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Day April 9, 2014

Indian Women: Landless In The Village, Homeless In The City #Wtfnews

Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:14 Pushpa Achanta   Irrespective of why and how they start living in the open, for women on the streets each day is a challenge – whether it is in cooking a meal by the roadside,… Continue Reading →

#India – Political Parties Manifestos are ignoring real issues

Devaki Jain and Deepshikha Batheja   |   Mail Today  |   New Delhi, April 9, 2014 | UPDATED 09:02 IST Illustration: Arya Praharaj The main political parties have released their manifestos. Each is vying with other to show that they mean “business.” Yes and it is business as… Continue Reading →

#India – Silence of Government on ‘Honour’ Killing Law is Killing #Vaw

Kamayani Bali Mahabal aka Kractivist   Pic courtesy — http://50watts.com/I-Am-a-Bird-of-the-Heavenly-Garden The naked brutality of honour crimes against women is in contravention of the spirit of the ’United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)’ which… Continue Reading →

The Japanese monk who is against the BJP

April 09, 2014 10:43 IST Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com in Nagpur ‘If they come to power, they will try to change the Constitution. They are destroying Babasaheb’s name. They are fundamentalist people,’ says Surai Sasai, the Buddhist monk who has issued an… Continue Reading →

India’s ‘Womanifesto:’ How central are women’s rights to this year’s elections ? #Vaw

By Monica Sarkar, for CNN April 9, 2014 — Updated 0328 GMT (1128 HKT) An official checks a voter’s identity card in Agartala, India, on Monday, April 7. India‘s general election will be held in stages over five weeks. Voters will… Continue Reading →

How have these corporations colonised our public life?

Our politicians have delegated power to global giants engineering a world of conformity and consumerism George Monbiot The Guardian, Tuesday 8 April 2014   One of Unilever‘s ‘real women’ series of advertisements for Dove. Photograph: PA How do you engineer a bland, depoliticised… Continue Reading →

Congress and BJP Manifesto – Real differences

The very real differences between the BJP and Congress agendas A look at the manifestos of the Congress and the BJP and what they offer to the voters Mihir S Sharma  |  <news:geo_locations>New Delhi  April 7, 2014 Last Updated at 16:25 IST… Continue Reading →

List Of All 30+ Global Nuclear Reactor Melt Downs #mustshare

  The following is as complete a list as possible of all nuclear reactor melt downs that have happened globally. This list is incomplete, and the total number of melt downs is not fixed, as the secrecy and/or relabeling around… Continue Reading →

Press Release – The Impunity Continues: Kunan Poshpora Public Prosecutor

The Impunity Continues: Kunan Poshpora Public Prosecutor Appointed As Central Government Standing Counsel Press Release On April 5, 2014, the revision petition filed by the Indian army to shut down investigations in the 1991 Kunan Poshpora mass rape and torture… Continue Reading →

OPEN letter to organisations trying to stop the implementation of Forest rights Act !

Dear Praveen Bhargav (Wildlife Trust), Kishor Rithe (NCS) and Harshvardhan Dhanwatey (TRACT), We are writing to express our deep dismay at the position you have recently taken before the Supreme Court, in your interim application (IA 5) filed in January… Continue Reading →

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