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WITH NO HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AMID COVID-19 SECOND WAVE COVID-19 patients and their families await oxygen cylinders at the LLR Hospital, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city, on 20 April 2021. Ajay Singh Bisht, the chief minister who is commonly referred to as Adityanath, has repeatedly said there is no shortage of tests, medicines, oxygen, and hospital beds, but the narratives from the state’s rural areas contradict every claim.SUBMIT TO US
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THE HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION’S WARPED POSITION ON CASTE Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing. S Karthikeyan. 28 February 2021. The attempt to sue Cisco Systems for alleged caste-based discrimination at the company is being watched as a potential landmark in the United States. The Hindu American Foundation has denounced it as an effort “to decide the scope and nature of Hindu religious teachings and CASTE IMPUNITY AND GENDER VIOLENCE BEHIND MURDER OF DALIT Caste impunity and gender violence behind murder of Dalit garment worker in Tamil Nadu. Sowmya. 28 February 2021. The employee identity card of Jeyasri Kathirvel a Dalit garment worker from Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district who was murdered in January. Her murder highlights the severe forms of caste impunity in garment factories in Tamil Nadu. THE HINDU RIGHT CANNOT DEBATE ME BECAUSE IT REJECTSAUTHOR: SURABHIKANGA
The Hindu Right cannot debate me because it rejects critical thought: Audrey Truschke. Audrey Truschke is an associate professor of South Asian history at the Rutgers University in New Jersey, in the United States. Truschke’s research focuses on the history of early and modern India. She has written three books on the subject— Culture of ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. THE CARAVANPOLITICSAMIT PANDEYHARTOSH SINGH BALTHE FALLENWHY IS SHASHI THAROOR A HINDUATUL DEV There are very few independent media outlets left that have not completely bent over, in this very difficult time. The Caravan is oneof them.
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Submit to Us | The Caravan. To submit a story idea (whether for the print magazine or for Vantage, our web-exclusives section), send a pitch, your résumé and a list of your published works to editor.thecaravan@delhipress.in. Please note that while we read every pitch we receive, we are unable to respond to each one. Note also thatwe are
HOW THE KERALA GOVERNMENT IS SHAPING AND IMPLEMENTING ITS How the Kerala government is shaping and implementing its COVID-19 response. Kerala's minister of health, KK Shailaja (L) and the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (C), address the media on 23 March, in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, on the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The press briefings have been a daily feature BJP FIRED EX-UTTARAKHAND CM TS RAWAT FOR RESTRICTING KUMBH BJP fired ex-Uttarakhand chief minister TS Rawat for restricting Kumbh gatherings. Srishti Jaswal. 08 May 2021. In a meeting in 2019, the prime minister Narendra Modi told the former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat that the Mahakumbh should take place without any “controversy.”. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemicsweeping
HOW UPPER CASTES INVENTED A HINDU MAJORITY How upper castes invented a Hindu majority. Divya Dwivedi , Shaj Mohan and J Reghu. 31 December 2020. During a religious ceremony marking the inauguration of the construction of the Rama temple, the prime minister, who heads the government of a country with a secular constitution, participated in the religious ritual, acting like apriest. pib
THE HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION’S WARPED POSITION ON CASTE Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing. S Karthikeyan. 28 February 2021. The attempt to sue Cisco Systems for alleged caste-based discrimination at the company is being watched as a potential landmark in the United States. The Hindu American Foundation has denounced it as an effort “to decide the scope and nature of Hindu religious teachings and CASTE IMPUNITY AND GENDER VIOLENCE BEHIND MURDER OF DALIT Caste impunity and gender violence behind murder of Dalit garment worker in Tamil Nadu. Sowmya. 28 February 2021. The employee identity card of Jeyasri Kathirvel a Dalit garment worker from Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district who was murdered in January. Her murder highlights the severe forms of caste impunity in garment factories in Tamil Nadu. THE HINDU RIGHT CANNOT DEBATE ME BECAUSE IT REJECTSAUTHOR: SURABHIKANGA
The Hindu Right cannot debate me because it rejects critical thought: Audrey Truschke. Audrey Truschke is an associate professor of South Asian history at the Rutgers University in New Jersey, in the United States. Truschke’s research focuses on the history of early and modern India. She has written three books on the subject— Culture of ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. DEVELOPMENT, DISTRIBUTION, AND MARKETS 10 hours ago · Development, Distribution, and Markets. Edited by Kaushik Basu. This is a volume of essays on contemporary development economics and policies, with a focus on India. WE CANNOT SURVIVE HERE: LAKSHADWEEP LOCALS ON 21 hours ago · On 5 December 2020, Praful Khoda Patel, a senior politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, took charge as the administrator of the union territory of Lakshadweep. Patel, who already oversees one other UT, was appointed to a position that has been traditionally reserved in the archipelago for retired CRUISE SHIPS REPURPOSED TO QUARANTINE MIGRANTS RESCUED LA SUPREMA, a cruise ship built in 2003 for $120 million, can carry nearly three thousand passengers plus a thousand cars.Almost seven hundred feet long, the ship has 567 cabins, three restaurants, six bars, a dozen or so shops, a casino, a movie theatre, a nightclub anda chapel.
