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Top investigating officer admits Elgar Parishad event ‘had no role’ in Bhima Koregaon violence
This is perhaps the first time any state representative has accepted that the Elgar Parishad event had no role to play in the violence. While three activists have been released on bail, and one died in custody, 12 continue to be jailed over this claim.
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Stan Swamy’s laptop was ‘planted’ with incriminating documents, says new forensic report
The new findings were released after Arsenal Consulting, a U.S.-based digital forensics firm, examined an electronic copy of Swamy’s computer, at the request of his lawyers.
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Political prisoners unite the British Raj and ‘New India’
Just as the British rulers used to refer to political prisoners during their rule as ‘terrorists,’ the rulers of today also call people imprisoned for opposing them ‘terrorists’.
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Even after a century, water is still the marker of India’s caste society
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
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Blue borders, dark bodies: The Mediterranean as a site of racist murder
Borders barely exist for these white bodies; rather, borders are lived as a hot summer inconvenience of queues at airport security. But for the dark bodies carrying their Global South passports, the Mediterranean is a humiliating border.
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The importance of Anand Teltumbde’s thoughts in a Republic of Caste
Anyone engaging seriously with Teltumbde’s work will know his beliefs are antithetical to the crimes he is being accused of.
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Despite domestic priorities, RBI will have to follow the U.S. Fed
India will have to respond by increasing interest rates further sooner rather than later. Higher U.S. interest rates make global capital abandon other countries and rush to American bonds whose market yields have doubled at the shorter end.
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Despite the evidence, courts yet to take note of spyware used against Elgar Parishad accused
The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.
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‘After all, my name is Stalin’: in a Speech at CPI(M) Congress, a roadmap to counter BJP
The DMK’s chief’s speech at the CPI(M)’s congress has reflected the assonance between communist and Dravidian politics.
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For the BJP, the Muslim is not just the message, it is the only message
The reason the party’s cartoon has evoked horror is because we have seen this sort of singular obsession with a targeted religious minority before and know where it leads.
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Ill-treatment of Stan Swamy in jail should ‘shake foundation of democracy’: Fellow prisoner
Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, prisoners like Swamy are denied even the most basic rights.
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In Kerala, a street food festival takes on communal forces
The DYFI took on the Sangh Parivar’s attempts to polarise people with misinformation on halal by serving beef, pork, chicken and mutton in most towns of the state.
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Tripura Police books 102 people under UAPA for social media posts against communal violence
Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police’s ‘highhanded’ behaviour.
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The World must pay attention to the violence against Muslims in India
From Ajmer to Indore, recent incidents show that the continuing hate-mongering by right-wing forces is having a direct impact.
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With COVID-19, World Health Organisation’s fall from grace is complete
In complete contrast to its founding ideals, the WHO is now captured by wealthy countries and corporations at the cost of millions of poor globally.
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Fascism come in all shapes and sizes but the ‘family resemblances’ can no longer be denied
Umberto Eco’s inventory of proto-fascist characteristics comprised 14 elements. It will not be difficult for us to recognise the variant of many of these in Narendra Modi’s New India.
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The new ‘Republic of Fear’
The Indian state today seems to proclaim that everything in the country is in danger–whether it is religion, culture, communal harmony or public peace and tranquillity.
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Brazil suspends Covaxin contract as scandal becomes too hot for Bolsonaro
An invoice for advance payment of $45 million raised by the offshore partner of Bharat Biotech is certain to become the reason for the impending cancellation of the contract.
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‘Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 Immediately’: Nobel Laureates, EU MPs Write to Indian Authorities
The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.
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COVID-19: Like in Dante’s ‘Inferno’, Indians are going through nine circles of hell
Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.