Free Basics will be death for local online media like Raiot. With people shifting to Free Basics and being asked to pay for getting out of the Free Ecosystem what happens to indie media and local accessibility? Much of Raiot webzine’s… Continue Reading →
By Ajaya Kumar Singh 30 December, 2015 Countercurrents.org When the whole world celebrated Christmas with peace and joy, the Adivasi/Dalit Christians of Kandhamal district of Odisha state, India had a night of fear and insecurity. In many parts of this… Continue Reading →
In the tiny hamlet of Moregaon in Gadchiroli district in India’s western state of Maharashtra, 29-year-old Durga Bhisa, a tailor’s wife, is busy making local sweetmeats and savories of laddoos, karangis, chaklis and panjiris for her family. Probe her further… Continue Reading →
Why the December 23 order of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court — refusing Professor Saibaba bail and issuing a notice of contempt to Arundhati Roy — takes one’s breath away. Written by Manisha Sethi Published:Dec 30, 2015, 0:01… Continue Reading →
BY SHOBHAN SAXENA India records the second highest number of murders in the world every year. With a youth bulge, large unemployed male population, chaotic urbanisation and increasing drug abuse, India is a ticking time-bomb of everyday violence. Rio de Janeiro: In… Continue Reading →
By Representatives of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan and Narmada Bachao Andolan Independent Investigation Report of Gross Violations of Cataract Surgery Camp, jointly organized by Barwani District Hospital and Lions’ Club Photo courtesy by Hemant Garg,Barwani An independent investigation was carried out… Continue Reading →
December 27, 2015 Lalit Shukla Security personals sexually harassed and assaulted more that 40 women and gang-raped at least two during an anti-Maoists operation in the villages of Pegdapalli, Chinnagellur, Peddagellur, Burgicheru, and Gundam in Bijapur, South Chhattisgarh between October… Continue Reading →
Chitrangada Choudhury, Hindustan Times, Bijapur | This Peddagellur survivor and her daughter-in-law were assaulted and gangraped. She was assaulted with rifles on her right shoulder, and sustains this injury. (Chitrangada Choudhury/HT Photo) A minor girl and a pregnant woman were among… Continue Reading →
BY MARKANDEY KATJU The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has cancelled the bail application of Delhi University lecturer G.N. Saibaba and issued a contempt of court notice to the author, Arundhati Roy for writing an article in Outlook magazine criticising the charges against him. In… Continue Reading →
By Akhileshwari Ramagoud Whisper. Giggle. Conspiratorial silence. Words that made no sense. Sudden drying up of conversation when one intruded on the girls who were discussing it in the classroom during a break. She doesn’t know. She’s too young, they… Continue Reading →
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