Topic: GN Saibaba

A group of people associated with Hindu nationalist paramilitary Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) disrupted the 9th Udaipur Film Festival, organised jointly by the Cinema of Resistance and the Udaipur Film Society at the NLT auditorium in RNT Medical College, Udaipur, on Saturday.

The full text of the speech by award-winning author and human rights activist Meena Kandasamy at the commemoration meeting for renowned human rights defender Professor Sai Baba, who died last week. The event was held at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, Hyderabad.

This poem is a tribute to Prof. GN Saibaba who taught us that any effort to overcome individual disabilities is invariably tied to the efforts to overcome disabilities of the entire humanity.

Renowned human rights defender and former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba passed away on Saturday following post-operative complications after undergoing surgery for gallbladder stones.

“I couldn’t see my mother one last time before her death because I was denied parole. This is a denial of basic Human Rights. My mother passed away when I was in Prison. Being a disabled child since birth, my mother brought me up with utmost care. She used to take me to school in her arms so that I could get an education”, these were the words of former Delhi University Professor and human rights defender GN Saibaba, in a press conference on Friday, 9, March.

Maharashtra government approached the Supreme Court to challenge the verdict of the Bombay High Court acquitting former Delhi University professor and human rights defender GN Saibaba and five others accused of having ties with Maoists on Tuesday.