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Sri Lankans have risen | Apratim Mukarji
14 May 2022, by Apratim MukarjiSri Lanka will continue to boil until the Rajapaksa clan in toto goes. This message has come out loud and clear. The first month of protests, street demonstrations, encirclements of government offices and slow breakdowns of law and order all (...) -
Rajapaksa Resigns: 13 years after victory, mass fury topples Mahinda | M.R. Narayan Swamy
14 May 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyIt is a tragedy that dictators never seem to grasp the reality until it is too late. Sri Lanka’s once seemingly unshakable strongman, Mahinda Rajapaksa, proved it yet again as he resigned as Prime Minister on Monday but not before creating more (...) -
Workers Made Homeless on May Day by Large Scale Slum Demolitions in Chandigarh | Bharat Dogra
14 May 2022, by Bharat DograOn May 1, in the presence of heavy police force, demolition squads of Chandigarh swooped on huts and houses of colony number 4, Industrial Area Phase 1. The homes and hearths of nearly 5000 people, all of them from the poorest sections of one of (...) -
A suggestion for adapting Gandhian “bread labour” to current circumstances | Mark Lindley
14 May 2022by Mark Lindley *
7 May 2022
Gandhiji upheld and adapted to contemporary Indian circumstances a moral precept of “bread labour” which he had found in Tolstoy’s writings [I should mention the well-established fact that Tolstoy had found the idea in (...) -
Is Tajmahal not a part of Indian Culture? | Ram Puniyani
14 May 2022by Ram Puniyani
Culture is a fascinating aspect of our life. To understand the culture one examines the social life and observes multiple facets of life, food habits, clothes, music, language, literature, architecture and aspects of religion, (...) -
Communalism in Contemporary India: A brief review of Bhagat Singh’s Perspective | Gurjeet Kaur and Prabhjot Kaur
14 May 2022by Gurjeet Kaur and Prabhjot Kaur *
Intensified conflicts between religious communities have shaken the country. We have been listening to news of communal violence from many places of the country like Jahangirpuri in Delhi, Karauli and Jodhpur (...) -
Production of Saffron Pedagogy and Its Implications | Vidyasagar Sharma
14 May 2022The ongoing structural attacks through pedagogical changes will be catastrophic to the secular model of the Indian educational system. Recently, selected verses of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz from NCERT’s Class 10 and other contents such as (...) -
Food for consumption or food for power assertion? Lessons from Hindu philosophical tradition | Garima Mani Tripathi
14 May 2022by Garima Mani Tripathi
Food is the basic necessity for human survival. However, at times, it does migrate from an individual-cultural choice to socio-political platform, plagued by controversies and divisive opinions. The recent clashes over (...) -
Allahabad Diary | Ather Farouqui
14 May 2022, by Ather Farouqui(For Abhishek Tandon)
Allahabad, officially renamed Prayagraj in 2019, houses one of the oldest and largest High Courts of the country, retaining the city’s earlier name, just as does the Bombay High Court. The city of sangam was the last (...) -
PUCL Statement about Supreme Court of India Interim Order on Sedition Law (May 12, 2022)
14 May 2022PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES (PUCL)
The PUCL welcomes the initial step towards the complete repeal of the colonial law of Sedition
Press Note
12th May, 2022
The Peoples Union for Civil Liberties welcomes the order of the Supreme Court dated (...)
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