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Why don’t we as nation stop playing the farce of being a secular nation and why don’t we remove the article from the constitution which says all citizens are equal?

Encountered on saffron Agenda is a documentary portraying four encounter cases happened in Gujarat. These cases are special because all killed were said to have been on a mission to kill the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and accosted by Crime Branch and Anti Terrorist Squad of Gujarat police and sub subsequently killed in gun battle.

The challenge in Afghanistan isn’t about resources but principles. It’s about holding a serious and consistent political stance regarding the Taliban. For example, the Afghan army’s lack of success in the fight against the Taliban is not so much the result of their inadequate salary or the number of troops but the lack of patriotic sentiment that is needed if the army is to win. The fact that the Afghan leadership itself is hesitant to clarify the exact nature of its relationship with the Taliban leaves the army unsettled: is the government against the Taliban or ready to negotiate with them?

"What a state of society is that which knows of no better instrument for its own defense than the hangman, and which proclaims . . . its own brutality as eternal law? . . . Is there not a necessity for deeply reflecting upon an alteration of the system that breeds these crimes, instead of glorifying the hangman who executes a lot of criminals to make room only for the supply of new ones?" Karl Marx, 1853
The letter sent by an undertrial Mukesh Kumar, as present lodged in Karnal Jail (…)

Upali Cooray, a Sri Lankan Trotskyist and tireless social activist, died in London on August 21, 2009.