Today, when the BJP is presenting itself as a protector of women in West Bengal over the issue of rape, this entire experience is coming back to my mind. By Himanshu Kumar After the rape and murder of a female doctor in West Bengal, the BJP is preparing to uproot the Trinamool government […]
A documentation of the custodial deaths during lockdown that also looks for the answer to some such questions around the class nature, caste nature and religious nature of such deaths. This is the fifth and last part of the Groundxero report. The Thoothukudi murders have once again drawn our attention to custodial and other forms […]
In his latest letter sent from Nagpur prison, Prof. GN Saibaba of Delhi University has appealed to human rights activists to form a team and visit him and the jail authorities in order to ensure his proper medical treatment and his transfer to Hyderabad jail. The letter, dated 25th May 2019, a copy of which […]
The Forest Rights Act was enacted in 2006 by the first UPA Government. MoEF Jairam Ramesh, after lengthy bargainings and consultations with rights groups and NGOs, agreed to pass the bill, mostly out of electoral compulsions and as a means to check the rise of radical left forces among Adivasis. Corporations with direct business interests […]
On August 6th 2018, news reports indicated that 15 ‘Naxals’ had been gunned down by the Chhattisgarh police in Sukma district. This encounter happened near Nalkatong village in the Konta Block of South Sukma. A day after all these claims, hundreds of women adivasis in Bastar protested against this police action, calling it a ‘fake […]
Kamal Shukla is a Bastar based journalist. He is the editor of ‘Bhumkal Samachar’ newspaper, published from Kanker. Shukla also writes for several local and national news portals, and heads an organisation – the Patrakar Suraksha Kanoon Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti – which seeks a law to protect journalists in the Bastar region. Shukla was recently […]