Saturday, March 17, 2018

Coming Soon - A Report On The Americas

A statue of Ernesto Che Guevara Statue at El Alto in La Paz, Bolivia.
 Dear Readers

I was fortunate enough to spend a substantial part of last year in the America's. I managed to visit half a dozen countries present at strategic locations in North, Central and South America.

Despite numerous efforts by state and non-state actors to sabotage my journey, I was able to successfully complete my study tour. I hope to organize my findings and present it in the form of a report in the coming months.

Its been 12 long years since I founded this blog, I also hope to introspect on the years gone by in the coming weeks. Do stay tuned for more updates.

Regards

Abhay N

Saturday, April 02, 2016

The Tragedy of DSU JNU

The Democratic Students Union, an independent student organization based in JNU has been in the news lately. It's member's Umar and Anirban were arrested as part of a consipracy hatched by the BJP, ABVP and RSS to defame the communists of all hues in India.. They are now out on bail.
Umar (left) and Anirban (right). Image-credit:thehindu.com
The real tragedy that has gone unnoticed over the past year is the fact that DSU members chose to delete their blog maintained at http://dsujnu.blogspot.com in late 2014. The blog which was a rich source of information cannot be accessed now. Over a decade it had amassed a loyal readership of student activists and media professionals. It was started in 2007 and had received more than a million visitors.

I suspect the blog deletion was carried out as result of some internecine conflict they had with the Revolutionary Democratic Front on gender relations and patriarchal oppression. They later on issued a statement which can be read at the link below:

http://www.countercurrents.org/anirban221115.htm

 What could be the other reasons for deleting their blog?

  • Was the blog deleted it because it was under surveillance of the Intelligence Bureau and had transformed into threat to ordinary citizens?
  • Was it hacked ? Members of the ABVP do possess this capability and have demonstrated it by hacking profiles of dissidents on Facebook.
Somebody from the organization should clarify because they owe an answer to their loyal readers !

If they indeed deleted it then all the work they did over a decade online has now been undone with a single click of the button. A great tragedy indeed. If they had retained this platform , it could have served them effectively at the time of the JNU crisis. A copy of the archives of DSU JNU blog is available here.
 

Friday, April 01, 2016

Saketh Rajan Memorial Website Updated

I have updated the website dedicated to Com Saketh Rajan, to view the new additions scroll down towards the bottom of the website.

https://sites.google.com/site/sakethrajan/

If you have any material which you think can be uploaded to the website, do let me know in the comments section below.

Regards

Abhay N