2020

PRESS RELEASE
Jai Bhim!
Coinciding with the upcoming Ambedkar Jayanti, Dr. Anand Teltumbde , one of India’s foremost public intellectuals and the strongest legatee of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s tradition of struggling for a truly democratic India, will be complying with the Supreme Court’s order to surrender to the jail authorities. He will be surrendering on the 14th April 2020, between 12 noon - 2 pm at the Sessions Court in Mumbai. This is both tragic and shameful for all Dalits, Adivasis, (…)

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
09th April, 2020
Statement on Rejection of the Petition filed by Gautam Navalakhs and Anand Teltumbde seeking time to Surrender (…)

by Prabhajyoti Roy
Agartala, April 2020
March 31, 2020 is a Black Day for Tripura. In this day 8882 school teachers of the state lost jobs for none of their folly.
While some of the teachers journey started in 2010, others in the profession had entered in 2014. The number 10,323 bears a historical significance in the state’s political history. Since lots of turmoils had happened relating to the issue; ultimately coming from bolt from the blue as the High Court judgement against (…)

by Prof Radhakanta Barik
As per latest information regarding cases under Covid19 are 41 cases including one recovered and one death. These cases are confined to the cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. This brings the extension of Lockdown till 30th April which is not an accepted proposition as the number of cases are small in comparison to many other States such as Maharasthra and Kerala. We could have gone to bring only capital town under the Lockdown as most of the cases are there. As (…)

IMPRESSIONS
These are days when I feel insignificant as a citizen. I am reduced to looking at politicians as the maa-baap of the country and obeying them. We citizens should be happy to do so except that the maa-baap speak in many tongues. Yogi Adityanath wants me to do yoga and thus cure all the ills of the nation. I spent a college year doing yoga, but did not see the world getting any better. Mamta Banerji wants me to know this whole corona panic is a BJP plot to divert (…)

by Malli Gandhi
Many of us are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of Professor Arjun Dev on 22nd March, 2020 in New Delhi at the age of 82. As an individual and as a historian he has long been an inspiration to many people in National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) who have read his books and relished a close association with him. As a historian he inspired teachers, teacher educators and scholars in NCERT. He was a great influence for many faculty members in the (…)

by Kadayam Subramanian
December 17, 2019 I was Visiting Fellow at the prestigious Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla from 1973 to 1975. A former IB official, I had decided to research the evolution of the communist movement in India. My inspiration came partly from the conversations I had earlier had with the inspirational friend and ‘Guru’ Dr. K. Raghavendra Rao Professor of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad and also from my studies. I had a very useful time (…)

Introduction
Even when the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world claiming over 1 lakh fatalities, claims made by the most isolated country in the world North Korea has claimed zero fatality. The global death toll of the virus, termed as COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation crossed one lakh on April 11, barely 103 days after the organisation first heard of “mystery pneumonia” in Wuhan. North Korea could be one of the dozen nations in the world not yet invaded by the deadly virus, but (…)

Commentary by attorney Dmitriy Agranovskiy: Endemic Impoverishment of Russians May Become Worse Than the Coronavirus. The State Is Obliged To Support Its Citizens in a Difficult Situation
Nowadays, they love giving all sorts of nastiness bright and sometimes romantic names. So, a combination of an unprecedented drop in oil prices with a similarly unprecedented epidemic of the coronavirus and no less unprecedented measures to combat it is called the "perfect storm." And this storm is (…)

by Dr. Manish Sharma & Dr. Vinod Sharma
Introduction
Coronavirus Disease -2019 declared by the World Health organization (WHO) as pandemic, is causing economic malaise as well as human distress both at the micro and macro level. The economists across the world are not only gauging the fall outs of this global menace but also making strenuous efforts to pace in new palliatives to salvage the collapsing economy from further disaster. Notwithstanding their theoretical (…)