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Fali Nariman explains why the CBI raid on NDTV was an attack on press freedom

Author: Fali S Nariman

Fali S Nariman Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Noted lawyer Fali S Nariman on Friday criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation raids and FIR against the NDTV news channel on Monday, saying that the “manner and circumstances” of the raids, and the agency’s so-called justification of it “give me reason to believe that all this...[is]...definitely an unjustified attack on press/media freedom”.

Keywords: NDTV , press freedom

Publication: Scroll.in,

Date: 19/06/2917 -

URL: https://scroll.in/article/840206/full-text-fali-nariman-explains-why-the-cbi-raid-on-ndtv-
was-an-attack-on-press-freedom

Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy Faces Arrest for Questioning India's Claim on Kashmir

Author: Arundhati Roy

The award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy is facing possible arrest in India on sedition charges after publicly advocating for Kashmir independence and challenging India’s claim that Kashmir is an "integral part of India." If charged and convicted of sedition, Roy could face up to life in prison.

Keywords: Arundhati, Kashmir

Publication: Democracy Now,

Date: 27/10/2017 -

URL: https://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/27/acclaimed_indian_author_arundhati_roy_faces

Waste Recycling

The Swacchh Group from Pune led by Mangal Pagare spoke about the manner in which they are organised and the role that they play..

Keywords: waste recycling

Publication: Kalpavriksh,

Date: 10/07/2017 -

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBbMyJwG_LA

Kashmir and common sense

Author: Vijay Dhar

Volumes have been written and for many hundred hours, people have spoken on KASHMIR. I remember when I was in school, Mr. Krishna Menon, the then Defense Minister of India, spoke about Kashmir for nine hours and twenty minutes at the United Nations which still is a record. Earlier it was Sir Zafarullah, who represented Pakistan and my father, Late Mr. D. P. Dhar, who was a part of the Indian delegation. When my father spoke, Sir Zafarullah made one comment towards my father, “My dear young man, please remember common sense is not very common.” I am talking of the year, 1951, when the tall and gallant Kashmiri leader, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, was heading the Indian delegation to the United Nation.

Keywords: Kashmir

Publication: Greater Kashmir,

Date: 25/06/2017 -

URL: http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/opinion/kashmir-and-common-sense/250386.html

There’s a wage crisis in Delhi’s factories

Author: Vivek Prakash

As the experience of workers in Okhla demonstrates, adequate wages and bonuses still remain out of reach.

Keywords: Labour laws, wages

Publication: scroll.in,

Date: 22/06/2017 -

URL: https://scroll.in/article/732336/theres-a-wage-crisis-in-delhis-factories-and-the-modi-gov
ernments-new-labour-laws-wont-help

Narendra Modi regime’s ‘genes are totalitarian’, says Arun Shourie

Author: Arun Shourie

Veteran journalist and former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Arun Shourie on Friday warned the media against becoming the Narendra Modi government’s “instruments for distracting your viewers and readers…from the main story”.

Keywords: Press Freedom, NDTV

Publication: Scroll.in,

Date: 10/06/2017 -

URL: https://scroll.in/article/840217/full-text-arun-shourie-says-narendra-modi-regimes-genes-a
re-totalitarian

Speech by representatives of indigenous fisher folk at the first UN conference on oceans

Speech by representatives of indigenous fisher folk at the first UN conference on oceans

Keywords: Fisher folk, Sustainable fishing practices

Publication: Ecologise,

Date: 08/06/2017 -

URL: http://www.ecologise.in/2017/06/08/speech-by-johnson-jament-at-the-first-un-conference-on-
oceans/

Collapse of the Stable Capitalism and the Rise of the RIght

Author: Vijay Prashad

Trump and Erdogan have used unemployment to nourish their idea of Nationalism. ijay Prashad, professor Trinity College, shares his views about the crisis which capital is facing and the support which the right wing forces seem to be gaining globally. He explains the phenomenon of how the right is using increasing unemployment as one of the main issues to draw people’s support for itself. He talks about how Trump and Erdogan have used unemployment to nourish their idea of Nationalism and ascended to power.

