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  COVID-19 outbreak in Nagpur Prison: The worsening health situation of Prof G.N. Saibaba | Press Release from Committee for His Defence and Family Members | 15 July 2020

  17 July 2020

  Dr. G. N. Saibaba in his most recent call to his family and advocate informed despite the preventive measures taken by the jail administration many prisoners were affected by COVID-19 including jail guards in Nagpur Central Prison. One of the prisoners near to his anda cell got tested positive for COVID-19. The disease has reached very close to me", Saibaba said, and that it was only a "matter of time" since it reaches his cell as he is highly vulnerable due to existing co-morbidities

• Why Kashmiris missed a heartbeat on July 13 | Mohammad Sayeed Malik

  17 July 2020

  by Mohammad Sayeed Malik
  [Editor’s note: Mohammed Syed Malik may well be the most senior journalist in Kashmir today. A long serving Special Correspondent in Srinagar of the now defunct Delhi-based national daily newspaper Patriot and Link Newsweekly, he also had a stint as Director, Information and Public relations in the government of the undivided state in the 1970s. Malik posted this on this Facebook page on 13 July, 2020. It recalls a turning point in the history of the region. It (…)

• The curious case of Davinder Singh | Faraz Ahmad

  17 July 2020, by Faraz Ahmad

  Seven months after catching Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy SP) Davinder Singh escorting two alleged terrorists belonging reportedly to Hizbul Mujahideen group of Pakistan, in his Hyundai i10 car on the Srinagar-Jammu highway, the premier National Investigations Agency (NIA) finally presented a charge-sheet in a NIA special court in Jammu on July 6. Curiously nearly a month before that a Delhi court granted him bail for the failure of Delhi Police to (…)

• Animal Farm Politics of the Left | Sukumaran C.V.

  17 July 2020, by Sukumaran C.V.

  It was more than 25 years ago, in 1994, I bought my own copy of Taslima Nasreen’s Lajja and virtually devoured it. No other contemporary work of literature has shaken me as Lajja has. The following lines she wrote in the Preface of Lajja reveal how true a secularist Taslima Nasreen is: “I detest fundamentalism and communalism. This was the reason I wrote Lajja soon after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992. The book, which took me seven days to write, deals with (…)

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  Jolly Kaul’s Quest For A Better World | Bhanudeb Dutta

  17 July 2020

  by Bhanudeb Dutta
  As soon as the death-news of Jolly Mohan Kaul reached me, though not a bolt from the blue, immediately a thought flashed on me on a group photograph put up at the office of the Indian Society for Cultural Cooperation and Friendship (ISCUF), 77 Lenin Sarani, Kolkata. It was actually a group-photograph of 36 founder members of the ‘Friends of the Soviet Union’ along with a Soviet journalist Mr. Peter Gladyshev which was taken at historic 46 Dharamtala Street (now Lenin (…)

• Video: Fake encounters are being valorised to delegitimise rule of law and the courts -BBC interview with Lawyer Vrinda Grover

  17 July 2020

  Fake encounters are being valourised to delegitimise rule of law and the courts. There is an urgent need to raise sharp questions and work towards judicial reforms within the ambit of Indian constitutionalism.
  Fake encounters and cold blooded murders by the police are no answer to the ordinary, poor and vulnerable citizens anguished cry against injustices. For whom do fake encounters pay rich dividends?

• Police Cannot Infringe The Constitutional Mandate | Chittarvu Raghu

  17 July 2020

  by Chittarvu Raghu
  In the midst of sever Covid-19 pandemic the world is witnessing human right violation exhibited by the police force whose primary duty is to enforce law and order. In US George Floyed was arrested by police outside a shop, hand cuffed and a white police officer knelt on his neck resulting in his death. It demonstrates infringement of due process of law as envisaged under the fifth and fourteenth amendments of the US constitution. The brutal treatment of father and son in (…)

• Vikas Dubey and UP Administration | Radhakanta Barik

  17 July 2020, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Prof. Radhakanta Barik
  To understand the role of Vikas Dubey and policemen of UP one has to go for a reading of Srilal Shukla’s Rag Darbari which is based on Shivpalganja. The local Brahmin landlord could transfer the police officer. This happened in 1960s. Local landlord and his children are involved in petty crimes. But defended by the police. But the police officer cannot handle some problems of the village as suggested by the landlord he got transferred. Today the landlord has (…)

• Caste Discrimination in the lives of Sanitation Workers in India during the COVID-19 Crisis | Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  17 July 2020, by Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  July 16, 2020
  Calamities are the occasion when nations and societies unlearn many things and build bridges in the greater interest of humanity. The COVID-19 crisis had the potential to be a great learning opportunity for countries like India to overcome the historical baggage of deep-rooted prejudices, and to build social structures which respect the dignity of work and the contributions of those who have made our homes, offices, cities and villages clean and (…)

• Novel Corona Virus 19: Looking through the Lens of Gandhi | Jos Chathukulam, K.Gireesan & Manasi Joseph

  17 July 2020, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  by Jos Chathukulam, K.Gireesan & Manasi Joseph
  Introduction
  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was more than just an anti imperialist and the father of the nation of the largest parliamentary democracy. In addition to his role in the nonviolent struggle, Gandhi made significant contributions in the field of development and welfare. Health and hygiene was one such sector. Gandhi looked at many minute aspects of health and contributed extensively on the theme. COVID-19 is a wake — up call (…)