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The Metamorphic Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, Resilience (Sumud), and the Architecture of Survival

If you are not rain, my love,be a tree sated with fertility, be a tree.And if you are not a tree, my love, be stone saturated with humidity, be stone.And...

36 Years Since the Massacre, People from Nellie Still Suffering

The CJP Team received information that a large chunk of people in the village of Borbari—where the Nellie Massacre took place in 1983—have been excluded from the final NRC list. CJP’s Assam State Co-ordinator Zamsher Ali along with the CJP team went to visit the village and take stock of the situation. Here is what he had to say:

Gujarat’s anti-terror law gets President nod after 16 years

The BJP, infull throttle, has been relentlessly pushing its agenda through various policies and this time it has gotten its draconian anti-terror law for Gujarat passed by the President

Centre to merge Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha TV channels

The committee to plan the transition will be headed by a person from the Union government

Hate Speech on FB is BJP’s weapon of choice in Assam: Report

While the Assamese language that has been used potently to spew hate targeting the state’s Muslim minority, leaving them vulnerable to targeted violence; Facebook has been, so far, unresponsive

The BSF have left the 300 plus livestock to die a slow death

Cattle killers: Will the BSF be pulled up for the inhuman killing of cattle in West Bengal?

“Nationalism is ideological poison”: Hamid Ansari

Former VP says, religiosity and strident nationalism are a threat to a democratic society

Why is Periyar not taught in Indian schools and colleges?

Iconic statue of EVR Periyar at the Periyar Thidal....

Modi-Shah strike at critique, GOI to revoke Aatish Taseer’s Overseas Citizen of India card

MHA claims Aatish Taseer attempted to “conceal information” that his father was of Pakistani origin

Assam Detention Camp deaths, All India NRC & CAB: Protests held country-wide

Till date, 27 Indian citizens have died in Assam’s infamous detention camps

Key Scheme For Migrants’ Food Security Could Stumble For Lack Of Data

New Delhi: The ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ programme to be launched in June 2020 aims to provide subsidised food to India’s 450 million itinerant workers anywhere in the country. To implement it, some basic conditions must be met--states must have accurate migrant numbers, currently not available, and thousands of fair price shops would need electronic point-of-sale (PoS) machines for flawless biometric authentication of a beneficiary’s identity, experts said.

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