May 1987: Hashimpura Massacre, the Long Road to Justice, and a Poet s Lament
On May 22, 1987, 42 Muslim men were were rounded up from the Hashimpura locality in Meerut by UP Provincial Armed Constabulary for their cold-blooded execution.
Hashimpura, 1987. Credit: Praveen Jain
mushaira on YouTube where preeminent Urdu poet Bashir Badr recited a rather mournful
sher
 tum taras nahi khaate bastiyan jalane mein
(It takes a lifetime to build a house
yet you remorselessly raze colonies to the ground)
Badr didnât reveal the context of his
sher and I took it as an incisive take on the unfortunate but all too common phenomenon of communal riots in the country. However, I inadvertently came across the context of his
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The forgotten voters
The forgotten voters
“Voting Facilities for the Migrant Workers” when five states including Assam are going to Assembly polls is a timely intervention
| 22 Jan 2021 10:02 AM GMT
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) pushing the campaign for Voting Facilities for the Migrant Workers when five states including Assam are going to Assembly polls is a timely intervention. Lack of an accepted definition of migrant workers in India continues to be the stumbling block for evolving a mechanism to enable them to exercise their franchise from their place of work. The migrant workers cannot afford to travel back to their home states to exercise their franchise and most of them cannot take part in the voting on the polling day. The postal ballot system is available only for the government employees and employees of armed forces. The ADR studies reveal that several crores of migrant residents of India remain deprived of voting right. The politi