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Monday, December 27, 2021

CC Newsletter 26 Dec - No Need for Anti-Conversion Law

 


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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.






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