Video recording of the Second Rukmini Devi Memorial Lecture delivered by Romila Thapar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, on Dec. 20, 2014, at Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai.
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On Heritage and History - a Lecture by Romila Thapar
30 December 2014 -
India: Harvest of Innocent Blood: The Democracy Deficit in Bodoland, Assam | Statement by New Socialist Initiative (NSI)
29 December 2014Once again, and very soon after the last instance of mass killings and displacement, another series of bloodshed and violence has rocked Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) - Assam. On 21st December 2014, two suspected militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland- Songbijit Faction (NDFB-S) were killed by the security forces in an alleged cold blooded encounter in the Chirang district of BTAD-Assam. In retaliation, on 23rd December, armed militants of NDFB-S attacked (…)
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India: The Hindutva project - Distorting history, manufacturing culture
29 December 2014All nationalist histories construct and reconstruct the past and have a political dimension to them. The Hindutva project has an additional, fascist, dimension as it essentialises an exclusionary Hindu nation and disempowers those excluded. By SUHIT K. SEN
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Ho Dhaani ... Jinay ki azaadi, Udne ki azaadi - Hindi Song
28 December 2014A 2014 song on freedom. Voice and Music : Saba Azad, Imaad Shah, lyrics: Gauhar Raza
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Audio recording: Nuclear India - Deeper into the Military and Civilian Abyss - a lecture by Praful Bidwai
28 December 2014Lecture by Praful Bidwai at at Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin on 3rd November 2014.
