2023

The Network of Women in Media, India, strongly condemns the continuous and ongoing harassment of Chennai-based writer and activist Shalin Maria Lawrence on social media sites. She is a columnist for various English and Tamil publications. Shalin has been facing high-volume targeted harassment on Twitter as well as Facebook over the past year, specifically from handles associated with the DMK and the BJP.
Shalin, who joined Twitter in 2020, and has been active on Facebook for over a decade, (…)

Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM)
15 March 2023
To
The Chairman
National Human Rights Commission
Manav Adhikar Bhawan
Block-C, GPO Complex, INA
New Delhi-110023
Respected Sir,
I want to attract your attention towards the illegitimate restrictions on the life and livelihood of the villagers of Paschim Sahebganj village under Dinhata - II Block and Sahebganj police station in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal by the Border Security Force personnel attached with (…)

Living a Life Hardcover by Ravi Sawhney Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd | 10 February 2023 Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 264 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8195678637 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8195678631 __0__
1980 brought the Congress to power in Punjab and turned the defeated Akalis belligerent. The state began to feel the heat as the Akali Dal launched a massive agitation for the implementation of the Anandpur Sahib Resolution of 1973. Although the Akalis did not create Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, they did not speak (…)

by Timothée Parrique
March 3, 2023
I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University has made a name for himself arguing that “degrowth communism” could halt the escalating climate emergency.
Kohei Saito, the bestselling author of Capital in the Anthropocene, is back with a new book: Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of (…)

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Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 11, 2023
Vice President & Chair of the Rajya Sabha Must Act in all Fairness
Our constitution envisages the Parliament as a space for free speech and debate. Recently expressed public remarks and actions by Mr. Jagdeep Dhankar, the Vice President of India and who is constitutionally mandated to Chair the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of India’s Parliament are causing concern. In January of this year, Vice President Dhankhar created a flutter (…)

The cat is out of the bag, TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, whose electoral debut helped the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) barely scrape through the recently held Tripura Assembly elections and resume power for a second five-year term, has offered the much need support of his 13 MLAs to the Manik Saha led BJP government.
BJP had won 32 seats in a 60-member House including that won by Pratima Bhoumik, a Union minister, also projected by the BJP, during the campaign, as a chief (…)

Days after 25-year-old Nasir and Junaid, 35, of Ghatmkeeka in the western state of Rajasthan where killed and their bodies burnt in their jeep in February 2023 by cow vigilante members of the Bajrang Dal, in distant Meghalaya in the northeast, State Bharatiya Janata Party President, Ernest Mawrie, made a startling statement. He said there are no restrictions on consuming beef in the Hindutva party. Mawrie told India today he himself eats beef and there is no issue with it.
Meghalaya is (…)

The city is supposed to be the place where anyone can be anything they want to be. They say in a city like Hyderabad, there are no feelings of caste, class or religion. Everyone is supposed to be equal. Sociologists have also believed that urbanisation could signal the end of the caste system. B. R. Ambedkar encouraged people from marginalised castes to migrate to urban areas. He believed Indian villages perpetuate this system of inequality. Unfortunately, however, cities have their own way (…)

The Union government is pursuing the aggressive policy of linking welfare schemes for the people with Aadhaar. According to the social activist, Nikhil Dey, recent shift to Aadhaar-based payment of MGNREGA wages took place when only 43 per cent of workers had their bank accounts Aadhaar-seeded. Very recently, the Centre sought monthly updates on the number of Aadhaar-authenticated students at every government and aided school in the country and the number of midday meals each serves. It is (…)