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HOW THE MODI GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO ACT LED TO INDIA’S How the Modi government’s failure to act led to India’s COVID-19 catastrophe. Chahat Rana. 01 June 2021. ON THE MORNING OF 17 APRIL, amidst a chorus of loud cheers, Narendra Modi walked across a stage to stand at a podium, all set to address an election rally in the city of Asansol, in West Bengal. As the prime minister found his place at WITH NO HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AMID COVID-19 SECOND WAVE COVID-19 patients and their families await oxygen cylinders at the LLR Hospital, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city, on 20 April 2021. Ajay Singh Bisht, the chief minister who is commonly referred to as Adityanath, has repeatedly said there is no shortage of tests, medicines, oxygen, and hospital beds, but the narratives from the state’s rural areas contradict every claim. THREE BRAHMINS ARRESTED FOR BURNING A 12-YEAR-OLD TRIBAL Three Brahmins arrested for burning a 12-year-old tribal domestic worker to death in Assam. Kimi Colney and Mahmodul Hassan. 07 May 2021. Members of the Karbi Students Association protest in East Karbi Anglong district’s Bakalia town, in Assam, following the suspected murder of a 12-year-old Karbi domestic worker, on 3 May. HOW THE KERALA GOVERNMENT IS SHAPING AND IMPLEMENTING ITS How the Kerala government is shaping and implementing its COVID-19 response. Kerala's minister of health, KK Shailaja (L) and the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (C), address the media on 23 March, in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, on the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The press briefings have been a daily feature THE YOUNG ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS LEADING INDIA’S NEW CLIMATE The young environmental groups leading India’s new climate activism. Tushar Dhara. 15 March 2021. Young environmentalists participate in a climate strike to protest against government inaction on climate change, as part of global demonstrations in the “Fridays for Future” movement, in Delhi on 20 September 2019. THE HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION’S WARPED POSITION ON CASTE Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing. S Karthikeyan. 28 February 2021. The attempt to sue Cisco Systems for alleged caste-based discrimination at the company is being watched as a potential landmark in the United States. The Hindu American Foundation has denounced it as an effort “to decide the scope and nature of Hindu religious teachings and ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic.EDITOR'S PICK
Editor's Pick. ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy. A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor ofRSS | THE CARAVAN
Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat is a thinly veiled blueprint of the RSS’s “Hindu Economics”. Sagar. 23 July 2020. For the RSS, “sewa” is a means to achieve the Hindu Rashtra. CommentaryPolitics.
THE CARAVANPOLITICSAMIT PANDEYHARTOSH SINGH BALTHE FALLENWHY IS SHASHI THAROOR A HINDUATUL DEV There are very few independent media outlets left that have not completely bent over, in this very difficult time. The Caravan is oneof them.
