South Asia Citizens Web

One year has passed since the communal incident at Jahangirpuri on Hanuman Jayanti. PUDR is releasing a report

PUCL is outraged by and strongly condemns the cold-blooded shooting down by a 3-member gang of politician and former minister, Atiq Ahmed and his brother, Ashraf Ahmed, at about 1030 pm on 15.04.2023 in Prayagraj (Allahabad) Government Hospital, in public and in the full glare of the media.

The undersigned civil society organizations find the deportation of the three members of the PDF who sought medical treatment in Thailand to the BGF forces under the command of the hostile Myanmar army knowing full well that the three of them were vulnerable to fatal treatment including torture and persecution is a violation of Section 13 of the Act on Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance 2022 which came into force in Thailand since 22 February 2023 following our ascension to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT). Section 13 clearly stipulates that

I am not competent to discuss the work of Vivan Sundaram, the brilliant painter and installation-artist who passed away on March 29. But I must still write about him because not doing so for a person who has so enriched my life would be utterly invidious.

75 years after independence what is the State of our nation today? A private group of lawyers and citizens have taken the initiative to research and bring out a report which gives us an indication of the present state of affairs in the nation, in the context of various Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti processions that were taken out in April 2022