South Asia Citizens Web

Propaganda film during the emergency by the Films Division, India

The nation-wide railway strike of 1974 was repressed violently, foreshadowing things to come the following year. Yet, it did lead to long term gains, says RANA P. BEHAL

Instead of further attempts to enter the NSG, India would do better to simply give this club a wide berth, write M.V. Ramana and Suvrat Raju

Indian anti-sex trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide and more than 1,000 activists including Malini Bhattacharya, who heads AIDWA (the women’s wing of CPIM, Harsh Mander of Aman Biradari, Colin Gonsalves of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), Chitra Sarkar of the All India Women’s Conference, Ruchira Gupta and Tinku Khanna of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, Kirti Singh of AIDWA, Vimal Thorat of All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch, Gloria Steinam, Feminist campaigner, Bharti Ali of HAQ-Centre for Childrens Rights, P Joseph Victor Raj of Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), Nandita Das, Indian Film Actress, Dr. John Dayal, and Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner, MPs Sharad Yadav of the JD(U) and Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo object to the passage of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016.

Right and wrong are defined not by the laws of the land but by the gau rakshaks, whose actions are not whimsical but a calculated strategy to tell Muslims and Dalits that they are not equal citizens but subordinate species.