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18th March 2017 | The Sessions Court in Gurgaon today announced the quantum of sentence for 31 workers convicted by it on 10th March in the State of Haryana Vs. Jiyalal and Others case. Thirteen union leaders have been awarded life imprisonment, four others five years imprisonment and remaining 14 sentence as already undergone. Peoples Union for Democratic Rights strongly condemns not just the severity of punishment, but the conviction itself. The case was filed in connection with the incident of violence, setting the office on fire and unfortunate death of one HR manager due to asphyxiation at the Manesar unit of Maruti on 18th July 2012.

.D. Savarkar’s politics was a fight against history. Plagued by a minority complex, he was committed to Hindu, not Indian, nationalism, and the creation of a majoritarian polity through democratic processes. Narendra Modi shares that outlook. By A.G. NOORANI

What Saadat Hasan Manto has to say about literature and freedom and the need to say things as they are, without dilution

Large parts of the western working class now seem to gather around right populists, demagogues and racists. They vote for reactionary and fascist oid political parties. They helped to vote the UK out of the EU, to make Trump president of the world’s superpower number one, and they vote so massively for the far right political parties so that they have government power in sight in several of Europe’s most populous countries.

This article appeared as an Op-Ed in The Times of India on 4 August 1993