Joint Statement by Feminists Urging the President of India to Commute Death Sentence to Life Imprisonment As individuals and groups who have been engaged in the struggles for women’s rights, safety and justice, it is often presumed that we would support the demand for death penalty for sexual assault.
GUEST POST BY C. P. GEEVAN NPR and NRC – An Enigmatic Clarification It was difficult to miss the smugness with which the Home Minister of India (HM) addressed a TV show he had orchestrated through one of the infamous godi (lapdog) media after the central cabinet had approved Rs 39.41 billion for updating the … Continue reading Nationwide NRC -The Devil at the Heart of India’s Draconian Digitalization: CP Geevan →
With the central government denying three states’ – Bengal, Kerala and Maharashtra – tableaux proposals for Republic Day, politics has reached a new low. There is no doubt that the current struggles against the CAA/NRC and the confrontational stance of the Centre with these governments has a lot to do with this denial. The following … Continue reading Citizens Ask States to Boycott Republic Day Parade →
Guest post by Indians Against Fascism Munich On Saturday (21st Dec), a crowd of around one hundred Indians residing in Munich and surrounding assembled at Geschwister Scholl Platz, a square in front of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register for Citizens (NRC).
Image courtesy News 18 People, Persons, Citizens When the idea of citizenship is wielded like a deadly weapon to deprive people of basic rights rather than to empower them, it’s time to think about the basis of rights differently. While in the Preamble to the Constitution, ‘we the people’ resolve to secure to all its … Continue reading It’s We the People, not we the Citizens, of India! →
Guest Post by ‘Netherlands against CAA’ (A series of protests have been held in Netherlands against CAA by the Indian diaspora since last few days. There was a protest at International Court of Justice ( ICJ) based in Hague on 30 th December. It was the fifth protest in last ten days. Pasted below a … Continue reading Statement Issued by ‘Netherlands against CAA’ (Citizenship Amendment Act) →
Teachers from different colleges and departments of the University of Delhi have expressed shock at the police repression on the struggles of the academic community across different universities in India and issued the following statement in support of the students.
Uttar Pradesh is dealing with CAA as it dealt with crime : encounters Image Courtesy: PTI Seventy-six year old advocate Mohammad Shoaib fought to have innocents branded as terrorists under repressive laws released, and risked multiple assaults by right-wing lawyers as he took these cases through various courts in Uttar Pradesh. His contemporary, former police officer SR … Continue reading Your Government Wants Revenge From You →
Guest Post by Students Against Fascism in India – Bonn/Köln/Aachen “We, the students of Bonn, Cologne and Aachen stand with the protests all across India condemning the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC).
Issued by the Joint Forum Against NRC, Kolkata Video courtesy The Wire Rattled by the upsurge in popular protests across the country against the passage of the Unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 in parliament, Prime Minister Modi has accused the anti-NRC and anti-CAA protesters and the opposition parties of spreading “rumours and lies”. The assertions … Continue reading Who is spreading ‘Rumours & Lies’ on NRC & CAA 2019?
