Visitors: 488 Save Indian Family Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_Indian_Family_Foundation Recently, Menaka Gandhi has requested the Law Ministry to give legal validity to pre-nuptial agreements. She showed her concern that women are not getting enough alimony during separation or divorce. However, she is just not in touch with ground realities and what happens in family courts. India's alimony […]
Visitors: 385 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: 281 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: 270 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: 296 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: 244 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: 326 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: 326 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: 313 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: 388 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: 287 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: 294 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: 360 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: 348 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: 2,253[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: 535 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: 440Rajesh 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: 352 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: 385 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: 292 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: 273 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: 536 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: 709 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: 320 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. […]