Our group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services has no affiliation with any political party and is firmly committed to the Constitution of India. We write to express our disbelief and dismay at the candidature of Pragya Thakur for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. This decision could have been dismissed as yet another example of political expediency but for the enthusiastic endorsement by no less a person than the Prime Minister of India, who has termed her candidature as a symbol of our civilisational heritage.
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India: Dismay at the candidature of Terror Accused Pragya Thakur for a Lok Sabha seat in 2019 elections - Statement by Former state officials
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India: Media Manipulation and Targetted Use of Fake News by the BJP IT Cell and Other Entities created for the purpose - Selected Reports
24 April 2019https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2019/04/india-fake-news-agitprop-190416054316199.html
India: Fake News and Agitprop
We investigate the threat posed to democracy in India by those who use fake news to advance extreme nationalism.
18 Apr 2019
As around 900 million Indian voters decide who should be their next leader, an increasingly troubling question is looming over the country’s general elections: How vulnerable is it to the kind of social media manipulation that (…) -
Bangladesh: A Detailed Report on the Crackdown on Garment Workers Following Peaceful Protests For A Wage Rise | Worker Rights Consortium
24 April 2019Bangladesh government and apparel factory owners in Bangladesh have carried out a brutal crackdown on garment workers
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India: ’Aye Button, Aye Button’, satirical song in hindi on the nuclear-button and boisterous talk of use of nuclear weapons
by , 23 April 2019’Aye Button, Aye Button’ is a Hindi song that was recorded and released on cassette tape in 1999 by Indians for Rational and Democratic Action (IRADA). This satirical political song mocks at the love and banalisation of the nuclear weapons and a militarisation of public sentiment in India, following the nuclear tests of May 1998
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Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) expresses shock at the Indian Prime Minister’s public nuclear sabre-rattling
23 April 2019CNDP statement in response to Indian Prime Minister’s Public Boast that Nuclear Weapons are Not for ’Diwali’ (the Festival of Lght and Sound)
