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• Patriotic Criminals and Anti-National criminals | Sandeep Pandey

  9 June 2023, by Sandeep Pandey

  Seven women wrestlers have filed a First Information Report about sexual harassment by Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a six times Member of Parliament and president of the Wrestling Federation of India. One of the survivors who is a minor, thereby invoking the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, has after prolonged protests and the accused roaming around freely, mysteriously withdrawn the charges against Singh. The wrestlers, some of them international medal-winning ones, (…)

• Wrestlers’ struggle for justice: Will it endure? | Prem Singh

  9 June 2023, by Prem Singh

  Published as the front page story in ’The Indian Express’ on May 23, 2023, Vinesh Phogat in her write up titled ’Like many girls, I had to suffer silently all these years because of this man (Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh)’ has made a remarkable statement. She states, “Now there is no fear. The only fear we have is that we may have to quit wrestling. We believe we have five years more in the sport but who knows what the future holds for us after these protests. We also know our lives could be at (…)

• Underrepresentation of Muslims in Higher Education: Some Reflections | Badre Alam Khan

  9 June 2023, by Badre Alam Khan

  After more than decades of Sachar Report (2006), the educational backwardness of Indian Muslims still remains pathetic and witnessed a terminal decline barring a few exceptions. The latest report of the Government of India has also underlined that Muslim students are underrepresented and missing from higher education. To be very brief here, recent data released by the All India survey of higher education (under the Minister of Education) has underlined that Muslim students are missing from (…)

• Life in the 21st Century: Reflections from the ‘Developed’ World | Aishwarya Bhuta

  9 June 2023

  The United Kingdom had appointed a Minister for Loneliness even before the COVID-19 pandemic, while the Japanese have begun consulting ‘smile specialists’ because they have forgotten smiling behind the masks worn in the aftermath of the pandemic [1], [2]. The Swiss Ministry of Health came up with a ‘Time Bank’ scheme in 2022 under which youth can volunteer to look after elderly people, have the hours clocked in an account, and be assured of the same number of hours of care in their own old (…)

• Bhagat Singh And His Religiosity | Sahastranshu Pandey

  9 June 2023

  23 March 1931.
  It has been ninety-two years since Rajguru, Sukhdev, and Bhagat Singh were martyred. Today, we all know about Shaheed Bhagat Singh, popularly known as Shaheed-e-Azam. But I believe, he is one of our country’s most misunderstood and misrepresented freedom fighters. When one hears the name ‘Shaheed Bhagat Singh’, many associate it with words like weapons and violence, many people use his photo as their profile picture, and if you ask someone to act like Shaheed Bhagat Singh, (…)

• Turkey: what to expect from Erdoğan, his ultranationalist alliance and their ‘family values’ pledges | Balki Begumhan Bayhan

  9 June 2023

  by Balki Begumhan Bayhan *
  May 31, 2023
  After a bitter and hard-fought campaign that went to a second run-off vote, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has retained the Turkish presidency in an election that some deemed as “free but not fair”. Having first won power in 2003, Erdoğan has been able to extend his rule for a further five years by creating an alliance with ultranationalist parties.
  A key aspect of the next term is likely to be a hardline conservative agenda. An agreement between the (…)

• Hundreds of Thousands Rally Against Poland’s Authoritarian Right-Wing Government | Jake Johnson

  9 June 2023

  Jun 05, 2023
  An estimated 500,000 people took to the streets of the capital Warsaw and other Polish cities on Sunday to protest the nation’s far-right government, which has assailed reproductive freedoms, attacked the rights of LGBTQ+ people, and cracked down on critical civil society groups and media outlets.
  Sunday’s march against the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party—which has held power since 2015—was called by former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, who is leading the Civic (…)

• Reading Gramsci Ethnographically | Arup Kumar Sen

  9 June 2023

  In his introduction to the Gramsci Reader edited by David Forgacs (New York University Press, 2000), the eminent Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm argued that Gramsci was “par excellence the philosopher of political praxis”. A recent study by Kate Crehan (‘Antonio Gramsci: Towards an ethnographic Marxism’, ANUAC, DICEMBRE 2018) has located ethnographic foundations of Gramsci’s political imagination in Prison Notebooks. In the context of his reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, Crehan argued (…)

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  Bank Workers Denounce the Attack on Wrestlers, Demand Justice

  9 June 2023

  ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS CONFEDERATION (Registered under the Trade Unions Act 1926, Registration No.3427/Delhi) State Bank of India, LHO, Dispur, Guwahati–781006 Phone: 9957563825 Web: www.aiboc.org e mail- aiboc.sectt[at]gmail.com & rupamr.aiboc[at]gmail.com
  ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION Central Office: “PRABHAT NIVAS” Regn. No. 2037 Singapore Plaza, 164, Linghi Chetty Street, Chennai- 600001 Phone: 25351522 Fax: 25358853 Web: www.aibea.in e mail chv.aibea[at]gmail.com & (…)

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  Collective statement by women and human rights organisations condemning the state repression and police atrocities on the wrestlers in their struggle for justice against sexual harassment, issued on 6th June 2023

  9 June 2023

  Collective statement by women and human rights organisations condemning the state repression and police atrocities on the wrestlers in their struggle for justice against sexual harassment, issued on 6th June 2023
  END THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY AND ARREST ACCUSED BRIJ BHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH NOW
  We the undersigned women and human rights organisations condemn the way the Delhi Police, Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP led Central Government at the highest level have managed to subvert the law, (…)