Scroll.in / By Shoaib Daniyal
Some TV news channels, it seems, cannot stop inventing and circulating bogeys to target people seen as opposing the incumbent dispensation.
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Scroll.in / by Mridula Chari
One of the two secretaries general of Forum for Integrated National Security is Seshadri Chari, a senior member of the RSS and the BJP.
A report released by a security think-tank in March into caste violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1 had foreshadowed the turn taken by the police investigation into the events. The report pinned the blame for the violence on a Maoist conspiracy – a conclusion that bears striking resemblance to the claims the Pune police has subsequently made in court.
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The Wire / By Nandini Sundar
The aim is to silence those who have raised their voice against the abuse of state power and to warn others against opening their mouths.
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en | 19 min | 2018
PUCL National Secretary and visiting professor at NLU, Sudha Bharadwaj, talks to Newsclick about the recent allegations made against her of being an urban Naxal by Republic TV. She also discusses the long drawn conflict in Chhattisgarh and how illegal land acquisitions and extrajudicial killings are adding fuel to the fire in the state.
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Scroll.in / By Raksha Kumar
The phrase is deliberately vague to cover a wide array of dissidents, human rights defenders say.
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en | 12:20 min | 2018
The Wire / Jahnavi Sen interviews Sudha Bharadwaj
Bharadwaj, a human rights lawyer, has rubbished allegations made by Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV that she took money from and was corresponding with Maoists.
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Dayliyo.in / By Sohini Shoaib
I have known Mahesh Raut since my days at the university and for me, he has always been a source of great strength, learning and encouragement. His calm and gentle presence was grounding to many and resulted in him being hugely popular in college. Most of my memories of Mahesh involve him being surrounded by people – of him strategising over how to postpone an assignment submission, planning a college festival or counselling younger batches of students who were struggling with homesickness, workload or something else.
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Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
In ‘Republic of Caste’, published this year, Anand Teltumbde writes about how Maoist and Naxalite labels make Dalits and Adivasis even more vulnerable.
Despite its mode of expression, the much-maligned Naxalite movement is essentially an act of dissent, a public protest, a fact occasionally acknowledged by the government itself, although the actions of the latter never reflect this admission.
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