HOW THE MODI GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO ACT LED TO INDIA’S How the Modi government’s failure to act led to India’s COVID-19 catastrophe. Chahat Rana. 01 June 2021. ON THE MORNING OF 17 APRIL, amidst a chorus of loud cheers, Narendra Modi walked across a stage to stand at a podium, all set to address an election rally in the city of Asansol, in West Bengal. As the prime minister found his place at WITH NO HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AMID COVID-19 SECOND WAVE COVID-19 patients and their families await oxygen cylinders at the LLR Hospital, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city, on 20 April 2021. Ajay Singh Bisht, the chief minister who is commonly referred to as Adityanath, has repeatedly said there is no shortage of tests, medicines, oxygen, and hospital beds, but the narratives from the state’s rural areas contradict every claim. THREE BRAHMINS ARRESTED FOR BURNING A 12-YEAR-OLD TRIBAL Three Brahmins arrested for burning a 12-year-old tribal domestic worker to death in Assam. Kimi Colney and Mahmodul Hassan. 07 May 2021. Members of the Karbi Students Association protest in East Karbi Anglong district’s Bakalia town, in Assam, following the suspected murder of a 12-year-old Karbi domestic worker, on 3 May. HOW THE KERALA GOVERNMENT IS SHAPING AND IMPLEMENTING ITS How the Kerala government is shaping and implementing its COVID-19 response. Kerala's minister of health, KK Shailaja (L) and the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (C), address the media on 23 March, in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, on the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The press briefings have been a daily feature THE YOUNG ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS LEADING INDIA’S NEW CLIMATE The young environmental groups leading India’s new climate activism. Tushar Dhara. 15 March 2021. Young environmentalists participate in a climate strike to protest against government inaction on climate change, as part of global demonstrations in the “Fridays for Future” movement, in Delhi on 20 September 2019. THE HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION’S WARPED POSITION ON CASTE Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing. S Karthikeyan. 28 February 2021. The attempt to sue Cisco Systems for alleged caste-based discrimination at the company is being watched as a potential landmark in the United States. The Hindu American Foundation has denounced it as an effort “to decide the scope and nature of Hindu religious teachings and ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic.EDITOR'S PICK
Editor's Pick. ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy. A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor ofRSS | THE CARAVAN
Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat is a thinly veiled blueprint of the RSS’s “Hindu Economics”. Sagar. 23 July 2020. For the RSS, “sewa” is a means to achieve the Hindu Rashtra. CommentaryPolitics.
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Caste impunity and gender violence behind murder of Dalit garment worker in Tamil Nadu. Sowmya. 28 February 2021. The Madam Chief Minister poster and the genealogy of a new Dalit assertion. CommentaryCaste.
HOW INDIA AND THE UNHCR FAILED TO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE AND On 16 April, after visiting three different hospitals in Delhi, a 30-year-old Chin refugee died of COVID-19. According to his mother, who wished to remain anonymous, the 30-year-old told her about the last hospital, “Since my features are different, they don’t pay attention to me. I am very hurt HOSPITAL STAFF ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING COVID PATIENT Paras Hospitals is a group of multi-speciality hospitals with branches in several cities across the country, including this one in Gurugram. Three staff members of the Paras Hospital branch in Patna, Bihar have been accused of sexually assaulting a COVID-19 patient, who was admitted in the ICU ward, on 17 May. CRUISE SHIPS REPURPOSED TO QUARANTINE MIGRANTS RESCUED LA SUPREMA, a cruise ship built in 2003 for $120 million, can carry nearly three thousand passengers plus a thousand cars.Almost seven hundred feet long, the ship has 567 cabins, three restaurants, six bars, a dozen or so shops, a casino, a movie theatre, a nightclub anda chapel.
TO HONOUR OUR DEAD, WE MUST REMEMBER THE HORROR OF THE “She left me at 6 pm last evening,” the text from a dear friend popped up on one of our phones. The friend was referring to her mother. What struck us was the measured language used, despite the wave of grief. These were sober words, like those of writers and journalists used to reporting the SIX MONTHS ON, FARMERS AT DELHI’S BORDERS ARE HERE TO STAY When thousands of farmers began sit-ins on Delhi’s borders against the contentious 2020 farm laws in November that year, they announced that they would sustain their agitation for six months if need be. In subsequent months, the sit-ins received massive global support, faced a government that refused to withdraw the laws and continued for over six months, even through the brutal second waveARKESH AJAY
Arkesh Ajay is a Los Angeles based Indian-origin filmmaker/editor.. To honour our dead, we must remember the horror of the COVID-19 secondwave
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THE CARAVANPOLITICSAMIT PANDEYHARTOSH SINGH BALARUNIMA KARTHE FALLENWHY IS SHASHI THAROOR A HINDU There are very few independent media outlets left that have not completely bent over, in this very difficult time. The Caravan is oneof them.
