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A slightly seedy Chinese restaurant in Andheri east is not where I imagined having a conversation with Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves. But, here we are, on a late Tuesday evening, sharing a bowl of Machow soup and conversation veering towards his relationship with his father, Vernon Gonsalves. Vernon was arrested on August 28, 2018, by the Pune police under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code’s Section 153 (A) detailing criminal conspiracy and inciting violence between groups. Along with him, four other prominent activists and lawyers, Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navalakha, and Arun Ferreira were also arrested under similar charges.
On August 29, in a hopeful judgement, the Supreme Court stayed the Pune police’s action of wanting to take all five activists into immediate custody saying, “Dissent is the safety valve of democracy,” and ordering the accused to be kept under house arrest till September 6, 2018. However, yesterday, on September 6, the Supreme Court ruled that house arrest will be extended to September 12, 2018 – the best case scenario for the arrested activists who could alternatively be in police custody.
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From Veena Malik to Qandeel Baloch: Why are some women in Pakistan branded as ‘bold’?
Sometime in the early 1950s, the Pakistan government organised a concert at Lahore’s Punjab University to raise funds for flood victims. Noor Jehan was to sing at the event – her first public performance in a young Pakistan. Just before she went on stage, one of the organisers asked her what song she had chosen to sing. “I am going to sing Mujh Se Pehli Si Muhabbat,” she responded.
A poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, her selection sent shivers down the spine of the organisers. The government of the day was opposed to Faiz’s revolutionary poetry and his leftist politics. He was in prison over an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the government. How could Noor Jehan sing his poem in public, let alone in an event organised by the government? The organisers requested her to choose another song – any other song.
“Then I will not sing at all,” she replied decisively.
The organisers feared public wrath if she did not sing and expected government displeasure if she sang the poem she had chosen. A few minutes of hand-wringing and worrying about the consequences followed and then they agreed to let her sing whatever she wanted.
Her mellifluous voice rose through the venue as she launched into the song – an