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With the temperature of Hindutva rising in the Indian social discourse, Narendra Modi is yet to become the inclusive leader that the high office he occupies demands of him

Electoral and political arena is only one of the grounds through which political agenda of vested interests is achieved. Capturing of people’s mind, the ideological propagation, is the foundation on which political agenda stands and perpetuates itself. That’s how the change in History text books or teaching a communal version of History is a necessary part of sectarian nationalism in many South Asian countries.

Public Hearing on Pensions, NREGA, NFS, including Rations and Maternity Entitlements, Discussion also on Changing Labour Laws, Land Acquisition And Displacement | 4 August 2014 Janta Mantar New Delhi. A note for discussion written by Abhay Shukla of the JSA and of the Right to Life Alliance of Maharashtra is attached.

Produced in December 1983 by the Union Research Group in Bombay, this was the third issue of the Bulletin of Trade Union Research and Information. It looks at Automation and redeployment on Packing lines in Food and Pharmaceutical industries the Bombay Thane area. [This document has been digitised as part of a collection at sacw.net archive.]

HRCP is shocked and disgusted at the killing of four citizens belonging to the Ahmadi faith in Gujranwala after a blasphemy allegation. Four other Ahmadis were reported to be hospitalised in a critical condition. As things stand in the country now, particularly in Punjab, a blasphemy charge, however unfounded, makes such cold-blooded killings somehow less repulsive. The people who were killed were not even indirectly accused of the blasphemy charge. Their only fault was that they were Ahmadi. Torching women and children in their house simply because of their faith represents brutalisation and barbarism stooping to new lows.