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On 19 January 2014 there was a sit-in at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, to protest the violent racism against Africans that was encouraged by a Delhi minister. Photos by Mukul Dube and by Harsh Kapoor.

From: Kavita Krishnan
Date: 18 January 2014 12:04
Subject: Join Sit-In Against Racist Violence On Africans in Khidki Village, 19 Jan (Sun), Jantar Mantar, 12 Noon
Join Sit-In Against Racist Violence On Africans in Khidki Village
19 January (Sunday) Jantar Mantar, 12 Noon
Please take time out on Sunday to join in large numbers, come with friends and family, with banners and placards, to dispel the clouds of racism that hang over Delhi...Do endorse this call and circulate it widely. (…)

Photographer Sunil Janah (1918-2012) in a discussion with Ram Rahman during his exhibition at the Gallery at 678 in New York in August 1998.

(Economic and Political Weekly, January 25, 2014) Organisational issues, adjustment with the status quo and tactical errors resulted in the Nepali Maoists gaining an unfavourable image among the electorate in the second Constituent Assembly elections. This resulted in a humiliating defeat. If the Maoists reorient themselves to mass struggle and develop ideological clarity, they can work to retain most of the progressive features of the draft Constitution, nearly agreed upon in the first CA.

Praying that the Supreme Court ensure a mechanism for the prevention and redressal of sexual harassment of women for the entire judiciary, (including Judges and Judicial officers) from the Supreme Court downwards to the magisterial court, four petitioners in the earlier case of 1992 which brought the guidelines popularly known as Vishakha guidelines, once again moved the Supreme court of India today, the 15th of January, 2014.