Mainstream Weeklyby Abdullah Zahid with Beena Sarwar The drama began well before the start of the Fourth Asma Jahangir Conference on ‘Crisis of Constitutionalism in South Asia’, held last weekend in Lahore.
When Steven Butler of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) landed in Pakistan for the conference, he found himself detained for eight hours at the airport.
Someone apparently forgot to inform the FIA, the Federal Investigation Agency that monitors airports, that Butler was no longer on the (…)
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Struggles for democracy in Southasia highlighted at the Fourth Asma Jahangir Conference | Abdullah Zahid with Beena Sarwar
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Bio-Weapons Can Further Increase the Risks of On-Going World Crisis | Bharat Dogra
4 November 2022, by Bharat DograThe possibility of the use of nuclear weapons, intentional or on the basis of misunderstandings which can result in a situation of high-tensions and escalating tensions continuing for a long time, has been repeatedly and increasingly held out in recent times. In this context various scenarios have been presented by several eminent experts almost all of which reveal a very alarming situation of enormous destruction arising from it. Now in addition to this, the possibility of the use of (…)
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Far right: The significance of an umbrella concept | Andrea L P Pirro
4 November 2022by Andrea L P Pirro *
Abstract: This contribution makes the case for a shift in boundaries between the (populist) radical right and the extreme right, arguing for the systematic use of the term far right’. The significance of a deliberately generic but fundamentally meaningful concept such as far right is motivated by the growing links between illiberal-democratic (‘radical right’)and anti-democratic (‘extreme right’) collective actors. This begs considering the conceptual grounds for (…) -
Lula never left Brazil’s centre stage | M K Bhadrakumar
4 November 2022, by M K BhadrakumarThe former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, has won the country’s presidential election by an incredibly narrow margin of 50.90% of the vote against his right-wing rival and incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro’s 49.10%.
When Lula stepped down as president in 2010, he was enjoying the approval of 80% of the Brazilian people. How Lula came to lose his carisma makes a complicated story. He attributed it entirely to the ground reality that he was fighting (…) -
All India Kisan Sabha on GM Mustard - Press Release Oct 31, 2022
4 November 2022All India Kisan Sabha
kisansabha[at]gmail.com, New Delhi-1
Press Release 31.10.2022
News reports have misrepresented comments of AIKS General Secretary Hannan Mollah on GM Mustard and given an impression that the All India Kisan Sabha is welcoming the GEAC decision. These reports have wrongly conveyed an impression that AIKS is in a tearing hurry to welcome GM Mustard.
The AIKS has noted that the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has given a green signal to production (…) -
India: Statement by DIGIPUB on police searches on the homes of the editors of The Wire (Nov 1, 2022)
4 November 2022DIGIPUB News India Foundation
DIGIPUB’s statement on police searches on the homes of the editors and a reporter of The Wire
On 31 October 2022, the Delhi Police searched the homes of The Wire’s editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth Bhatia, and Jahnavi Sen, and their office, searching for and seizing laptops, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
The searches took place two days after Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Amit Malviya lodged a complaint against them based (…) -
Police Searches at homes of editors of the Wire - Statement By Editors Guild
4 November 2022The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
November 2nd, 2022
The Editors Guild of India is extremely disturbed by the manner in which Delhi Police Crime Branch carried out search and seizures at the homes of founding editors and senior editors of the Wire, as well as their office and the newsroom in Delhi, on October 31, 2022.
The searches were carried out in a follow up to a First Information Report (FIR), registered in response to a complaint filed on October 29th, by the BJP (…) -
India: Letter to Chief Election Commissioner by Gujarat President of Socialist Party (India) [Nov 2, 2022]
4 November 2022Socialist Party (India)
Dated: 2 November, 2022
To: Chief Election Commissioner Nirvachan Sadan New Delhi
Subject: Socialist Party (India) not allowed to take out padyatra on the issue of Bilkis Bano in Gujarat whereas Bhartiya Janata Party trying to take advantage of communal polarization by releasing the convicts.
Respected Sir,
(1) When Socialist Party (India) tried to organize a padyatra from Randhikpur in Dahod district to Ahmedabad between 26 (…) -
CPI Demands Withdrawal of Case Filed against Annie Raja
4 November 2022New Delhi,
Communist Party of India
November 2, 2022
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on November 2, 2022) demanding the withdrawal of the case filed against CPI National Executive member and general secretary of National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) Annie Raja:
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India deplores the case filed against CPI National Executive member and NFIW general (…) -
Review: Bangalore’s Street-Based Sex Workers - Experiences of Urban Transition | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
4 November 2022, by Deepti Priya MehrotraBOOK REVIEW
Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore By Neethi P. and Anant Kamath
Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2022, Pages 211, Hard Bound, Price 895.00 ISBN: 9781009180214 __0__
This book seeks to redraw the map of Bangalore, based on the experiences of street-based sex workers—so that we begin to see the city through their eyes. Their livelihoods rendered increasingly precarious due to neo-liberal (…)