Visitors: 261 Introduction: Given the ease with which a case can be filed in India, especially against men, what does one do, when faced with a false criminal case and the police is hounding an innocent? Naturally, the person would apply for anticipatory bail and thus approach courts. However, when the very courts use […]
Visitors: 189 N.S.Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived The term activist is now sending confusing signals in India ,as several people in various walks of life claim that they are activists for one cause or the other or for several causes at the same time. Whatever may be their colour or background, one image associated […]
Visitors: 164 Aires Rodrigues The Right to Information Act which came into force on October 12th 2005 is now a decade old. The Right to Information Act was enacted to ensure transparency and accountability in governance. But the manner in which the government is subtly subverting the Right to Information Act is a matter of concern. A well informed citizenry, […]
Visitors: 219 N.S.Venkataraman Nadini Voice For The Deprived As one opens the newspapers or television , it is seen that the corrupt dealings , murders , rape , assault , dacoity and several such unsavoury incidents are given all the prominence . Inevitably, the good deeds , praise worthy efforts and lofty behaviour of individuals […]
Visitors: 168 Dr. Chaman Lal Retired Professor, JNU, New Delhi (A letter to the chairman, Sahitya Akademi) Dear Dr. Vishwanath Tewari, With a sense of anguish, I have sent my covering letter along with a cheque for 15000/ rupees, which I received from Sahitya Akademi in year 2002 as part of National Translation Prize […]
Visitors: 239 Peace Channel Desk Nagaland Peace Channel conducted one day Capacity Building programme for its peace club leaders, members and teacher coordinators on October 10, at the Peace Channel Conference Hall, Dimapur. While addressing the gathering Rev. Dr. C.P.Anto the director of Peace Channel and Principal NEISSR said that we need to capacitate the […]
Visitors: 214 Team members: Bonojit Hussain (New Socialist Initiative), Deepti Sharma (Saheli), Kiran Shaheen (writer and activist), Naveen Chander (New Socialist Initiative), Sanjay Kumar (People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism and New Socialist Initiative) and Sanjeev Kumar (Delhi Solidarity Group). On the night of 28 September, in a heinous instance of hate crime Mdohammad Akhlaq […]
Visitors: 199 N.S.Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived It is distressing to know that in the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls, more than 170 candidates have criminal cases against them including murder charges and 137 of them contesting from 37 seats have been booked for serious non bailable offences. While the […]
Visitors: 278 A 90-year-old Dalit man was attacked with a pick-axe and then set on fire by an upper caste man, when he tried to enter a temple in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district on Wednesday. According to Hindustan Times, Chimma, along with his wife, son, and brother turned up at the temple, when a man called […]
Visitors: 191 Join a Citizens' Protest Vigil on 2 Oct at Jantar Mantar 3pm onwards ! A 22-year old young Muslim man is lying in hospital, brutally beaten up by a bloodthirsty mob. His 52-year old father is dead. Killed, bashed to death with bricks, by the same mob. Their ‘crime’? The ‘mob’ claimed they had killed […]
Visitors: 214 Announcing Women Convention : Challenges before Indian Women in Contemporary India Conference Room, 2nd Floor, ND Tiwari Bhawan, Near Gandhi Peace Foundation Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, Near ITO, New Delhi October 2-3, 2015 —– October 2, 2015 9.00 am – 10.00 : Registration & Tea 10.00 – 11.00 : Challenges before Indian Women in Contemporary India (Speaker: Usha Ramanathan) […]
Visitors: 256 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: 286 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: 199 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: 349 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: 538 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: 212 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: 209 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: 365 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: 199 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: 232 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: 271 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: 169 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 […]
Visitors: 282 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 […]
Visitors: 169 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 […]