Visitors: 365 Prof. Dr Ram Puniyani (Rtd) IIT Bombay The country is undergoing a regressive attack in different fields of life. Apart from the political undermining of secularism, pluralism and Indian nationalism, the cultural pluralism and valued syncretic traditions are also under severe attack. The intensity is increasing. On the back of the murders of […]
Visitors: 349 Viswa Ghosh Stopping us from polluting Ganges has nothing to do with pseudo-secularism. It is time our sadhus start growing up and seeing things as they are… If our sadhus are contributing to Ganges pollution, how many of the sadhus contribute to cleaning up Indian cities, rivers and lakes? I think it is […]
Visitors: 2,256[themify_box] Jason Hickel PhD anthropologist at the London School of Economics and author of The Divide: A New History of Global Inequality. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2011. [/themify_box] [themify_quote]As the UN’s new sustainable development goals are launched in New York, there’s little to celebrate about the business-as-usual approach[/themify_quote] This […]
Visitors: 537 Paul Gottinger, staff reporter at Reader Supported News (RSN) whose work focuses on the Middle East and the arms industry Error attacks have jumped by a stunning 6,500% since 2002, according to a new analysis by Reader Supported News. The number of casualties resulting from terror attacks has increased by 4,500% over this same time period. […]
Visitors: 442Rajesh 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. Feminists […]
Visitors: 353 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 […]
Visitors: 386 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 […]
Visitors: 293 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 […]
Visitors: 274 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 […]
Visitors: 537 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 […]
Visitors: 710 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 […]
Visitors: 321 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. […]
Visitors: 417 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 […]
Visitors: 328 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 […]
Visitors: 454 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, […]
Visitors: 472 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 […]
Visitors: 536RAJESH 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 Family […]
Visitors: 368 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 […]
Visitors: 299 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 […]
Visitors: 503 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 […]
Visitors: 277 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 […]
Visitors: 349 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, […]
Visitors: 396 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 […]
Visitors: 227 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 […]