2022

DIGIPUB News India Foundation
DIGIPUB’s statement on police searches on the homes of the editors and a reporter of The Wire
On 31 October 2022, the Delhi Police searched the homes of The Wire’s editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth Bhatia, and Jahnavi Sen, and their office, searching for and seizing laptops, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
The searches took place two days after Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Amit Malviya lodged a complaint against them based (…)

The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
November 2nd, 2022
The Editors Guild of India is extremely disturbed by the manner in which Delhi Police Crime Branch carried out search and seizures at the homes of founding editors and senior editors of the Wire, as well as their office and the newsroom in Delhi, on October 31, 2022.
The searches were carried out in a follow up to a First Information Report (FIR), registered in response to a complaint filed on October 29th, by the BJP (…)

Socialist Party (India)
Dated: 2 November, 2022
To: Chief Election Commissioner Nirvachan Sadan New Delhi
Subject: Socialist Party (India) not allowed to take out padyatra on the issue of Bilkis Bano in Gujarat whereas Bhartiya Janata Party trying to take advantage of communal polarization by releasing the convicts.
Respected Sir,
(1) When Socialist Party (India) tried to organize a padyatra from Randhikpur in Dahod district to Ahmedabad between 26 (…)

New Delhi,
Communist Party of India
November 2, 2022
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on November 2, 2022) demanding the withdrawal of the case filed against CPI National Executive member and general secretary of National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) Annie Raja:
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India deplores the case filed against CPI National Executive member and NFIW general (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore By Neethi P. and Anant Kamath
Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2022, Pages 211, Hard Bound, Price 895.00 ISBN: 9781009180214 __0__
This book seeks to redraw the map of Bangalore, based on the experiences of street-based sex workers—so that we begin to see the city through their eyes. Their livelihoods rendered increasingly precarious due to neo-liberal (…)

Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University)
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Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
2020. 324 pp
(e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7
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Cognitive literary studies is a dynamic and growing field of academic research that explores intersections between cognitive science and literary texts and their production. (…)

* Transfers of School Teachers in Haryana | Rajinder Chaudhary
* Where did India’s millions of working women go? | Rajendra P. Mamgain
* Russia: Impact of War & Mobilization on Industrial Workers | Azamat Ismailov

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 29, 2022
The election this week of the immigrant minority origin Rishi Sunak as the Prime Minister of UK been painted with a broad brush by some as ‘a revenge from the colonies’ having a man born from South Asian diaspora in Africa attain the highest position in Britain —the former colonial power. Some politicians particularly the right-wing lot in India are falsely labeling the British Citizen Sunak as Indian to give it a further nationalist (…)

by Rajinder Chaudhary *
Appointments and transfers in government sector have a crucial role not only in the functioning of the government agency concerned but also in the quality of politics of the state too. As a major employer, appointment and transfer policy of a government has a major bearing on politics of the state. In 2016 new BJP government in Haryana had brought in transfer policy for teachers where in transfers were to be ‘carried out only through approved web based application’. (…)

High levels of workplace violence are becoming a cause for serious concern in many countries. According to the European Working Conditions Survey, 6 million workers in the European Union are exposed in one year to workplace violence. If verbal violence is included, then the number exposed to violence is likely to exceed 30 million. France, Denmark and Belgium are among those countries which are on the higher than average side of this violence.
In the USA during 2015- 2019 as many as (…)