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Sep 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Liz Theoharis |Freny Manecksha |Ajazuddin Shaikh |Bharat Dogra
Headcount of Homeless Persons in Delhi Conducted by SAM:BKS; Reveals that Nearly 3 Lakh People Forced to Live in the Open Without Shelter Even During the Rainy Season A headcount enumeration of homeless persons in Delhi conducted between 27 August 2024 to 31 August 2024, to understand the extent and magnitude of homelessness in the city, has revealed that around 300,000 (3 lakh) people, including, families, women, children, and older persons are forced to live in the open without shelter even...
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Freny Manecksha |Ajazuddin Shaikh |Bharat Dogra |Vidyadhar Date
“Unka marzee hai hum jeeyenge… hum idhar rahenge,” (It is their choice, how we live, whether we can stay in this city) says Poonam Vishwakarma, a young woman, sitting in a makeshift shelter on the pavement of the swanky Hiranandani complex, Powai, Mumbai. Her already precarious situation, as wife of a construction worker, was exacerbated by the brutal demolition of their home and loss of most of their possessions on June 6.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Freny Manecksha |Rejaz M Sydeek |Thomas Scripps |P S Sahni
On 7th April 2024, the Indian state conducted yet another aerial bombing in Bastar region, an act which has occurred for the fifth time in the area since 2021. In the same time period, on 16th April 2024, 29 Maoists were reportedly slain by a joint team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Border Security Forces (BSF) in a supposed anti-Naxal operation.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Freny Manecksha
Not far from Ghanta Ghar in Srinagar, which has morphed into a site for tourists and Instagram selfies, is the Bund and the Amira Kadal bridge. Like the clock tower, both have historic connotations that stand at risk of makeovers and erasures in rapidly-changing Srinagar. The Bund, a walkway, along the right bank of the Jhelum, was built in the early years of the 20th century, during Dogra rule, for the convenience of British tourists.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Freny Manecksha
5 hours agoCNN — The Indian Navy’s rescue of a commercial ship from pirates off Somalia’s coast last weekend shows how Delhi’s military has developed special forces capabilities on par with some of the world’s best, analysts say. The navy rescued 17 crew members of the vessel MV Ruen during an anti-piracy …
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
thewire.in | Freny Manecksha
EnergyEnvironmentGovernmentPoliticsRights3 minutes agoMumbai: On February 7, noisy scenes erupted in the Chhattisgarh assembly. Congress legislators protested the felling of 15,000 trees on December 21, 2023 in the Hasdeo-Arand forests to clear the way for a coal mining project. It was an example, not just of a political tussle between two parties but, of the way a peoples’ movement – the Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti – has exerted power and gained momentum.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
theleaflet.in | Freny Manecksha
In this interview, trade unionist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, who was jailed in the Bhima-Koregaon matter and has just produced a book on From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada, tells Freny Manecksha how prison changes one for the worse, but also for the better.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Freny Manecksha
In a stirring speech to his fellow lawyers on the occasion of Independence Day, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, underscored the importance of eliminating the barriers to accessing justice and said the history of the Indian judiciary has been the history of the daily struggles of the Indian people…He said the “law exudes human interest and responds positively to the plight of every individual in our society_ regardless of their social and economic background.” But how has this actually played...
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
scroll.in | Freny Manecksha
“Maine kya kya nahi dekha?” What haven’t I seen? “I saw all of Lal Chowk burning. Sometimes dead bodies piled up in front of my eyes.” Meraj Ud Din is usually soft-spoken. But as Kashmir’s legendary photojournalist and videographer unspooled decades of graphic memories, his voice took on dramatic intensity.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Freny Manecksha
“I don’t think rape is about sex. It is about violence and the need for power…“We talk of sexual violence. We don’t talk enough about patriarchy. We don’t talk enough about equality. We don’t talk about discrimination…“Quotidian violence to women is normalized, whereas rape is moralized…“Dalit village women have never been given space besides picking up cow dung or rag picking. They have no training. How will their stories be given space in the media. How do they make a #MeToo movement?
