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9Sep

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India, United Kingdom

Indian Diaspora Protests in London

FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailTelegram On August 15, eleven of the UK’s leading Indian diaspora groups, including diaspora organisations from Manipur, alongside several key feminist organisations and a number of MPs, came together in London on India’s Independence Day to protest against targeted sexual attacks on minority women, systematic ethnic cleansing, and hate-inspired killings being orchestrated by the current Modi regime, with a particular focus on recent events in Manipur and Haryana. They also delivered an open letter to the President, in which they urged her to take action to ensure justice for the victims and survivors of sexual violence against minority women, and called for a number of measures to be undertaken urgently. The angry and vocal protest took place in Parl...

India: Let Our Flag Fly High Against The Symbol of Colonialism and Slavery

9Sep

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India

India: Let Our Flag Fly High Against The Symbol of Colonialism and Slavery

How can we lower our national flag, symbol of the freedom struggle, at half-mast as a mark of respect to this central institution of colonialism? FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailTelegram On Thursday September 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at the newly inaugurated Kartavya Path at India Gate said that “Rajpath" [translated from the English Kingsway] was a symbol of slavery. Similarly, last week during the commissioning of INS Vikrant, Modi unveiled a new Indian Navy flag in which the old St George’s Cross was dropped and a new insignia was added. Again, the PM's office said that this change was an attempt to move away from India’s colonial past. The very day after changing the name of Rajpath to Kartavya Path, the Modi government has already shed its Kartavya (duty) to...

Resolution on Perspective, Orientation and Tasks of Anti-Fascist Resistance

9Sep

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India, Russia

Resolution on Perspective, Orientation and Tasks of Anti-Fascist Resistance

Documents of CPIML11th Party Congress,Vinod Mishra Nagar (Patna, Bihar),16-20 February, 2023 1. The Narendra Modi government has now been in power for more than eight years. If the first term of the Modi government was an early warning about the shape of things to come, the second term has been a period of rapid escalation of a concerted multi-pronged offensive. With Amit Shah as the Union Home Minister and Ajit Doval as the National Security Advisor, the state has become unprecedentedly repressive and vindictive. Constitutional democracy in India today is reeling under the combination of a rampaging state and a host of private armies and vigilante squads emboldened by the patronage and impunity granted by the regime. This combination of unmitigated state repression and...

Disturbing Questions Over Death Of CBI Judge Justice Loya

8Sep

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India, Literature

Disturbing Questions Over Death Of CBI Judge Justice Loya

Posted by: John Phoenix Special CBI Judge Justice Brijgopal Harkishan Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin murder case in which Narendra Modi’s lieutenant Amit Shah and several top Gujarat police officers were implicated, died suddenly at a Government guest house in Nagpur on 30 November 2014 – two weeks before the next hearing in the case. Within a month of the death of the 48-year-old Justice Loya, his successor had discharged Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin murder case. Justice Loya’s predecessor, who had been tough on Shah, had been transferred just a day before a hearing date he had fixed in which he had required Shah to be present. Justice Loya too had shown every sign of diligence in the case rather than leniency towards Shah.Now, three years on, the late Justice Loya’s family...

Meet Niranjan Takle, the journalist who broke the Judge Loya story

8Sep

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India, Literature

Meet Niranjan Takle, the journalist who broke the Judge Loya story

Posted by: John Phoenix Eight months after breaking one of the biggest stories of 2017, Takle remains unemployed. By: Cherry Agarwal In Class 4, Niranjan Takle, the journalist who broke the Judge Loya story, wanted to become a lawyer.This was because in 1971, the state government had acquired 16 acres of his family’s agricultural land, for development of low-cost housing projects, without due compensation. As the family waited for their due, Niranjan’s dream of owning a bicycle was also put on hold. Back then, a municipal school student in Nashik, Maharashtra, Takle would spend part of his morning delivering newspapers. Recalling those days, Takle says, “My father owned a small newspaper and magazine stall. While I did not understand the depth or the social and politic...

