South Asia Citizens Web

It would be in the interest of secular forces to support the communal violence Bill if communal violence is to be contained.

Most academicians at Delhi University are feeling betrayed by their own fraternity, the reason — the Academic Council’s recent decision to drop from the history syllabus a celebrated essay by the late scholar and linguist A. K. Ramanujan on the Ramayana, despite intense opposition from the history department.

The Delhi University academic council’s decision to drop A.K. Ramanujan’s essay, ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas’, from the prescribed readings for BA (honours) history and BA (programme) students, brings back memories of Bombay University’s move to remove Rohinton Mistry’s novel Such a Long Journey from the syllabus. The victimisation of art-historian Shivaji Pannikkar by Baroda’s Maharaja Sayajirao University is another long and painful story. The many, many cases of books and plays being proscribed by various governments form the general climate in which our universities operate.

The violent attack on eminent Supreme Court lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhusan and the subsequent assault on some of his supporters in the court premises by activists of the Sri Ram Sene and the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena must be strongly condemned. These are attacks not just on individuals but an assault on the right to freedom of speech and expression.

Public interest writ petition filed in the Supreme court of India filed under article 32 of the constitution of India. The petitioners are filing the instant writ petition in public interest challenging the Constitutional validity of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010, seeking a safety reassessment of all nuclear facilities in India, and a comprehensive long-term cost-benefit analysis of the nuclear plants in India. This petition seeks a stay on all proposed nuclear plants till the safety and cost-benefit analysis is carried out.