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Who’s afraid of Anand Teltumbde?

24/01/2019 Rani

The Wire / by N. Balmurli

Teltumbde’s writing has exposed the hypocrisy of the votaries of neo-liberal capitalism, caste deniers and Hindutva triumphalists. It is they who seek to silence him today.
Teltumbde is one of India’s most well-respected public intellectuals – taking public positions on public issues in intellectually defensible ways through his long-standing regular column with the Economic and Political Weekly, or his frequent op-eds in Indian newspapers, or his scholarly writings in journals and books, or his fact-finding reports on atrocities around the country.
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False allegations against Degree Prasad Chouhan

09/11/2018 Rani

Statement by Frontline Defenders

Following the arrest of human rights defender Sudha Bharadwaj and four others on 26 October 2018, there is an imminent threat of false charges being brought against Dalit activist and human rights defender, Degree Prasad Chouhan. The police have already implicated the defender by name in a fake letter produced by them on 31 August 2018, which they claim was written by advocate Sudha Bharadwaj. There is a clear attempt by the police to smear the human rights defender as a Maoist militant and draw a false link between Degree Prasad Chouhan and the Bhima Koregaon violence which took place in January 2018.
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