2024

During several recent movements of farmers, particularly in Europe, sometimes a serious misunderstanding has been created, or is sought to be created, that what is needed for protecting farmers’ livelihoods and what is needed for climate change mitigation and adaptation are in conflict with each other. Therefore it is important to emphasize with renewed vigor that there is no such conflict. If a proper, wider, enlightened view is taken, what will best protect the interests of farmers is the (…)

The recent general elections in Pakistan, the results of which are yet to be finalised, gave birth to distinct themes, echoing with clarity and significance. Among these, a resounding message becomes apparent: the Pakistani populace, especially its dynamic youth, opposes the coercive methods of the state apparatus and refuses to adhere to predetermined narratives dictating the country’s trajectory by the military leadership.
The defeat of the establishment-backed Pakistan Muslim League (N) (…)

February 8, 2024
Expectant mothers deserve proper care when giving birth. Instead, some face forced surgery, bullying, coercion and insufficient pain relief.
Women being threatened with beatings for screaming during labour. Women forced to deliver babies on the floor despite the availability of labour beds. Women handed plastic bags containing the unwashed bodies of their stillborn children.
These are just some of the horrific stories that have emerged from investigations into abuse (…)

Progressive Urdu poet Sardar Jafri often quoted from a Pakistani poet’s poem to illustrate the power of music over politics.
It was music, he said, which had bound India and Pakistan through ups and downs since their inception.
“Two Indian and Pakistani men, surrounded by their supporters in a restaurant, were fiercely defending their countries,” Jafri Sahab recalled. “Suddenly, the voice of Lata Mangeshkar arrived on the radio and the quarrel stopped in obeisance. The packed restaurant (…)

Abstract: The discussion about the problem of past and vision of future come together in debate of what is not done in present. Here is the dream of protest as an expression of politics. It may be personal or collective; organized or unorganised. Trait research leaders and behaviour research leaders did not consider situational influences that might moderate the relationship between leader behaviour and leader effectiveness. If that seems to be a deflating idea, it only goes to show how (…)

Text of Adress to the Royal Institute of British Architects, July 1984
To dwell is human. Wild beast have nests, cattle have stables, carriages fit into sheds, and there are garages for automobiles. Only humans can dwell. To dwell is an art. Every spider is born with a compulsion to weave a web particular to its kind. Spiders, like all animals, are programmed by their genes. The human is the only animal who is an artist, and the art of dwelling is part of the art of living. A house is (…)

"We thus call upon the Indian government to publicly endorse the latest ruling of the ICJ, stand against all violations of the human rights of Palestinians in Gaza and refrain from any sort of complicity with Israel. We demand an immediate ceasefire in Palestine."

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES (PUCL)
332, Patpar Ganj, Opp. Anand Lok Apartments, (Gate No. 2), Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi 110 091
Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
President: Ms. Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamil Nadu); E.mail: puclnat[at]gmail.com, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org
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20.02.2024
“Jail, not Bail”: Is the SC setting the clock (…)

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Transnational Communism across the Americas by Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob A. Zumoff
University of Illinois Press 2023. 288 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04522-6 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08736-3
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Despite its title, which hints at an expansive pretense, Transnational Communism across the Americas succeeds in a focused goal: better understanding the role of orthodox, Moscow-backed Communism in Latin America (…)