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West Bengal | Ahead of the repoll in Falta on May 21, Jahangir Khan, the candidate of the Trinamool Congress, withdrew his candidature
He said, "My objective is to ensure peace and security in Falta, and to foster its maximum possible development. My vision was 'Sonar Falta.' Our Chief Minister is providing a special package for the people of Falta; it is for this very reason that I am withdrawing my nomination. I have withdrawn my candidature in the interest of Falta's development and peace.
(File photo-Jahangir Khan/X)
From Assam to Odisha, Bharat Ratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika continues to unite hearts across boundaries.
“Mora Gita Heu”, the Odia adaptation of “Mur Gaan Houk”, beautifully carries the same emotion and humanity that Bhupen Da stood for.
As we celebrate #BhupenDaAt100, such tributes to Sudhakantha in every Indian language deserve equal celebration.
His name was Rajan.
He was a final year engineering student at the Regional Engineering College in Calicut, Kerala. His father, T V Eachara Varier, was a Hindi professor at the Government Arts and Science College in the same city.
On the morning of March 1 1976 the police came to the college campus and took Rajan away.
India was under Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended. Courts had effectively turned away.
His father found out the next day from the college principal.
He went to every police station in the district. No one admitted to having his son.
He met the Home Minister of Kerala, K Karunakaran, directly.
He sent petitions to the Home Secretary of the Government of Kerala three times. Not a single reply or acknowledgement came.
He wrote to the President of India and the Home Minister of the central government, with copies to every Member of Parliament from Kerala.
Nothing.
What Eachara Varier did not know at the time was that his son had been taken to an illegal police interrogation camp at Kakkayam.
He was tortured.
A practice called uruttal was used, where a heavy wooden log is rolled over the body of the victim.
Rajan died from his injuries. His body was disposed of by the police and was never found.
When the Emergency ended in 1977 Eachara Varier filed a habeas corpus petition in the Kerala High Court.
It was the first such petition filed in Kerala after the Emergency.
He did it without legal training, without political backing, without money.
He had spent everything searching for his son.
The court case slowly unravelled the truth.
It forced K Karunakaran to resign as Chief Minister of Kerala in 1978 when the adverse judgment came.
Rajan’s mother became mentally unstable from the grief. She died in 2000 still not knowing where her son was.
Eachara Varier wrote his memoir, Memories of a Father, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004.
In its final lines he wrote, “I don’t close the door. Let the rain lash inside and drench me. Let at least my invisible son know that his father never shut the door.”
He died on April 13 2006. He never found his son’s body.
Rajan was picked up from his college campus on a March morning in 1976. He was never seen again.
Repost this. Some stories must not be allowed to disappear.
Since 2 pm today, I have been sitting at a police station in Delhi with a young woman to get her FIR filed
A serial criminal and notorious illegal arms supplier who is currently in jail, Mohd Fahim, trapped her because his maulvi mama told him that since he cannot go out of India for Haj given his criminal record, he must get a Hindu woman converted to Islam for same ‘sabaab’ to enter jannat (watch her video statement recorded by me)
The woman, who is a Hindu from a scheduled caste, has been through a lot in last 4 years: gangrape, threats, force-feeding of cow meat, abuse, trauma and, most recently, threats from his jail cell
Statement given. Still waiting for FIR to get lodged. @DCPSEastDelhi@CPDelhi@LtGovDelhi
🚨 BIG BREAKING
Delhi Police Crime Branch has ARRESTED RJD national secretary Santosh Kumar Jaiswal in connection with the NEET paper leak and exam fraud case.
#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal: After the meeting with TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, TMC MP Saayoni Ghosh says, "We have not lost, but Mamata Banerjee has been defeated. Mamata Banerjee has been defeated by stealing votes, by looting votes. In 2029, the people of Bengal, the people of the entire country, and in 2031, the mothers, land, and people of West Bengal will give a befitting reply..."
Yesterday was a long day.
I was called for questioning in connection with a case that I believed had no merit, and I attended the questioning to present my version. However, the police arrested me at 5.30 PM.
I was granted bail at 10 PM, and the Hon’ble Duty Judge clearly stated that he saw no offence in the case. He also said that he saw no mens rea and failed to understand why I had even been arrested.
Grateful to @RaviSharmaTalks and @sidcool2302, the wonderful lawyers who helped me through this.
Thankful to the many people, both online and offline, who supported me. I’m truly grateful. Of course, there are many who dislike you and use such opportunities to strike harder when you are down, but that’s fair game. It was your day, and you took it. I can take those blows and come back.
At times like these, one realises the importance of ideological support. The people who stood by me at the most crucial juncture were neither close friends nor relatives, but those with whom I am bound by ideology. And it delivered for me when it mattered most.
This incident has added many new layers of perspective, most importantly the ones we usually miss in the melee of day-to-day social media discourse.
I’ll write about the specifics of this case another day. For now, I just want to say thank you so much to everyone who has been a well-wisher. I’m grateful.
Thank you for monitoring the situation.
In many countries you can directly drink from tap, many countries run only on power generators, many have mandatory health insurance and social security for senior citizen, many don't know what 'no internet coverage' means, many countries even don't have electricity. So many many
In his first speech as Tamil Nadu chief minister, Vijay said that he grew up in poverty, and that he even knows what hunger is. It's bullshit because he was my classmate in the third standard in Loyola School.
His father was a filmmaker who set up his son for a career in films.
It is possible that like most filmmakers his father may have had periods of financial strife but that's not the same as Tamil-grade poverty. A lot of affluent boys confuse being broke with poverty. Two very different things.
MGR the mega star, when he became CM of TN had his "friend" Katalam utha by his side. When he died the his party AIADMK followed his friend Jayalalitha not his wife.
I see history repeating itself in TN. Although I must add nobody can become Jayalalitha version 2.
"From a Washington perspective, #Pakistan is not a woman to marry, but rather a whore to use and discard. Munir is just the latest pimp. Trump’s term is ending and whoever comes next—Republican or Democrat—will likely agree on one issue: Pakistan is not to be trusted, nor will the United States feel any obligation to respect any Trump promises to Munir."
I explain in my latest @SundayGuardian commentary: https://t.co/Xdsz9jyZnc