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Over the last six months, human rights defenders in Bastar, Chhattisgarh have faced a relentless crackdown by the police and self-styled vigilante groups, leading to a near-total information blackout in the state, Amnesty International India said today.

Handwara incident followed by the NIT controversy exposes the hypocrisy of the manufactured national outrage and discourse with respect to Kashmir. The national outrage in one incident, far milder and less shocking in nature, takes no time in melting into a sneer of cold indifference towards reckless bloodshed in another incident.

As the country drifted towards chauvinism in the post-independence years, the Left until the early 1960s offered hope as an alternative to a politics entrenched in feudalism and the past.

sacw.net - 15 April 2016
While addressing a Sadbhavna rally organized by RSS in Haryana (April, 2016) Baba Ramdev, the entrepreneur cum yoga guru, while referring to Muslims said “Some person wears a cap and stands up, and “… says I will not say ’Bharat Mata ki jai’ even if you decapitate me. This country has a law, otherwise let alone one, we can behead lakhs…if anybody disrespects Bharat Mata, we have the capability of beheading not one but thousands and lakhs.” Just before this (…)

Audio recording of the 8th B.R. Ambedkar memorial lecture delivered by Professor Romila Thapar in New Delhi on the 14th of April. The subject of the lecture was ’Rethinking Civilisation As History’. The lecture was orgainised by the Ambedkar University in New Delhi [This audio recording was made in public interest by sacw.net and may be used freely for non commercial use]