The silence on Beemapalli violence opens many cans of worms - including the deeply hegemonic nature of Kerala’s responses to its marginalised, latent communalism within the administration and media and so on and so forth.
The silence on Beemapalli violence opens many cans of worms - including the deeply hegemonic nature of Kerala’s responses to its marginalised, latent communalism within the administration and media and so on and so forth.
The Delhi High Court judgment in the Naz Foundation case is a landmark verdict which decriminalises homosexuality and strikes a blow in favour of personal freedom on the solid foundations of inclusiveness and respect for diversity; —a marker of the victory of a social struggle for justice. But for that to happen, we’ll have to educate opinion-makers and shapers, the Swami Ramdevs and Laloo Prasads, besides bureaucrats, jurists, members of the National Commission on Women, and many others.
The Manipur state government in northeastern India should act to end a cycle of unpunished violence, including killings, by security
forces and armed groups, says a press release by Human Rights Watch
Who were the victims of anti-Communist repression in Pakistan? How were these radical Socialists persecuted? What is their history? These unconventional questions are usually sidelined or silenced. Major Ishaq Mohammad’s book ‘Hassan Nasir ki Shahadat’ lays bare to some extent the murky historical chapter of state repression of Communism in Pakistan.
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