: Saturday, May 1, 2021, 4:53 PM IST
India cuts a sorry figure in the run-up to the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, writes Anil Singh
Among those booked in recent years under the draconian UAPA and left to rot in jail include civil rights activists, lawyers and academicians in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, students arrested in the anti-CAA protests, human rights defenders, RTI activists and even an 83-year-old Jesuit priest, Stan Swamy.
India has been famously described as a land where many centuries co-exist but now, it is also one where many versions of the truth co-exist; somewhat like the six blind men discovering an elephant.
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India must realise that a democracy cannot be reduced to only demanding praise from the rest of the world
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India must realise that a democracy cannot be reduced to only demanding praise from the rest of the world
The ongoing protests by farmers against the three hastily promulgated agriculture laws have drawn international attention, with the denial of democratic rights to them by the government’s construction of military-grade barriers and shutting down of the Internet at protest sites getting strong statements of support from numerous international celebrities. The official response of the Ministry of External Affairs was disproportionate to the provocation, but it was not merely the reaction of a thin-skinned government. The argument put forth by the government pushed a more fundamental premise: it warned the concerned global voices that these matters democracy and hu
Why Disha Raviâs arrest should worry independent media platforms
Not just âandolanjeeviâ, any media outlet that dares simply do their job of honest newsgathering is on the governmentâs radar. See what happened to NewsClick.
18 Feb, 2021
We should not have been surprised that the Delhi police arrested a young environmental activist, Disha Ravi, on February 13 for helping put together a âtoolkitâ in support of the farmers protesting against the Narendra Modi governmentâs new agriculture laws. An early warning that something like this might happen had been given by no less an authority than the prime minister himself.
Speaking in the parliament, Modi
As farmers expand their agitation, Indian government intensifies repression
Pushed on the back foot by the popular support for the farmers’ agitation against its pro-agribusiness farm laws, India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is systematically intensifying state repression against protesters and their supporters.
Since late November, tens of thousands of protesting farmers, principally from the nearby states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have been encamped on the outskirts of the Delhi National Capital Territory. Their Delhi
Chalo (Let’s go to Delhi) protest, which is demanding the repeal of all three recently-enacted farm laws, was prevented from entering the capital by a massive police mobilisation organised by the Modi government.