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Month December 2015

Top 10 facts about #freebasics which Facebook won’t tell you #Censorship

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 →

Hindutva Forces Disrupt Christmas Celebrations In Kandhamal #WTFnews

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 →

Malnourished in a “Developing” India

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 →

Blind to justice

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 →

Murders, and Not Terrorism, Make India a Really Dangerous Country

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 →

Madhya Pradesh – 66 People Lost Eyesight After Being Operated In Barwani Hospital

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 →

They came to our villages to save us from ‘Maoists’ by raping us, torturing us, killing us. #Vaw

  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 →

3 years after Dec 16 case, rape spree unpunished in Chhattisgarh #Vaw

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 →

Why the Criminal Pursuit of Saibaba and Arundhati Roy is Bad in Law

  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 →

Blood, Tears And Humiliation: Young Girls’ Monthly Trauma

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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