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Lankesh’s murder seemed to fit what was by then an unmistakable pattern of assassinations of intellectuals who opposed the fundamentalist-Hindu ideology that animates the B.J.P., all of which remained unsolved. Between 2013 and 2015, three religiously freethinking Indian writers and activists were shot dead near their homes by assailants who escaped on motorcycles

since 2014, the Modi government has attacked democracy in more insidious, thoroughgoing and indirect ways. This attack is aimed at weakening the institutional and popular foundations of democracy in India. It should be stressed that the regime has functioned in close proximity with its parent body, the RSS. . . . We appeal to all opposition political parties to realise and confront the gravity of the threat to democracy. It is a time to rise above political competition.

3rd ODI (D/N), Australia tour of India at Ranchi, Mar 8 2019
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BCCI seems to have forgotten that foreign policy is not its mandate
There was a time when cricket administrators from India and Pakistan worked together to democratise the game by Sandeep Dwivedi (March 6, 2019) https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/bccis-surgical-strike-out/
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Indian broadcaster pulls out of Pakistan cricket league (18 Feb 2019) (…)

Statements from IndustriALL and from Human Rights Watch about the loss of jobs by thousands of garment workers after the strikes of January 2019 in Bangladesh

Laila Haidari, who runs a popular cafe in Kabul that allows men and women to dine together, whether married or not, with or without a head scarf, and uses the profits to fund a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts. Now, Ms. Haidari plans to start a popular uprising against the continuing peace talks with the Taliban.