ecosystem of bigotry, overseen by the governing BJP and enabled by much of the
media, has weaponised even the pandemic to fuel
Islamophobia. But it hasnât succeeded in dismantling the solidarities that have emerged in resistance, mostly notably amid widespread protests against the citizenship law at the turn of the year. And at the heart of this resistance have been students.
Along with the Muslim woman at Shaheen Bagh and elsewhere,
students play a key role in the public pushback against the Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, and the National Register of Citizens, or NRC. In retaliation, they were
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“In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is from the Lepcha tribe in North Sikkim, and she is among the people on the ground fighting the Teesta dam project in her state. In the virtual parliament she explains how the successive damming of her community’s waterways has displaced her people and decimated her forests.
Meghalaya government asked to find cause of river turning blue
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Fish in Lukha River have died and water no longer fit for drinking, says Khasi Students’ Union in a memorandum
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Fish in Lukha River have died and water no longer fit for drinking, says Khasi Students’ Union in a memorandum The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) has asked the Meghalaya government to find out within three weeks why a river in the limestone and coal-rich East Jaintia Hills district turns “mysteriously blue”. The KSU deadline ends January 9.
In a memorandum to the district’s Deputy Commissioner E. Kharmalki, the local unit of the union said the Lukha river began turning blue every winter in 2007. Thousands of fish in the river have died and the water is no longer fit for drinking, it said.
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