The RSS legal front’s increasing hold over the judicial system “The project ahead is to determine how a new constitution could be created—who should be a part of this new project. The Constitution can be overthrown,” said an ABAP member and a former assistant solicitor general. Sushovan Patnaik ON THE EVENING OF 5 SEPTEMBER, a fleet… Read More Lowering the Bar
Historical Origins of the War in Palestine GAZA casualties, live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide The war in Palestine has three players: Israel; the USA, with its European satellites fully backing Israel; and Palestinians, isolated, a people… Read More Historical Origins of the War in Palestine: Lecture by Madhavan K. Palat
Gideon Levy Israel is turning, with alarming speed, into a country that lives on blood. The daily crimes of the occupation are already less relevant. Over the past year, a new reality of mass killing and crimes of an entirely different scale has emerged. We are in a genocidal reality; the blood of tens of… Read More Israelis Must Ask Themselves if They’re Willing to Live in a Country That Lives on Blood
First posted May 01, 2016 NB: The Berrigan brothers represent the best in the tradition of non-violent resistance to war and bellicose nationalism. Here is what they said in a public statement issued at the height of the Vietnam war, in 1968: “We confront the Catholic Church, other Christian bodies and the synagogues of America with their… Read More Daniel Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism Dies at 94 (2016) / Catonsville 9 Statement written by Dan Berrigan, S.J.
सेना से रिटायर ब्रिगेडियर की बेटी के साथ पुलिस थाने के भीतर यौन हिंसा की घटना को लेकर किसे कोसा जाए। उस चुप्पी को कोसने लग जाए, जो अब राजनीतिक दल के हिसाब से ओढ़ ली जाती है या उन आवाज़ों को भी कोसने लग जाएं जिनके मुखर होने के बाद भी ऐसी घटनाएं नहीं… Read More सेना से रिटायर ब्रिगेडियर की बेटी के साथ पुलिस थाने के भीतर यौन हिंसा / How can you touch an Army officer, assault his fiance? Asks Maj. Gen Bishamber Dayal
Revolutionaries on Trial Reviewed by Harish Jain Aparna Vaidik, a professor of history at Ashoka University, is among the few scholars genuinely and keenly interested in the stories of revolutionaries who, through their extraordinary deeds, captured the imagination of a disheartened nation but were subsequently marginalised. Over more than a decade of fieldwork, she has… Read More ‘Revolutionaries on Trial’ by Aparna Vaidik: Insightful new look at revolutionary past
Kenneth Roth The United Nations general assembly’s resolution on Wednesday advanced a dramatic legal shift, begun by the international court of justice (ICJ) in July, in how we understand Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. The US government’s response suggests a refusal to recognize the new legal reality in which Israel now finds itself. The general assembly resolution, which largely… Read More The US and all nations must respect the UN resolution against Israeli occupation
By Rosamma Thomas A 100-day Satyagraha has been launched at the entrance to the demolished Sarva Sewa Sangh in Rajghat, Varanasi, by a group of Gandhians seeking restoration of the land to the Sarva Sewa Sangh, and punishment as provided by law for the illegal capture and demolition of the headquarters of the Sarva Sewa… Read More Satyagraha in New India: Founded by Vinoba Bhave, Sarva Sewa Sangh in protest mode
Like all despots, major & petty, Mamata thrives on playing the victim. But now, faced with this horrendous instance of a genuine victim, her fake-victimhood shrivels up into a carbonised farce.. Just as global warming creates unpredictably cruel weather, corruption too creates its own hard rain. Ruchir Joshi On the evening of the day Rizwanur… Read More Stormy weather
NB: Our rulers posture on the world stage as statesmen for peace; while at the same time their sole political agenda within India is to stoke up inter-religious hatred and discrimination. DS STATEMENT BY CITIZENS FOR PEACE DEHRADUN, 13 September 2024 We are deeply disturbed and troubled by the manner in which social and economic… Read More UTTARAKHAND SITUATION: STATEMENT BY CITIZENS FOR PEACE
After the truth-shower 