-Bridge the Gap Bring the Change

Day June 19, 2018

India – Collapse of PDP-BJP alliance: The break-up is nothing but a staged drama

*Statement on collapse of PDP-BJP alliance: The break-up is nothing but a staged drama by the alliance partners to rid themselves of any accountability. They are fleeing, in order to erase their sins and escape questions from the public.* By- Shehla… Continue Reading →

On Gauri Lankesh and religion: It is ridiculous to brand her anti-Hindu as her killers are trying to do

Kavitha Lankesh The last few days have been strangely painful and numbing. Men, some of them young, have been justifying a cold blooded murder. Reading the headlines quoting the killers (of my sister), “Gauri was killed for her anti-Hindu ideology,”… Continue Reading →

UN experts urge Iran to halt “unlawful execution” of young offender #deathpenalty

  GENEVA (19 June 2018) – UN human rights experts* are making an urgent appeal to the authorities in Iran to halt the execution of Mohammad Kalhori, a young man who was sentenced to death at 15 years old for… Continue Reading →

Knee-jerk Justice- For POCSO Act to effectively protect children, it should go beyond #DeathPenalty

Written by Mustafa Haji | U The child abuse law as it stands has multiple problems, mostly stemming from its focus on the abuser (Representational Image)In April, India made world news with the introduction of the death penalty for child rapists. It is… Continue Reading →

Polimer TV’s coverage of Akshay Dev’s suicide shows how lives of trans-men are reduced to mere television fodder

By Charupriyan for TwoCircles.net Translation by Uma Murugan This piece is being written in condemnation of the deeply transphobic and unethical journalistic coverage by Polimer Television, a private Tamil News channel, of the tragic death of a transman in Tamil… Continue Reading →

India – Anti-caste poet Lokshahir Shantanu Kamble passes away in Nashik at the age of 39 #RIP

By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net In a terrible jolt to the Ambedkarite movement in Maharashtra, Shahir Shantanu Kamble, a 39-year-old poet on whose life the movie ‘Court’ was based, died in Nashik. Shahir Shantanu Kamble belonged to the fierce tradition or… Continue Reading →

Student activist Valarmathi arrested for opposing Salem-Chennai green corridor project #WTFnews #DefendDissent

PLEASE SIGN PETITION  AND SHARE Release Environmental Activist Piyush Manush, student activist Valarmathi and Villagers Valarmathi   | Photo Credit: The Hindu : The Salem police on Tuesday arrested Valarmathi, a student activist, on the charge of attempting to disrupt a meeting of revenue… Continue Reading →

Protesting Haryana ASHA Workers Detained and Released

The massive uprisings of workers and immense response to the Jail Bharo protest forced the government to call a meeting with the workers on Friday. Image Coutesy: Facebook Iterating their long-pending demands, more than 20,000 Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA)… Continue Reading →

© 2024 Kractivism — Powered by WordPress

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