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Report of the fact-finding into the violence and it’s Aftermath at D.J. Halli and K.G. Halli by Bangalore Civil Society Organisations

four Part audio - Professor Stephen F. Cohen’s annual Soviet Studies lecture at Princeton University’s McCosh 10 Lecture Hall, December 6, 1983

"... neither any individual nor a family nor even State can have objection to the relationship of two major individuals who out of their own free will are living together"

Ajit Roy passed away on 3 June, 2011. A month later, on 11 July 2011 Kolkata witnessed a remarkable memorial meeting, packed to capacity, which was attended by a number of prominent Left leaders and intellectuals of the day. On 14 November 2020 Roy stepped into the centenary year of his birth. No initiative has as yet been taken by the mainstream Left to observe this event. The Bengal Left, tragically, seems to be completely oblivious of the indelible presence of this man in Bengal’s communist movement since the 1940s.

SAHMAT protests the decision of the Central Government to issue eviction notices to artists from their government accommodation in Delhi. There was a long-standing policy under previous governments to allot government housing to artists and performers under certain guidelines and criteria. Most of the artists who have been issued these notices are now aged and do not have any other place to reside.