Pakistan shows that the disfigurement of our collective history to create exclusionary imagined communities can leave a bloody imprint for generations.
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Lesson from Pakistan: Don’t erase history | Ammar Rashid
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Religious Majoritarianism and Commercial Interests drive the attack against the Rohingyas - Statement from New Trade Union Initiative
7 October 2017Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his visit to Myanmar from 5-7 September 2017 assured India’s support to the government of Myanmar despite the continuing government and army driven ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas, the majority of whom are Muslims. The Government of India has also labelled the 40,000 Rohingyas as illegal immigrants in India calling them a threat to national security and hence to be deported.
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India’s Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) Warmly Welcomes the Award of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN
by , 6 October 2017The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) with a deep sense of solidarity, warmly welcomes the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
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India: Linking Aadhaar to mobile and bank accounts is illegal. Here is what you can do if you are forced (Oct 2017)
4 October 2017Oct 2017 article by Dr Anupam Saraph in MoneyLife - Various telecom companies are citing TRAI and DOT notifications to force you to link Aadhaar to your mobile else face disconnection. While it is not amusing that the government believes that a SIM issued in someone’s name is used by the same person and terrorists and criminals do KYC with their own documents or Aadhaar, here are just three ways that requiring an Aadhaar to obtain a SIM endangers India
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Imagining Climate Change ? LA Review of Books Conversation with Amitav Ghosh
4 October 2017The evidence of climate change is all around us — record temperatures, superstorms, the crack in the Larsen B Ice Shelf. The news keep getting grimmer, and once you really take in the worst-case scenarios of the next few decades, it’s hard not to feel numb. But if global warming is the most pressing problem facing the planet, why do we see so few references to it in contemporary novels, apart from post-apocalyptic science fiction? Where is the great Climate Change Novel?
