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The case of Zohra, a domestic worker in Noida. Notice how the residents of the buildings close ranks and how the police come out to support them, no questions asked.

On July 13, 2017, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and well known dissident Liu Xiaobo died from complications of liver cancer in a Shenyang hospital in Liaoning Province while being guarded by state security

Two books by Audrey Truschke under discussion - Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth (New Delhi: Sage, 2017) and Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Gurgaon: Allen Lane, 2016)

Discussants: Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi; Prof. Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi; and Prof. Najaf Haider, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Chair: Prof. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi At India International Centre, New Delhi on 12 July 2017

Workers’ strikes and links between the labour class and nationalist politics were key aspects of the early years of the movement and had become common by early 20th century

The lynching of Junaid (June 2017) in the outskirts of Delhi, in a train, did come as a saturation point in the conscience of large sections of society. To express their anguish people came to streets in great number in a largely spontaneous protest, ‘Not in My name’.