CC News Letter 07 April - Chandrashekhar Azad Raavan Begins Hunger Strike In Saharanpur Jail




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Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad Raavan has launched an indefinite hunger strike from Saharanpur district jail, where he is currently lodged. He launched his hunger strike in the aftermath of the nation-wide protests by Dalits on April 2nd against the dilution of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) ACT

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Chandrashekhar Azad Raavan Begins Hunger Strike In Saharanpur Jail
by Free Azad Campaign 


Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad Raavan has launched an indefinite hunger strike from Saharanpur district jail, where he is currently lodged. He launched his hunger strike in the aftermath of the nation-wide protests by Dalits on April 2nd against the dilution of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) ACT




Indulgent Violence: The Legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 


To remember Madikizela-Mandela, then, is to remember the blight of cruelty in South Africa, the hideous distortions of a system marked by race, the barbarism of an order that feeds trauma rather than abates it.  It is also to note those jottings of courage and defiance.    It will be a difficult reckoning, for with her came a vision less of reconciliation than revenge, the spirit of which still persists with tenacity.




Meaning in Mounier
by Marcel Duchamp Oxman 


There is little doubt that Character of Man is a major work of a man who must be considered “one of the really great men of our time.” That laudatory line about Emmanuel Mounier — spotlighted on the jacket of the original publication — who was born in 1905 and died in 1950 is spot on. The praise is well-deserved, and proactive concerned citizens should read and heed his words.




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by Nava Thakuria 


India continues to be a dangerous place for working journalists as the largest democracy in the globe has lost three journalists in mysterious accidents within the first three months of the year. 




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Islam provided space to all those who had no equality in society & who suffered persecution at the hands of Brahmans & their rulers. So, it is exactly in that scenario of disharmony, hatred & inequality, that Islam laid the foundation of true “Kashmiriyat” connecting people of different ideologies & sects through a common thread of spirituality, called Islam. Till date, it connects all people of JK in peace & harmony.




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