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We would have open borders, with Bangladeshis and Indians both having the right to live, work, and study in the other country. There would be no border shootings because there would be no need for illegal border crossings.

The British came to the Subcontinent and brought with them notions of white superiority…and whisky and convent schools, and in time a railway network, a canal system for Punjab, and the concept of rule of law. The foundations of their imperial empire were strong and survive to this day, although we have spared no effort to dig them up.

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 The police case under sections 153A and 295A against Prof Kancha Ilaiah be immediately withdrawn, and the derecognition of Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle by IIT Madras be immediately revoked.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 Sections 153A and 295A of the IPC be repealed, and in their place laws against hate speech be enacted which give protection to oppressed and marginalised communities from humiliation, threat and abuse.

One 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.

Indian 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.