8Sep

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India, Literature

Brijgopal Harkishan Loya

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brijgopal Harkishan LoyaBorn12 December 1966Gategaon, LaturDiedDecember 1, 2014 (aged 47)OccupationJudgeSpecial Judge to the Central Bureau of InvestigationIn officeJune 2014 – December 2014Preceded byJ. T. UtpatSucceeded byM. B. Gosavi Brijgopal Harkishan Loya (1966–2014) was an Indian judge who served in a special court which deals with matters relating to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was presiding over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, and died on 1 December 2014 in Nagpur. A bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on April 19, 2018, dismissed the public interest petition (PIL), and stated the death to ...

8Sep

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India, Literature

Who Killed Justice Loya

Posted by: John Phoenix Niranjan Jha Showman (Author)FORMAT Paperback $9.00 BACKORDER (TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK)BACKORDER ADD TO WISHLIST Description Brijgopal Harkishan Loya was an Indian judge who served in a special court which deals with matters relating to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was presiding over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case during which he died on 1 December 2014 in Nagpur. A bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on April 19, 2018, dismissed the public interest petition (PIL), and stated Loya's death to be natural and such petitions to be an attack on the Judiciary. In June 2014, Loya was appointed to the special CBI court on the Sohrabuddin case. Loya allowed Amit Shah, the accused ...

Who killed judge Loya?: Book promises to tell you the ‘whole truth’

8Sep

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India, Literature

Who killed judge Loya?: Book promises to tell you the ‘whole truth’

Posted by: John Phoenix Isn’t the book likely to land him into trouble? For the moment, author Niranjan Takle is not ready to address the question, convinced that as a journalist he is duty bound to speak truth to power A book self-published by journalist Niranjan Takle, ‘Who killed Judge Loya’ being formally launched on Sunday, May 1, has generated considerable curiosity. In an interview Takle opened up about the controversial case and the mysterious death of the CBI special judge BH Loya who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case in which the Union Home Minister Amit Shah was an accused. The judge who replaced Loya after the latter’s death acquitted Shah in record time of less than a fortnight in December 2014. Admitting that the story, published finally ...

Book Review: ‘Who Killed Justice Loya’ Delves Into The Many Unanswered Questions

8Sep

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India, Literature

Book Review: ‘Who Killed Justice Loya’ Delves Into The Many Unanswered Questions

Posted by: John Phoenix Investigative reporter Niranjan Takle's page-turning read sheds light on the mystery and secrecy which formed part of the events that led up to Justice Loya's death. Was Judge Loya, in fact, killed on the intervening night of November 30 and December 1, 2014? Or was he just the victim of a heart attack (“coronary artery insufficiency”, as recorded in the post-mortem report. The book was lying unread on my bookshelves for the past several weeks. I then idly took up the book – and could not drop it till I had been through all its 315 pages. It is the astonishing story of an investigative reporter with the Mumbai bureau of The Week magazine being dragooned by a friend into meeting in the lobby of a Pune hotel with the niece of the dead ma...

G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Unipolarity or Cooperative Multipolarity

6Sep

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India

G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Unipolarity or Cooperative Multipolarity

BY RICHARD FALK First G6 summit at the Chateau de Rambouillet in November 1975 – Public Domain When the Cold War ended in 1991, the West, and particularly the United States, found itself at a fork in the road. One road led to peace, justice, cooperation, nuclear disarmament, a revitalized UN, inclusiveness, pluralism, human rights, multilateralism, fair trade, regulated markets, food security, energy transition, sustainability, and humane governance. The other road led to militarism, intervention, warmongering, nuclearism, conflict, sanctions, regime-changing interventions, multiple trends toward inequality, predatory neoliberal globalization, hegemony, geopolitical primacy. Unfortunately, the. victorious side in the Cold War immediately chose the familiar more traveled road of ...