AN OPEN LETTER TO FELLOW WRITERS Urdu novelist and Maharashtra State Sahitya Academy Award winner 2011 Friends and fellow writers, The social and political scenario of our beloved country is worsening with every passing day. Right wing forces have… Continue Reading →
By Justin Gardner on October 6, 2015 It seems that Monsanto’s reach extends to the most prestigious of collegiate institutions. According to email messages obtained by the Boston Globe, Harvard professor Calestous Juma received instructions from biotech giant Monsanto on how to present… Continue Reading →
FILE PHOTO OF APACHE HELICOPTER ARMS AND AMMUNITION SOURJYA BHOWMICK@sourjyabhowmick |2 October 2015 Forget Make in India. The government signed a $3 billion deal on Monday with Boeing and the US government to buy 22 Apache and 15 Chinook helicopters…. Continue Reading →
All India | Written by Tejas Mehta | Updated: October 07, 2015 18:03 IST FILE: Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali (Agence France-Presse photo) MUMBAI: Renowned ghazal singer Ghulam Ali’s concert in Mumbai could be in trouble with the Shiv Sena, which co-governs Maharashtra with the… Continue Reading →
Concerns over data security and privacy in the programme must be addressed. The Central Identities Data Repository, which is under the UIDAI, is a centralised database — that is, all demographic and biometric data is stored as one database. (Express… Continue Reading →
In Chhattisgarh, Pressure Mounts on Lawyers Taking Up Cases of Tribal Prisoners BY RAKSHA KUMAR Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh): Beside a small mosque in the Vrindavan Colony of Jagdalpur, Bastar district, runs an open sewage drain. On the other side of the drain is… Continue Reading →
Saurav Datta In India, a shroud of precariousness hangs heavily over prosecution witnesses. It is an open secret that one’s integrity and strength of conviction to speak up for the truth could very well be eroded or crushed by coercion…. Continue Reading →
Poet Ashok Vajpeyi has returned his Sahitya Akademi award NEW DELHI: After writer Nayantara Sahgal returned her Sahitya Akademi award protesting against what she called a “vicious assault” on India’s diversity and debate, poet Ashok Vajpeyi has also given up the… Continue Reading →
Jameen Adhikar Andolan – Gujarat (JAAG) Khet Bhavan, Opp. Cargo Motors, Near Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad 6th October 2015 Resisting Urbanisation, Rejecting Urbanisation Ground report from Gujarat UPDATE “The rate of urbanisation in Gujarat, as per the Census 2011 is… Continue Reading →
ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAAHIL They’re joined at the hip: the superficial modernity of Digital India and a deep, unspoken ‘Hindutva’ NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN “I know, to achieve the vision of Digital India, the government must also start thinking a bit like you… Continue Reading →
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