Visitors: 188 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: 144 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: 209 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: 182 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: 161 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: 216 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: 149 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: 197 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: 238 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: 198 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: 1,689 [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] […]
Visitors: 360 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: 230 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. […]
Visitors: 227 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: 264 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: 173 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: 168 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: 301 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: 478 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: 199 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: 246 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: 185 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: 261 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: 279 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 […]