Tag: censorship

Students are jailed for merely protesting; bail denied even for having biryani on Ganga boat trip: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan

NB: RSS ideology combined with an eagerness of communal activists to intimidate citizens on flimsy excuses must not be allowed to gain domination over the juridical sphere. Judges and magistrates who behave as if they are adjuncts of the Sanghi moral police are demeaning themselves; and bringing Indian justice into disrepute. Thanks are due to… Read More Students are jailed for merely protesting; bail denied even for having biryani on Ganga boat trip: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan

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‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids

Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong’s independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months Amy Hawkins and Yu-chen Li in Taipei Walking out of one of Hong Kong’s last remaining independent bookstores, hands behind her back but head held high, the woman’s T-shirt was emblazoned with a simple slogan: “I am a bookstore… Read More ‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids

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The Forbidden View: ‘Satluj’ chases truth of Punjab’s bounty killings

Sutlej’s message is that a ‘cash-for-kill’ does not eliminate militancy, it end up killing innocents and spreading militancy. It makes criminals out of security force personnel Bharat Bhushan The allure of banned films often achieves the opposite of its intent. That is precisely what is happening with Satluj, pulled down by the government after 48 hours after it released… Read More The Forbidden View: ‘Satluj’ chases truth of Punjab’s bounty killings

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Suhas Palshikar: Anatomy of India’s New Regime

NB: An instructive essay on our current dispensation. I would sum up this regime’s method as a confusion of wisdom with cunning; its speech as unending sophistry (लफ़्फ़ाज़ी); and its goal as the eradication of simple human decency from public life. DS India’s current regime rests on three interwoven factors: Hindutva, a captured civil society,… Read More Suhas Palshikar: Anatomy of India’s New Regime

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Bad memories

Nothing can stop Germany’s moral panic over antisemitism It would be hard to surpass the absurd spectacle of a Jewish philosopher being blocked from speaking at a German Holocaust memorial because he intended to say that the lessons of “never again” should be applied universally. And yet such perverse distortions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’ have… Read More Bad memories

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Filmmakers, Activists, Israelis, Indians Condemn ‘Unlawful’ Ban on ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’

NB: Our RSS/BJP rulers, who trumpet their greatness to the whole world, who have given us a VishwaGuru leader; do not want us to hear the last voice of a six year old Palestinian girl, pleading for help, murdered by a genocidal regime to which they have now come to owe allegiance. By so doing,… Read More Filmmakers, Activists, Israelis, Indians Condemn ‘Unlawful’ Ban on ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’

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SNDT University cancels lecture by feminist historian Uma Chakravarti

NB: India’s current ruling establishment does not even have the courage to say, “we will not let you speak becuase we do not like your ideas.” They resort instead to phrasemongering about ‘technical reasons’. Indian democracy is being strangled before our eyes. DS The Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University in Mumbai has cancelled its 16th Neera… Read More SNDT University cancels lecture by feminist historian Uma Chakravarti

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