The farmers of the country are creating history. A history of resistance against Company Raj 2.0. And as citizen of a country that had gloriously fought back the British Company Raj and snatched our own independence, we, who are observing and participating in the present farmers’ agitation are proud successors of the legacy of resistance.
(Liberation explains why the farm laws need to be opposed, and addresses the misinformation being spread by the Modi regime against the farmers’ movement).
The Modi Government promulgates three new Farm Laws in September 2020, which are as follows:
A CBI court has just acquitted all those accused of conspiring to demolish the 16th century Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992. This verdict, coming on top of the Supreme Court verdict handing over the mosque site to the Ram Temple Trust, is the final nail in the coffin of justice for victims of hate crimes in India. These verdicts are an incentive for perpetrators of hate crimes, assuring them that they can enjoy the political and material fruits of such crimes with total impunity.
8 August, 2020. A piece of good news greeted Indians in the midst of a morbid milieu marked by growing Corona cases and fatalities and a palpable economic paralysis. Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani is at the moment world's fourth richest person.
We now have the official economic report card for the first quarter of FY 2020-21. The GDP has crashed by 23.9 per cent, by far the worst global performance for any country comparable to India. Never before in the last four decades did the Indian economy record a negative growth rate. These are early estimates and economists believe the final actual figures may well be much worse.
The family of people’s poet and political activist Varavara Rao alerted the world to his severely deteriorating medical condition inside Mumbai’s Taloja jail. His family said that on a phone call from him, they realised that he is hallucinating, and a fellow-prisoner intimated that he was unable to walk, go to the toilet and brush his teeth on his own.
In absence of any representative government in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government has exercised undiluted and direct control in the region through a bureaucratic administration since 2018. One year ago, the Indian government unilaterally abrogated Article 370 and scrapped the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, ending the autonomous status of the region.
Ladakh is strategically very important for India because it connects India to Central Asia, South Asia, China and Pakistan. Historically it was also the centre of trade along the Silk Route and also known as the gateway from India to Tibet and Central Asia.
In 1979 Ladakh was divided into two districts known as Leh and Kargil. Leh is a Buddhist majority district while Kargil is Muslim majority. Kargil is geographically located between Srinagar and Leh, 210 Kms away from Srinagar and 230 Kms from Leh.