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On instructions from Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, the Rajasthan Sanskrit Academy will organise a grand ‘Rashtra Raksha Yagna’ at Shri Mateshwari Tanot Rai temple near the Indo-Pak border on Thursday, to “protect troops from the enemy”. It will be conducted by 21 “patriotic Brahmins”.

I was surprised to see the attached news report yesterday of one of your speeches where you have bracketed universal human food meat, fish and egg with illegal drugs (and alcohol and asserted that you don’t consume any of these) (Madhyamam 5.10 16). At a time when the fascist forces are playing havoc on the country in the name of meat eating, it is an insult to the Kerala society and its culture where hardly a meal is taken without fish/meat/egg to debase our food.

News analysis and commentary in India and Pakistan about rising din for war . . .

The notes from all the plenary sessions and workshops are being compiled and a comprehensive declaration as well as resolutions and report will be shared soon. The points that have been included here are the immediate action points that emerged and were ratified in the final plenary of the 6th National Convention on Right to Food & Work which was held from the 23 – 25 September, 2016 at Gossner Middle School, Ranchi

We, the undersigned, members of South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), condemn the escalating war hysteria in Pakistan and India