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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...

How Seje Bala Ghosh, a freedom fighter’s daughter slurred as Bangladeshi is finally declared Indian

A 2004 notice is served on Seje Bala Ghosh, 20 years later in March 2020 –during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is the daughter of Lt. Digendra Chandra Ghosh, associate of legendary Chandra Shekhar Azad who in early November 2023, is finally declared Indian after an intrepid legal battle led by CJP’s Team Assam

50 HR groups appeal for unconditional release of Khurram Parvez, Irfan Meraj

NEW DELHI: As many as 50 human rights organisations...

Railway ticket costlier than plane ticket: Uproar on social media

After several people uploaded screenshots of train ticket fares going as high as 11,000, the issue of railways as a less affordable means of transport has come to light. Indian Railways are reportedly reconsidering the dynamic pricing option.

Rajasthan: PUCL condemns killing of 22 year-old jailed prisoner, demands payment of Rs 50 lakhs compensation & independent inquiry into incident

Protesting the death of 22 year old-Sajid, incarcerated in Rajasthan’s Bikaner jail, the PUCL has demanded an independent inquiry into the incident and payment of Rs 50 lakhs in compensation

Literary critique and author, Ranjit Hoskote, wrongly accused of anti-semitism, resigns from Documenta ’16 committee

The petition signed by Hoskote decried Zionism as a “racist ideology calling for a settler-colonial, apartheid state where non-Jews have unequal rights” and called for “democratic and progressive forces in India to align their struggles with that of the Palestinians, Hindustan Times reported

Assam: Fourteen persons despatched to detention camp, families left frantic

CJP Team Assam has been on ground, offering para-legal aid and moral support after 14 people were detained during a routine check on October 31, 2023.

IIT-Bombay: Faculty backs professor over Hamas claims calling out the malicious campaign of misinformation & falsehood

A group named the Vivek Vichar Manch has claimed that Prof. Sharmistha Saha and guest speaker Sudhanva Deshpande had glorified Hamas action against Israel during a discussion after the screening of a documentary film — Arna’s Children

MHA further extends UAPA ban against 8 Meitei extremist organisations 

The Union Home Affairs Ministry notification issued Monday, November 13m said the organisations were banned for five years for their “anti-national activities, and launching fatal attacks on security forces.”

Karnataka: A sudden heart attack takes away Sheikh Jaleel, Nadaswaram player

A lived examples of generational syncretic tradition of coastal Karnataka (Udipi), Shaikh Jaleel, passed away on Monday, November 13 following a heart attack

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