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Video recording of a speech by the prominent lawyer Colin Gonsalves on the present situation, after-effects of globalization and future of labour movement in India

artists from across India have come together under the banner of "Artists Unite!" and signed a declaration with the intention of reinforcing public traditions that speak "for democracy, and against hate". More than 450 signatories from more than twenty locations have cautioned that the ongoing assault on culture is an attack on democracy and asserted that "The ongoing assault on culture is an attack on democracy. When cultural life is attacked democracy itself is in peril because of the disappearance of a language that articulates our shared spiritual and social lives, shared histories and shared memories. Democracy is not a majoritarian project to identify enemies and enforce uniformity of language, behaviour and culture. Democracy is the celebration of a collective will for peace, of living together with dignity and equality. As artists and cultural practitioners we are and will continue to resist the politics of hate."

An informal compilation of op-eds and commentary from the media after the Pulwama attack in Kashmir

We, citizens of India, are deeply concerned at the recent escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan, and at the climate of intolerance that is developing around it. . . . We appeal to the governments on both sides to refrain from further hostilities, overt or covert, and to resolve their differences within the framework of international law and human rights.

The breach of airspace, in the context of a conflict between two nuclear-weaponised countries, clearly constitutes the crossing of a long established redline.
The wisdom underlying the convention has been chillingly demonstrated by way of Pakistan, almost immediately, following the Indian lead.