In Satara, murder during a prayer https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/in-maharashtras-satara-murder-during-a-prayer/article67334686.ece
On September 10, ... According to the police, the violence was alleged ly triggered by two ‘objectionable’ messages — one about Lord Rama and Sita and another about Shivaji Maharaj — posted by two young Muslims on a social media platform. As soon as the social media monitoring team of the local police came across the post, they picked up one of the men, while the other, a native of Pusesavali, was traced to Kolhapur. “While the police were questioning a young man about the post at the outpost, some people began to create a ruckus outside the out post. They started moving towards the mosque.
It all happened within a few minutes,” says a senior police officer, who is privy to the investigation. The officer says at least 10 policemen suffered injuries. The mob torched a couple of police vehicles, he says. The mob, which allegedly consisted of Hindu men from Pursesavali and the neighbouring villages of Thorvewadi NV and Wadgaon Jairam Swami, reached the mosque and began rioting.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan has raised concerns over police inaction in the Pusesavali riot, labelling it a “preplanned and predetermined coldblooded murder.” Chavan claims that the State government has been actively polarising people through social media in the leadup to the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. He said to The Hindu: “During my visit, the people informed me that the rioters
continuously chanted, “‘Hamara Home Minister hai, kuch nahi hoga” (Our Home Minister is with us; nothing will happen to us)’. I believe this incident is part of a pogrom and I demand a judicial inquiry into the riot. Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should visit the bereaved family. The rioters wanted to terrorise the Muslim community.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI6WHnm220I भारत बना माइनॉरिटी पर अत्याचार का हब_रिपोर्ट में बड़ा खुलासा, UN report On Indian Minorities, pm modi
Full text of submission by Fernand de Varenes: UN Special Rapporteur https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/Fernand%20de%20Varennes%20Testimony.pdf Human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists, face harassment, surveillance or even detention under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Nongovernmental organizations have also been targeted and in some cases closed under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
Let me repeat: India risks becoming one of the world’s main generators of instability, atrocities and violence, because of the massive scale and gravity of the violations and abuses targeting mainly religious and other minorities such as Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and others. It is not just individual or local, it is systematic and a reflection of religious nationalism.
Official silence over violent attacks and rhetoric is encouraging majority nationalist groups to even more brazen violence with a religious tint. The violence in Manipur is also a warning of the dangers of inaction.
A study noted a 786% increase in hate crimes against minorities between 2014 and 2018 - Dominance of Majoritarian Poltics and Hate Crimes Against Religious Minorties in India, 2009-2018, Deepankar Basu, Political Economy Research Institute. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1274&context=econ_workingpaper
Disturbing visuals https://youtu.be/JZpSINiulDg
Deepankar Basu and Tania Li: Rethinking issues of labour and precarity under contemporary capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aTzRpElLyM Association for Heterodox Economics Sep 19, 2022
Plenary with Deepankar Basu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Tania Li (University of Toronto) at the 24th Annual AHE conference, July 2022.
Deepankar Basu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on three areas: long run evolution of capitalist economies with a focus on issues of profitability, capital accumulation and technical change; various aspects of economic development in India including nutrition, food security, the informal sector, employment, and electoral outcomes; various topics in applied econometrics, including bias of OLS estimators. His book, The Logic of Capital: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He has published many articles in peer reviewed journals.
Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (with Pujo Semedi, Duke University Press 2021), Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014), Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch, NUS Press, 2011), The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Duke University Press, 2007) and many articles on land, labour, class,capitalism, development, resources and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. https://www.taniali.org/
Prabhat Patnaik: Crisis in Capitalism or Crisis of Capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTfIbOQhTjs Prabhat Patnaik Aug 1, 2022 Keynote speech by Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist economist and political commentator. He taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1974 until his retirement in 2010. He was the vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board from June 2006 to May 2011.