McCarthyism in Modi’s India
JACOBIN / By Anand Teltumbde
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are carrying out an audacious campaign to arrest left activists and silence dissent in India. The country is on a path toward fascism.
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Conspiracy of Silence: Dalit Migrant Workers First Targets of the Police in Bhima Koregaon Case
CJP / By Akhil Vasudevan
On January 12, 2018, two weeks after Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad program in Pune, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police picked up four workers of Reliance Infrastructure, one contractor from the same company and a casual worker. Their houses in the slum were raided in the middle of the night for hours before the arrest. A union activist was picked up a day before. The ATS squad questioned several other workers from the same company in the following days and finally arrested one more person from Reliance Infrastructure on 25th January. Interestingly, all the eight arrested men are migrants from Andhra/Telangana region. All of them have been charged under draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
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Bombay High Court’s ‘Dalit’ Ruling as come in handy for the politics of Hindutva
Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
It also reflects the community’s loss of ideological cohesion.
The controversy created by the June 6 judgement of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench, banning the use of the term “Dalit” in government communication, while sterile on the face of it, is pregnant with meaning.
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Why the State Is Attempting to Link Dalit Resistance to Maoism
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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EFLU Teacher’s association condemns raids at Professor Satyanarayana’s house
EFLU Teacher’s association condemns raids at Professor Satyanarayana’s house
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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K. Satyanarayana Says Will Move SC Against Pune Police’s Actions Against Him
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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JV Pawar interview: `The government is saying that anyone who supports Dalits will be jailed’
Scroll.in / By Ajaz Ashraf
The BJP government wants to teach a lesson to Dalit activists and their supporters, says the co-founder of the Dalit Panther party.
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Police Releases One More Letter, Chhattisgarh Land Rights Activist Named This Time
The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha
According to Degree Prasad Chouhan, the recent arrests of activists is part of a much larger conspiracy to stifle on-ground movements that have been gaining momentum over the years.
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The Truth about the Elgaar Parishad – What was it and who organised it?
CJP / by CJP-Team
On December 31, 2017 a fiercely passionate gathering of activists, former judges and political leaders proclaimed their commitment to fight the repressive economic, social and cultural policies of the Modi regime. This was the Elgar Parishad that preceded the gathering at Bhima Koregain on January 1, 2018 where Dalit families were attacked and assaulted by the ‘Sangh’ brigade.
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Vibrant scenes from Pune’s Elgaar Parishad, which led to the Bhima Koregaon case arrests
Scroll.in / by Shone Satheesh
In six tents packed to the brim, approximately 35,000 people watched plays, and listened to music and speeches with an anti-caste theme.
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Dalit activists among five arrested for ‘inciting’ Bhima Koregaon violence
The Print / by PTI
Police in Pune have accused the activists of having Maoist links. They had earlier booked a duo with Hindutva affiliations.
Pune: The Pune Police today arrested five people allegedly having close Maoist links, including prominent Dalit activist Sudhir Dhawale, from Mumbai, Nagpur and Delhi in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence on January 1.
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