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• India: Akshay Yadav and the Loud Silence of India’s Hindus
  10 December 2021, by siawi3

  India’s Kristallnacht is underway.

• Pakistan slips on a slippery slope of religious militancy
  11 December 2021, by siawi3

  “How we dress, speak, and think is going to be increasingly policed. Imran Khan’s Pakistan is racing down the path to Talibanisation,” said Pervez Hoodbhoy

• India: Remembering Anti-caste scholar-activist Gail Omvedt
  11 December 2021, by siawi3

  With the passing away of Gail Omvedt at the age of eighty we have lost one of our leading anti-caste scholar-activists.

• India: Anniversary of Babri Mosque Demolition Reminds of the Egregious Violation of Law and Resolve to Protect Constitution
  12 December 2021, by siawi3

  Demolition of Babri Masjid based as much on illegality and hatred and bigotry with a view to constructing a Ram Temple in its place was contrary to the vision of Swami Vivekananda. Let us be mindful of the vision of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Ambedkar and combine it with the constitutional vision of India at the core of which remains secularism, coexistence of all faiths and equal respect for all religions. It is important to do so in the present times when the constitutional vision of India is being attacked by those who control the State apparatus and the extra electoral forces which promote disharmony and discord in the name of religion.

• India: Observations on Caste and the Peasant question in present-day India
  14 December 2021, by siawi3

  The history of peasant struggle may be revisited to understand the character of the present ongoing peasant struggle and to ascertain the caste dimension ingrained in it.

• India: Nehruvian Secularism: A Critical Appraisal
  14 December 2021, by siawi3

  Despite a chequered legacy, Nehru’s secularism must be remembered and celebrated and defended in times when his name is being served to become an anathema for the average Indian. But in doing so the secular-progressive forces must keep in mind that the time has come to graduate from a Nehruvian minimalist to a maximalist notion of secularism in India.

• India: Non Aligned Movement and Nehru’s Principled Stand
  14 December 2021, by siawi3

  Nehru, May 1^st 1951: “India, though grateful for help, would not accept food from any country if it had ‘any political strings attached’ to it”.

• India’s Revolutionary Spiritual Urge: Bhagat Singh and the Naxalites
  14 December 2021, by siawi3

  The colonial tyrant called you the terrorist Bhagat Singh that day,
  The neofascist despot calls you the terrorist Naxalite today.
  But everyone will call you the morning star tomorrow

• Rural Taliban Accept Plan to Keep Educating Afghan Girls
  16 December 2021, by siawi3

  Hard-pressed communities have been reopening schools for girls up to grade 12

• Inde: Les femmes font face à l’État et au fondamentalisme patriarcal pour mettre fin à la violence en Inde
  16 December 2021, by siawi3

  A travers l’organisation Sakhi Kendra, nous avons déjà pris en charge plus de 37 mille cas. Mais la question demeure en 2021 : pourquoi de tels cas ont-ils lieu ?

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