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."
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Links to Reportage & Commentary on Right-Wing Violence in Ramjas College and Delhi University (February - March 2017)
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Nevertheless She Persisted | Courtney Privett
8 March 2017Courtney Privett made a drawing with her daughters in mind
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India: Teesta Setalvad talks about her memoir, Foot Soldier of the Constitution at the press club, New Delhi on 6th March, 2017
8 March 2017A video recording
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Bangladesh: Textbooks being tailored to please religious groups? - select commentary and reports
6 March 2017Some commentators believe the changes in Bangladesh’s books might have a political motive
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India: Attack on Children’s Right to Food - RTFC’s Statement on the compulsory Aadhaar in Mid-Day - Meal
4 March 2017The right to food campaign strongly opposes the central government’s move to make Aadhaar compulsory for children under the midday meal scheme in government schools. This is nothing but an attempt to coerce people to enrol their children under Aadhaar.
