VIKALP / By Satyaki Roy
One of the major features of the current regime is that it insinuates a concerted process of criminalization, assassination and intimidation as an evolving architecture of punishment not being backed by any judicial probe.
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Outlook / By Preethi Nair
Prof Shoma Sen was arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, as were activists Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut and Sudhir Dhawale, and lawyer Surendra Gadling as part of the police probe into the violence at Bhima-Koregaon.
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The Wire / Sowjanya Tamalapakula
The Muslim question has been dealt with by stigmatising Muslims as ‘anti-national’ and the ‘other’ to the larger Hindu community. Stigmatising Dalits in a similar fashion is not plausible because Dalits are an essential part of the ‘Hindu community’.
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Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
The writer and management professor says that the authorities are planting fake evidence on computers so that they can jail dissidents.
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en | 15 min | 2018
The Leaflet / By KRITIKA A
Advocate Susan Abraham was one among the rights activists whose house was raided on the morning of August 28. She talks to The Leaflet about the raids, their connection to the Bhima Koregaon chain of events and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which has been used to incarcerate the rights activists.
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Live Law India / By Mehal Jain
The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar adjourned to Monday the hearing on the PIL by historian Romila Thapar and four other eminent persons over the arrest of five activists in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
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Documented at Sanhati India / Statement by Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) strongly protests the accusation by the Maharashtra police claiming that the PUDR is a frontal organisation of the CPI (Maoist) party. This is a blatant attempt to threaten and restrict the functioning of one of India’s oldest civil rights organisations.
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en | 1:33 min | 2016
Azim Premji University Colloquium
Sudha Bharadwaj talks about “Fighting in the Courts and on the Streets: The Situation of Precarious Workers” as part of the Azim Premji University Colloquium Series.
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en | 22 min | 2012
Dalit Camera / Speaker: Rona Wilson
Rona Wilson speaks about repression, draconian laws, about emerging struggles and demands and the role of Committe for Releasing Political Prisoners (CRPP).
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29/08/2018
The News Minute / by TNM Staff
The Association has demanded that the state address the violation of human rights in an academic space.
Following the raids by the Pune police in many states on Tuesday, where they arrested poets, writers and activists, accusing them of being “Maoist sympathisers”, the English and Foreign Languages University Teachers Association has strongly condemned the arrest of Professor Satyanarayana. Satyanarayana, whose residence was raided on Tuesday morning, is an anti-caste activist and head of the Department of Cultural Studies in EFLU.
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31/08/2018
A police team raided K. Satyanarayana’s house on August 28. While the search documents claimed the professor’s father-in-law Varavara Rao was living there, another Pune police team was raiding the house where Rao actually lives at the same time.
Days after the Pune police raided the house of 51-year-old professor K. Satyanarayana at the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) campus in Hyderabad, he has decided to move the Supreme Court against the “injustice and humiliation” he had to endure.
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