HOW THE MODI GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO ACT LED TO INDIA’S ON THE MORNING OF 17 APRIL, amidst a chorus of loud cheers, Narendra Modi walked across a stage to stand at a podium, all set to address an election rally in the city of Asansol, in West Bengal. As the prime minister found his place at the podium, he promptly removed his snugly-fit white mask, rubbed his face and stroked his flowing white beard. For a few seconds, Modi took in the WITH NO HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AMID COVID-19 SECOND WAVE COVID-19 patients and their families await oxygen cylinders at the LLR Hospital, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city, on 20 April 2021. Ajay Singh Bisht, the chief minister who is commonly referred to as Adityanath, has repeatedly said there is no shortage of tests, medicines, oxygen, and hospital beds, but the narratives from the state’s rural areas contradict every claim. THREE BRAHMINS ARRESTED FOR BURNING A 12-YEAR-OLD TRIBAL On 22 April, the charred body of a 12-year-old domestic worker from the Karbi community was found outside her employer’s house in the Khaighar village of Assam’s Nagaon district. The Assam Police suspects that Rina, Prakash and Nayanmoni Borthakur—her employers HOW THE KERALA GOVERNMENT IS SHAPING AND IMPLEMENTING ITS Kerala's minister of health, KK Shailaja (L) and the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (C), address the media on 23 March, in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, on the government’s handling of theCovid-19 pandemic.
ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. THE YOUNG ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS LEADING INDIA’S NEW CLIMATE On 19 January, Nityanand Jayaraman, a Chennai-based writer and researcher, announced a week-long call to action against the Adani Group by over 25 environmental youth organisations across the world, on a website called Adani Watch.EDITOR'S PICK
ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy.A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969 THE HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION’S WARPED POSITION ON CASTE Addressing the people in Baltimore in 1864, US President Abraham Lincoln said, “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a 736 SANGH PARIVAR NGOS QUALIFIED FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDS As of 13 May, at least 736 NGOs affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh featured among a list of organisations enlisted by the central government for relief interventions during the ongoing lockdown to control the novel coronavirus pandemic. THE CARAVANPOLITICSAMIT PANDEYHARTOSH SINGH BALARUNIMA KARTHE FALLENWHY IS SHASHI THAROOR A HINDU There are very few independent media outlets left that have not completely bent over, in this very difficult time. The Caravan is oneof them.
HOW THE MODI GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO ACT LED TO INDIA’S ON THE MORNING OF 17 APRIL, amidst a chorus of loud cheers, Narendra Modi walked across a stage to stand at a podium, all set to address an election rally in the city of Asansol, in West Bengal. As the prime minister found his place at the podium, he promptly removed his snugly-fit white mask, rubbed his face and stroked his flowing white beard. For a few seconds, Modi took in the WITH NO HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AMID COVID-19 SECOND WAVE COVID-19 patients and their families await oxygen cylinders at the LLR Hospital, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city, on 20 April 2021. Ajay Singh Bisht, the chief minister who is commonly referred to as Adityanath, has repeatedly said there is no shortage of tests, medicines, oxygen, and hospital beds, but the narratives from the state’s rural areas contradict every claim. THREE BRAHMINS ARRESTED FOR BURNING A 12-YEAR-OLD TRIBAL On 22 April, the charred body of a 12-year-old domestic worker from the Karbi community was found outside her employer’s house in the Khaighar village of Assam’s Nagaon district. The Assam Police suspects that Rina, Prakash and Nayanmoni Borthakur—her employers HOW THE KERALA GOVERNMENT IS SHAPING AND IMPLEMENTING ITS Kerala's minister of health, KK Shailaja (L) and the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (C), address the media on 23 March, in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, on the government’s handling of theCovid-19 pandemic.
ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. THE YOUNG ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS LEADING INDIA’S NEW CLIMATE On 19 January, Nityanand Jayaraman, a Chennai-based writer and researcher, announced a week-long call to action against the Adani Group by over 25 environmental youth organisations across the world, on a website called Adani Watch.EDITOR'S PICK
ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy.A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969 THE HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION’S WARPED POSITION ON CASTE Addressing the people in Baltimore in 1864, US President Abraham Lincoln said, “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a 736 SANGH PARIVAR NGOS QUALIFIED FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDS As of 13 May, at least 736 NGOs affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh featured among a list of organisations enlisted by the central government for relief interventions during the ongoing lockdown to control the novel coronavirus pandemic.CASTE | THE CARAVAN
How Dalits from villages across India protested the Hathras crime witha funeral ritual
HOW INDIA AND THE UNHCR FAILED TO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE AND 1 day ago · On 16 April, after visiting three different hospitals in Delhi, a 30-year-old Chin refugee died of COVID-19. According to his mother, who wished to remain anonymous, the 30-year-old told her about the last hospital, “Since my features are different, they don’t pay attention to me. I am very hurt HOSPITAL STAFF ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING COVID PATIENT Paras Hospitals is a group of multi-speciality hospitals with branches in several cities across the country, including this one in Gurugram. Three staff members of the Paras Hospital branch in Patna, Bihar have been accused of sexually assaulting a COVID-19 patient, who was admitted in the ICU ward, on 17 May. TO HONOUR OUR DEAD, WE MUST REMEMBER THE HORROR OF THE “She left me at 6 pm last evening,” the text from a dear friend popped up on one of our phones. The friend was referring to her mother. What struck us was the measured language used, despite the wave of grief. These were sober words, like those of writers and journalists used to reporting the CRUISE SHIPS REPURPOSED TO QUARANTINE MIGRANTS RESCUED LA SUPREMA, a cruise ship built in 2003 for $120 million, can carry nearly three thousand passengers plus a thousand cars.Almost seven hundred feet long, the ship has 567 cabins, three restaurants, six bars, a dozen or so shops, a casino, a movie theatre, a nightclub anda chapel.
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Arkesh Ajay is a Los Angeles based Indian-origin filmmaker/editor.. To honour our dead, we must remember the horror of the COVID-19 secondwave
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Caste impunity and gender violence behind murder of Dalit garment worker in Tamil Nadu. Sowmya. 28 February 2021. The Madam Chief Minister poster and the genealogy of a new Dalit assertion. CommentaryCaste.
ARSHU JOHN | THE CARAVAN Arshu John. Arshu John is an assistant web editor at The Caravan. He was previously an advocate practicing criminal law in Delhi. ED raids Punjab MLA Sukhpal Khaira, who opposed centre on farm laws and raised Navreet case. News Politics.EDITOR'S PICK
Editor's Pick. ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy. A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor of ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. HOW ANI REPORTS THE GOVERNMENT'S VERSION OF TRUTH The Image Makers. How ANI reports the government’s version of truth. Praveen Donthi. 01 March 2019. {ONE} PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by Modi’s opponents inLutyens
UTTARAKHAND SCRAPS RESERVATIONS IN PROMOTIONS, EMBOLDENED On 18 March 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Uttarakhand government abolished reservations in promotions in state government jobs for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The order came less than two months after a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the case of Mukesh Kumar vs State of Uttarakhand. THE AYODHYA VERDICT IS A CORNERSTONE OF THE HINDU RASHTRA The verdict opens by comparing two views that are fundamentally unequal. In the opinion’s own words: “The Hindu community claims it as the birthplace of Lord Ram, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The Muslim community claims it as the site of the historic Babri Masjid built by the first Mughal Emperor,Babur.”.
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Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat is a thinly veiled blueprint of the RSS’s “Hindu Economics”. Sagar. 23 July 2020. For the RSS, “sewa” is a means to achieve the Hindu Rashtra. CommentaryPolitics.
DID SIKH SQUADS PARTICIPATE IN AN ORGANISED ATTEMPT TO As the date for Partition approached, the community worst affected by the move was that of the Sikhs, which was split in large numbers between the regions of Punjab that were to become part of India and Pakistan. Many Sikh leaders had come to believe that an exchange of population between the two regions was the only way to safeguard the interests of their community. THE CARAVANPOLITICSAMIT PANDEYHARTOSH SINGH BALARUNIMA KARTHE FALLENWHY IS SHASHI THAROOR A HINDU There are very few independent media outlets left that have not completely bent over, in this very difficult time. The Caravan is oneof them.
