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Coerced sex with wife, husband or a regular sexual partner is not rape: SIFFS
Visitors: 261 Rajesh Vakharia In the context of coerced sex inside marriage, the feminists worldwide have stretched their arguments around consent too far. In India, they want to define non-consensual sex with wife or a regular sexual partner as rape. Not only that, they want to shift the burden of proof to the accused husbands. […]
Chief Justice of India — just a mouse on the treadmill?
Visitors: 254 Krishnaraj Rao The present judicial system has long-term failure written into its DNA. It seems to throw up only short-sighted pygmies as Chief Justice of India — men who don't feel sufficiently responsible and empowered to change the system. And so our Chief Justices just hold hearings and routinely plod along till they […]
LET THE FOCUS OF IIT STUDENTS BE ON STUDIES AND NOT POLITICS
Visitors: 280 N. S. Venkataraman, Nandini Voice For The Deprived IITs have been set up by government of India with huge investment, with specific objective of promoting technology oriented educational institutions of excellence. By and large, IITs have maintained the expected standards in the past and several former students of IITs have brought laurel to […]
3 lakh undertrials rot in jail, but Indian courts love their 6-week summer vacation
Visitors: 192 Krishnaraj Rao Our nation is in the midst of judiciary's summer vacation — an entire organ of State closed for five to seven weeks (except for a tiny number of vacation-judges — a loincloth-like shred of judiciary). Because of these summer vacations, courts give long dates to undertrials — even those who are […]
CHIEF MINISTER LOCKING OUT HIS OFFICER IS ECCENTRICITY
Visitors: 190 N. S. Venkataraman It is shocking that a senior officer of Delhi government was locked out of his room in secretariat. Nobody would believe if Mr. Kejriwal, the Chief Minister would claim later on that he was not aware of this. This is a sort of behaviour that even a school boy would […]
CJI Dattu, explain whether Justice Dhanapalan or Justice Karnan are unfit
Visitors: 337 Krishnaraj Rao The Chief Justice of India needs to break his sphinx-like silence and speak up. Is Justice Karnan an RTI activist and whistleblower who has exposed a major fraud by Justice Dhanapalan, and also exposed a flaw in the judicial selection system? Or is he a quarrelsome and cantankerous person who has […]
Does the law apply to Harish Salve's Bentley accident?
Visitors: 523 Krishnaraj Rao 16th May 2015, Mumbai: Senior Counsel Harish Salve, who flew in from Delhi to help Salman Khan avoid spending a couple of nights in jail, was himself involved in a road accident that killed a man in May 2014 — just over one year ago. Barely any media group highlighted this […]
One Year of Modi Sarkar: Hate Speech Galore
Visitors: 220 Ram Puniyani The coming to power of Narendra Modi in a way gave an open license to all the affiliates of RSS combine to indulge in open hate speech against the religious minorities. The current agenda behind the hate speech is to consolidate the communal polarization of the society along lines of religion. […]
Achhe Din Ka Kacha Chittha
Visitors: 270 Dear Friends, As the NDA government completes its one year in office, we come together as representatives of different people’s organisations and civil society to evaluate its promise of “Achhe Din” -What has this meant for people at large, for rights of those living in the margins, for constitutional principles and cultural diversity and the […]
WHEN PEOPLE LOSE FAITH IN JUDICIARY , CONSEQUENCES CAN BE ALARMING
Visitors: 206 N. S. Venkataraman After several years of trial in a killing case, an actor was held guilty by the court and jail term awarded. But, he got bail in a few hours from another judge. After several years of trial in a corruption case, a Chief Minister was found guilty and awarded jail […]
SHIA –SUNNI DIVIDE & THE MIDDLE EAST TURMOIL
Visitors: 323 Pritam K. Rohila, Ph.D. of Keizer is a retired neuropsychologist. He is the executive director of Oregonians for Peace and Association for Communal Harmony in Asia. Beset with increasing protests against them, governments in many parts of the Middle East are struggling to stay afloat. The law and order situation in Iraq, […]
Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Uniting Humanity
Visitors: 295 Ram Puniyani In contemporary times, religions’ identity is being used as cover for political agenda. Be it the terrorist violence or the sectarian nationalism in various parts of the World, religion is used to mask the underlying politics. While one was talking of separation of religion and politics many decades earlier, the times […]
US hegemony and interference in India’s internal affairs by cultivating radical feminist groups in the guise of women’s empowerment
