India: Photos of 6 Dec 2013 public meeting in New Delhi on 21st anniversary of Babri Mosque demolition

Photos taken on 6 Dec 2013 at Pension Parishad sit-in site at Jantar Mantar. Some 40 organisations in India responded to call for a protest meeting by People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism.

[small sized Photos by Harsh Kapoor]



[The below photos (in a bigger size) are by Mukul Dube]

Gujarat: Asaram Poster by Hindutva Right in Trains - with quote from top right wing leader Subramanium Swamy

URGENT PLEASE ACT

The Deviousness of the Hindutva with the BJP Heading it has been Exposed with these posters that have SUDDENLY appeared in ALL TRAIN COMPARTMENTS leaving Gujarat TODAY. That it is a BJP and Modi backed move is clear from the fact Subramaniam Swamy - a favourite with television anchors-- is seen in the visual...

Will the BJP be held to account for this communalising of the

India Muzaffarnagar riots: Scared villagers continue to move to safer areas (Indian Express Photos)

Selected photos from Indian Express by Ravi Kanojia.






To see all photos go to:
http://www.indianexpress.com/picture-gallery/muzaffarnagar-riots-scared-villagers-continue-to-move-to-safer-areas/3386-1.html

India: Right wing BJP now uses every religious festival to produce posters | Here is one on Delhi's streets for 'Ganesh Chaturthi'

photo of poster in Lajpat Nagar in Sept 2013

URLs for some news photos of the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar sept 2013

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http://www.cumbytel.com/reuters_images/

No one is born with hatred or intolerance

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The man who raised a black power salute at the 1968 Olympic Games

You're probably not familiar with the name John Carlos. But you almost certainly know his image. It's 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics and the medals are being hung round the necks of Tommie Smith (USA, gold),Peter Norman (Australia, silver) and Carlos (USA, bronze). As the Star-Spangled Banner begins to play, Smith and Carlos, two black Americans wearing black gloves, raise their fists in the black power salute. It is a symbol of resistance and defiance, seared into 20th-century history, that Carlos feels he was put on Earth to perform.

"In life, there's the beginning and the end," he says. "The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet."

Carlos's beginning was, to say the least, eventful. Raised by two involved, working parents, he learned to hustle with his friends in Harlem and fight his way out of and into trouble. As a teenager, he used to chase Malcolm X down the street after his speeches and fire questions at him. Carlos always knew he was good at sports and originally wanted to be an Olympic swimmer, until his father broke it to him that the training facilities he needed were in private clubs for whites and the wealthy. He used to steal food from freight trains with his friends and then run with it into Harlem and hand it out to the poor. When the police gave chase, he was often the only one who never got caught. Running came so naturally, he never thought of it as a skill.

That single moment on the podium cost Carlos dear. More than four decades later, you'll find him at his desk in a spacious portable building behind the basketball courts at Palm Springs High School in California, where he works as a counsellor. Among the family photographs on the wall are the vaguest allusions to his moment in history. Pictures of Malcolm X and African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston, the pledge of allegiance, which American schoolkids must say to the flag every day, and a small poster saying Go For Gold Olympics...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/30/black-power-salute-1968-olympics

Venus and Jupiter: views from across the globe – in pictures

This picture was taken in northern Sweden last week. The picture was taken from a mountain hut, about 20km W-NW of the small town of Abisko. As well as Venus and Jupiter you can also see the aurora. Photograph: David Rippin

See more stunning photos:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/mar/16/venus-jupiter-pictures#/?picture=387450942&index=0

Ordinary people. The courage to say no.

A photo of a lone man with his arms folded as hundreds around him perform a salute in Nazi Germany has resurfaced. The snap was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman. We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.


August Landmesser (born May 24, 1910, presumably killed February 1944) was a worker at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, best known for his appearance in a photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on 13 June 1936. He had been a Nazi Party member from 1931 to 1935, but after fathering children with a Jewish woman, he had been found guilty of “dishonoring the race” under Nazi racial laws and had come to oppose Hitler's regime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser

August Landmesser became engaged in 1935 with the 1913-born Jewish woman, Irma Eckler. She was detained in 1938 by the Gestapo in the prison Fuhlsbüttel. The children (Ingrid and Irene) were separated; while Ingrid was allowed to live with her grandmother, Irene went first to an orphanage and later to the home of foster parents. Their father, August Landmesser, was discharged from prison on 19 January 1941. Landmesser worked as a foreman for the firm Püst, a haulage company. The firm had a branch at the Heinkel-Werke (factory) in Warnemünde[3]. In February 1944 he was drafted into a penal unit, the 999th Fort Infantry Battalion, where he was declared missing in action and presumably killed. Also see: http://www.fasena.de/courage/english/5a.htm

REMEMBER THIS LADY - In memory of Irena Sendler

Housekeeper's stunning images of 1950s Chicago show working life in America in a new light

After spending decades collecting dust the work of an unlikely artist has finally been uncovered.

To the outside world Vivian Maier was just a nanny and housekeeper working in Chicago. But she also had a hidden talent was not recognised until after her death in 2009. Maier spent her life wandering the streets of Chicago with a Rolleflex camera strapped to her neck taking remarkable black and white pictures of a different side of the city, and a different side of life in America.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075228/What-nanny-saw-Housekeepers-stunning-images-1950s-Chicago-working-class-America-new-light.html#ixzz1iH1cEVUe