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Caste impunity and gender violence behind murder of Dalit garment worker in Tamil Nadu. Sowmya. 28 February 2021. The Madam Chief Minister poster and the genealogy of a new Dalit assertion. CommentaryCaste.
ARSHU JOHN | THE CARAVAN Arshu John. Arshu John is an assistant web editor at The Caravan. He was previously an advocate practicing criminal law in Delhi. ED raids Punjab MLA Sukhpal Khaira, who opposed centre on farm laws and raised Navreet case. News Politics.EDITOR'S PICK
Editor's Pick. ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy. A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor of ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. HOW ANI REPORTS THE GOVERNMENT'S VERSION OF TRUTH The Image Makers. How ANI reports the government’s version of truth. Praveen Donthi. 01 March 2019. {ONE} PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by Modi’s opponents inLutyens
UTTARAKHAND SCRAPS RESERVATIONS IN PROMOTIONS, EMBOLDENED On 18 March 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Uttarakhand government abolished reservations in promotions in state government jobs for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The order came less than two months after a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the case of Mukesh Kumar vs State of Uttarakhand. THE AYODHYA VERDICT IS A CORNERSTONE OF THE HINDU RASHTRA The verdict opens by comparing two views that are fundamentally unequal. In the opinion’s own words: “The Hindu community claims it as the birthplace of Lord Ram, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The Muslim community claims it as the site of the historic Babri Masjid built by the first Mughal Emperor,Babur.”.
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Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat is a thinly veiled blueprint of the RSS’s “Hindu Economics”. Sagar. 23 July 2020. For the RSS, “sewa” is a means to achieve the Hindu Rashtra. CommentaryPolitics.
DID SIKH SQUADS PARTICIPATE IN AN ORGANISED ATTEMPT TO As the date for Partition approached, the community worst affected by the move was that of the Sikhs, which was split in large numbers between the regions of Punjab that were to become part of India and Pakistan. Many Sikh leaders had come to believe that an exchange of population between the two regions was the only way to safeguard the interests of their community.THE CARAVAN
Culpable Carnage. How the Modi government’s failure to act led to India’s COVID-19 catastrophe HOW INDIA AND THE UNHCR FAILED TO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE AND 1 day ago · On 16 April, after visiting three different hospitals in Delhi, a 30-year-old Chin refugee died of COVID-19. According to his mother, who wished to remain anonymous, the 30-year-old told her about the last hospital, “Since my features are different, they don’t pay attention to me. I am very hurt RESIDENTS BLAME STATE GOVERNMENT AND BUREAUCRACY FOR “The government is doing work only on paper. It’s all pretend,” Surendra Singh, a resident of Rampur Pawti village in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district, told me on 23 May. Residents across rural and urban areas of the district said that unlike the first wave of COVID-19, the second wave had HOSPITAL STAFF ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING COVID PATIENT Paras Hospitals is a group of multi-speciality hospitals with branches in several cities across the country, including this one in Gurugram. Three staff members of the Paras Hospital branch in Patna, Bihar have been accused of sexually assaulting a COVID-19 patient, who was admitted in the ICU ward, on 17 May. TO HONOUR OUR DEAD, WE MUST REMEMBER THE HORROR OF THE “She left me at 6 pm last evening,” the text from a dear friend popped up on one of our phones. The friend was referring to her mother. What struck us was the measured language used, despite the wave of grief. These were sober words, like those of writers and journalists used to reporting the CRUISE SHIPS REPURPOSED TO QUARANTINE MIGRANTS RESCUED LA SUPREMA, a cruise ship built in 2003 for $120 million, can carry nearly three thousand passengers plus a thousand cars.Almost seven hundred feet long, the ship has 567 cabins, three restaurants, six bars, a dozen or so shops, a casino, a movie theatre, a nightclub anda chapel.
