While Lakhimpur Kheri massacre accused Ashish Mishra and Muslim genocide advocate Yati Narsinghanand can get bail, activists rot behind bars.
Rather than criticising the Supreme Court’s bail to Goswami, why it’s important to demand the release of all falsely-implicated undertrials?
The Delhi Police’s supplementary charge sheet in the “Delhi riots” case is another attempt to appease the Modi regime and its agenda.
By arresting Umar Khalid under the UAPA in the “Delhi riots” case, the Delhi Police has displayed the nadir it has stooped to.
The 9th February 2016 JNU row provided the BJP-led government of Narendra Modi an opportunity to create India’s own Reichstag fire to distract the people.
A hastily filed 1200-page long chargesheet after three years of the JNU fiasco is actually a sign that the Modi regime is in a frantic mode at present.
There is a literal trend of legitimising and mainstreaming terrorism after the Narendra Modi-led government was formed in 2014. Though there is no direct connection seen between the Modi regime and the growing violence against opponents of the Modi regime, the vulnerable minorities and the ostracised Dalits and Adivasis, it’s clear that the unapologetic demagogy … Read more
The Maharashtra Police have released two purported letters through which, they allege, the Maoists communicated with the arrested civil rights activist Rona Wilson. These letters are prima-facie evidence against Rona Wilson, which the police will use in the court. But even before the court, they’ve shown these precious catches and sensitive information to the press, … Read more
A massive clash broke between the students of Delhi University (DU) and the ABVP goons, who were paid by the RSS head office in Central Delhi to carry out a violent assault, including sexual abuse of women, at DU Wednesday afternoon. The students and teachers of Delhi University’s North Campus were protesting against the violence unleashed … Read more
After the JNU incident, political trends of a lot of individuals and parties involved in the case has changed since the release of Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and Kanhaiya Kumar, but the repressive nature of the state has remained unchanged. Now they have used JNU administration to ‘punish the revolting students’ by imposing fines and … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The history of student movements and people involved in student movement being branded anti-national is not recent, but … Read more
It has been weeks since the arrest of Professor SAR Geelani on the charge of sedition along with Kanhaiya Kumar, and later Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. It should be noted that Geelani was arrested from an Urdu festival that he was attending at the University of Delhi, North Campus. It should also be noted … Read more