It is clear that by spreading the canard of being "anti-national" the RSS-BJP have mounted an all India attack against the Indian people. While strongly condemning the attack mounted by the RSS under the patronage of this BJP-led NDA government against the Jawaharlal Nehru University, we, the undersigned, see this as part of a larger design by the communal forces to carry forward their agenda in institutions of higher learning. This systemic pattern is clearly visible in the incidents in Film & Television Institute of India, Hyderabad Central University leading to the tragic suicide of Rohit Vemula, the incidents in IIT Chennai and now in Jadavpur University.
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Canard of Being "Anti-National" Being Deployed To Tar People in Institutions of Learning and Hindutva Agenda being Pushed - Left Parties Memorandum to The President of India
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India: Communist poet Makhdoom’s famous anti war song of the 1940’s — Jaane Waale Sipahi Say Poocho [ Ask the Soldier Where he is going? ]
19 February 2016The Hindustani song by Makhdoom "Jaane Wale Sipahi Se Poocho" questions the relevance of war, for those drafted to fight it wars.
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Video Clip from the JNU Solidarity March in Delhi - 18 Feb 2016
18 February 2016Glimpses of the JNU Solidarity March
Glimpses of the JNU Solidarity March on 18 February 2016. Massive turnout of well above 10,000 (some media reports say 15,000), lively chants of popular slogans, and a spirit of determination all around. #StandWithJNU
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To be anti-Indian is not a criminal offence, and it is definitely not sedition / Why ‘anti-nationalism’ is an empty abuse that has no place in a free society
18 February 2016“Sedition” is in the air. And a lot of hot air has been generated after the JNU incident.
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Pakistan: Democratic system at risk
by , 16 February 2016The public complaint that the state’s writ in regard to its benevolent functions, such as guaranteeing its citizens security of life, liberty and a means of a decent living, is shrinking is now old hat. A new cause of their anxiety is that the state’s growing reliance on its coercive powers is undermining its credibility as a responsible entity and is putting the democratic system at risk.
