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Letter from Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research to the Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting with a copy to the Director General of Associated Press Corporation

Three years ago, atheist and rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar was shot in the back of the head from close-range and in broad daylight by motorcycle-borne assailants when he was on his morning walk. He was 67.

If Prime Minister Narendra Modi were to close down the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, it would confirm one’s worst fears about his government’s hypocritical approach to grass-roots democracy for grass-roots development.

It
 is
 truly
 remarkable
 that 
a
 teachers ’
rebellion, 
unequivocally 
singular 
in 
scale
 and
 intensity,
 has
 arisen, 
this
 summer
 of
 2016,
 like
 a 
Phoenix, 
from 
the
 dust
 that
 Delhi
 University 
(DU)
 was
 being
 systematically 
reduced
 to 
over 
the 
last 
many 
years.

Critics are lashing out at the Hindutva movement that encourages changing history texts to promote Hinduism in India