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Month: April 2019

Open Letter to KCR from Varavara Rao’s wife

Open Letter to KCR from Varavara Rao’s wife

The Siasat Daily / Posted by Tanveer

Respected Chief Minister of Telangana Sri K Chandrashekar Rao,
I am writing this letter to you in the context of your comments during the recent election campaign against the lies and improprieties of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This letter is to bring to your notice some more lies and fabricated cases indulged in by Modi’s government, Maharashtra government of his own party and Maharashtra police. I would like you to openly state your position and opinion on these lies and cases also.
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UK Indian Diaspora Joins Intl ‘People’s Agenda 2019’ Protests, Hold Vigil Outside India House

UK Indian Diaspora Joins Intl ‘People’s Agenda 2019’ Protests, Hold Vigil Outside India House

The Milli Gazette Online / By By M Ghazali Khan

London: Ignoring chilly cold weather in the cloudy and depressing Saturday afternoon, representatives of South Asian organisations in UK stood for more than two hours outside the Indian High Commission protesting against human rights violation in India.
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Two-Part Series on the decline of India’s democracy

Two-Part Series on the decline of India’s democracy

The Wire / By Sten Widmalm

Part One: Is India’s Democracy Really in Decline?
Data made available by a new research programme indicate that the situation has taken a turn for the worse since 2014.
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Part Two: Under Modi Govt, a Two-Pronged Attack on India’s Democracy
While it may not actively be promoting autocratisation, the current BJP government is allowing it to happen.
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Bombay high court to hear bail plea of 2 activists accused in Bhima Koregaon violence

Bombay high court to hear bail plea of 2 activists accused in Bhima Koregaon violence

Hindustan Times / K A Y Dodhiya

The hearing on the bail applications of activist Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira – arrested in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence – has been adjourned to April 16, after the Bombay high court (HC), on Friday, said it would hear all matters pertaining to the incident together.
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Bhagat Singh’s version of nationalism and what it may mean for Indian education

Bhagat Singh’s version of nationalism and what it may mean for Indian education

Sudha Bharadwaj was speaker in 2018
in this same memorial talk. Watch video of her talk: Fighting in the Courts and on the Streets.

The New Learn / By Amman Madan

Lecture at the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, 29th March, 2019
“Friends, we are gathered here to remember one of India’s great freedom fighters, Bhagat Singh. But before I start to talk about Bhagat Singh, I want to remember two other great Indians. The first is a great Indian who is still very much with us, Sudha Bharadwaj. …”
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Member of European Parliament Lídia Senra Rodríguez writes to Ms Federica Mogherini

Member of European Parliament Lídia Senra Rodríguez writes to Ms Federica Mogherini

Letter By Lídia Senra Rodríguez

Dear Ms Federica MOGHERINI
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
I call on you once again regarding your responsibility as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in order to ask for your much-appreciated reaction about the dramatic situation of Professor GN Saibaba. …
I also demand the immediate release of the lawyer of Professor GN Saibaba, Surendra Gadling, as well as human rights activists Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Shoma Sen, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut.

Full letter (pdf file): Letter to HR Ms. Mogherini regarding the worrying situation of Indian professor GN Saibaba_050419.pdf

Vote against hate in Lok Sabha elections, urge women marching for change in Delhi

Vote against hate in Lok Sabha elections, urge women marching for change in Delhi

Scroll.in / By Vijayta Lalwani

Women marched for change in several cities across India on Thursday. … As the women marched, several chanted slogans that called for an end to patriarchy, fascism and casteism. Many women also held posters that demanded the release of activists Shoma Sen and Sudha Bharadwaj, who were among nine activists arrested in June and August in connection with an investigation into a public meeting organised a day before caste-related violence erupted at Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1, 2018.
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