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Though the Supreme Court refused to entertain on June 3 a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for renaming India as ‘Bharat’ or ‘Hindustan’, it does not put an end to the longstanding Hindutva agenda on this issue. The Supreme Court decision was purely on technical/legal grounds namely that ‘Bharat’ (...)
Amit Shah, Home Minister of India, recently in a statement in Parliament said, “Such riots can happen only when there is a pre-planned conspiracy behind it. We are also probing the conspiracy angle. All those who caused the violence will not be able to escape the law” (Indian Express, 2020). (...)
They say ‘history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce’. In case of India, communal violence not only keeps repeating itself, the pattern of the tragedy keeps changing every time. Some features of the violence are constant, but they are under the wraps, mostly. The same can be (...)
Rashtriya swayamsevak sangh (RSS), India’s National Volunteer Organisation, is the oldest, largest and most successful far-right group in the world today. It is also the effective ruling power in India. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is merely a political front – one of numerous fronts – (...)
WSS demands immediate action against BJP ex-MLA Kapil Mishra for inciting violence and against Delhi Police Commissioner for failure to maintain law and order!
In the wake of the incendiary speech given by BJP ex-MLA Kapil Mishra on February 23th 2020 where in the presence of the DCP he said, (...)
Tabrez Ansari, a 24 years old youth in Jharkhand, accused of a bike theft pleaded for his life even as he chanted “Jai Shri Ram” demanded by the mob that brutally lynched him. 25 years old Mohammad Barkat Aalam while returning home from namaz was assaulted and forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” (...)
We are shocked and horrified to learn of the terrible attack on the Jawaharlal Nehru University on the evening on 5 January 202, by a group of armed goons who targeted a peaceful gathering of teachers and students.
We note that this terrible event comes in the wake of a prolonged struggle by (...)
Dated: 08/01/2020
Press Release
All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE)
On
Brutal Attack on JNU Students and Faculty by Fascist ABVP/RSS Thugs
AIFRTE condemns the shocking assault on the students and teachers of JNU by an armed mob of about eighty to one hundred persons shouting (...)
Campus Violence in India and Expressions of Solidarity from Concerned Citizens in Pakistan. Expressing solidarity with Indian and Pakistani students
India as the world’s largest democracy is coming under focus on account of the grossly undemocratic actions of the government of Narendra Modi, (...)
Uttar Pradesh is in the throes of what is fast becoming a gravely culpable crime against humanity. It may not be an exaggeration to say that the Chief Minister has declared war on the minority communities of his State, inciting and encouraging his police forces to unleash upon them an unlawful (...)
The ostensible cause and common focus of the remarkable popular upsurge throughout the country---the biggest and most sustained of mass agitations since Modi was elected in 2014 (and re-elected in 2019)---is the opposition to the Citizen’s Amendment Act (CAA) and its associated National Citizens (...)
The Radical Socialist Group (RS) salutes the students up and down the country that have been the real spark that has ignited this popular agitation against the iniquitous CAA and the proposed all-India NRC that is already being prepared.
This agitation really took off when peaceful protestors (...)
The people of India have taken to the streets to protest against an act which indirectly discriminates Muslims in India. A wave of protests are underway in India due to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), also known as CAB previously.
While the CAA provides a path to Indian citizenship for (...)
India’s recently passed Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is a frontal assault on the idea of India as a secular, pluralist democracy.
For the first time, legal sanction has been given to the recasting of India as a Hindu majoritarian nation where minorities, especially Muslims, are (...)
With the ongoing mass protests to Modi’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, India is at last seeing a real challenge to right-wing Hindu nationalism.
Over the past few weeks, protests have erupted across India, in perhaps the most extensive challenge to the Modi government since it came to (...)
The Beginning
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (CAB) has now become the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), having been notified in the Gazette , at midnight (Dec. 12/13), following the grant of assent by the President on December 12, in turn preceded by its passage in the Lok (...)
We the undersigned are defenders of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer and non-binary (LGBTIQ+) persons and communities and we are engaged in the struggle for equality and justice for all people across Sri Lanka. We wish to express our solidarity with people (...)
The latest decision from the Supreme Court in India has legitimized the destruction of the Babri Mosque. Meanwhile, mainstream parties and commentators refuse to call it what it is: the latest stage in an accelerating process of Hindu ethno-nationalism.
Two weeks ago, on November 9, a (...)
It has been more than six months since the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court, and the trial into the alleged criminal conspiracy has yet to be concluded.
Rear view of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
New Delhi: On April 17 2017, in an extraordinary order concerning the (...)
The Supreme Court’s verdict on the Babri Masjid title dispute will live in infamy. While spoken in the voice of India’s highest court, the verdict rings with the chants and slogans of far-right Hindutva mobilisations. Radical Socialists rejects the Supreme Court’s decision to award the entire (...)
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