Visitors: 400 RAJESH VAKHARIA, SIFF PRESIDENT, NAGPUR The U.S is well known for its hegemony and interference in the internal affairs of other countries including India. The covert U.S hegemony and interference in India’s internal affairs by cultivating and funding radical feminists in the guise of “women’s empowerment” has to end, say the NGOs Save Indian […]
Population by Religions in times to come
Visitors: 258 Ram Puniyani The PEW Research Center has released a report (2nd April 2015); which gives the projections of populations in times to come. It says that in India the population of Hindus will fall down from present 79.5 % to 76.7% and the Muslim population will rise up to 18% by 2050. The […]
WHITHER INDIAN FARMERS – LET POLITICIANS MOVE AWAY
Visitors: 204 N.S.Venkataraman, Nandini Voice For The Deprived Indian farming community consist of farmers who own land and workers at unskilled and semi skilled level working on agricultural farms. When government extends subsidy and support to the agricultural farmers in times of distress, it largely reaches the farmers who own land and not the workers who […]
Ambedkar’s Ideology: Religion, Nationalism and Indian Constitution
Visitors: 360 Rtd Prof Dr. Ram Puniyani, IIT Bombay In order to gain larger legitimacy, RSS has been making claims of sorts. One of that which was made few months back was that Gandhi was impressed by functioning of RSS. Now on the heels of that comes another distortion that Ambedkar believed in Sangh ideology […]
Judicial Delays Kill 10 Witnesses Daily
Visitors: 192 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Unlike the US justice system which has a "witness PROTECTION program", Indian judiciary has a "witness ELIMINATION program". Our courts systematically defeat the good intentions of witnesses, failing which they eliminate the witnesses themselves. They create conditions where witnesses are rewarded for turning hostile, and […]
Judges are only human, Help them to stay honest – Install CCTV & sound recorders in courts
Visitors: 223 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai To curb courtroom corruption, install CCTV cameras for video & audio recording all courtroom proceedings. Immediately broadcast and upload the proceedings on internet for public viewing — just like Rajya Sabha TV etc. Call it "Justice TV", with local channels for the proceedings of local courts, […]
Political Ideology and Interpretation of History
Visitors: 256 Ram Puniyani Rtd Prof IIT Bombay Our sub continent, which has a common past; shares its history, there are diverse ways of looking at the same history by groups belonging to different political ideologies. With the change of Government in Delhi, the leading institutions are having a major policy shift, organizations like Indian […]
Does judiciary have net negative value to society?
Visitors: 163 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Is judiciary a back-breaking burden that Indian citizens have been carrying since Independence? The only reason judiciary exists in its present form is that very few people believe it is possible to put it down and review the whole thing. Because of such lack of popular […]
The Union Budget 2015 – an analysis by a common-man
Visitors: 273 Neeraj Jain Lokayat Introduction The Union Budget, which is a yearly affair, is a comprehensive display of the Government’s revenues and expenditures. It makes an estimate of the revenues from all sources for the next fiscal year, and outlines the expenditures that the government proposes to make in the next fiscal year under […]
Why court-birds never criticize judiciary……..
Visitors: 160 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Litigants and appellants, who are court regulars, know many ugly inside truths about judges. They know about courtroom politics, malpractices, habits and biases of judges, and the channels through which they are routinely approached for corruption. On a conservative estimate, there are a hundred persons in every […]
Reflections and reporting of our participation in Tunis W.S.F. 2015
Visitors: 163 South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED) Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (VK), South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED) and Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPF) are organising a meeting ‘Reflections and reporting of our participation in Tunis W.S.F. 2015’, on 13th April 2015, from 3.00 pm. to 8.30 pm. Sh. Arif Mohammad Khan (Senior Political Leader), […]
BARBARIC KILLING OF TWENTY WORKERS BY Andhra Pradesh POLICE
Visitors: 265 N. S. Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived It is extremely disturbing to know that 20 persons who are poor and unskilled were shot down by A P police, as they were reported to be cutting down red sanders in Andhra Pradesh. It is said that these poor workers were employed by smugglers, […]