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Here are two posters that i made for organisations hosting performances in Delhi by Pakistan’s well known qawaali singers.

[The young people of Yuva Kranti observed the anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh and his comrades at the Shaheed Park in Delhi on 23 March 2015. The NAPM had called people to observe Land Rights Day at the same place and time. The sacrifices made by Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru on this day is celebrated across the country as Shaheed Diwas. People’s Movements have celebrated this day as a reclaiming of community rights, remembering those sacrificed their lives (…)

On 22 May 1987, PAC personnel of UP reached Hashimpura, Meerut, took away about 50 Muslim men from a crowd outside a mosque, shot dead at least 42 of the men, and threw their bodies into a canal. On 21 March 2015, a Delhi Sessions Court accepted that the PAC personnel had committed these murders, but acquitted the policemen charged on account of insufficient evidence. Twenty eight years after the brutal massacre of Muslims by state forces, the guilty in uniform have not been identified and are roaming free.

It is difficult to say how long the Syriza govt will survive in Greece and whether it will be successful; but if this is looked at only as national problem and not taken to be an opportunity by the left groups across Europe everyone will miss the bus. A failure of the Syriza government will certainly open the floodgates in terms of rise in social and electoral prospects the extreme nationalist formations within Greece.

But while the Modi regime is ideologically rooted in xenophobia, though only selectively - no problem with inviting foreign capital with open hands but criticism by a foreigner (if s/he is no Barack Obama) is a strict "no-no"; these feminists are only making instrumental use of this element. Xenophobic nationalism, cloaked as "anti-colonialism" / "anti-imperialism", is of course a bedrock underlying the arguments put forward by this section of feminists.