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First-ever UN human rights report on Kashmir
0 comments | by Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
(For those who sleep on Kashmir this is a wakeup call) It calls for international inquiry into multiple violations. It is titled Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir from June 2016 to April 2018, and General Human Rights Concerns in Azad Jammu and
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For the first time ever UN published a scathing human rights report on Kashmir. This was highly appreciated and many expect that it may restrain India committing brutalities and most inhuman atrocities on the hapless Kashmiris. A few were optimistic that at least it may auger well to restore some semblance of peace and quiet. It was considered a huge succes
Read Full ArticleNow India Is At War With Itself
0 comments | by Nayantara Sahgal
Today we are in a state of civil war. The most unwinnable wars in history have been the combination of civil and religious war and this is the twin ammunition in use in India today. The futility, absurdity and inanity of religious war should by now be a long-established fact since God is one whom we worship in different ways, and in no time past, present or
Read Full ArticleStop Surveillance and Harassment of J&K Students!
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Peoples Union for Democratic Rights expresses its outrage at the harassment and arrest of Kashmiri students in Mewar University, Rajasthan, and other educational institutions, amidst an intensifying surveillance of Kashmiris across the country. On 14th March, 2016, a rumour was spread
Read Full ArticleIndia wages war on its own people
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Press Statement by Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) The new wave Of State Terror being unleashed On the People of Chhattisgarh Reports from Nendra and Pedda Jojer in Bijapur and Kunna in Sukma reveal a new and brutal wave of systematic violence being carried out by security forces in
Read Full Article0 comments | by Waqar K Kauravi
The second night of 2016 witnessed a strange sequence of events around Pathankot in Indian Punjab. Reportedly an official SUV belonging to the SP of Pathankot was hijacked by terrorists, who managed to throw out the SP and head towards the air force base of Pathankot, one of the most strongly guarded airbases in India. The hijackers easily pe
Read Full Article0 comments | by A.G. Noorani
TRAGEDIES invite attention to the human follies which led to them. On Feb 3, an avalanche hurtled down the Siachen glacier wiping out an Indian military post and killing 10 Indian soldiers. In its wake not a few urged the settlement of the Siachen dispute with Pakistan. Similar pleas were heard in Pakistan a few years ago when an avalanche exacted a toll of human live
Read Full ArticleHate vs Harmony: Law and order under Saffrons
0 comments | by Subhash Gatade
Muslims were equated to ―demons‖ and ―descendants of Ravana‖, and warned of a ―final battle‖, as the Sangh Parivar held a condolence meeting here for VHP worker Arun Mahaur, who was killed last week allegedly by some Muslim youths. Among those present on th
Read Full Article0 comments | by Suraj Kumar Thube
History has always been a contested terrain. The traditional definition of history as ' studying the past in order to understand the present' falls short in explaining the myriad diversities of a country like India. Looking at the present controversy regarding the removing of Mughals from textbooks, something that is wildly trending on s
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Students of Marxism’s history in Asia will perhaps be less surprised than Indian liberals by some aspects of Anderson’s critique, particularly his caustic appraisals of Gandhi and Nehru. In 1939, Leon Trotsky summed up a widespread Marxist suspicion when he denounced Gandhi as an ally of bourgeois capitalism -- “a fake leader and a false prophet.&rdq
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