Violence-Conflict

DELHI POLICE – WE, THE CITIZENS OF INDIA, OBJECT TO THE MANNER OF THE DELHI RIOTS PROBE RESTORE PUBLIC FAITH IN YOUR INVESTIGATION  Stop coercing ‘confessional’ statements to manufacture evidence Stop falsely implicating people, including Umar Khalid Stop wrongly invoking UAPA to give the colour of conspiracy against the state Over 1000 citizens from all … Continue reading Statement by concerned citizens against Delhi Police’s conduct of the probe into

This post is jointly written by NIVEDITA MENON & ADITYA NIGAM Bloomsbury India has withdrawn the book Delhi Riots 2020 in the face of massive outrage at its publication.

Artist Sarita  Pandey This report is republished from The Polis Project On the afternoon of 23 February 2020, communal violence broke out in Gokulpuri, a neighborhood in North-East Delhi.

‘विमन अगेन्स्ट सेक्शूअल वायलेंस एंड स्टेट रिप्रेशन’ (WSS) की कल्पना मेहता को श्रद्धांजलि ‘विमन अगेन्स्ट सेक्शूअल वायलेंस एंड स्टेट रिप्रेशन’ (WSS) कल्पना मेहता के उनके निवास इंदौर, मध्य प्रदेश में निधन पर गहरा शोक व्यक्त करता है.

Guest post by ANIA LOOMBA AND SUVIR KAUL Protest in Philadelphia, June 7, 2020 (Video by Teren Sevea)) In 2002, when we moved to Philadelphia to join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, a friend invited us for breakfast to his home in West Philadelphia, abutting the university. We learned then that in May … Continue reading The George Floyd Protests – a view from Philadelphia: Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul →

As Indians and people of Indian origin in the United States, we stand in solidarity with Black communities and their allies who are protesting this racism, and demanding structural change.

Tamika Mallory addresses a protest in Minneapolis May 2020     Langston Hughes 1902-1967 Let America Be America Again Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) … Continue reading In solidarity with #Blacklivesmatter – Tamika Mallory, Langston Hughes →

We, members of Faculty Feminist Collective JNU, stand in solidarity with all wrongfully arrested students, and in particular with JNU students Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal who were arrested on 23rd May 2020 by the Delhi Police.

The Migrant Workers Solidarity Network has documented migrant workers’ resistance across India in an interactive map. Below is a screen-shot of the map. For the interactive map, visit the MWSN site. From the MWSN site: The COVID-19 crisis in India has made the migrant workers visible in public discourse. But the dominant narratives have made … Continue reading MIGRANT WORKERS’ RESISTANCE MAP: Migrant Workers Solidarity Network →

THIS IS THE SECOND PART OF A THREE PART POST, THE FIRST PART OF WHICH CAN BE READ HERE. Forced labour and data capitalism are the low end and high end of Coronacapitalism. Let us examine each of these. Forced labour The gut-wrenching picture of migrant workers who managed to reach Bareilly, being sprayed with … Continue reading Part II – The Virus, the Muslim and the Migrant: Forced labour and data capitalism →