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Ambedkar’s Legacy Lives on in Poetry and Music
06 Dec 2020
Music and poetry have been central to the Dalit movement. There are myriad poems about Ambedkar, and songs old and new that celebrate the strength of Dalit movements and demand an end to atrocities…
ICF Team
Freedom of Speech, Dissent and Sedition
08 Oct 2020
The right to dissent, the right to protest against the government’s actions, to express one’s opinion and criticism is an important part of our constitutional framework.
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Yogi Government Crossed Limits of Barbarism and Inhumanity in Hathras: Subhashini Ali
05 Oct 2020
The ICF team spoke to former Uttar Pradesh MP and CPI(M) Politburo member, Subhashini Ali, in connection with the inhuman incident at Hathras.
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Message from Gandhi: Sedition Law is ‘Designed to Suppress the Liberty of the Citizen’
02 Oct 2020
On the 151st birth anniversary of Gandhi, let’s recall his views on sedition and the message about the importance of nonviolent resistance reflected through it.
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Five Years Since Dadri Lynching: Whither the Laws?
28 Sep 2020
Today marks five years since Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched to death outside his house in Dadri. To mark the day, we discuss the trajectory of some of the lynching cases in the past few years and share…
ICF Team
'Rights Based Legislation Have Been Undermined Since 2014'
23 Sep 2020
Activists Aruna Roy, Nikhi Dey and Rakshita Swamy talk to Indian Cultural Forum about the history of various rights based legislations enacted in India during 2004-2014.
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Hum Dekhenge: Various Artists Come Together to Remember Gauri Lankesh
05 Sep 2020
What began as a spontaneous, personal response months ago as poet and translator Pratishtha Pandya listened to the iconic song by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, became a collective journey when artists from…
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“Concerned and Dismayed” | Mallika Sarabhai
04 Sep 2020
This is Part-II from a three-part series of conversations. Here, Sarabhai speaks of existing labour laws being squashed, lack of social security for the workers, growing incarceration of…
ICF Team
Bol | Danish Husain Reads Rahat Indori
30 Aug 2020
With his conversational, irreverent but playful style, Rahat Indori struck a chord with the masses.
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“Our Mythology is not Monolithic” | Mallika Sarabhai
29 Aug 2020
In part one from this three-part series of conversations, Sarabhai speaks of pieces like Shakti: The Power of Women (1989); Draupadi in Peter Brook's Mahabharata (1984-89), Sita's Daughters (1990)…