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On the 12 Feb 2016 the Maharashtra Adhashtradha Nirmulan Samitee [Maharashtra Anti Superstition Committee] (MANS) held a sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi they released later at a press conference a letter to India’s Prime minister and a note explaining the urgent need to coordinate and expedite the police investigations underway into the assassinations of Govind Pansare, Prof MM Kalburgi and Narendra Dhabolkar.

We the undersigned are seriously concerned that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which is a militant Right-wing Hindu-supremacist organization that has played an active role in unleashing pogroms against minority religious communities in India, and which has been systematically propagating a version of Indian history that suits its ideological agenda without caring for either historical evidence or the scientific method, is now trying to establish, through some of its affiliated organizations, four Chairs at the University of California, Irvine, for the study of three Indian religions and of modern Indian history.

Text of press statements by PUCL and PUDR - two of India’s major human rights organisations on 12 February 2016

The Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (Committee for the Eradication of Blind Faith) held a dharna at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, on 12 February 2016, to demand speedy trials of the murderers of Dr. Dabholkar, Prof. Kalburgi and Comrade Pansare. It is a matter of shame for Delhi that so few of its inhabitants showed up to lend their support. Photos posted here were taken by Mukul Dube

Prof. Jairus Banaji, Research Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, on February 5, 2016 he gave a lecture on ‘A short history of the employees’ unions in Bombay, 1947-1991,’ under the aegis of Centre for Labour Studies at the Durbar Hall of the Asiatic Society, Town Hall, Mumbai.