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Day November 16, 2014

#Sundayreading- In The Darkness, Speak Up For Light

MAGAZINE | NOV 24, 2014 IILLUSTRATION BY SAAHIL ESSAY In The Darkness, Speak Up For Light Grimmer than the risible mytho-babble from Batra and Modi is the insidious campaign to throttle opinion. Why is everyone silent? KIRAN NAGARKAR It’s unsettling,… Continue Reading →

India: Victory for Bhopal gas leak survivors as government promises additional compensation 

Survivors and activists have long criticized the Indian government for massively underestimating the number of dead and injured after the Bhopal gas leak. © PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images “ This is a major victory for survivors of the 1984 gas leak,… Continue Reading →

Killing is one thing. But kissing?! Tauba, tauba! #kissoflove

To India Against Corruption                                                                                    DISGUSTING  BEHAVIOUR  OF  IIT M STUDENTS The students of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M) made a show of themselves  by kissing each other in front of camera ; boy&boy, girl&girl, boy&girl.  The print and television media appear to be… Continue Reading →

#Sundayreading – Memoir of Silence Lifts Girls out of the Ashes

By Amy Jo Burns WeNews guest author Sunday, November 16, 2014 Amy Jo Burns’ memoir “Cinderland” is set in a declining steel town in the 1980s. In this excerpt, the female students of a beloved piano teacher take different tacks… Continue Reading →

Imagine a world with no religion, no partition and no 9/11

Mark Tully November 15, 2014 File photo showing Delhi, the nation’s capital became a funeral pyre for three days, from October 31 to November 3 in 1984. It’s not surprising that the coverage of the 30th anniversary of the attacks… Continue Reading →

Mumbai Malnutrition – Death by biscuit #healthcare

By Gitanjali Chandrasekharan & Yolande D’Mello, Mumbai Mirror | Nov 16, 2014, 12.47 AM IST Malnutrition isn’t a rural worry. Worse, in Mumbai, it’s not the lack of food but craving for junk that’s proving fatal. Sammrudhi Pawar is playing with her two-anda-half-year-old… Continue Reading →

PIL challenges ban on women in Haji Ali Dargah’s inner sanctum #Womenrights

Rosy Sequeira,TNN | Nov 16, 2014, 03.27 AM IST Currently, women are allowed only to point from where they can see the tomb and offer prayers. MUMBAI: The Muslim community will become all the more regressive, says a public interest litigation filed… Continue Reading →

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