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42nd Anniversary of 1984 Sikh genocide: Amnesia of the Indian state and society
For almost last 3 decades now, on every anniversary of the 1984 genocide of Sikhs in India, this author has been reminding the Nation how Indian State and judiciary...
Several ‘secular’ people applauded the Babri demolition: Ravi Gupta
In this interview from 1994, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) former Chairman Ravi Gupta tells Communalism Combat co-editor Teesta Setavad, how he saw varying forms and degrees of not only religious, but also caste and class discrimination become apparant after the Babri Masjid demolition
Newsrooms, Living Rooms and Class Rooms: Evolution of the Ayodhya Narrative
How a corrosive refashioning of India took place in our personal and social spaces
Reportage on Ram Temple: Is the media playing it safe?
Most publications and networks are either focusing on the ceremony or talking about Covid-19 concerns, artfully dodging its communal history
End harassment of Kashmiri journalists, lawyers: Kashmir Reading Room
The Jammu & Kashmir Reading Room (KRR), a collective...
Police probe ordered by NHRC into death threats on journalist: Sultanpur rape case
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CJP had moved NHRC seeking protection for reporter who had exposed police inaction and possible cover-up in the case
Dravidian TN speaks out against NEP, no to 3-language formula
Calling the Centre's plan “painful and saddening”, CM Palaniswami (AIDMK)—an ally of the ruling BJP-- has demanded a reconsideration of the three-language policy, with states being allowed the constitutional independence to implement their own, even as the opposition DMK has opposed the elite bias in the proposed policy changes
21st century brand of India’s Language Policy – NEP 2020
The National Education Policy, announced, without debate in Indian Parliament and without adequate inclusion of concerns and criticisms sent in by diverse Indian groups has raised several questions of concern, especially with related to access to education for all, democratisation of education, the language formula articulated, diversity concerns and worst of all, the all out privatisation of higher education. This note looks at the implications of the language policy in education as articulated in NEP 2020
The Murder of a Self-Declared Prophet in Peshawar: Why Pakistan Must Repeal Its Blasphemy Laws
A man accused of blasphemy and facing trial for...
If Premchand has really touched Modi, why are so many scholars rotting in jails?
July 31 marks 140th birth anniversary of a renowned Indian author, the late Munshi Premchand.
BBC journalist illegally detained in UP, HRDA writes to NHRC
The journalist was released after a call from a senior police official confirming his identity as a journalist
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India
Need for Clarity on the SIR: An Open Letter to the Congress Leaders of Karnataka
While the national leadership of the party, leads and articulates the national campaign for the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, the state leadership of Karnataka, a state governed by the party, gives conflicting statements almost endorsing a process that has disenfranchised close to 10 million there
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India
Beyond Appropriation: Vidya Bhushan Rawat’s recovery of Bose’s inclusive nationalism
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