Keywords: Capitalism, Trump

Publication: News CLick,

Date: 27/05/2017 -

URL: http://newsclick.in/collapse-stable-capitalism-and-rise-right

In 2 Years, BJP Govt Electrified 13,523 Villages; Of These, Only 8% Were Completely Electrified

Author: Mukta Patil

As many as 73% of the 18,452 villages that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government identified for electrification in 2015 now have power supply, but only 8% of these villages had all their households electrified, according to the government’s own data.

Keywords: electrification

Publication: IndiaSpend,

Date: 26/05/2017 -

URL: http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/in-2-years-bjp-govt-electrified-13523-villages-of-th
ese-only-8-were-completely-electrified-83376

Let’s talk about racism | North Indians are ‘gora-chitta’, dark skin is for the South

Author: Anna MM Vetticad

Anna MM Vetticad writes for HT’s new series, Let’s Talk About Racism, against a culture that fixates on white-skin colour and differentiates in its own country.

Keywords: racism , Indian, South Indian

Publication: Hindustan Times,

Date: 24/05/2017 -

URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/lets-talk-about-racism-you-look-south-indian-but-
your-sister-looks-indian/story-4DgxcpTrZPC7db9rqziWgM.html

Naxalbari@50: Maoist uprising was sparked by this tribal woman leader

Author: Dhrubo Jyoti and Pramod Giri

Fifty years ago on May 24, Shanti Munda, then in her twenties, led an uprising for a poor sharecropper who asked for a larger share of the produce

Keywords: Maoist revolution

Publication: Hindustan Times,

Date: 24/05/2017 -

URL: http://www.kractivist.org/naxalbari50-maoist-uprising-was-sparked-by-this-tribal-woman-lea
der/

Don’t write off populists just yet

THIS year has not been nearly as kind to populists as 2016 was. Marine Le Pen lost the run-off in the French presidential election by a fat margin, and support for the UK Independence Party, a Eurosceptic outfit, is expected to collapse in Britain?s upcoming general election. Donald Trump?s presidency also looks increasingly shaky, as a series of scandals has driven his approval rating below 40%.

Publication: The Economist,

Date: 24/05/2017 -

URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/05/daily-chart-17

Naxalbari@50: Did the Maoist revolution achieve anything?

50 years ago, a group of peasants rose in revolt against the oppression of landlords and back-breaking levies in the small north Bengal village of Naxalbari. The embers of this uprising spread across several states but quickly turned violent as hundreds of people were killed and the streets of Kolkata resembled a war zone. But today, the town has forgotten the revolution and the Left displaced by the RSS that has expanded. Also forgotten is how women shaped and led the movement. Half a century later, HT travels back to where it all began to find out if the Naxals achieved anything

Keywords: Maoist revolution

Publication: Hindustan Times,

Date: 23/05/2017 -

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf9-kfiCM4I

GETTING JULIAN ASSANGE: THE UNTOLD STORY

Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state's collusion with the United States in its crimes of war and "rendition".

Keywords: Julian Assange

Date: 20/05/2017 -

URL: http://johnpilger.com/articles/getting-julian-assange-the-untold-story

Varavararao speech in 50 years of Naxalbari meeting , Nellore

Varavararao speech in 50 years of Naxalbari meeting , Nellore

Keywords: Naxal

Date: 18/05/2017 -

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSOgCPhx2U

Don’t Go to the Doctor

Author: Karma Nabulsi

An undergraduate who wears the hijab went to book a room at her college for someone who was coming to speak as part of Islam Awareness Week. She had booked rooms many times before without any problem. This time she was sent to the college dean, who asked a number of questions, including one about the kind of Islam the event would be promoting. ‘It made me feel like an outsider in my own university,’ she said.

Keywords: Prevent, counter terrorism

Publication: London Review of Books,

Date: 18/05/2017 -

URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/karma-nabulsi/dont-go-to-the-doctor

‘You are Deserving of Death Penalty in the Hindu Rashtra & This Penalty will Be Executed Soon’: Extremist Outfit Threatens former Journo Ash

Author: Teesta Setalvad

Khetan, who received this threat from an outfit, in language strikingly similar to threats by the Sanathan Sanstha(SS) received by rationalists and free thinkers, Narayan Daboklar and Govind Pansare has written to Home Minister, Rajnath Singh urging that the GOI take this and other threats to journalists and free thinkers seriously

Keywords: Hindu , Sanathan Sanstha

Publication: Sab Rang India,

Date: 13/05/2017 -

URL: https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/death-threat-ashish-khetan-sanatan-sanstha

Does Yogendra Yadav consider Kejriwal and AAP to be a bigger ideological foe than Modi and the BJP?

