If, as a teacher, you become overly cautious before you utter a word, if you worry that a student is recording your lecture, or the administration is continually monitoring your every move, how can you teach Marx, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Tagore, Iqbal, Manto and Premchand freely, spontaneously and creatively? Avijit Pathak The primary reason I could… Read More After Pune teacher’s arrest: Fear and surveillance in the classroom
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NB: Meanwhile the JNU History Centre collection, one of the most valuable in the country, is being dismantled by the authorities to make room for a new centre of Tamil studies. I am sure lovers of Tamil language and culture do not wish for the university’s history collection to be removed. This is nothing but… Read More Sri Lanka, thirty one years after: Burning of the Jaffna Public Library, May 1981
PRAVEEN SWAMI Erased from our memory by high-rise buildings and malls, Gurugram, and the Mewat region that sprawled to its south, imploded into a macabre carnival of killing during Partition. “Whole villages were razed; scores of mosques desecrated; thousands killed or forced on pain of death to convert to Hinduism”, historian Ian Copland writes, “and many… Read More Gurugram’s is a hard-won economic gain. But Nuh violence shows it’s imploding
First posted November 19, 2011 NB: The historic significance of this document should be apparent to those who take the time to read it. I have cited it in an essay on the history of Indian fascism written in 2013, so I will not repeat myself here. I will make just two observations: 1/ Pakistan’s… Read More Pakistan’s First Law & Labour Minister, Jogendra Nath Mandal’s Resignation Letter, October 1950
the early U.S. was a settlers’ empire, a political and military force with the main goal to provide farm families (and speculators) with more land. So it went for generations. Jason Opal The indictment of former United States president Donald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most… Read More America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump / Trump has lost control of his own image
Former governor Satyapal Malik has claimed that “they” would not allow a normal parliamentary election in 2024, pointing to how the 2019 polls had been “hijacked after the Pulwama tragedy and the subsequent Balakot surgical strike”. Malik told The Telegraph in an interview: “Ye kuchh bhi kar sakte hain (They can do anything). Something big… Read More Satyapal Malik airs pre-poll fear, says ‘they’ would not allow any normal parliamentary election
Bharat Bhushan The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used to claim that there are no communal riots when it is in power. With the communal rioting in Manipur and Haryana, both run by the BJP, that claim lies exposed. The Manipur violence initiated between ‘ethnic’ communities has fast acquired the colour of a Hindu-Christian confrontation. The… Read More Who benefits from communal violence?
At a convention in Delhi, the speakers called for a white paper on the Pulwama/Balakot incidents and the spike in communal violence across several states. Major political parties that are part of the Opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government of compromising national security… Read More Citizens, Opposition Leaders Flay Modi Govt for ‘Compromising’ National Security
गुरुग्राम दंगों की आशंका को नज़दीक से देख रहा है बल्कि दस साल से देखता ही आ रहा है। जिस मानेसर की पहचान मारुति, होंडा, जैगुआर फिटिंग, जिंदल स्टील प्लांट से हुआ करती है, मैन्यूफैक्चरिंग सेक्टर से हुआ करती है, वहां के मज़दूरों के जागरूक संघर्ष से हुआ करती है,उसकी जगह अब एक नया मानेसर… Read More Ravish Kumar: गुरुग्राम बन गया है मोनूग्राम Gurugram is now Monugram / Sikh community rescued Sohna mosque residents
After the truth-shower 