News Canteen: Recent Episodes
Dwai Banerjee
The pioneering Indian sociologist MN Srinivas's periods of fieldwork were his making. They took the underweight Brahmin boy into the welter of Indian life
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/books/seeing-like-a-sociologist-making-mn-srinivas
And, Wednesday served a double-whammy to the national party. Not only did DMDK, a party it had been desperately trying to rope in, enter into an alliance with the People’s Welfare Front (PWF), the All
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/bjp-suffers-a-double-whammy-in-tamil-nadu/article8392148.ece
STATEMENT BY CONCERNED CITIZENS It seems that an undeclared state of emergency is sought to be imposed upon us: a series of seemingly unconnected events across the country, in universities (most recently in Hyderabad and Delhi), factory premises and court halls, our streets and over large parts of the countryside, bear this out. We would…
http://kafila.org/2016/03/03/bastar-to-delhi-increasing-threat-to-the-rule-of-law-and-freedom-of-expression/
Forwardpress.in
It is essential to find out how this university, created in 1966 by a special Act of Parliament, became a leftist bastion. The answer ...
http://www.countercurrents.org/ranjan290216.htm
The targeting of Umar and Anirban shows the deep hatred towards the idea of education that produces contrarian opinions.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/24/converting-umar-khalid-to-islam-22562/
* Dissent
The chilling confession by three lawyers in a sting operation of how they are planning further violence against Kanhaiya Kumar in court should be probed by a special investigation team, a petition before the Supreme Court says.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/24/sc-moved-for-sit-probe-into-pro-bjp-lawyers-caught-in-sting-22598/
* Human Rights
As journalists, scholars, lawyers and political activists documenting the unfolding tragedy in Chhattisgarh are systematically hounded out of the region, fears mount for what's in store for Bastar's adivasis.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/21/is-the-attack-on-soni-sori-is-part-of-a-larger-plan-for-bastar-22257/
* Featured
Rather than recklessly expanding the beneficiary, what is needed is to address India’s economic stagnation and removing weaknesses in reservations.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/22/the-absurdity-of-jat-reservation-22396/
* Featured
This is a guest post by ADITYA SARKAR JNU has entered an indefinite state of siege. Police have been swarming all over campus, raiding hostels, picking up students and interrogating them. The ABVP, predictably, have been directing them to the lairs of ‘anti-national elements’. When immense demonstrations of public solidarity with the accused students were…
http://kafila.org/2016/02/16/on-framing-jnu-for-an-imaginary-crime-aditya-sarkar/
By retaining the law of sedition, free India's governments repudiated the concept of human rights evolved during the long years of the struggle for freedom
http://thewire.in/2016/02/23/a-law-on-sedition-has-no-place-in-a-democracy-and-should-be-repealed-22349/
* Featured
An attack on constitutional freedoms in India’s capital, but a gaping constitutional void in her heartland.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/22/as-you-standwithjnu-spare-a-thought-for-bastar-22321/
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The stand-off at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) after some students earlier this month organised a meeting to discuss recent instances of capital punishment has occupied centre stage. The high-han
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/jnu-row-redefining-indian-nationhood/article8272577.ece
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP appear to be pushing a cocktail of aggressive nationalism with a heavy dose of welfarism to mask their many failures so far.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/23/bjps-aggressive-nationalism-and-modis-promise-of-welfarism-mask-failures-on-economic-front-22444/
* Featured
The Jat agitation in Haryana claimed one more life on Sunday, taking the death toll to 11, as the State remained on edge even as the government decided to bring a Bill to grant other backward class (O
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/govt-blinks-jats-to-get-obc-status/article8265548.ece
From fabricating a case to resorting to violence and peddling forged ‘evidence’, all those who have worked to ruin a young life must be brought to account.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/19/on-kanhaiya-it-is-time-to-stand-up-and-be-counted-22039/
* Featured
Times Now has accused The Wire of running a "factually inaccurate" story about the showing of a doctored video on the channel. The charge is laughable.
http://thewire.in/2016/02/20/times-nows-first-denies-airing-doctored-video-then-concedes-it-did-22148/
* Media