions | Swapna Liddle
6 June 2020A Place in our History
by Swapna Liddle, MAY 24 2020
When the British government first considered transferring the capital of their Raj from Calcutta to Delhi, they knew that it would be an unpopular decision among powerful British commercial (...) -
Babri Masjid, Ram Janmbhumi and Buddhist Relics | Ram Puniyani
6 June 2020by Ram Puniyani Country is under lockdown. Most of the activities related to production and construction have come to a standstill barring few. One such is the construction of the Ram temple. The path for this has been cleared by the Supreme (...) -
Why the Wren is a Patriot and not a Nationalist
6 June 2020, by Badri RainaHere is how the sight of a wren, the smallest of birds in creation, fighting to protect her little nest from an intruding hawk taught me the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
As she unleashed the fury of her miniscule wings (...) -
Dissident movements within the Eastern bloc aspired to genuine socialism | Catherine Samary
6 June 2020One of the received ideas that became a ‘truth’ after the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the Soviet bloc’s populations cursed communism, yet obeyed it slavishly. In fact, many social movements within the Eastern bloc had long aspired to genuine socialism.
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Statement by Indian Feminists On The Police Violence That Killed George Floyd
6 June 2020DOCUMENT
We, feminists in India, strongly condemn the murder of George Floyd, an African-American, by a white officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, and express our deep solidarity with the people’s resistance against police violence (...) -
USA: Police Failing to Ensure Right to Protest, Endangering Lives - Statement by Amnesty International USA
6 June 2020Amnesty International – USA
For Immediate Release
Sunday, May 30, 2020
WASHINGTON - Rachel Ward, National Director of Research at Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), issued the following statement about the police response in cities nationwide to (...) -
They could never breathe | Sukumaran C.V.
6 June 2020, by Sukumaran C.V.George Floyd, an innocent African American, was killed in the night of May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, by a white policeman pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck. Floyd was not even the suspect the policeman suspected him to be! On 26 June 2011, in (...) -
Time to think about the history of Hand Washing | Jos Chathukulam
6 June 2020by Jos Chathukulam
By now most of us have become very vigilant about washing our hands with soap or sanitizers as it is widely touted as an effective strategy to contain the spread of the novel Coronavirus. As the world grapples with the deadly (...)
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