*Human Rights Forum-మానవ హక్కులు వేదిక* Press release/Invitation.

*Human Rights Forum*

*మానవ హక్కులు వేదిక*

Press release/

Invitation.

సీనియర్ జర్నలిస్ట్,

కృష్ణ మోహన్ గారికి.

Balagopal Memorial Meet on *October 12, 2025*

Human Rights Forum (HRF) is organising the 16th commemorative meeting of human rights activist K Balagopal on October 12 (Sunday), 2025. The venue of the meet, which will be held from 10 am to 5 pm, is the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram Main Hall, Baghlingampally, Hyderabad.

There will be talks on four important, contemporary topics on the occasion:

Prof. Nandini Sundar, sociologist, Delhi University will speak on ‘Whose Bastar? The struggle for Adivasi futures’

PS Ajay Kumar of the All India Lawyers Association for Justice (AILAJ), will talk on ‘New forms of land theft’

Apar Gupta of the Internet freedom Foundation will reflect on ‘AI and Privacy’  

Yogendra Yadav, national convener of Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan will speak on ‘Challenges to the Architecture of Electoral Democracy’

HRF shall be releasing a book on the day titled ‘Rajyanganni Ela Chudali?’, a collection of writings in Telugu on the Indian Constitution by K Balagopal.

A short film on Palestine will also be screened.

About Balagopal

A tireless fighter for justice for three decades, Balagopal inspired an entire generation to rights activism, leading by example. An eloquent speaker, original political thinker and writer, his rich analyses of various contemporary and historical issues are well known both within Telangana, AP and outside. He was a man of rare courage and integrity who espoused a politics that was deeply ethical. He entered the legal profession in 1996 and defended cases of adivasis, women, dalits and labourers creating spaces for those who could not otherwise access justice in the courts.

Balagopal was founder-member of the Human Rights Forum (HRF) and its general secretary for four years, from 2005 to 2009.  A champion of the oppressed, he was a source of enormous moral strength to all democratic struggles. He relentlessly strove to build a vibrant, broad-based and truly independent human rights movement. 

HRF invites all to the meet to remember this human rights colossus.

Request you to depute your reporter to cover the lectures.

 

VS Krishna                                                      S Jeevan Kumar                                      

(HRF TS & AP Coordination Committee Members)

10-10-2025

Hyderabad