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Temple Leases, Food Morality: Rajasthan’s new Panchayat order

The recent decision by the BJP-led government in Rajasthan of granting land parcels to temples, moreover those controlled by Brahmins and Banias, and further making it “mandatory” for meat shops to obtain NOCs from the local Panchayat, privileges caste elites and food choices while also being fundamentally exclusionary

Hindi literature and journalism will always remember the rich contributions of Manglesh Dabral

A poet and editor who was the voice of the marginalised

Karnataka passes Anti Cow Slaughter Bill

The law prohibits slaughter of cows, bulls, buffaloes under the age of 13

Anand Teltumbde declared Person of the Year 2020 

Vancouver-based online magazine Radical Desi chose Teltumbde for courageously speaking out against state violence and repression

Punjabi Press Club of British Columbia condemns attack on Indian photo journalist  

PTI photographer Ravi Choudhary, who took the now viral picture of a Sikh farmer being beaten, was attacked recently in Uttar Pradesh

Our Human Rights are denied!

In a systematic but brutal manner, the legitimate rights of people are not only denied but are crushed

The farmer is Hindustan: Oppn leaders back the revolution 

Opposition leaders meet President, ask him to recommend that the Union Government repeal three Farm Laws 

Farmers fight corporates, remove central government middlemen

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Farmers reject government’s repackaged old amendment proposal

Denouncing the so-called “new” offer of the central government, farmers call for sit-ins at district level

BJP sweeps Rajasthan local body elections

Congress flounders in both, Panchayat and Zilla Parishad elections

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Temple Leases, Food Morality: Rajasthan’s new Panchayat order

The recent decision by the BJP-led government in Rajasthan of granting land parcels to temples, moreover those controlled by Brahmins and Banias, and further making it “mandatory” for meat shops to obtain NOCs from the local Panchayat, privileges caste elites and food choices while also being fundamentally exclusionary

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