Category environment
POSTED ON DECEMBER 30, 2020 JALANDHAR: Scores of dalits from Punjab — landless farm labourers, singers and even dera preachers — have joined or lent support to the farmer protests on the borders of Delhi. Dalit preachers have also addressed… Continue Reading →
By Surabhi Agarwal, Sandeep Pandey, Kushagra Kumar* Writer, poet, artist, perennial protestor and Dalit leader Sudhir Dhawale, arrested and jailed in mid-2018, remains incarcerated under charges of the controversial Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and assorted Indian Penal Codes. He… Continue Reading →
In an open letter, as many as 104 former civil servants have asked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to withdraw the ordinance on interfaith marriage, insisting, “The anti-conversion ordinance of your state is being used as a stick to… Continue Reading →
After due deliberations in meetings held on 16th December 2020 and 20th December 2020, the trade unions including the central trade unions constituting the Kamgar Sangathan Samyukta Kruti Samiti (Maharashtra State) have taken a decision to launch a consumer boycott mass action against… Continue Reading →
90% rise in Indian billionaires’ wealth BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK | 28 DECEMBER, 2020 There has been a 90% rise in Indian billionaires’ wealth over past decade. It is not accidental. The BJP led government reduced corporate income tax from 30 to… Continue Reading →
by Ajith Pillai, Dec 24, 2020 _______ THE broader motives of the three farm laws passed with undue haste by Parliament in September were: demolish Minimum Support Price (MSP), legitimise contract farming, legalise land takeovers, render the small farmer defenceless,… Continue Reading →
by- Trade Union Solidarity Committee As we write this, some hundreds of thousands of peasants – men, women, youth and children – are camping at entry points to the country’s capital, demanding the scrapping of the three farm legislations recently… Continue Reading →
Wed, 23 December, 2020, Activists-Intellectuals detained in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case,to join farmers in their struggle by observing day long symbolic hunger strike. On the farmers day dated 23.12.2020, inmates of Taloja jail shall undertake a day-long hunger strike… Continue Reading →
20By Battini Rao*For nearly a month thousands of farmers are protesting at the Delhi border along with their wives and children in the coldest winters of Delhi against the anti- farmer laws and the electricity bill enacted by the BJP… Continue Reading →
Since COVID-19, I have a lot of people asking me to speak about sexual harassment while working from home, and my question is, why only now? I recently shared an article I had written a couple of days back with… Continue Reading →