As Gulfisha Fatima spends another Eid in prison than with her loved ones at home, The Wire published some of her poetry and letters from prison. While mosques are being razed, locked up, eliminated, memories to be confused, overwritten, theatre, stages and streets still witness interfaith solidarity, and powerful stories of love live within and even find their way across prison walls. We reproduce a few extracts from Gulfisha’s letters in prison in The Wire – sharing these simultaneously amplifies so many thing: injustice, pain, love and solidarity, all at once.

The following statement was our contribution to the public protest meeting organised by the collective ‘Indians for Palestine’ in New Delhi on 23 Feb 2024.

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This joint statement has been endorsed by over 130 signatories, including international academics, activists and civil society organizations, as well as diasporic Indian academics and researchers, working with Adivasi (indigenous) communities in India. Available in 6 languages (English, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Panjabi, Malayalam)

statement of solidarity with economics scholar forced to resign from Ashoka University due to critical research on electoral manipulation

This handwritten note by Shoma Sen marks five years in prison for the activist and academic.

Letter from Dr. G.N. Saibaba sent from Nagpur Prison to his wife on 15 June 2023

Poems written by Sudhir Dhawale and Surendra Gadling on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of their incarceration under the Bheema Koregaon/Elgar Parishad case. Free BK16!

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statement of solidarity with APPSC IIT Bombay and the family of the deceased 18-year old Dalit student; call to urgently introduce measures to end caste discrimination

Doctors’ associations around the world call for immediate bail for Dr. G.N. Saibaba due to his deteriorating health.