Monthly Archives: November 2019

WSS Statement On The Institutional Murder of Fathima Latheef And The Lack Of Action By IIT-Madras

Posted on November 29, 2019 | Leave a comment

WSS Condemns IIT-Ms Inaction regarding the Institutional Murder of Fathima Latheef

Demand Urgent Institution-level Inquiry into the role of Prof. Sudarshan Padmanabhan!

Stand in solidarity with Fathima’s family and fellow students, in their struggle for justice for Fathima!

On November 9th 2019, 19 year old Fathima Latheef, a first year topper student of IIT-Madras, committed suicide citing harassment by Prof. Sudarshan Padmanabhan in a note left behind on her cell phone. This is the fifth suicide on the campus of the elite institution this year with Fathima being victim to not just institutional casteism but anti-muslim harassment from the aforementioned professor. It must be noted that it has not even been six months since the institutional murder of another bright scholar, Dr. Payal Tadvi, due to anti-muslim and casteist harassment by her colleagues at BYL Nair hospital in Mumbai. Continue reading →

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WSS Fact Finding On The Updating Of The NRC In Assam

Posted on November 28, 2019 | 13 comments

PRESS STATEMENT
FACT-FINDING ON THE UPDATING OF THE NRC IN ASSAM

“Sab keh rahe hain Bangladeshi ko hatana chahiye. Koi ye nahi bole ki ‘koi bhi genuine Indian ka naam nahi hatna chahiye’’ 

Between the 5th and 10th of November 2019, a nine person team of members of Women against Sexual Violence and State repression visited the state of Assam in order to understand the implications of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC), particularly for the most marginalised people of Assam. The team travelled to the Barak Valley region, home to several Bengali Hindus and Bengali Muslims, to the Char and Chapori villages (the river islands and villages on the banks of the Brahmaputra), home to some of the most vulnerable groups of people – largely the landless Miyah Muslim peasants. The team also visited villages in the districts of Jorhat, Sivasagar and Hojai, home to those who fled erstwhile East Pakistan in 1964 and tea plantations on which migrant workers from Jharkhand and the Chhota Nagpur plateau toil. The team met with workers, peasants, activists, academics and members of civil society in all of these regions.

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