2022

"That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can it be prevented." — Karl Jasper ín the BBC Documentary Series ’The Nazis : A Warning from History’
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"Are the German People guilty?”
It was the year 1945, the Nazi government had hardly exited the scene, when Karl Jasper, then a Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany (…)

by Anushka Singh Parihar *
Summary:
This policy brief aims to bring light to the current issues regarding the education of the transgender community. In 2021 Karnataka became the first state in India to provide 1% reservation to the transgender community in several government sectors but the issue surrounding their education remains unaddressed. If we take the 2011 census data into consideration there are more than a twenty thousand people who openly identify as transgender but only half (…)

Right to Work: Feasible and Indispensable for India to be a truly Civilized and Democratic Nation
Released in New Delhi
October 11, 2022
Thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to prepare and present this Report.
Thanks to the members of the Commission for their support. Also to others who contributed to it. Their contributions are in the Annexure
Reminded of the Alternative Budget, 1994 in GPF where we presented an alternative.
The issue will be how to take it to the (…)

by Prof. Ranbir Singh *
During my stay at the Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh from 1962 to 1964 as a student of M.A. Course, I had the good fortune of having outstanding scholars like Dr. I.D. Sharma, Dr. M.M. Puri, Prof. J.C. Anand, Dr. C.F. George and Dr. K.C. Markaran. All of them were good teachers as well as good researchers. However, Dr. M.M. Puri was a Teacher with a difference. He was a gentleman in the true sense of the word. He was not only the (…)

Source : UWEC
Russia prosecutes activist for citing IAEA report
Posted on October 9, 2022 By Editor
By Aleksei Ovchinnikov
Translated by Jennifer Castner
Expert anti-nuclear Russian campaigner and public figure Andrey Ozharovsky was accused in August 2022 of discrediting Russia’s state atomic energy corporation, RosAtom. An administrative legal case is being filed against him. In the meantime, Ozharovsky has repeatedly made public statements and continues to serve as a regular (…)

People’s Union for Civil Liberties
18th October, 2022 SC Staying Acquittal of Prof. Saibaba and 5 others A dangerous precedent which dilutes procedural safeguards and Compromises the right to personal liberty
PUCL expresses its serious concern over the hurried manner by which the SC permitted the Government of Maharashtra to move an urgent appeal on Saturday 16th October, 2022 against the acquittal/discharge of Prof. Saibaba and 5 others by the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay HC on (…)

Press Release
Gangster State India
This week’s not-so-surprising plot-twist revelation in the Bilkis Bano convict release affair, in response to a Supreme Court petition filed by several parties including Mahua Moitra, Subhashini Ali, Revati Laul, and Lucknow based 79-year old philosophy professor Rekha Roop Verma, are the contents of the government’s affidavits to the court.
These show that that the Central Government, in yet another tone-deaf display of brazenness, and in stark (…)

PRESS CLUB OF INDIA
New Delhi
[October 20, 2022]
PCI fails to comprehend the Government decision to stop Pulitzer prize winning Kashmiri journalist Sanah Mattoo to travel to the US to receive the prize.
On the one hand, the Government is making all out efforts to integrate Kashmir with the national mainstream, on the other such actions will only act as deterrents and further aid in alienating people from Kashmir.
We note with concern that this is the second time in four months that (…)

GENERAL INSURANCE EMPLOYEES’ ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION (Affiliated to Trade Union International) e-mail address: - gieaia1971[at]yahoo.com Sterling Cinema Building, Third floor, No.65, Murzban Road, Fort, Mumbai –400 001 Working Office: 15-16, Scindia House, KG Marg, New Delhi-110001
President : AMARJEET KAUR Working President: R.SRINIVASAMURTHY General Secretary: TRILOK SINGH Addl. General Secretary: A.KUMARVELU
19th October, 2022
Today General Insurance Employees (…)

Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy
__0__ Bullets and Bylines: From the Frontlines of Kabul, Delhi, Damascus and Beyond by Shyam Bhatia
Speaking Tiger Pages: 249; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1720226733 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1720226734
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Shyam Bhatia got out of two tense situations because of Bollywood. The India-born Bhatia was walking in Baghdad towards the ousted Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace when he saw 40 to 50 Iraqis shouting hoarse at an American soldier on a US Army Humvee. (…)