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Emergency Like Situation In University of Hyderabad
By The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice

http://www.countercurrents.org/jac230316.htm

The moment Podile Apparao entered the campus, the first thing that happened was absolute internet shut down for students. Then they closed down the messes, water and sanitation. It was a precondition for a VC like Apparao to first take away the food, drinking water, sanitation and internet to resume his office. After an entire day of lathi charge, physical and sexual assault on us, we slept without food and water; today we are cooking together and preparing our own food. Apparao has suspended all classes until Monday


Condemn The Police Action On UoH, Release The students 
And Withdraw Police Forces From The Campus
By Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee

http://www.countercurrents.org/clmc230316.htm

This committee received information that large numbers of students are missing, many are injured severely and several students and a few faculty members are detained by the police. The police even threatened the female students of sexual assault, passed sexist and racial comments apart from dragging them. VC Appa Rao with the nexus of police stopped the supply of water, closed the messes, cut off the electricity and internet services. In this second phase of HCU fight of justice for Rohith Vemula, there is clear indication that this time the Telangana government is providing all logistic support to the central government and VC Appa Rao, so that this movement cannot spread all over Telangana state. Now the situation at HCU is dangerous and the lives of students and faculty are under threat. All the fundamental rights of the students are snatched away; there is no space for democratic rights


CPDR Condemns The Brutal Police Attack On The Dalit Students 
And Faculty At Hyderabad Central University
By Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR)

http://www.countercurrents.org/cpdr230316.htm

Yesterday, on 22 March 2016, the Hyderabad Police brutally attacked the students and faculty of the Hyderabad Central University who protested against resumption of Appa Rao Poddile, Vice Chancellor. Many students and two faculty members were badly injured in the police attack. Some 36 students along with two professors, K Y Ratnam and Tathagat Sengupta were taken into custody, the whereabouts of them remains unknown till today


Condemn Police Brutality On Students And Teachers In University of Hyderabad
By Peoples Union For Democratic Rights

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr230316.htm

PUDR strongly condemns the brutal police action unleashed on students and teachers at the University of Hyderabad campus on 22nd March 2016. This took place when students were protesting against the return of the Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Poddile to the campus after he had gone on leave following the suicide of Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula in January. Prof. Appa Rao, along with Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and others, is one of the main accused in the case for abetment of Rohith’s suicide and has also been criticised in the past for his anti-Dalit attitudes


Remembering Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev And Rajguru 
By Maanvender Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/msingh230316.htm

On 23 March, 1931 three men Sukhdev, Rajguru and Bhagat Singh were hanged to death. Among them Bhagat Singh still remains the most celebrated and respected figure for the current generation. However the figure itself is deliberately distorted and mostly misrepresented.The episode of Bhagat Singh in Indian independence struggle is reduced to the story of heroic sacrifice that he made for the nation and very little effort has been made to unravel his revolutionary ideas and motives. Similarly his treatment in popular media has been mostly dramatic, and creates a persona of a macho man with hat on his head and pistol in his hand, who unlike Gandhi responds British with violence. However what is most ironical is the recent claim laid by the BJP-RSS over the legacy of Bhagat Singh. This comes from an organization that has not produced even a single freedom fighter. Therefore there is a need to liberate Bhagat Singh from these different versions that political parties and historian
s have
produced conveniently to suite their own kind of nationalism


Bhagat Singh, Martyrdom Tradition And The Hindutva Gang 
By Shamsul Islam

http://www.countercurrents.org/si230316.htm

During the NDA regime when its two senior swayamsewaks, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishan Advani ruled the country, it made the astonishing claim that Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, founder of the RSS met Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev in 1925 and continued attending meetings with these revolutionaries and even provided shelter to Rajguru in 1927 when he was underground after killing Sanders. And in 2007 first time in history, the Hindi organ of the RSS, Panchjanya came out with a special issue on Bhagat Singh. It is to be noted that in the whole pre-Partition literature of RSS we do not find even a single reference to these martyrs. In fact the RSS literature is full of anecdotes showing its indifference to revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh


Ambedkar On Bhagatsingh
By Anand Teltumbde

http://www.countercurrents.org/teltumbde010316.htm

Ambedkar did not write on the revolutionary movement of Bhagat Singh but has written an editorial note titled "Three Victims" when they were hanged. Though it does not speak about their struggle, much less politics, it explains how their execution was influenced by political expediency back home. I provide herewith its translation as it may be of interest to many a student of Ambedkar besides its historical value


