[WSMDiscuss] Let us Celebrate Prof. Anand Teltumbde's Birthday today (July 15, 2020)

[Umakant]

Dear Friends

Greetings! 15 July isProf. Anand Teltumbde’s Birthday. He has turned 70 today and is locked up in a jailin Mumbai for reasons known to the authorities. Let us all celebrate Prof. Teltumbde’sbirthday today to send a message to the world that in the darkest phase of timewe shall be holding the light of hope, humanity, justice and accountability. 

 

We may feel sad thathe and others are in jail, but we shall keep our morals high and continue withour struggle for human rights, justice and accountability. 

 

Do pass it on toothers in your circle/network.

 

'YourIdeas Have Spread Like Wildfire': A Letter to Dr Anand Teltumbde on His Birthday

Suraj Yengde, Balmurli Natrajan, MeenaKandasami, Sangeeta Kamat and Biju Mathew, The Wire, July 15, 2020  

https://thewire.in/rights/anand-teltumbde-birthday-letter

 

"The world is atthe brink of not giving up, of refusing, of resisting. You are that world in aworld apart who has shown us to not give up."

 

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AnandTeltumbde: Cards and letters for jailed India scholar as he turns 70

BBC, July 15, 2020 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53400138

 

ProminentIndian scholar and human rights defender Anand Teltumbde has turned 70 in aMumbai prison amid growing calls for his release.

 

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Elgaarparishad case: Special court extends Navlakha, Teltumbde, detention by 90 days

Sadaf Modak, Indian Express, July 15, 2020 

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/elgaar-parishad-case-special-court-extends-navlakha-teltumbde-detention-by-90-days-6506269/

 

The NIA, probing the case, can now file a chargesheet against the two menin 180 days since their arrest on April 14.

 

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Seizing Syllables from History’s Furrows 

NavayanaBlog, July 14, 2020 

https://navayana.org/blog/2020/07/14/seizing-syllables-from-historys-furrows/?v=c86ee0d9d7ed

 

On15 July 2020, Anand Teltumbde will turn 70. He is in Navi Mumbai’s Taloja jailentrapped by a lawless law. Justice damns itself as a rule in India; of late,injustice seems to have become the ruling principle of the courts. 

 

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WithRegards 

Umakant,Ph. D 

NewDelhi 



 





My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. 
B.R.Ambedkar
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