اجالے اپنی یادوں کے ہمارے ساتھ رہنے دو نہ جانے کس گلی میں زندگی کی شام ہو جائے اس مشہور شعر کے خالق جناب ڈاکٹر بشیر بدر صاحب کا یوم ولادت حال ہی میں ١٥ فروری کو گزرا ہے . بدر صاحب کے اشعار اردو اور غیر اردو داں حلقوں میں جتنے مشہور ہیں…
Valentine’s Day: Essentials and Trivialities | Mujahid Mughal
Since the middle ages, 14th of February is the date when couples (both married and unmarried) claim to express their partners some extra-love which they don’t shower them (perhaps) rest of the year. So they come in restaurants or elsewhere, exchange flowers and other gifts apart from doing other things which they believe are beneficial…
Women and the Struggle for Socialism | Alan Woods
brought to you in association with Marxists must fight against oppression and discrimination in all its forms, while pointing out that only a radical transformation of society and the abolition of class slavery can create the conditions for the abolition of slavery in all its manifestations and the establishment of a truly…
Minority Status? | Aftab Alam
Originally published by The Indian Express on 27th of January 2016. Notwithstanding Justice A.P. Sen’s pertinent observation in Lilly Kurian versus Sr Lewina and others (1978), “the protection of the minorities is an article of faith in the Constitution of India”, this principle has been under continuous attack. Earlier this month, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi…
New Global Trends and Islamophobia | Syed Suhail Yaqoob
World has become highly unstable after the 9/11 episode. There have been interventions and counter-interventions in almost every country. After the fall of the Soviet Union, most people thought that the international system will get stabilised and there was no fear of nuclear war now. The United States of America (USA) emerged as a sole…
Pyre of Caste and Students’ Suicides | Shahina Nafeesa
This is a Malayalam article by Shahina Nafeesa published in Azhimukham and translated in to English by Renu Ramanath 2010 September: To reach the village of Chinthula in Ranga Reddy District you have to travel around 60 kilometers from Hyderabad. That journey was in search of the home of R. Balaraj, who had been a…
यह आत्महत्या दरअसल ‘हत्या’ है? | समर अनार्य
“मैं लिखना चाहता था, हमेशा से, विज्ञान के बारे में, कार्ल सागां की तरह. और आखिर में बस यह एक ख़त (आत्महत्या का) है जो मैं लिख पा रहा हूँ.”- रोहित वेमुला हैदराबाद विश्वविद्यालय में पढ़ रहे दलित शोधार्थी और छात्र नेता रोहित वेमुला ने कभी मरना नहीं चाहा होगा. उम्मीदों और सपनों के साथ…
Departure Note of Rohith Vemula
Good morning, I would not be around when you read this letter. Don’t get angry on me. I know some of you truly cared for me, loved me and treated me very well. I have no complaints on anyone. It was always with myself I had problems. I feel a growing gap between my soul…
घेराव | हबीब जालिब
हैदराबाद विश्विद्यालय के युवा शोधार्थी, वैज्ञानिक और सोशल एक्टिविस्ट रोहित वेमुला की मृत्यु पर टीम अवाम की तरफ़ से हबीब जालिब के ये शब्द श्रद्धांजली के रूप में: सदियों से घेराव में हम थे, हमें बचाने कोई न आया कुछ दिन हम ने घेरा डाला, हर ज़ालिम ने शोर मचाया फिर हमने ज़न्जीरें पहनीं,…
Addressing Bundelkhand Crises | AHRC
They [authorities] need to understand that offering piecemeal solutions to address the crisis will not help anyone. The need of the hour in Bundelkhand is to attend to the serious water crisis- Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) People in Bundelkhand are being forced to eat grass for survival. This dire situation is being aired in…