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Abrogation of Article 370 is a restoration of human rights,’ says noted columnist Sunanda Vashisht. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnrq0sc5HNI Npv 14 2-19
Mojo story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjER9oauaY on January 19, 1990, "We were asked to flee, convert or die": Sunanda Vashisht at US Congressional hearing on Kashmir end her speaking of LGBTQ rights..
CONTROVERSIAL GOVERNOR OF KASHMIR RESIGNS By Steve Coll May 26, 1990- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/05/26/controversial-governor-of-kashmir-resigns/a4574b4a-e0b8-4487-b7e5-838cef75d574/ follows a bloody incident earlier this week in which Indian army troops fired on the funeral procession of a slain Kashmiri religious leader and killed at least 45 civillians. Backed by about 15,000 Indian troops, Jagmohan had sought to quell the Kashmir uprising by imposing a form of unofficial martial law on the valley...But excesses by the security forces -- including beatings of suspects and firing on civilians -- during his program of extended curfews, house-to-house searches and widespread detentions of suspected militants appear to have increased support for radical separatists.
But excesses by the security forces -- including beatings of suspects and firing on civilians -- during his program of extended curfews, house-to-house searches and widespread detentions of suspected militants appear to have increased support for radical separatists.
S Sen:
I. What aboutery. A standard trick. II. One set of atrocities cannot justify another. III. Sometime back, had done a rather longish piece on Kashmir for an anthology (ref.: <https://groups.google.com/g/greenyouth/c/g3FduJpmFBc/m/oS4AvInOAQAJ> b/up https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiXYIRE1zsiajlDE3nk0TLHPnkb2).
In course of doing that, came to the realisation that a (or maybe "the") reason that the mass exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, under Jagmohan at the steering, went virtually unnoticed - when it was underway, is the huge bloody mayhem that Jagmohan would inflict upon the Valley, immediately on taking over the reins.
In the consequent huge din and outburst of outrage, the ongoing tragic stories of the Pandits simply got drowned out.
They started getting registered our consciousness only after the din had well died out.
(Jagmohan would - quite deservingly, be given the order of the boot.
Arun Shourie, on his second(?) stint as the IE editor, had captioned his laments and tirade: An Honest Priest Defrocked.
Or something thereabout.)
Leading upto the
Let’s talk about sex : A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
gender identity—the feeling that one is a man or a woman—is as important as biological sex and that trans people should in all circumstances be regarded as the gender with which they identify. This has increasingly influenced policy-makers: several places allow trans women into spaces that were once reserved for females, from sports teams to prisons and shelters for victims of domestic violence.
“gender-critical”, argues that, since biological sex is unchangeable, even with hormones, surgery or any other form of treatment, the conviction that one has been born in the wrong body should not be dispositive. Gender critics argue that biological differences between the sexes make the continued provision of female-only spaces necessary. Trans activists say that trans women should have access to those places, too.
How did an ideology that brooks no dissent become so entrenched in institutions supposedly dedicated to fostering independent thinking? Pressure groups have played a big part
America’s political polarisation makes it harder yet to debate such topics. Trans activists often portray gender criticism as a far-right cause. Though it is becoming that, too, it is a topic on which leftist feminists and social conservatives find agreement.... Universities will no doubt watch how the debate evolves outside academia, especially in the courts. The dangers of eroding free speech are becoming increasingly apparent as judges rule on matters from the medical treatment of trans-identifying children to people who have been sacked after being accused of transphobia.
Comment: Most Women in the Mumbai Local find it difficult to deal with trans , or cross dressers in the women's compartment.
Is UPA Responsible For Fuel Price Hike?| Oil Bonds| Dr Manmohan Singh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci7yRl_8hvU
Union minister of petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday linked the recent fuel price hike with the Congres rule and, citing economists, the minister said that the Congress had left oil bonds worth crores for repayment, which is why the current Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has to pay both its interest and principal price. “This is also a big reason for the rise in fuel prices,” he told news agency ANI. In this episode of the Editorial, our Managing Editor Mr Sujit Nair discusses what is oil bonds and is it really behind massive fuel price hike in the country?
Govt. has to pay 10000 crores for bonds in 2021. But it has collected 3 lakh crore rupees in taxes on petroleum. Is this then responsible for the high prices.. The issue of bonds is a normal mechanism for tiding over liquidity crises. eg the public sector Bank recapitalisations bins issued by the MOdi govt, or the fertiliser bonds.
COPS, FOREST OFFICIALS WORK WITH LAND MAFIA, ALLEGE KHORI GAON RESIDENTS FACING EVICTION
[ https://thewire.in/environment/cops-forest-officials-work-with-land-mafia-allege-khori-gaon-residents-facing-eviction ]
[ https://thewire.in/government/rampant-arrests-rare-convictions-in-punjab-the-uapa-is-ripe-for-misuse ]
On the morning of June 16, the residents of Khori Gaon woke up to find that a man in his 70s, one Ganeshi Lal, had hung
[ https://www.timesnownews.com/amp/delhi/article/aravalli-encroachment-demolition-man-70-ends-life-over-fear-of-losing-home-locals-fire-up-against-sc-order/771924 ] himself from the branch of a tree outside his home. A crowd had gathered, and shortly after, a large police force followed. A video shows the moments after the man’s body had been brought down, with the crowd yelling at the police. After some lathi charge, locals say, the police took the body away, along with the man’s family members, reports Naomi Barton.
Ganeshi Lal allegedly took this step because of his anxiety about the impending demolition of Khori Gaon, an urban village with at least 10,000 households and home to at least 100,000 people. On June 7, the Supreme Court issued an order
[ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-orders-removal-of-encroachments-in-aravali-forest-land/article34754417.ece ]
to “remove all encroachments on the subject forest land without exception”, within six weeks time. The court made it clear that this was to be executed by any means necessary, stating, “The State in general and the police in particular shall give necessary and adequate logistical support to enable the Corporation to implement the directions given by us to evict the occupants / encroachers including by forcible eviction… and to clear all the encroachments therefrom.”
Following this order, the inhabitants of Khori Gaon began to protest [https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugram-news/illegal-colonies-khori-gaon-residents-to-continue-protest-eight-in-police-custody-101623606279274.html ], with men, women and children staging a sit-in on the main Faridabad-Delhi road, demanding some form of rehabilitation before
being made homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic. By June 14, the police resorted to a lathi charge to disperse the growing crowds, arresting at least eight people [ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugram-news/illegal-colonies-khori-gaon-residents-to-continue-protest-eight-in-police-custody-101623606279274.html ] and detaining several others.
But this is not the first time the residents of Khori Gaon have been victims of police violence. Demolitions took place in the Punjabi Colony area of the village in April this year, as well as in October last year.
Sumedha* says she was beaten by the police with sticks when she tried to salvage belongings from her house as it was being demolished by bulldozers on October 14. She claims there was no notice before this took place – the police came the night before to tell them to clear out their homes. “How could I take out everything in my home in one night?” she says. Sumedha’s family decided to rebuild the house. On April 2, the house was demolished once more. Yet again, the residents received no notice ahead of the demolition except for the police’s announcement the night before.
No receipts or paper trails accompanied the many transactions residents say they were forced to make, and so they cannot be proved.