People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism demands that
1. The police case under sections 153A and 295A against Prof Kancha Ilaiah be immediately withdrawn, and the derecognition of Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle by IIT Madras be immediately revoked.
2. Sections 153A and 295A of the IPC be repealed, and in their place laws against hate speech be enacted which give protection to oppressed and marginalised communities from humiliation, threat and abuse.
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Withdraw police case against Prof Kancha Ilaiah and roll back the ban on Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle - Press release by PADS
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Signs of rising instability says April - May 2015 briefing by India Study Group
5 June 2015One year into the rule of the National Democratic Alliance government, Indian politics is poised at an unusual point. The forces represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi continue to be popular, but there is also a strong perception that they have reached the limits of their influence - and hence "politics as usual" is coming back.
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India: Condolence message in memory of the veteran radical humanist Subhankar Ray
5 June 2015Indian Renaissance Institute is deeply grieved over the sad demise of veteran radical humanist Subhankar Ray who died on the evening of 2nd June,2015 at Kolkata. He was a dedicated radical humanist and one of the main pillars of the radical humanist movement in the country for the last more than five decades.
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India: Hindutva Right Wing Turn Begins For History Writing / Activist Wants focus on Vedas
5 June 2015A report in Vikas Pathak in Hindustan Times about plans for History books by Hindutva activist Dina Nath Batra and a second article by Prakash Kumar in Deccan herald on the Right wing turn in History writing in India.
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India: Press Statement from civil society organisations to communal violence affected Atali village, Ballabhgarh, Haryana
5 June 2015Today a team consisting of members of PUCL, NAPM, Khudai Khidmatgar and Socialist Party visited the Atali village in Ballabhgarh District (Haryana) led by Justice Rajinder Sachar (Retd). Team met the Muslim residents who were attacked on 25th May, 2015, whose houses were burnt, belongings looted or destroyed and who had to flee from the village to save their lives and had taken shelter in a police station at Ballabhgarh till 3rd June.
