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The highly charged, momentous hours before Varavara Rao’s arrest

The highly charged, momentous hours before Varavara Rao’s arrest

The Bengal Story / By N Venugopal Rao

Starting from 1.40 in the afternoon of Friday, when the High Court in Hyderabad dismissed the petition of Varavara Rao, till 8.40 in the night of Saturday, when he was taken away by Pune police, a little more than thirty hours, his house in Gandhinagar in Hyderabad witnessed highly charged, inspiring and momentous scenes of anxiety, anger, confidence, hope, and protest on the part of people as well as cunning, bluffing, illegality and highhandedness on the part of police.
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Poem: Words

Poem: Words

First published: 1990

Poetry International Web / By Varavara Rao

Words
Words, smothered in the folds of the self,
Must be stirred awake,
Made to amble and watch
See if wings can bear aloft
The crippled limbs
And soar into the sky.
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‘Punished for Being Varavara Rao’s Son-In-Law’: EFLU Professor Satyanarayana

‘Punished for Being Varavara Rao’s Son-In-Law’: EFLU Professor Satyanarayana

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

The professor’s wife was apparently questioned by the police about her caste and why she did not wear a ‘sindhoor’ or was not dressed like a ‘traditional wife’.
New Delhi: Asserting he was punished for being Varavara Rao’s son-in-law K. Satyanarayana – an EFLU professor whose house was also raided as part of a nationwide swoop by Pune police against activists – rejected the charges against him. The police have implicated the professor in either the Bhima-Koregaon protest or the alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Mumbai rights groups issue joint statement condemning illegal raids, arrests of human rights activists by Pune police

Mumbai rights groups issue joint statement condemning illegal raids, arrests of human rights activists by Pune police

The Leaflet / Statment by civil society organisations/ groups/ collectives

“We, the undersigned civil society organisations/ groups/ collectives, have jointly convened this urgent Press Conference to condemn the appalling state actions of reprisals against noted human rights activists and intellectuals, which are clearly politically motivated and an attempt to stifle voices of dissent. The unjustified raids on and arbitrary arrests of the above public spirited individuals who have tirelessly worked for the cause of the poor and marginalized sections of society, are nothing but an attack on Indian democracy and an attempt to undermine the democratic fabric of our society.”
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