Rahul Punaram Sompimple (Following is a rough transcription and translation of Rahul Sonpimple’s speech for the Presidentital election at JNUSU delivered on 8th September, 2016. Parts of the speech had to be omitted owing to lack of a fully audible video and disturbances) {youtube}zh5Dt3Ee1eI{/youtube} To all the people that have come here for the …
A Discourse called Dignity: Notes from Kashmir
Pushpendra Johar In September 2015, a close friend who is from Kashmir was debating the outcome of the recent recruitments of young Kashmiris in local militant organizations like Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. The discussion was in the light of the history of early days of militancy and their culmination in the late 1990s. He concluded that it …
Harassed for Standing with Kashmir: Interview with Rupesh Kumar & Afthab Ellath
Round Table India Recently, on 18th July, sixteen individuals who gathered in Kannur, Kerala, to discuss the ongoing situation in Kashmir and to express solidarity with the Kashmiris were arrested by the police. In this interview, Round Table India talks with two of the arrested: documentary film-maker Rupesh Kumar, and social media activist Afthab …
Truth behind Armed forces’ horrifying acts of rape & sexual violence in Kashmir
Harshal Kharat Round Table India strongly condemns the ongoing brutality on Kashmiris by Indian forces on civilians, that is particularly targetting young chldren, youth, women and the hospitalized, and stands by the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination. In this article, Harshal looks at the history of violence enabled by AFSPA and details the documented trail …
Saving Modi’s Image, BJP’s Way
Vivek Kumar BJP is very, very weak in Delhi elections? This can be proved on the basis of the fact that it has inducted individuals who do not have any party experience and who have crossed over from other political parties. Kiran Bedi has no political experience. However she has been declared as CM …
Fast For Freedom: For Kashmiri Political Prisoners & Martyrs
Fast For Freedom: Return Our Political Prisoners, Return Our Martyrs’ Remains [via Huma Dar] For us, Azadi [independence] means not just to get rid of the foreign occupation of our beloved motherland but also to remove hunger, poverty, ignorance and disease, and to overcome economic and social deprivation [i.e., class and caste inequities]. One …
Fact Finding Report on Mudasir Kamran Mallah’s Death: Bahujan Intellectual’s Collective
We Demand Proctor Harish Vijra Must Be Immediately Arrested and Prosecuted A team of Bahujan Intellectual’s Collective and other forums formed a Fact Finding Team and visited the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) campus on March 5, to enquire into the suicide of a Ph.D. scholar Mudasir Kamran on March 2. This is …
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The color of Kashmiri Blood in a Hyderabad Campus
Achuth Ajit & Ria De English, the language of a united collective; but also a language that found itself wanting today, as if unable to express the most basic of needs, the most just of demands. Of all days today English was at its banal best. As if clichés had eaten into it, gnawed the …
Neobrahmanism, human rights and social democracy
Braj Ranjan Mani (First published in 2009) The image of India is that of a democratic, multicultural, inclusive society. But more often than not, appearances are not reality. India is a republic—a secular, socialist, democratic republic—where millions of children, women and men remain demoralised, enslaved to the powerful, crying out for fundamentals of life. Fragmented …