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A compilation of legal provisions which are on the statute books and give the lie to the argument that the proposed anti-conversion law in Karnataka is filling a much needed legal gap. A perusal of these provisions will indicate that there is no need for an anti-conversion law to cover the use of force and fraud and that the real purpose of the proposed law is to target the constitutional right to profess and practice faith of one’s choice.
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No Need for Anti-Conversion Law
by PUCL-Karnataka
This is a preliminary compilation of legal provisions which are on the statute books and give the lie to the argument that the proposed anti-conversion law in Karnataka is filling a much needed legal gap. A perusal of these provisions will indicate that there is no need for an anti-conversion law to cover the use of force and fraud and that the real purpose of the proposed law is to target the constitutional right to profess and practice faith of one’s choice.
Growing Need for Unity of Social Movements
by Bharat Dogra
As the crises converge, there is a growing need for unity of
social movements
Christmas arrives in Saudi Arabia
by Dr James M Dorsey
Long banned, Christmas has finally, at least tacitly, arrived in Saudi Arabia; just don’t use the name in marketing or be ostentatious about your tree.
Left-wing Victory in Chile
by Yanis Iqbal
The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the Left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of more than 10 percentage points – most presidents had hitherto secured only four or five point leads. In absolute terms, this is a record majority, with some 4.6 million votes cast for Boric, putting him almost 1 million votes ahead of the pro-Pinochet candidate, Juan Antonio Kast, who obtained 44%. These electoral outcomes were marked by political polarization.
Naked @ Work – the Neoliberal Workplace
By Thomas
Klikauer and Meg Young
It is no longer uncommon to hear people saying, I love my work. Is this just the latest stage of capitalism getting us to work harder so that someone else benefits? Historically, it all started when former peasants were – at times, with brutal force – converted into workers. It was the time when capitalism quite literally was Making the Working Class inside its Dark Satanic Mills.
India’s `Gestapo’ – National Investigation Agency (NIA)
by Sumanta Banerjee
India’s counter terrorism task force NIA (National Investigation Agency) has come into limelight recently – but for the wrong reasons. Neglecting their original task of pursuing serious crimes like terrorism, the NIA personnel have barked up the wrong tree. Incapable of nabbing the real
terrorists, they are trying other methods to justify their perpetuation in the present system. They have picked up human rights activists, political opponents of the current regime, and other dissidents, and branded them as terrorists.
The Shudra/OBC Delhi Declaration
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
On 21 December, 2021 a majorNational Shudra/OBC conclave took place in Delhi Talkatora stadium with hundreds of Shudra/OBC activists, intellectuals and political leaders across the parties, different universities and civil societal organizations gathered. They put out the first ever Shudra/OBC declaration, which has a historical significance for the nation
Poisoning people’s minds to ensure polarisation in the coming polls
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Uttarakhand is in the news
for all the wrong reasons at the moment. The video of a meeting of the so-called ‘dharmsansad’ in Hardwar have gone viral on social media where the speakers masquerading as leaders concerned for ‘Hindus’ have used absolutely filthy, gutter level, genocidal language against minorities particularly the Muslims
Vedicisation of India
by Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao
The sole of the culture of majority resides in its purity. The cultural majority would be afraid of polluting its culture. But the flow of history, does not allow them to maintain such purity. They need compromise with purity to retain the reformed version of culture. When threatened with total extinction, they could hold to the reformed version and rebuild on it. Dayanada Saraswathi and M.K. Gandhi’s call for ‘Go Back Vedas’ was such call for rebuilding on the reformed version.
