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  • India: The false godmen of Maharashtra | Puja Changoiwala

    19 August

    In the three and a half years since Maharashtra passed a law against such practices, there have been hundreds of cases against fraudulent godmen who thrived on the superstition and fears of many

  • Pakistan: Sindh Labour Congress August 2017 - select news reports

    17 August

    Sindh Labour Conference was organised by the National Labour Council in collaboration with the Sindh Labour Solidarity Committee and the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler) was held on 12 -13 August 2017 in Karachi

  • India: What is RSS agenda in Education?

    16 August, by Ram Puniyani
    People’s Voice
    In its recommendation to NCERT, Shiksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas, an RSS affiliate asks for removal of English, Urdu and Arabic words, the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore; extracts from painter M F Husain’s autobiography; references to the Mughal emperors as benevolent, to the BJP as a “Hindu” party., an apology tendered by former prime minister Manmohan Singhover the 1984 riots; and a sentence that “nearly 2,000 Muslims were killed in Gujarat in 2002”. (25th July 2017) As such these  (...)

  • Pakistan and India: Texts of hate - Editorial in Dawn

    15 August

    EVEN as they prepare to celebrate the 70th anniversary of their birth, Pakistan and India may want to reflect on why they have not been able to live as amicable neighbours. Both nations saw triumph and tragedy in 1947 — colonial rule was at an end, but the bloody events of Partition are seared in the subcontinent’s memory, a legacy that should have taught them to cherish freedom and to promote peace. Instead, the decades have been marked by conflict and tensions, recriminations and threats. The tendency on both sides to constantly paint the other in an unfavourable light has not helped. Perhaps one example of this is contained in some of the textbooks used by students in both countries.

  • India: Video of the lecture by Jean Dreze on growing communalism in Jharkhand; the speech which was interrupted by BJP ministers

    14 August

    Jean Dreze speech on growing communalism in Jharkhand in Prabhat Khabar conclave in Ranchi which was disrupted by BJP ministers

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