South Asia Citizens Web

Fifty five Dalit houses were burnt down during the afternoon of May 5 in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur in northern UP. Attackers belonged to the dominant Rajput community of the area. They were armed with swords, spears, and lathis, and numbered about three thousand.

The recent sweeping victory of the BJP in UP assembly election was far beyond expectation of even the party leadership both, at the State as well as the Central Level

Farmers across Gujarat express shock and grief over police brutality on farmers in Madhya Pradesh; Resolve to strengthen farmers’ movement here and nationally

THERE are not too many media houses left in India that will stand up to Prime Minister Modi’s insidious dismantling of freedoms. Universities are being destroyed by pseudo nationalist bigots, the judiciary is being subverted — how else would a high court judge feel emboldened to pontificate that peacocks are India’s national birds because they live a celibate life and have asexual reproduction? Parliament is being undermined and ordinary people are getting pitted against each other in the name of religion and caste, where Dalits are being torn away from each other to be co-opted as Hindutva’s useful fodder against their own.

By attacking the media, the present government is undermining freedom of the press, so essential for a democratic polity.