Attack In Brussels Ignites World Outrage But The suffering Of Others Don’t 
By Mirza Arif Beg

http://www.countercurrents.org/beg230316.htm

A barrage of images, editorials, and opinion pieces was unleashed upon us as it is usually done when a western country comes under attack. Attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the brutal massacre of Parisians is nowhere to be downplayed and in fact shouldn’t be at any cost. Paris attacks had kept the first pages of leading newspapers occupied for at least three initial days and we could expect the same again with regard to Brussels attacks. However, leading news organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian are yet to publish their first editorial dedicated to the attacks in Ankara and Grand Bassam


Obama’s Cuba Speech: “Democratic” Veneer For US Capitalist Invasion 
By Bill Van Auken

http://www.countercurrents.org/auken230316.htm

Obama’s speech itself, a 38-minute address to a hand-picked audience at Havana’s Teatro Nacional, seemed interminable, loaded with banalities, random phrases in Spanish, hackneyed anecdotes and sanctimonious lies about the glories of US capitalism and its “dollar democracy.”


US Presidential Candidates Bow Before AIPAC 
By Dr. Ludwig Watzal

http://www.countercurrents.org/watzal230316.htm

Every year, it's the same beat-up story. The pro-Israel Zionist lobby AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) invites to its annual convention and all the top knobs in Washington show up. This year, it was the turn of the American presidential candidates to go on the AIPAC pilgrimage, except for Bernie Sanders. Trump, Clinton, Cruz and Kasich were all thrilled to bits about Israel. They outbid each other in their subservience to Israel. Sanders, the only Jew in the race, did not show up and scathingly criticized the Israeli government for its occupation and its "disproportionate responses to being attacked"


A History Of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers – From 1948 Until Today 
By Jonathan Cook

http://www.countercurrents.org/cook230316.htm

It is hard not to see parallels between the cover-ups of 1948 and those of today. Breaking the Silence’s disclosures, especially those relating to Israel’s series of attacks on Gaza, each of which has left hundreds of civilians dead, similarly give the lie to the army’s continuing claims of ethical behaviour


Our Socioeconomic System Is Killing Us 
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet230316.htm

We are now so close to an unliveable planet, that it has become in everyone’s interest to have an economy that function for us instead of working for an alien economy, as we are doing now. If we achieve that it will also automatically transform an exploitative economy to a cooperative economy that works within and as a part of nature. That means we will not only have cooperative social economy globally but cooperative with nature, which should save today young ones and give us all something worthwhile to achieve


Mumbai To Bastar : People's Struggles Against State Repression And Dictatorship
By Bastar Solidarity Network, Mumbai

http://www.countercurrents.org/bsnm230316.htm

The Bastar Division of Chhattisgarh has seen intense militarization ever since counter-insurgency operations were unleashed against the Maoists under the purview of the State. Villages have been plundered, houses burnt and countless locals have been killed, ‘encountered’ or otherwise driven away from their homesteads into crowded and roadside cabins-(ill)maintained by the State. As a part of the ongoing and severe escalation of state-sponsored violence, it was declared on February 2016 that a team of ‘local-fighters’ mostly renegade and surrendered Maoists shall be armed and trained rapidly and deployed for counter-insurgency, which shows how a Salwa-Judum like situation is in continuation, in direct mockery of the Supreme Court of India’s order


Impact Assessment Of Welfare Schemes In Vidarbha 
By Shubhda Chaudhary

http://www.countercurrents.org/sc230316.htm

The policies that have greatly aggravated the agrarian crisis and peasant indebtedness include reversal of land reforms in order to give large tracts of land to corporates, slashing of subsidies on all agricultural inputs like fertilizers and diesel, removal of quantitative restrictions on foreign agricultural imports. Other factors include decline in public expenditure on agriculture, irrigation and rural development, invasion of MNCs in agriculture, leading to big rise in costs of all inputs, privatization of irrigation and power projects, leading to much higher costs, crunch in institutional credit to farmers, thus boosting rapacious money-lenders. There has also been serious weakening of agricultural research and development and extension systems


Nationalism Is An Obstacle To Reason Like Dirt In A Clogged Drain 
By Pratap Antony

http://www.countercurrents.org/antony230316.htm

What India needs is less nationalism and more unification. More pluralism, more cohesion and more national integration. What we need is a policy of ‘live and let live’. A policy that lights up our path to unification and integration of communities, religions, regions, classes and castes. We need politicians who would kindle incandescent lights of reason - of wisdom and understanding, and banish this darkness