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.
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India: Thirty-sixth anniversary of Bhopal Gas Leak tragedy - Statement by BGPMUS and BGPSSS
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India: Human Rights and Frights - Full Text of Seventh Sunil Memorial Lecture by Justice (Retd) Madan Lokur | Nov 29, 2020
3 December 2020Full Text and video of Seventh Sunil Memorial Lecture delivered by Justice (Retd) Madan Lokur on November 29, 2020
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Video: Webinar with Jairus Banaji speaking on his book on "A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism" | Nov 13, 2020
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Audio: Interview with Sumit Guha on his book History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 | Renee Garfinkel
2 December 2020Sumit Guha
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the (…) -
India: Independent Fact Finding Report on Violence in DJ Halli, Bangalore | Sept 2020
30 November 2020Report of the fact-finding into the violence and it’s Aftermath at D.J. Halli and K.G. Halli by Bangalore Civil Society Organisations
