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We the undersigned members of the artists community and academicians stand firmly in solidarity with the country’s farmers, lakhs of whom are protesting across different states and gathering in strength at the borders of the national capital to express their rejection of the three Farm Acts and the Electricity Amendment Act 2020.

India: Massive Peasant Protest at the Gates of Delhi - Select Reports and Statements & resources | Nov - Dec 2020 on — An ongoing compilation on sacw.net

Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch (MAKAAM) stands in solidarity with the protesting farmers among who are men and women from diverse social groups. We especially applaud the firm resolve of the women farmers, tenant farmers from across the SC and ST communities to actively participate in the protest in Delhi and in their own states. MAKAAM condemns the repressive tactics used by the central government to repress the vibrant farmer protest in Delhi and at all the borders coming into Delhi.

Scholar at Risk Conference session on Academic Freedom & India’s Clampdown on Dissent - Speakers: Nandini Sundar​, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, Apoorvanand Jha​, Professor of Hindi, Delhi University | Nov 19, 2020

The year 2020 has been an extremely traumatic period for the Bhopal gas victims. The struggle for justice, which the gas-victims had been relentlessly waging for the previous 35 years, was itself a testimony to the failure of the Indian State to mete out justice to the gas-victims all these years.