‘We Don’t Want War’
The ongoing Indo-Pak conflict, exemplified by Operation Sindhoor, highlights the severe damage of war–where only weapon sellers profit. War is not a live event to be watched on television; it’s about the lives lost and how manysoldiers and citizens are alive after war. International mediation is vital for peace, prioritizing the survival of soldiers and civilians alike.
T S Kaarthik, Chennai

Relief for Ramdas
A year after the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, had suspended a Dalit PhD scholar on the charge of “misconduct” and “anti-national activities” because he took part in a protest rally against the NarendraModi government, the Supreme Court has given him relief.

Though a two-judge bench of the apex court comprising Justices DipankarDatta and Manmohan did not invalidate the suspension order, it, however, directed TISS that its period is reduced to what he has already undergone, and he be allowed to complete his PhD.

On April 18, 2024, TISS had suspended the scholar, Ramadas K S., for two years and barred him from entering all its campuses after he participated in a protest held against the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) brought by the Modi government. The protest, called ‘Parliament March’, was held on January 12, 2024, by the TISS-PSF (Progress Students’ Forum) and had called for rejecting the ruling BJP.
Dilip

Defending Dignity
For those declared “foreigners” or excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) without just cause, the consequences are devastating–amounting to civil death. Entire families are engulfed by this injustice.

Since 2017, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) in Assam has worked tirelessly across remote villages and districts. CJP provides critical paralegal and legal aid, as well as psychological support, to those affected by the NRC crisis. Every month, CJP’s district-level legal team handles 25 Foreigner Tribunal cases–fighting to ensure no innocent person is left without legal recourse.

The NRC process has become a ruthless ordeal. It’s not just a legal battle–it’s a deeply personal catastrophe. Lives are shattered, identities erased, and the trauma lingers long after the tribunals.
But CJP has not backed down. It has been on the frontlines for over five years. CJP Assam Team doesn’t just offer legal aid–they fight for dignity, for hope, for survival.
CJP

Concerns over Escalation
The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), the National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements (NAAM) and the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) express grave concern over the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.

The current crisis was triggered by the brutal terrorist attack on April 22 at the Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam where 26 innocent civilians were brutally gunned down. This tragedy represents a major security lapse, as the area lacked any security outpost despite being a popular tourist destination and none of the terrorists have been apprehended. On the night of May 7, Indian forces conducted air strikes on multiple targets within Pakistan, reportedly aimed at terrorist bases. In response, Pakistan has retaliated with cross-border shelling so innocent civilians on both sides have been killed. This is to be unequivocally condemned.

India and Pakistan are the only two nuclear nations to have engaged in this kind of an armed confrontation with direct attacks within each-other’s sovereign territory. We are greatly concerned by the potential for miscalculation in this volatile situation and the grave consequences of further escalation.

As peace groups based in India, we are aghast at the level of Islamophobia and anti-Pakistan sentiment within Indian society and the role of the Indian media that has sought to whip up pro-war hysteria. These domestic factors differentiate the current situation from the period of the Kargil conflict in 1999 or the tensions that arose after the attack on the Indian parliament in 2001 and the attacks in Mumbai in 2008. The situation also differs from 2019, after the Balakot strikes, when an Indian jet was shot down but the conflict was defused after Pakistan swiftly returned the pilot.

Our greatest worry is that the current conflict might escalate to a nuclear exchange. Although the probability of such an event is still low, even a limited nuclear exchange could lead to millions of deaths in the region. It would also have serious consequences for billions of people all over the world.
CNDP, NAAM and IDPD

Owaisi and Waqf
Mr Owaisi is a senior most Waqf Board member since 2004 and his party AIMIM is on a Waqf Board for the longest time. He is simply misguiding and leading people to darkness.

What he has done to remove corruption and restoration of sanctity of waqf institutions?

How MP Owaisi along with his AIMIM has improved the community and used it for education, housing, health and benefits for poor and orphans?   

Unable to explain to the people about the services he has done to the waqf board and what he has done to the waqf donations for upliftment of community, he is going for gimmicks like 9PM ‘battigul’!!!and cracking jokes on khabrastans. 

How waqf areas vanished away from waqf into private hands in spite of authentic documentation even when he is the longest standing member of Waqf Board?

How people in the waqf board who have charges, suspension notices are still continuing as members of present waqf board?

How such people are the chairman and office-bearers of Darussalam bank?

Why the present waqf board Telangana is not in order? 

Why reconciliation of waqf records has not been undertaken since 1996?  

MP Owaisi who is trying to shut down lights from 9PM is actually further darkening the fate of the country and the minority community as well. 
Dr AdvLubnaSarwath, Jb Mohamed Abdul Aziz, Syed TaraqQuadri, AdvQudsiaTabassum, Sogara Begum, JbMirzaIlyasBaig, AdvAdilNadeem,Jb Rahim Baig, JbMaqboolMateen
Hyderabad

Escaping the Taliban
They are mothers, sisters and daughters who bravely resisted and protested against one of the world’s most brutal regimes–Taliban.

In Afghanistan today, it’s essentially illegal to be a woman. They can’t get an education, go out alone, or even sing in public. So when these women dared to speak out, they were beaten and hunted by the morality police. They fled to Pakistan with their families.

But now, they’re about to be sent back–and the Taliban are waiting. Avaaz is trying to help at least 50 women immediately escape the Taliban.

The women face being imprisoned, tortured or raped. For many, deportation is a death sentence, torture or rape. Avaaz is raising funds so that at least 50 women could be settled in Brazil.
Avaaz

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Vol 57, No. 49, June 1 - 7, 2025