We, the undersigned, are dismayed over the ongoing crisis in Kashmir. We have watched in horror and shock the repetitive cycle of state aggression leading to violence, deteriorating state of civil liberties, violation of fundamental rights and ever escalating loss of human life and dignity in Kashmir. In the last 115 days, we have …
Repression let loose in EFLU: Dalit and Muslim Students arrested
Today, following unrest in EFLU, Hyderabad, after the death of M Narsing Rao, a Dalit contractual employee, the police entered the EFLU campus and lathi charged students and employees who were protesting peacefully demanding compensation for the bereaved family. Many students and employees including faculty members were hurt in the lathi charge. 6 students …
Remembering Immanuel Sekaran
Even if we do not have freedom, we should stand up with valour for our rights: Immanuel Sekaran. ‘How much repression to keep his memory down!’ It is strange that a man whose memory attracts over a million people, and increasing every year, on his death anniversary to his memorial in a village in …