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• Muslims Played A Very Significant Role During The Independence Movement! | Humra Quraishi

  13 August 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  Navaid Hamid, President of the AIMMM, (All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat) a federation of various Muslim organisations, is one of the first to have raised “concern” as he puts across, after the newly-elected President of India, Droupadi Murmu, did not mention names any of the Muslim freedom fighters in her first address to the nation after being sworn in as a President of India.
  To quote Navaid Hamid on this: “It’s nothing but unfortunate that the President Murmu’s address (…)

• When Swiss neutrality hurt the Indian freedom struggle | Anand Chandrasekhar

  13 August 2022

  by Anand Chandrasekhar
  The Café de la Couronne along with Hotel Bristol in Geneva were favoured hangouts for anti-colonial activists and foreign agents by courtesy
  A forgotten episode in India’s struggle for Independence is revisited by new books that underline Switzerland’s role as a strategic location for revolutionaries, anarchists and foreign agents.
  “He is the most dangerous conspirator in or out of India. He’s done more harm than all the rest put together. You know that there is (…)

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  August 15, 1947 - Frontpage of Hindustan Times

  13 August 2022
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  Photo: Telegram from the British High Commissioner in India on Communal Disturbances in Sept. 1947

  13 August 2022

  Document from, The National Archives UK

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  Two Prints from Letters from Home series (2004) | Zarina Hashmi

  13 August 2022

  "After Partition, it was hard to cross into Pakistan as an Indian citizen. My sister Rani’s letters connected me to the family I had been separated from" —Zarina Hashmi

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  Periyar’s Revolutionary Critique of Religion | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  13 August 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism by Karthick Ram Manoharan
  Orient BlackSwan March 2022 Pages: 133; Price: Rs 225 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354421679 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354421679
  Believe it or not, it was Periyar’s pilgrimage to one of the holiest places of Hinduism that converted him into the religion’s inveterate enemy. Another irony is that though Periyar is revered in Tamil Nadu, the appeal of gods and religion remains firmly entrenched in the state.
  E.V. Ramasamy (…)

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  Is Our Democracy Dying? | Papri Sri Raman

  13 August 2022, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  BOOK REVIEW
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  The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State by Josy Joseph
  Context-Westland 2021 Rs 454 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390679532 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390679539
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  I WAS TALKING to a journalist friend across a 5G spectrum 2000 km away, asking her to pick up the July issue of the Caravan magazine that features the Rise and Fall of the NIA. She said, ‘I am really scared. Fall does not mean it does not exist’.
  The subject had come up in the context of an interview she had (…)

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  Flag Waving Nationalism Should Not Disrupt Food Security | Right to Food Campaign Press Release (Aug 10, 2022)

  13 August 2022

  The Right to Food Campaign is very concerned over media reports coming from different parts of the country regarding denial of rations to people if they do not purchase the tiranga (national flag) under the Har Ghar Tiranga Abhiyan on the occasion of 75th year of Independence.

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  Pakistan - India: Release prisoners on completion of jail term, decriminalise inadvertent border crossings, especially for fisherfolk and minors - Joint Statement

  13 August 2022

  Joint statement by organisations
  Release prisoners on completion of jail term, decriminalise inadvertent border crossings, especially for fisherfolk and minors
  [July 31, 2022]
  Kalu Vira, a fisherman from India incarcerated in Pakistan died at a hospital in Karachi on 6 July 2022. He had completed his jail term in December 2021, and his nationality had been verified.
  After his passing, it took over 10 days for the Pakistan authorities to inform the Indian High Commission about the (…)

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  Press Statements by Central Trade Unions on Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022 / Postal Employees strike

  13 August 2022

  08th August 2022
  Press Release by CTUs, Sectoral Independent Sectoral Federations and Associations
  That ELECTRICITY (Amendment) Bill, 2022 is a prescription for privatizing electricity distribution, is a known fact. That is why the Samyukt Kisan Morcha has demanded that the Bill should be scrapped. The National Co-ordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE) have taken pains over the entire past year to explain to the ordinary people how Electricity will become (…)