Adityanath Yogi, Chief Minister of UP seems to be on the name changing spree. In his latest move he has changed the name of famous city of UP, Allahabad to Prayagraj. Prayag is the meeting point of rivers and since this city is the meeting point of Ganga,…
Why Arrest of Dalit activists-‘Urban Naxals’?
The violence in Bheema Koregon is still reverberating. We recall that on January 1st, thousands of dalits returning from Bheema Koregaon were beaten up.…
A mature response from Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan
Chandra Shekhar Azad ' Ravan' has been released from the jail by the Uttar Pradesh government. The police says that the cases were not pursued because…
Open letter to the Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
To: Honourable Prime Minister of India Narendra Modiji, Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi 110011. Respected Prime Minister, We have been given to understand that your good self would be present during an event in Indore organized…
Democracy under assault
The morning news of raids and arrest of five activists from different parts of the country by the Pune police is a chilling reminder that talks of political dissent and human rights are a crime and those who are lynching people in public, threatening people…
State of the Stateless: the Tale of NRC in Assam
“The ache for home lives in all of us”, as was said by writer Maya Angelou. This ache is the prospect facing and lived by 40 lakh odd residents of Assam today. 40 lakhs of the residents in Assam do not find their names on the final draft of National Register…
India the new Lynchdom
Martin Luther King Jr. said that law may not be able to make a man love him but it can keep the man from lynching him. These words were said by Martin Luther King Jr. in the era where the racial segregation was at its peak and the African Americans targeted…
Leaders Voice against State Repression of Rights Activists
The protest programme at Parliament Street in Delhi by Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists saw the participation of over four thousand people from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Tamil…
Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Middle East | Rene Wadlow
In a 26 June 2018 address to the United Nations Security Council, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General, reviewed the conflict situations in the Middle East - its profound divisions, troubling currents and the tragic shredding of its diverse religious, ethnic…
Jharkhand’s civil society condemns Jayant Sinha – Ramgarh lynching
On 6 July, Union Minister of state for civil aviation, Jayant Sinha, felicitated life convicts after they were released on bail by the Jharkhand High Court. All the eight men were convicted in the lynching of Alimuddin Ansari of Ramgarh. According to media…