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The appalling decision of the Academic Council of Delhi University, made last month, to remove this essay by Ramanujan from an undergraduate course is a blow against that Indian richness and diversity. [. . . ] Targeting and seeking to exclude or ban works of scholarship or art, among other things, is a signpost to fascism.

Human Rights Watch says Afghan women activists are at risk of being sidelined at a key international conference on Afghanistan’s future scheduled for December 5, 2011, in Germany.

At a time when people of India, already under socio-economic and even physical threat of death, violence and eviction by Neo-liberal Indian State and its corporate sponsors, are vigorously debating the pros and cons of capital punishment in this country; It is rather bemusing and baffling to read the callous treatment being given to the subject of death penalty by Maoist spokesperson in their recent Statement of ‘self-criticism’ dated 1st September 2011

We must not allow the pain and suffering of the Sikh victims to be transformed into a political instrument to mute calls for justice for the ‘other’ victims of similarly orchestrated massacres.

Githa Hariharan discusses with Newsclick about multiplicity within cultural spaces as depicted by Ramanujan’s essay which has come under criticism by the right-wing and the Academic Council of Delhi University.