Why I Killed the Mahatma: UNCOVERING GODSE’S DEFENCE by Koenraad Elst-Review By: Jatin Desai
The book “Why I Killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse’s Defence” written by Conrad Elst, a Belgian Indologist, and published recently is a controversial and difficult book, as was to be expected. He has a doctorate in Oriental Studies with a dissertation on Hindu Nationalism. The book raises many questions even before…
Pakistani rights group attracts 8,000 to rally despite state pressure
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani ethnic rights group drew over 8,000 people to a rally in Lahore on Sunday, despite pressure from security officials to call off the event focusing on human rights violations in areas bordering Afghanistan. The leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement(PTM), student activist Manzoor Pashteen, delivered…
Instead of death penalty, improve implementation of existing laws: Amnesty
Human rights organisation Amnesty International India on Saturday termed a “knee-jerk reaction” the decision to introduce death penalty for those convicted of raping a child below the age of 12, calling on the government to improve implementation of existing laws to protect children from sexual abuse. “The government’s decision to introduce death penalty through an ordinance…
Towards legal reform (By: I.A. Rehman)
THE call for legal reform by the country’s chief justice can only be supported wholeheartedly. A serious debate on the scope of reform and the process of bringing it about is, however, necessary. The chief justice has quite eloquently bemoaned delays in the disposal of cases, sometimes for decades, and…
Dr. Éric Toussaint of CADTM says “Stop Repaying Illegitimate Debt”
Dr. Éric Toussaint is the spokesperson of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts (CADTM International), formerly called the Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt. He is a historian and a political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the University of Paris VIII and the University of…
South Asia: New creditors and new forms of debt peonage
Punjab National Bank (CC – Wikimedia) The seventh CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from April 6 to April 8, 2018, with participants from Sri Lanka, but also from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, as well as from Japan, France and Belgium (for the CADTM…