WE, the writers, reading public and cultural activists who have assembled at the gate of Sahitya Akademi on the occasion of its Executive Board meeting dated 23-10-2015 express our protest and angst against the ever growing fascistic tendencies and violent intolerance in the country which has posed a danger to freedom of expression and other civil liberties guaranteed by our nation’s Constitution.
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India: Text of memorandum submitted by the march of writer’s from Mandi House to the Sahitya Akademi on 23 Oct 2015
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Announced: Pratirodh - A convention of writers, artists, thinkers, academicians and all conscientious people (1 Nov 2015, New Delhi)
23 October 2015Resistance against attacks on reason, democracy & composite culture
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Behind the coup that backfired: the demise of Indonesia’s Communist Party | Robert Cribb
23 October 2015In 1965, at the height of the Cold War, a communist victory in Indonesia seemed plausible. At the time, the Indonesian Communist Party was the third-largest in the world with three million members. In that year, however, the systematic destruction of Indonesia’s Communist Party (PKI) began.
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India: ’Dadri lynching was premeditated’ - Report of Visit by National Commission of Minorities team to Bisahda village (U.P.) on (15 Oct 2015)
21 October 2015The lynching of man in Dadri in Sept 2015 strongly appeared to be the result of "pre-meditated planning" under which people were incited to using a temple, says a report of the National Minorities Commission team.
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Delhi Demo in Protest against Killing of Dalits in Haryana: Photos, Press Release & Memorandum (21 October 2015)
21 October 2015There was a dharna (Sit-in) outside Haryana Bhavan in New Delhi on 21 October 2015 to protest the burning to death of two small Dalit children in a Faridabad village by "high" caste people.
