सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने कहा है कि न्यूज़ क्लिक के संपादक प्रबीर पुरकायस्थ को अवैध रुप से गिरफ्तार किया गया था। मोदी सरकार के दौर में पत्रकार होना और सही सवालों के साथ काम करना कितना ख़तरनाक हो सकता है इसके सौ उदाहरण दिए जा सकते हैं। लेकिन न्यूज़ क्लिक का मामला बताता है कि आप… Read More न्यूज़ क्लिक पर कोर्ट का बड़ा फ़ैसला, पुरकायस्थ रिहा | Prabir Purkaystha’s arrest illegal: SC
In a major development, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 15) declared as illegal NewsClick founder and Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha’s arrest by the Delhi police and his remand in a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. The Court noted that a copy of the remand application was not provided to Purkayastha or his… Read More Prabir Purkayastha’s Arrest & Remand Illegal: Supreme Court Orders NewsClick Editor’s Release / Bhima Koregaon: Gautam Navlakha gets bail as SC lifts stay on Bombay HC order
IN A MESSAGE to Attorney General Merrick Garland and other senior officials this week, federal government attorneys invoked British abolitionist William Wilberforce: “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.” The letter, drafted by unnamed legal and policy staff at more than two dozen federal agencies, argues… Read More BIDEN’S LAWYERS ARE URGING THE WHITE HOUSE TO CHANGE COURSE ON GAZA
Reverberations of America’s campus protests are felt in a remote rural area in the middle of a jungle in the heart of an island nation at the cusp of Southasia and the Indian Ocean. ‘A country may believe it wins something by killing people but can anything be as valuable as human life? POSTCARD FROM… Read More From rural Sri Lanka, solidarity for Gaza and American students protesting for Palestine
Commemorates the 78th Anniversary of the NAKBA of 1948, when over 7.5 lac Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages by violence and terror ************************ GAZA casualties, live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem The Crisis of Ideology The west’s complete contempt for the lives of Palestinians will… Read More Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network
GAZA casualties, live statistics Israeli ground assaults in Gaza Strip reveal mass graves, war crimes publicized for fun, mass slaughter, human shield taking, and widespread torture. by Robert Inlakesh Although most modern armies have committed war crimes, the Israeli military does not operate like a professional force, but rather a collection of ill-disciplined racist militia groups.… Read More Israeli military not a professional army; its ground incursions look like ISIS terror attacks
The Turkish Ministry of Education’s decision to allocate only 10 positions for Kurdish language teachers out of 20,000 new teaching positions has sparked significant backlash, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported. Last year the ministry appointed 50 Kurdish teachers under a program titled “Living Languages and Dialects.” This year, the number was reduced to 10, comprising six… Read More Turkey allocates only 10 out of 20,000 teaching positions for Kurdish language
Carceral Imperialism BY MAHA HILAL “To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after being… Read More Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the U.S. War on Iraq
My voting life began in a republic deformed by the Emergency and Mrs Gandhi’s experiments in communalism. Her party’s complicity in the pogrom of Sikhs created precedents that changed the republic forever Mukul Kesavan I’ve lived continuously in the New Delhi parliamentary constituency for the last sixty years. My parents were employed by the government… Read More Election memories
1. Panel Discussion in Hindi on Job creation. Bahujan Samvad, May 10. It is at: https://youtu.be/YGt-Qky0HBk?si=eg9uavfTAzqHt1jm 2. Interview in Hindi on economy and volatility in stock market. TV6 May 10. It is at: https://www.youtube.com/live/bAHK-Ewp4A4?si=N3LWTpr9sccubz6J 3. Article on Direct Tax data points to growing inequality. Businessline May 9. It is at: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/direct-tax-collections-reflect-disparities/article68158293.ece 4. Indian Economy’s performance in the last 10 years. Mainstream, May 4. It is at: http://mainstreamweekly.net/article14564.html Its Hindi translation appeared in Samayik Varta Magazine,… Read More Arun Kumar: Articles, talks & discussions on aspects of the economy
After the truth-shower 