On the bridge over the Tiau river in Mizoram
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The support for Myanmarese refugees is strong in Mizoram because of a long and deeply shared cultural history, a connection that cannot be ignored
Salai Uk Thang, 31, a policeman from Myanmar’s Sagaing Division, knew his arrest was imminent. Last month, Thang had joined the civil disobedience movement, a rapidly expanding resistance movement that has attracted tens of thousands of Myanmarese in the wake of the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government in February. He, like many police personnel, fled Myanmar.
Thang’s instinctive choice was to head to Mizoram, divided from Myanmar by a porous international border, part of which is formed by the 159-km long Tiau river.
THE PASSAGE OF THE CLA REFLECTS THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF INDIAN FEMINISTS
However, feminists ultimately lost out on crucial issues including marital rape, rape by the armed forces, and the age of consent.
Indian feminism has entered a governance mode in light of three parameters, namely an increased reliance on criminal law, a deep commitment to a highly gendered reading of sexual violence and a diluted oppositional stance vis-à-vis state power.
Since Thomas Macaulay’s Indian Penal Code (IPC) was introduced in 1862, its rape provisions have been substantially amended only twice, once in 1983 and then in 2013. In the intervening 30 years between 1983 and 2013, feminists, many from the autonomous phase of the Indian women’s movement (IWM), were highly engaged in rape law reform their long road to the CLA punctuated by several rounds of negotiations and repeated failure.
Wishful initiatives
April 15, 2021
“The political dimensions of the dispute between India and Pakistan have long been centre-stage. This is not a conflict frozen in time. It is a conflict that has robbed millions of their basic human rights, and continues to this day to inflict untold suffering”, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Ali Hussein in a 49-page report issued in Geneva on June 14, 2018.
The report further said, “It is also why I will be urging the UN Human Rights Council to consider establishing a commission of enquiry to conduct a comprehensive independent international investigation into allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir”.
Recalling Jallianwala martyrs communal amity as BJP warns of Sitalkuchi everywhere
By Shamsul Islam
The RSS-BJP rulers declare India to be a battle-ground between Hinduism and Islam. Muslims have been declared as ‘internal threat’ by RSS ideologue MS Golwalkar (“Bunch of Thought”, Chapter xvi). Behaviour of many of their leading cadres, including those who hold high constitutional posts, is such that they seem to be conspiring over-time to ignite a civil war between the two communities. They are under the impression that this would help divert attention from failures of the Hindutva rulers on developmental front.
Indeed, they are refusing to treat Muslims as part of the Indian nation, which according to them is a Hindu nation. They have no hesitation in identifying themselves as ‘Hindu nationalists’. Awfully, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took oath to uphold democratic-secular polity in 2014, long before had identified himself as a Hindu nationalist with tot
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Guwahati: âThe truth is truth,â said Paresh Baruah, the commander-in-chief of the banned insurgent group United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent), or ULFA(I), as he talked about his upcoming memoir.Â
Speaking to ThePrint from an unknown number, Baruah did not disclose the name of the memoir, but said it would be published in âless than a month or 20 daysâ.
âIf itâs not the truth, people will not accept it. If itâs a fictionalised biography, no one would really want to read it,â he added. âMy part, to narrate facts, has been completed. But other areas â like proof-reading and editing â are being done.â