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The University Grants Commission’s new curriculum for history isn’t just ’extremely political’, it is ’childish’ believes Najaf Haider, professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. It presents single arguments on issues as entire themes; uses terms long abandoned by academia; it divides the study of economy and history along communal lines; it ignores the work of some of India’s best-regarded historians.

This report is the outcome of a public hearing held on July 17, 2021, organised by Concerned Citizens for Khori Gaon & National Alliance of People’s Movements to hear the testimonies of residents about the years of injustice, fraud, ill-treatment and human rights abuses now climaxed with the brutal demolition of Khori Gaon.

The Editors Guild of India is shocked by the media reports on the wide spread surveillance, allegedly mounted by government agencies, on journalists, civil society activists, businessmen and politicians, using a hacking software known as Pegasus, created and developed by the Israeli company NSO.

The Concerned Citizens’ Group (CCG) made its ninth visit to Kashmir from July 5 to 7, 2021. The latest visit came in the wake of a meeting called by the Indian prime minister on June 24 of all the J&K political parties. While there was much expectation centred on the meeting, especially related to the restoration of statehood of J&K, it turned out to be more about the Centre seeking the support of the mainstream political parties from the Union Territory for the delimitation exercise necessitated by the J&K Reorganisation Act of 2019 and legislative assembly elections thereafter. The restoration of statehood was postponed for an undefined “appropriate time” once again.

Three videos from 19 july 2021 1) a discussion on a show by Faye D’Souza and 2) a two panel discussions on Reality Check - NDTV. (Do the government’s ’non-denials’ over Pegasus gate add up? NDTV does a Reality Check)