Author: Ajaz Ashraf

For a party that places special emphasis on transparency in public life, it is surprising that Swaraj India has not placed on its website the votes each of its candidates polled in last month’s municipal elections in Delhi. Such a display of results will give the people an opportunity to judge what chance Swaraj India has of achieving its mission, whether it can even survive the birth pangs typical of any incipient organisation.

Keywords: AAP

Publication: Scroll.in,

Date: 13/05/2017 -

URL: https://scroll.in/article/837128/does-yogendra-yadav-consider-kejriwal-and-aap-to-be-a-big
ger-ideological-foe-than-modi-and-the-bjp

I am not against one nation in particular, but against the general idea of all nations.’

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

In finding the solution of our problem we shall have helped to solve the world problem as well. What India has been, the whole world is now. The whole world is becoming one country through scientific facility. And the moment is arriving when you also must find a basis of unity which is not political. If India can offer to the world her solution, it will be a contribution to humanity. There is only one history - the history of man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one. And we are content in India to suffer for such a great cause

Keywords: Nation

Publication: Scroll.in,

Date: 09/05/2017 -

URL: https://scroll.in/article/726354/i-am-not-against-one-nation-in-particular-but-against-the
-general-idea-of-all-nations

Uranium Exploration In Meghalaya’s Villages Continues Unabated Without Local Sanction And Despite Troubling Health And Environmental Concern

Author: DILNAZ BOGA

In 1976, the AMD set up its northeastern-circle office in Shillong. Since then, Meghalaya has been at the centre of India’s quest for uranium, and exploration via drilling—a pre-mining activity—has been conducted in various villages in the state. According to the AMD’s website, by 1992, it had completed exploration drilling and geological studies of the Domiasiat uranium deposit, also known as the Kyelleng-Pyndengsohiong-Mawtahbah deposit, or KPM. The website records that 9,500 tonnes of uranium ore is estimated to exist at the Domiasiat site.

Keywords: uranium, mining , Meghalaya

Publication: The Caravan,

Date: 08/05/2017 -

URL: https://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/uranium-exploration-meghalaya-sanction-health-envir
onmental-concerns

Stop the Attack on Minorities and Dalits in the name of Gau Raksha

Author: National Alliance of People’s Movements

The terror of Gau Goondas is rampant all over the country. The state have been unable to crackdown on the the Gau Rakshak who have been cowardly spearheading the attack on minorities and dalits in different ways. One month has passed after the death of Pehlu Khan where we only witnessed the arrogance of the state who have failed to meet the families of victims or crackdown on the culprits in the case. Rather the politicians and the state have justified the attack by shielding the act and Gau Rakshaks in many ways.

Keywords: Gau Raksha ,Pehlu Khan ,Dalits

Date: 03/05/2017 -

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Kejriwal a dangerous idea: No establishment will let him survive

Author: Saeed Naqvi

The wag has a point. The 2017 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, we are being persistently reminded, were won by the BJP handsomely because of a single factor: a Modi wave. Fair enough. But the BJP won the two previous Delhi municipal elections also. Who generated the waves then?

Keywords: Kejriwal . MCD Elections

Publication: The Economic Times,

Date: 29/04/2017 -

URL: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/kejriwal-a-dangerous-idea-no-
establishment-will-let-him-survive/articleshow/58430310.cms

Blundering along, dangerously

Author: Usha Ramanathan

The Aadhaar project’s headlong push towards “total” enrolment of Indian citizens threatens the privacy of individuals on an unprecedented scale, while its patchy biometric system acts as a tool of denial for the most vulnerable. Meanwhile, the UID chugs along, regardless, fuelled by the avarice of private interests who seek to cash in on citizen data.

Keywords: Aadhaar project

Publication: Frontline,

Date: 28/04/2017 -

URL: http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/blundering-along-dangerously/article9629188.ece

Hindutva can be a racist and neocolonial force, but not Hinduism

Author: Rajiv Desai

Just to get the main thesis of this article sorted out: the Hindutva advocated by the BJP government and its ecosystems is most definitely not Hinduism. It is a network of cults that may be embarked on a 21st century attempt to colonise India. Here’s how: Hindutva is a set of beliefs and practices that can be traced to illiberal formations like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its various avatars and offshoots.

