South Asia Citizens Web

On the third anniversary of the death of Narendra Dabholkar, 20 July 2016, a sit-in was held at Jantar Mantar [New Delhi] to demand that his murderers and those of Prof. M.M. Kalburgi and Comrade Govind Pansare be brought to justice.

The recent spate in unrest and violence in Kashmir will cause nothing but anguish and torment, and a rift that will prove very difficult to overcome.

In my opinion, left-wing intellectuals who oppose a common civil code disavow the progressive heritage of socialist and feminist movements in India and across the world.

Qandeel Baloch is dead. Seems like the woman had earned the ire of way too many men . . . women have better talents that merely looks . . . she has been conditioned by our patriarchal society . . . Qandeel’s honesty and defiance of patriarchal norms that actually points out how dishonourable our society really is. She was alone, powerful, influential. And she told all the haters out there that she refused to be suppressed under their patriarchal standards of morality.

We, the undersigned, condemn the murder of Qandeel Baloch by her brother, Waseem, and demand that the government put the alleged killer on trial.