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KKSV’s Protest Rally, Meeting and Burning the Effigy of the Mass Murderer Narendra Modi Karnataka Komu Souhardha Vedike or Karnataka Communal Harmony Forum is an organization formed with an objective of inculcating the values of tolerance and co-existence between various religious communities. KKSV has also committed itself to resist and protest inter-communal clashes and organized […]

REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND THE GENDER QUESTION: IMPLICATIONS OF THE DELHI RAPE CASE TUESDAY 19TH NOVEMBER, 2PM VENUE : Ambedkar University, Lawns opposite Stree Shakti Canteen The gang rape of a woman on a bus in Delhi made international headlines and inspired protests against violence against women. The left response was mixed, some calling for better […]

National Alliance of People’s Movements Press Release 07th November 2013 Dubbed as “World Annihilation Forum”, long back, World Agricultural Forum (WAF) has lived up to that and again succeeded in annihilation of small and marginal farmers, their right to discuss issues of concern to them, and created a distance between them and the policy-makers elected […]

National Alliance of People’s Movements Press Release 07th November 2013 Dubbed as “World Annihilation Forum”, long back, World Agricultural Forum (WAF) has lived up to that and again succeeded in annihilation of small and marginal farmers, their right to discuss issues of concern to them, and created a distance between them and the policy-makers elected […]

Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) Press Release on 12th November 2013 The pentavalent vaccine for protection against five childhood diseases was introduced in Jammu & Kashmir in February 2013, as part the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). Three doses of this vaccine replace the conventional DPT vaccine which protects against three diseases, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping […]

by Analytical Monthly Review (October editorial) When the last of the British army departed on February 28, 1948, they marched to the Gateway of India—not yet obstructed by yellow concrete barricades—and played their regimental march. When the British army surrendered to the allied rebel Continental army and the French army and navy at Yorktown, Virginia […]

Statement from Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) On the 1st of November at 8 pm, RDF’s General Secretary, Rajkishore, was arrested by the Bihar State police at his home in the village of Bakhari in East Champaran now called Motihari District, forced to sign on blank papers, and whisked away to the Madhuban Bazaar Police Station […]

Brief report on communal violence at Chippawad town of Harda district in Madhya Pradesh on September 19, 2013 (Source : Countercurrents) In Madhya Pradesh state of India , hardly a month passes without one or the other incident of communal violence not being reported from some or the other part of the state. Indore , […]

Brief report on communal violence at Chippawad town of Harda district in Madhya Pradesh on September 19, 2013 (Source : Countercurrents) In Madhya Pradesh state of India , hardly a month passes without one or the other incident of communal violence not being reported from some or the other part of the state. Indore , […]

In June this year, Uttarakhand witnessed a terrible disaster in which thousands of people lost their lives, a disaster that was greatly made worse by the illegal, irrational and undemocratic way in which this government is handing out the resources of the State. Even now, four months later, the Uttarakhand government has still done precious […]