Keeping Up the Good Fight: From the Emergency to the Present Day - Couverture souple

Purkayastha, Prabir

 
9781685900748: Keeping Up the Good Fight: From the Emergency to the Present Day
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1685900747 ISBN 13 : 9781685900748
Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2024

Synopsis

The story of a political prisoner's coming of age as a student activist in India

Keeping Up the Good Fight is the story of a young man's political coming of age and his experience as a student activist and scientist incarcerated by two authoritarian regimes in India, half a century apart.

On September 25, 1975, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi called for a strike to protest the expulsion of Ashoklata Jain, an elected student union member. Three months earlier, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared a state of Emergency. It was the second day of the strike and the campus was tense. A black car rolled up near a group of students. A few plainclothes cops got out, and abducted one of them: The student spent the next year in jail. Almost fifty years later, on February 9, 2021, the founder of an online news portal saw his home and offices raided for 113 hours straight, ransacked by officers from the Enforcement Directorate. Nearly two years later, on October 3, 2023, the Delhi Police Special Cell reappeared. The founder of the news portal and his colleague were remanded to custody under the dreaded Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

That student journalist and scientist, Prabir Purkayastha, tells his own story with wit and humor, as he engages with some of India's most pressing social, political and economic issues across the decades-and remains committed to "keeping up the good fight."

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À propos de l?auteur

Prabir Purkayastha is an engineer in the power, telecom, and software sectors, a founding member of the Delhi Science Forum and editor of Newsclick.in. A scientist-activist, he is co-author, with Vijay Prashad, of Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism and Theft of the Global Commons (LeftWord 2002). As of late 2023, the 74-year-old was being held in New Delhi's Tihar Prison Complex under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

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Éditeur
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1685900747
ISBN 13 
9781685900748
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781685900755: Keeping Up the Good Fight: From the Emergency to the Present Day

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ISBN 10 :  1685900755 ISBN 13 :  9781685900755
Editeur : Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2024
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