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Covering Ukraine: A mean streak of racist exceptionalism
What Achebe wrote, regarding Africa is true of much of the non-white world which “is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray – a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical and moral deformities so that he may go forward, erect and immaculate”. Ironically, European moral deformities have been on open display…
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ASSAULT ON THE IDEA OF EDUCATION
The Sangh Parivar claims to be a cultural organization. Core supporters of its ideology are upper caste and/or the educated elite. Quite naturally it gives importance to education. It is opposed to caste based reservation in the name of honouring merit. The irony is among the top leadership of Sangh Parivar or it affiliate…
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Rajeev Yadav gets helicopter symbol from Nizamabad, Azamgarh for UP elections 2022
Appeal for contribution…For the General Secretary of Rihai Manch, Rajeev Yadav, who is contesting from the Nizamabad assembly elections. Rajeev Yadav is the joint candidate of the movement groups from Nizamabad constituency of Azamgarh in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. For the past 17 years, he has been an active defender of human rights- raising voice…
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Why the Supreme Court now thinks it was wrong on pitting merit against reservations
Dominant castes can’t digest Dalit progress. It’s why they attack reservation with propaganda: Anurag Bhaskar 26 January, 2022 https://theprint.in/opinion/dominant-castes-cant-digest-dalit-progress-its-why-they-attack-reservation-with-propaganda/812617/According to a paper published by Brandeis University, challenges to reservation best represent the attack on the Dalit revolution. Before his death, Ambedkar had proposed to write a detailed treatise with the title Revolution and Counter-Revolution in…
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[SP(I)] press release
दिनांकः 31 जनवरी, 2022प्रेस विज्ञप्ति खुले पशुओं की व्यवस्था में पूरी तरह नाकाम हरदोई प्रशासन व उ.प्र. सरकारउ.प्र. के नए प्रमुख सचिव के आदेश के अनुसार 1 से 10 जनवरी तक अभियान चला कर खुले पशुओं को पकड़ा जाना था। समस्या की गम्भीरता को देखते हुए यह अवधि एक हफ्ते के लिए बढ़ा दी गई।…
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A Messiah For Humanity Passes Into The Ages
‘I am convinced secularism can only survive if there is quality education among Muslims and Dalits’ A Messiah For Humanity Passes Into The Ages By JYOTI PUNWANI, January 31, 2022https://www.rediff.com/news/column/professor-j-s-bandukwala-a-messiah-for-humanity-passes-into-the-ages/20220131.htmProfessor Juzar Bandukwala’s death is a loss not only to the city of Vadodara, to its poor Muslims, to the cause of education, but to the…
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Press Release- Stray Cattle Issue
प्रेस विज्ञप्तिदिनांकः 30 दिसम्बर, 2021यदि सरकार गौशालाओं की व्यवस्था नही ंकर सकती तो उसे गायों का बाजार खोल देना चाहिए28 दिसम्बर को हरदोई जिले के पांच गावों – चमका, ग्राम सभा सिकंदरपुर, फतेहपुर व बंजरा, ग्राम सभा घेरवा, जीवन खेड़ा, ग्राम सभा भरावन व दूलानगर, ग्राम सभा दूलानगर के ग्रामीण उप जिलाधिकारी को एक दिन…
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Khurram Parvez
Khurram Parvez would have known it was coming. Two weeks back, Mr Shah opened his dog-eared copy of the 2019 illustrated edition of The Standard Playbook for Indian Dictators, beamed around at approving looks from his team as he landed on the chapter – “UAPA for Professional Dummies” and promptly got Khurram arrested. But then, Khurram is…
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The Problem of Unemployment article by Sandeep Pandey.
An advertisement of Bhartiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh proclaims, ‘Educated woman is our resolve, She is an alternative for golden future.’ However, an educated woman Shikha Pal is perched on top of an overhead water tank for more than hundred days at the height of about hundred feet aspiring to become a teacher…
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Sign the petition: Subject surveillance to democratic norms and full transparency
Endorse/sign the petition here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEZGBpdVZ50fg-KIajTo7SOyzqNRqXqmJtv2GwJ7R7_lioHw/viewform?usp=sf_link We believe that the Pegasus spyware is intended to create a chilling effect on freedom of speech which is a brazen constitutional undercutting. Article 19 of the Indian Constitution is the bedrock of a healthy society – people freely able to speak their mind – even when their opinions might go…