SIX MONTHS ON, FARMERS AT DELHI’S BORDERS ARE HERE TO STAY When thousands of farmers began sit-ins on Delhi’s borders against the contentious 2020 farm laws in November that year, they announced that they would sustain their agitation for six months if need be. In subsequent months, the sit-ins received massive global support, faced a government that refused to withdraw the laws and continued for over six months, even through the brutal second waveARKESH AJAY
Arkesh Ajay is a Los Angeles based Indian-origin filmmaker/editor.. To honour our dead, we must remember the horror of the COVID-19 secondwave
“WE WANT SELF-RULE”: PRADYOT DEBBARMA ON HIS PARTY’S On 10 April, a newly formed political party swept the elections in Tripura’s Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council. The Tipraha Indigenous People’s Regional Alliance, or TIPRA, won 18 of the 28 contested seats, defeating the state’s ruling alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the “I’VE BECOME A VICTIM OF INSTITUTIONAL EXCLUSION”: KS On 21 April, Madhyamam, a Malayalam newspaper published an opinion piece titled “The Anti-Reservation Mafia Flourishing in Universities.” The authors—PK Pokker, a visiting professor at Calicut University, and KS Madhavan, an associate professor in the history department at Calicut University—wrote that the implementation of reservation in Kerala’s universities was dismal. THE CARAVANPOLITICSAMIT PANDEYHARTOSH SINGH BALARUNIMA KARTHE FALLENWHY IS SHASHI THAROOR A HINDU There are very few independent media outlets left that have not completely bent over, in this very difficult time. The Caravan is oneof them.
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How Dalits from villages across India protested the Hathras crime witha funeral ritual
ARSHU JOHN | THE CARAVAN Arshu John is an assistant web editor at The Caravan.He was previously an advocate practicing criminal law in Delhi.EDITOR'S PICK
ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy.A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969 HOW ANI REPORTS THE GOVERNMENT'S VERSION OF TRUTH {ONE} PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by Modi’s opponents in Lutyens’ Delhi and are working for hisdownfall.
WOMEN HEALTHCARE WORKERS BATTLE EVERYDAY SEXISM AMID THE Women healthcare workers are less likely to have access to personal protective equipment than their male counterparts. While there are provisions to tailor the PPE to size and gender, most hospitals availfree-size kits.
ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. UTTARAKHAND SCRAPS RESERVATIONS IN PROMOTIONS, EMBOLDENED On 18 March, the BJP-led Uttarakhand government quashed reservations in promotions in state government jobs for Scheduled Castes andScheduled Tribes.
THE AYODHYA VERDICT IS A CORNERSTONE OF THE HINDU RASHTRA Maps of the Hindu Rashtra typically depict the Indian subcontinent drenched in a uniform saffron. Some see a lofty vision of unity in that colouring, but I see the violent and painful erasures of buildings, cultures and people that such uniformity would require. DID SIKH SQUADS PARTICIPATE IN AN ORGANISED ATTEMPT TO As the date for Partition approached, the community worst affected by the move was that of the Sikhs, which was split in large numbers between the regions of Punjab that were to become part of India and Pakistan. Many Sikh leaders had come to believe that an exchange of population between the two regions was the only way to safeguard the interests of their community. THE CARAVANPOLITICSAMIT PANDEYHARTOSH SINGH BALARUNIMA KARTHE FALLENWHY IS SHASHI THAROOR A HINDU There are very few independent media outlets left that have not completely bent over, in this very difficult time. The Caravan is oneof them.
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How Dalits from villages across India protested the Hathras crime witha funeral ritual
ARSHU JOHN | THE CARAVAN Arshu John is an assistant web editor at The Caravan.He was previously an advocate practicing criminal law in Delhi.EDITOR'S PICK
ON 4 JUNE 1972, the activist and author Angela Davis is embraced by her companion Victoria Mercado after an all-white jury in San Jose, California acquitted her of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy.A member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA, Davis was fired from her post as an acting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969 HOW ANI REPORTS THE GOVERNMENT'S VERSION OF TRUTH {ONE} PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by Modi’s opponents in Lutyens’ Delhi and are working for hisdownfall.
WOMEN HEALTHCARE WORKERS BATTLE EVERYDAY SEXISM AMID THE Women healthcare workers are less likely to have access to personal protective equipment than their male counterparts. While there are provisions to tailor the PPE to size and gender, most hospitals availfree-size kits.
