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Women journalists who were attacked prevented from reporting, protest attacks
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, on-ground reporting by women journalists, invites threats and abuse from the authorities; is it a coincidence that all three states are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?
Re-construction, federalism, anti-fascism & a free society: MN Roy on his 136th birth anniversary
Today is the 136th birth anniversary of M.N.Roy (1887-1954). I mention below a photograph in which M.N.Roy is standing in Centre at the top of steps with delegates at the 2nd Congress of the Communist International, 1920 alongwith Lenin and Gorky. On this occasion there are four quotes from his writings which are worth remembering at the present times.
67 suicides in central institutes of higher learning despite 80 % claiming SC/ST cells for “assistance”
While 87/108 such institutes, that is a high 80 %, have SC/ST cells for assistance according to a reply by the ministry of education in Parliament, the rates of suicides (67 over five years) is high, suggesting structural flaws, both in their construct and functioning
Remove distasteful tickers targeting Teesta Setalvad: NBDSA directs Times Now
The Authority has advised the channel from using such tickers in the future, of which it has been guilty in the past as well
Towards Quality Universal and Accessible Education for All! Protests against NEP 2020
Roll Back NEP 2020! This was the resounding slogan at the Jantar Mantar protest on March 14, against the Modi 2.0 much touted New Education Policy (NEP)
Mallika’s changes inspires Kerala Kalamandalam to keep in step with times
“I told the girls that they are free to do anything. We will shed all kinds of discrimination in the name of gender or caste. But, we will go about it slowly,” she said as reported in The Indian Express
Equality March to mark Dr Ambedkar’s Mahad Satyagraha
Sarvahara Jan Andolan sends out a message of equality in an atmosphere polluted with hatred
Now Kabir Is Also a Pariah to the Hindu India
A few years ago, a Muslim professor at a university in Uttar Pradesh, called Kabir, anti-Muslim. Now, Hindus are also calling him anti-Hindu.
India tops online anti-Muslim hate posts, 3rd largest spike in Islamophobic tweets: 2022 Report
Report showed Islamophobia more prevalent on the web than it is in real life, only a mere 14.83% of anti-Muslim tweets end up being removed online
Haleema Beevi: Pioneer of Social Reform and Broad-Based Muslim Education in Kerala
At a time when our society is again falling in the grip of conservatism, irrationalism and over-religiosity, we must remind ourselves of the work of Late Haleema Beevi, the first female journalist from Kerala.
Dalit MBBS female intern allegedly died by suicide due to caste discrimination
Another fateful; incident of death by suicide of a Dalit student in a professional institute has come to the fore but no relief or redressal mechanism seems forthcoming
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Gender and Sexuality
Women journalists who were attacked prevented from reporting, protest attacks
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, on-ground reporting by women journalists, invites threats and abuse from the authorities; is it a coincidence that all three states are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?
Media
Reporter attacked on DU Campus, DUJ condemns assault
The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
Environment
Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts
Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.
Labour
Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces
The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.
