The Concerned Citizens’ Group (CCG) made two visits to Srinagar since August 5, 2019 when the Narendra Modi government revoked the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated it into two Union Territories.
South Asia Citizens Web
-
India: Sixth and Seventh Reports of the Concerned Citizens’ Group on Kashmir Sep 17-18, 2019 and Nov 22-26, 2019
by , 18 December 2019 -
India: People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism Denounces Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens
18 December 2019People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism strongly condemns the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by the Parliament on Dec 11, 2019. Modi government used its brute majority to force it through the Parliament, without addressing any of the concerns raised against it. The law violates principle of secularism, which is part of the basic structure of the constitution.
-
India: Hindutva Mob Justice School at Work - Students in an RSS run School made to re-enact the blatantly illegal Dec 1992 demolition of the Babri Mosque
16 December 2019At RSS school in Karnataka they perform a play where they a mob demolishs the Babari Moque in Ayodhya
-
Brazil: The Workers’ Party and the Rise of Bolsonaro | Marcelo Hoffman
16 December 2019Book review of Perry Anderson’s Brazil Apart: 1964-2019
-
’Good Termites’ vs ’Bad Termites’ Gameplay by the Modi Govt: Religious Criteria Introduced Into India’s Citizenship Law - Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 - Select Commentary & Fragments from Citizens Protest
14 December 2019The citizenship bill is “the first legal articulation that India is, you might say, a homeland for Hindus,” said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of India’s most prominent political scientists. Mehta believes the measure violates the Indian constitution, which guarantees equal rights before the law to all people within the country.