Publication: Dailyo,

Date: 21/04/2017 -

URL: http://www.dailyo.in/politics/rss-hindutva-hinduism-babri-masjid-ram-temple/story/1/16786.
html

Meerut hoardings warning Kashmiris to 'leave UP or else...' is a barely hidden threat of ethnic cleansing

A call for "stone-pelting Kashmiris" to leave Uttar Pradesh printed in giant fonts on massive hoardings that have sprung up in Meerut has jolted Indians all over, at least those who still believe in a secular democratic republic.

Keywords: Meerut, Kashmir students

Publication: Dailyo,

Date: 21/04/2017 -

URL: http://www.dailyo.in/politics/kashmiris-leave-meerut-hoardings-kashmir-crisis-subramanian-
swamy/story/1/16783.html

A tale of two droughts: one killed 260,000 people, the other none. Why?

Author: Assia Sidibe

Senegal experienced a significant drought in 2014, but Senegalese children did not starve to death. In fact, there was little international media coverage of the drought because Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, and Kenya led the creation of African Risk Capacity (ARC), a mutual insurance company into which they pooled resources.

Keywords: Senegal,Drought, Famine, Insurance industry, Africa

Publication: The Guardian,

Date: 20/04/2017 -

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/apr/20/a-tale-of
-two-droughts-one-killed-260000-people-the-other-none-why?CMP=ema-1702&CMP=

Babri Masjid demolition couldn't have happened without a premeditated plan. I know. I was there

Author: Sharat Pradhan

Dilly-dallying by defence lawyers, lethargy of the prosecution and apathy of the judicial system allowed the all important Babri Masjid demolition case to hang fire for quarter of a century.

Keywords: Babri Masjid

Publication: Dailyo,

Date: 20/04/2017 -

URL: http://www.dailyo.in/politics/babri-masjid-demolition-lk-advani-ram-temple/story/1/16777.h
tml

Supreme Court Holds Adani Power to Obligations of Power Purchase Agreement

Author: ABHIK CHIMNI

In 2010, the Government of Indonesia issued new guidelines aligning the export price of coal from Indonesia with the prevalent international market prices. Thereby, making the export price of coal considerably higher than seen in the previous four decades. Earlier in 2007, when Adani Power had bid aggressively to supply power to Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) and Haryana utilities they had not taken into consideration such a possibility. This decision by the Indonesian Government turned out to be a financial calamity for Adani Power, that had on the premise of cheaper coal from Indonesia bid successfully and entered into a long-term Power Purchase Agreements for supplying power to GUVNL and Haryana utilities .

Keywords: coal ,power, Adani Power

Publication: The Citizen,

Date: 18/04/2017 -

URL: http://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/NewsDetail/index/2/10456/Supreme-Court-Holds-Adani-Powe
r-to-Obligations-of-Power-Purchase-Agreement

SWARAJ as JOURNEY -Convocation Address- Development Management Institute Convocation

Author: Rajni Bakshi

So let us look at three questions that most young people can relate to: • Are your dreams, your aspirations, really your own or are you flying on auto-pilot? That is, are you pursuing dreams that are truly of your own making or just following the crowd? • Are you planning to struggle for ‘opportunities’ within the existing game or are you inspired to create new possibilities? That is, forge new paths which stretch the limits of what is today considered ‘doable’. • Do you feel strong enough to speak truth to power – be it government or other forms of power? And if you do, then how is this to be done?

Keywords: Swaraj, higher freedom,Convocation Address

Date: 18/04/2017 -

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Is India on a Totalitarian Path? Arundhati Roy on Corporatism, Nationalism and World's Largest Vote

Author: Arundhati Roy

As voting begins in India in the largest elections the world has ever seen, we spend the hour with Indian novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy. Nearly 815 million Indians are eligible to vote, and results will be issued in May. One of India’s most famous authors — and one of its fiercest critics — Roy is out with a new book, "Capitalism: A Ghost Story," which dives into India’s transforming political landscape and makes the case that globalized capitalism has intensified the wealth divide, racism, and environmental degradation.

Keywords: Corporatism, Nationalism

Publication: Democracy Now,

Date: 09/04/2017 -

URL: https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/9/is_india_on_a_totalitarian_path