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Month January 2016

Massive protest in Delhi against policies of Modi govt

By Muslim Mirror News Desk, New Delhi, 30 January 2016: Thousands of people from diverse backgrounds marched from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar giving a clear indication that their voices cannot be throttled.  On  the 68th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, over  67… Continue Reading →

Indian Courts – Rape – Turning victims into survivors #Vaw

The SC has held that consent to sexual intercourse in cases where a man lures a woman into a sexual relationship with the promise of marriage amounts to rape. So how can the courts then sanction an arrangement where a… Continue Reading →

Dalit boy dies as babus sits on free surgery file for 5 years #WTFnews

Madhya Pradesh: BHOPAL: District collector in Vidisha has ordered a magisterial inquiry to probe lethargy of government officials that led to tragic end of a 7-year-old dalit boy with a hole in his heart. Shivam, was suffering from this ventricular… Continue Reading →

Hindu Mahasabha ‘celebrates’ Gandhiji’s death anniversary #WTFnews

  Hindu Mahasbha “celebrating” Gandhiji’s death anniversary in Meerut. Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu Mahasabha member. Photo: Parvez Khan Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha celebrated Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination by distributing sweets on his death anniversary on January… Continue Reading →

Hey Coldplay, Your New Song Is Basically All Indian Stereotypes With A Catchy Soundtrack

Gaurav Arora –  I an an Indian. I was born here. I have lived here for 25 years of my life. And yet, Chris Martin knows my country better than I do. In fact, it seems like he knows the… Continue Reading →

#JusticeforRohith Protesters Brutally Beaten Up By Police  And Hindutva Goons Near RSS Office In New Delhi

Justice For Rohith Vemula  g Hundreds of Students who were protesting against the institutional murder of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula were brutally lathicharged by the police and hindutva goons near the RSS office in New Delhi yesterday. Students from several… Continue Reading →

Actress Hema Malini accused of ‘land-grabbing’ for dance school in Mumbai

Hema Malini was reportedly allotted the plot worth crores of rupees for a paltry Rs.70,000 By: IANS | Mumbai | Updated: January 29, 2016 11:00 am The Maharashtra govt had allotted a prime 2,000-sq-m plot to Hema Malini in the suburban Oshiwara… Continue Reading →

Dalit Women Safai- Karmacharis of DU ostracised and dismissed from work #Vaw

BY- PINJRATOD COMMUNITY Ten Dalit safai karamcharis (8 women and 2 men) of Undergraduate Hostel for Girls (UGHG) in the Dhaka complex of University of Delhi have been on an indefinite sit-in dharna outside the hostel complex in protest against… Continue Reading →

Shameless – #AirIndia made a disabled woman passenger crawl #Vaw #WTFnews

I was howling and crawling, Air India is lying’: disability activist’s account of AI’s insensitivity “I asked him, “You are a human being right?” and he just laughed it off in embarrassment” PLEASE click to SIGN PETITION TO UNION CIVIL… Continue Reading →

#SundayReading -8 words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language

David Shariatmadari As Oxford Dictionaries comes under fire for sexist definitions, the history of terms that refer to women shows how deep negative attitudes go  ‘I am a gentil womman and no wenche’: from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, c1386…. Continue Reading →

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