The 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.
South Asia Citizens Web
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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)
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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.
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Pakistan: Rethinking protest politics | Afiya Shehrbano
21 October 2015WAF Hyderabad is inducting women workers and activists onto its forum to fuse the ideological politics with the energy and skills of the millennial activists towards a stronger overarching women’s protest movement
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Statement by Angus Deaton to the Indian Press
21 October 2015I am thrilled to have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015. I am even more thrilled that the Nobel Committee highlighted the work that my collaborators and I have done on India.
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Beyond India’s beef with beef, new hatreds grow | Pankaj Mishra
21 October 2015Lynch mobs and assassins are on a rampage across South Asia. Days after a Muslim man was murdered in India, for allegedly eating beef, a Baptist pastor was stabbed in Bangladesh. It isn’t just religious minorities that are under assault. In recent months, bloggers, atheists and rationalist intellectuals have been assassinated.
