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  Audio: Tushar Gandhi on the Conspiracy, Assassination and the investigation into the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi | 6 Parts (on All Indians Matter) Jan 30, 2021

  30 January

  ’Murder of the Mahatma’ gives you the full story of the people who planned and conducted the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi explained by Tushar Gandhi. Podcasts produced by All Indians Matter - January 30, 2021

• Audio: . . . the man who assassinated Gandhi is being idolized in India - Kapil Komireddi | Day 6, CBC Radio · Jan 29, 2021

  29 January

  Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, was for decades branded a terrorist. When a play about Godse was staged in the 90s, it was banned for glorifying Gandhi’s killer. But now, as Hindu nationalism reemerges in India, Godse is being celebrated by his supporters — including members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which would have been nearly inconceivable two decades ago according to Kapil Komireddi, author of Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India.

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  The Murder of the Mahatma | G D Khosla (First Published: 1965)

  29 January
  This is a book of memoirs by a very distinguished Indian judge who in 1959 was promoted to the office of Chief Justice of the Punjab. It is largely taken up with criminal cases-of arson, dacoity, poisoning, vendetta, and so on-in which the author was personally concerned as a judge. Fascinating in themselves, these accounts are made the more interesting by the author’s hamorous and penetrating comments upon various features of Indian crime-the  (...)
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  India: Doctors take serious note of attack on medical teams by the police at Singhu and Tikri borders on 26th January | IDPD Press Release - Jan 29, 2021

  29 January

  We the doctors and paramedical staff Have been organising medical Camps at Tikri and Singhu borders on behalf of Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD). Our medical teams marched along with the tractors. We are pained at the events that occurred on 26th January when a few unscrupulous elements hoisted the flag at Red Fort. This situation arose when police created hurdles on the agreed route & looked the other way around to facilitate prohibited route. since we were present there throughout we are eye witness to affirm that such hooliganism was done by a minuscule number of people and it could have been very well prevented if the police had been little cautious.

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  Révolte sans précédent des paysans indiens | Joël Cabalion & Delphine Thivet (Le Monde Diplomatique, Feb 2021)

  28 January

  En pleine crise sanitaire, le gouvernement indien a promulgué trois lois qui engagent une dérégulation brutale du système public alimentaire et agricole. Depuis leur adoption par le Parlement, à la mi-septembre 2020, elles ont suscité un mouvement de protestation inédit dans tout le pays. Elles marquent la fin d’un pacte moral entre le pouvoir et la paysannerie.

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