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Gopalkrishna Gandhi remembers the historian Barun De.

Kailash Vajpeyi: A poet embraces his favourite subject – death
Written by Sumegha Gulati | New Delhi (April 2, 2015) http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/poet-kailash-vajpeyi-embraces-his-favourite-subject-death/
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Trust not the boat but the river by Mrinal Pande (April 3, 2015) http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/trust-not-the-boat-but-the-river/
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Kailash Vajpeyi a poet who fused tradition with modern by Rana Siddiqui Zaman (4 April 2015) (…)

The leading Hindutva outfit, RSS is trying to co-opt Father of the Nation Gandhi (despite the fact that criminals led by the ideology of Hindutva killed him), Sardar Patel (who as first home minister of India banned it in 1948) and now RSS is attempting to co-opt Dr. Ambedkar, the Dalit philosopher and icon. This is being attempted despite of the fact that Dr. Ambedkar renounced Hinduism for its inequality. While discussing the Hindutva politics he wrote: "If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it (…)

The current practices of archeology and their complicity with rebranding of archaeological heritage as national heritage have contributed to the ethnic tensions, civil war, injustice, inequality, and violence in the Sri Lankan society. The pretense that archaeology is an apolitical profession is a form of complicity with these social ills.

PUCL strongly condemns the registration of a FIR by the AP Forest Department against a team of human rights activists drawn from national level human rights organisations which visited , on 11.4.2015, the site of the encounter in Chandragiri Mandal in Chittoor district, AP in which the police shot dead 20 wood cutters. The Fact Finding Team included human rights activists from Civil Liberties Committee - AP, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), Human Rights Forum (HRF), CPDR and other organisations.