Statement by WOMEN AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND STATE REPRESSION on Hathras and other cases in UP यौन हिंसा और राजकीय दमन के खिलाफ महिलाएँ (WSS) उत्तर प्रदेश में महिलाओं पर बढ़ रही यौन हिंसा पर चिंता व्यक्त करती है। पिछले दिनों हाथरस और बलरामपुर में दलित लड़कियों के साथ हुए बलात्कार और हाथरस के पूरे … Continue reading बेटी बचाओ का नारा देने वाले बलात्कारिय
This study of the National Education Policy 2020, apart from my own analysis, draws on extensive commentary on the final document and its earlier drafts, by education policy experts and teachers, including my own union, JNU Teachers’ Association, which undertook a detailed critique of the Draft NEP 2019. This needs to be said because neither … Continue reading NEP 2020 – elitist and corporatized education under Hindu Rashtra →
Those who disagreed that the internet would challenge dictatorships have been proven right. Belarus-born American writer Evgeny Morozov, a scholar of the political and social implications of technology, is among the early technology sceptics whose words have now proved prescient. Morozov had questioned the claim that the internet would challenge dictatorships even at an inconvenient … Continue reading Has Indian democracy been facebooked ? →
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, goes an old Chinese saying. In the present context, that single step – and an absolutely essential step – for reclaiming the soul of India, is the coimng together of the social movements, non-party groups and the political parties – and this was … Continue reading The ‘Ecopolitical’ Imperative and the Janta Parliament →
घेरेबन्दी में पड़े अपने शहर के हालात को लेकर अपने जमाने का शायर कैसी प्रतिक्रिया देता है?
जन संस्कृति मंच, प्रगतिशील लेखक संघ, दलित लेखक संघ, प्रतिरोध का सिनेमा, इप्टा, संगवारी, न्यू सोशलिस्ट इनिशिएटिव और जनवादी लेखक संघ ने प्रशांत भूषण को अदालत की अवमानना का दोषी क़रार दिए जाने तथा भीमा-कोरेगाँव और दिल्ली दंगों के मामलों में बुद्धिजीवियों-मानवाधिकारकर्मियों को फ़र्ज़ी आरोपों के तहत फंसाये जाने के विरोध में यह साझा बयान जारी किया : भारतीय लोकतंत्र का …
This post should be read as a sequel to my earlier post of 16 July, which had discussed the discourse of “Hindu Unity” and questions before the struggle against the Right. That post had ended with the claim that the struggle against the Hindu Right is not so much about what we understand as “secularism” … Continue reading Intimations of a Bahujan Counter-Tradition and the Hindu Right →
Guest post by HAMMERSICKLE RUBBERCHAPPAL From the very title you can tell that it is a story with a happy end. It is also a true story. Image courtesy Kevin Clancy Studio Once upon a time there was a campus. In a slightly shabby postcolonial country. When they became post-colonial, they decided they needed somewhere … Continue reading Once Upon a Time There Was a Campus (and Why it is Still There) – A Fable: Hammersickle Rubberchappal →
15.7.2020 Ambedkar University Delhi Faculty Association (AUDFA is alarmed to hear of and strongly condemns the arrest of a survivor of gang rape along with two social workers (including former AUD student Tanmay Nivedita), at the office of the Judicial Magistrate (1st Class) in Araria, Bihar on 10 July 2020.
Guest Post by Musharraf Ali क़ुव्वत ऐ फ़िकरो अमल पहले फ़ना होता है फिर किसी क़ौम की शौकत पे ज़वाल आता है (किसी क़ौम के दबदबे या रौब में तब गिरावट आती है, जब उसकी सोचने-विचारने की ताक़त खत्म हो जाती है) 8 जुलाई 2020 को तुर्की के राष्ट्रपति तय्यप इरदुगान ने चर्च से … Continue reading तुर्की – गैर धर्मनिरपेक्ष रास्ते पर : मुशर्रफ अली →
