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• India’s Mangled Economy
  20 August 2019, by siawi3

  Mid-August is when the subcontinent celebrates independence from Britain. Born in a cauldron of hate 74 years ago, India today is again filling it to the brim.

• India: Kashmir Caged
  15 August 2019, by siawi3

  Except for the BJP spokesperson on Kashmir Affairs, we did not meet a single person who supported the Indian government’s decision to abrogate Article 370. On the contrary, most people were extremely angry, both at the abrogation of Article 370 (and 35A) and at the manner in which it had been done. Anger and fear were the dominant emotions we encountered everywhere.

• India: BJP leaders on Kashimiri women in occupied territory
  11 August 2019, by siawi3

  BJP elected representatives made outrightly misogynist remarks on Kashmiri women.

• India: The warts in our democracy: Look at what the world’s largest democracy is up to !
  15 July 2015, by siawi3

  The steady rise of an extreme right hindu government against human rights and democrtic values now culminates in the attack against Teesta Setalavd.

• India: The Hindu Right’s witch hunting of human rights defender Teesta Setalvad
  15 July 2015, by siawi3

  It is by now an open secret that activists working for justice and truth with regard to the pogrom called ‘Gujarat Riots’ have earned the hatred and animosity of the Modi government; which does not hesitate to employ official state power to indulge in a witch-hunt.

• India: Citizens Statement in Support of Teesta Setalvad
  16 July 2015, by siawi3

  Since the installation of the BJP led government in Delhi in May 2014, the country has witnessed open strenuous official efforts to foist a large variety of charges of financial irregularity on them, to harass them, to tarnish their reputations, and to secure their arrests. Fortunately the interventions of the higher judiciary have protected them so far.

• India: Media reports and statements in support of human rights defenders Teesta and Javed
  16 July 2015, by siawi3

  Outrage about attacks on human rights defenders Teesta and Javed: a compilation of resources.

• India: Harassment and victimization of Teesta and Javed by the CBI condemned - Statement by Citizens For Democracy
  16 July 2015, by siawi3

  Since December 1992, they started strenuous campaign, in association with other democratic and secular forces, against the growing menace of communalism-whether of any group of majority or minority. When Gujrat violence took place in 2002, they took up the cause of justice for the victims as ‘crusaders’ and threw themselves wholeheartedly, body and soul together, in the struggle. Eventually they succeeded in getting booked and punished many accused against all odds and despite the fact the entire might of the Gujrat State rallied against them in protecting and defending the criminals. Even Narendra Modi, the present Prime Minister of India, faces the danger of being arrayed in the company of some of the accused if the related cases are properly and honestly pursued by the investigating agencies.

• India: RSS’s grip on West Bengal
  13 April 2017, by siawi3

  Within a span of just two years, three rationalists — Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi — were assassinated by members of a pro-Hindutva, right-wing fringe group. Taking the law into their own hands, members of cow protection groups are randomly beating up — even killing — people suspected of slaughtering cows or eating beef. In a communally sensitive state like Bengal, BJP and RSS are deliberately — and dangerously — using strategies to deepen polarisation, create an atmosphere of anxiety. In its bid to expand its sphere of influence, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that rules at the Centre — has zeroed in on West Bengal as its next big target, contending the situation in the state is “unprecedented”.

• Israelising India: The Hindutva Fantasy that is Realising Itself
  20 August 2019, by siawi3

  In many ways, today’s India is fast changing and unrecognisable from just half a decade ago. It is not the case that state repression, attacks on minorities and criminalisation of dissent is new. But the impunity of the state machinery, its forever-ready army of zealot supporters, the breakdown of institutions and the irreversible damage this has brought upon our society is unprecedented.

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