ABIDJAN’S LIBERAL GAY CULTURE CONTAINS DEEP-ROOTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE GAY BAR in Abidjan’s southern industrial district, 22-year-old David leaned against a low railing and gossiped withhis friends. He wore large black sunglasses and a black-and-white-striped cardigan over a white T-shirt. Like most men there, his outfit was a version of the style adopted by many young Abidjanais men—a style that mimics American hip-hop chic. UTTARAKHAND SCRAPS RESERVATIONS IN PROMOTIONS, EMBOLDENED On 18 March, the BJP-led Uttarakhand government quashed reservations in promotions in state government jobs for Scheduled Castes andScheduled Tribes.
THE AYODHYA VERDICT IS A CORNERSTONE OF THE HINDU RASHTRA Maps of the Hindu Rashtra typically depict the Indian subcontinent drenched in a uniform saffron. Some see a lofty vision of unity in that colouring, but I see the violent and painful erasures of buildings, cultures and people that such uniformity would require. DID SIKH SQUADS PARTICIPATE IN AN ORGANISED ATTEMPT TO As the date for Partition approached, the community worst affected by the move was that of the Sikhs, which was split in large numbers between the regions of Punjab that were to become part of India and Pakistan. Many Sikh leaders had come to believe that an exchange of population between the two regions was the only way to safeguard the interests of their community.THE CARAVAN
Culpable Carnage. How the Modi government’s failure to act led to India’s COVID-19 catastrophe HOW INDIA AND THE UNHCR FAILED TO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE AND 13 hours ago · On 16 April, after visiting three different hospitals in Delhi, a 30-year-old Chin refugee died of COVID-19. According to his mother, who wished to remain anonymous, the 30-year-old told her about the last hospital, “Since my features are different, they don’t pay attention to me. I am very hurt RESIDENTS BLAME STATE GOVERNMENT AND BUREAUCRACY FOR “The government is doing work only on paper. It’s all pretend,” Surendra Singh, a resident of Rampur Pawti village in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district, told me on 23 May. Residents across rural and urban areas of the district said that unlike the first wave of COVID-19, the second wave had HOSPITAL STAFF ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING COVID PATIENT Paras Hospitals is a group of multi-speciality hospitals with branches in several cities across the country, including this one in Gurugram. Three staff members of the Paras Hospital branch in Patna, Bihar have been accused of sexually assaulting a COVID-19 patient, who was admitted in the ICU ward, on 17 May. TO HONOUR OUR DEAD, WE MUST REMEMBER THE HORROR OF THE 1 day ago · “She left me at 6 pm last evening,” the text from a dear friend popped up on one of our phones. The friend was referring to her mother. What struck us was the measured language used, despite the wave of grief. These were sober words, like those of writers and journalists used to reporting the HOW THE KERALA GOVERNMENT IS SHAPING AND IMPLEMENTING ITS Kerala's minister of health, KK Shailaja (L) and the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan (C), address the media on 23 March, in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, on the government’s handling of theCovid-19 pandemic.
HOW TMC FAILED TO PREPARE OR RESPOND TO COVID SECOND WAVE “We knew that the second wave was coming and that it would be more devastating, but still the state government failed to be prepared for it despite warnings from us doctors,” Manas Gumta, the secretary of the Association of Health Service Doctors, West Bengal, told me. TheAHSD is a
SIX MONTHS ON, FARMERS AT DELHI’S BORDERS ARE HERE TO STAY When thousands of farmers began sit-ins on Delhi’s borders against the contentious 2020 farm laws in November that year, they announced that they would sustain their agitation for six months if need be. In subsequent months, the sit-ins received massive global support, faced a government that refused to withdraw the laws and continued for over six months, even through the brutal second waveARKESH AJAY
1 day ago · Arkesh Ajay is a Los Angeles based Indian-origin filmmaker/editor.. To honour our dead, we must remember the horror of the COVID-19 second wave “WE WANT SELF-RULE”: PRADYOT DEBBARMA ON HIS PARTY’S On 10 April, a newly formed political party swept the elections in Tripura’s Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council. The Tipraha Indigenous People’s Regional Alliance, or TIPRA, won 18 of the 28 contested seats, defeating the state’s ruling alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party and theSubscribe Hindi
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