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. . . the BJP has established it pan Indian hegemony in a decisive manner. Its determination to capture India is seen by many with admiration and some with fear.

the recent order by the [Rajasthan] state education ministry asking every secondary and senior secondary school to purchase collected works of Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Since December of the past year, Ashulia and Savar have been in an uproar. What started off with workers’ demands regarding how the factories are run evolved into demands for better pay, a more democratic workplace, labour law reform, an end to illegal sackings and random factory closings, and more. The response from the government and the BGMEA would undoubtedly have made Pinochet proud.

A compilation of relevant links to commentary and reports on violence in Ramjas college and Delhi university’s North Campus on 21-22 Feb 2017 and the response that has followed. ". . .That Ramjas was the staging ground for this violence wasn’t an accident; given the college’s freethinking past, there could be no better place for the student’s wing of the RSS to enact the new normal. In its present avatar, with the BJP in command of an absolute majority at the Centre, the ABVP isn’t a student body, it is a vigilante organization, the sole purpose of which is to coerce Indian universities and their students into obeying the ideological writ of the sangh parivar. The BJP sees Indian universities as treacherous swamps that need to be drained."

Courtney Privett made a drawing with her daughters in mind