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• Ideating Sexual Citizenship: The Right of Sexual Self-Realization | Akanksha

  8 July 2022

  by Akanksha *
  ABSTRACT
  Queer Citizenship, Erotic Citizenship, sexual citizenship and Intimate Citizenship are the several attempts by scholars to bring about a union of two forms of belongingness- sexuality and citizenship. At the very core of this union lies a seeming paradox - how does an intimate identity, a ‘private trouble’ to use a concept from Michael Burawoy like sexuality enters into the public belonging like citizenship? Most accounts sexuality-citizenship interaction (…)

• Modi’s Mission 2025 | Faraz Ahmad

  8 July 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by a committed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Pracharak, Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi as the country’s Prime Minister since May, 2014 is now busy with its Mission 2025—to ensure BJP/Sangh rule in the entire vast expanse and all the 36 states and union territories that comprise the Union of India.
  Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the BJP intent to capture the entire expanse of remaining states, still out of BJP influence and ensure BJP rule (…)

• Upholding Abortion Rights: Top-down Approach Needed | Indranil De

  8 July 2022

  by Indranil De *
  The recent decision of US Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling restores the ability of states to pass laws prohibiting abortion. Abortion will soon become illegal in a large number of states. It erases the constitutional right of women to opt for abortion. This has direct implications on women’s ability to make choices and their empowerment. Women might have to travel other liberal states for abortion increasing cost and time. They may have to depend on (…)

• Protecting Supreme Court from the designs of the Saffron brigade | Arun Srivastava

  8 July 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  Speaking at a seminar in San Francisco the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana observed that the fundamental principle behind the existence of an independent judiciary is that its has been answerable only to the Constitution. Justice Ramana was absolutely right. The politicians and the political establishment of the country have already made the other three pillars of a vibrant democracy executive, legislative and media subservient to it. Now they are desperate to bring (…)

• Balancing Growth and Inflation | Atul Sharma, Shyam Sunder

  8 July 2022, by Atul Sarma

  by Atul Sharma, Shyam Sunder *
  India’s economy recorded growth of 8.7 % in 2021-22. Several agencies such as OECD, Moody’s and IMF slashed India’s growth for 2022-23. Of late The World Bank lowered for the second time GDP growth forecast for 2022-23 to 7.5% from 8% in April and from 8.7% in January, 2022. Even the RBI has cut its growth forecast to 7.2%. The edging down the forecast has been attributed to “headwinds from rising inflation, supply chain disruptions, geopolitical tensions (…)

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  CJP Statement on the Arrest of Teesta Setalvad | July 7, 2022

  8 July 2022

  Citizens for Justice and Peace Statement
  We, the trustees of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) are dismayed and shocked by the recent FIR lodged against Teesta Setalvad and others as also her consequent arrest.
  We have been part of CJP since a long time and have known Teesta even longer. We have complete confidence in her integrity and whole heartedly support the litigation concerning the Gujarat carnage of 2002 including the Zakia Jafri Case. It is totally unfortunate that the (…)

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  Commendable Letter from Left Trade Union Seeking Protection of Bombay’s Arrey Colony Reserve Forest

  8 July 2022

  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  05th July 2022
  To,
  Shri Bhupender Yadav
  The Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
  Government of India,
  New Delhi.
  Dear Shri Bhupender Yadav ji,
  You must be aware that a metro line is being laid in the city of Mumbai under the coalition government led by Shri Devendra Fadnavis and in the earlier plans a metro car shed was supposed to be in a place called Arrey Colony, Goregaon East, with dense greenery. In 2019, suddenly more (…)

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  Statement Against The Conduct Of Delhi And Uttar Pradesh Police in Mohammed Zubair’s Case | CAJR - July 5, 2022

  8 July 2022

  CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORMS 6/6 basement Jangpura B, Delhi - 110014 judicialreforms.org Patrons: Shri Shanti Bhushan, Prof. B.B.Pande,Dr. Bhaskar Rao, Ms. Arundhati Roy, Shri Pradip Prabhu, Prof. Babu Mathew, Dr. Baba Adhav, Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, Shri Mihir Desai, Shri Manoj Mitta Executive Committee: Prashant Bhushan (Convenor), Cheryl D‚ÄôSouza (Secretary), Nikhil Dey, Alok Prasanna Kumar, Venkatesh Sundaram, Indu Prakash Singh, Anjali Bhardwaj, Amrita Johri, Annie Raja, (…)

• ‘Lack of effective road safety programmes is a major public health concern’ | Shazman Shariff

  8 July 2022

  by Shazman Shariff
  Activists, road crash survivors and victims’ families ha[d] a message for the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting on Global Road Safety, 30 June-1 July
  13 June 2022
  Seventeen-year-old Durva Bhasin in Jaipur had the morning off from school that Monday, as she walked to her Kathak practical exam, excited to show her prowess after months of practice. A rashly-driven bus ended her dreams.
  That day, 3 May 1999, also forever changed the lives of her parents Mridul and (…)

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  Review: Raghavan on Heinze’s ’The Most Human Right’

  8 July 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

  Book Review by G Narasimha Raghavan __0__
  The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze London: The MIT Press 2002 211 Pages ISBN 9780262046459 (hardcover) $27.95
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  Interestingly, the visual artist and utopian author, Robert Alan Silverstein’s statement is accurate on its timing: "The evolution of the human rights movement clearly illustrates humanity’s ongoing struggle toward creating a better world." It is struggle, struggle and struggle that the author, (…)