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Month May 2017

#SundayReading- Where do old birds go to die?

  The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is Arundhati Roy’s first work of fiction in 20 years.Set in Delhi and Kashmir, the novel begins with Anjum -a hijra, a mother and a riot survivor -choosing to go live in a graveyard… Continue Reading →

New Delhi: Kidney Racket Busted, Batra Hospital under lens

Kidney racket: All about the scam busted at Delhi’s Batra hospital From changing name, getting fake accent and Aadhar card, doctoring photos in family albums, the racketeers worked to a well thought out plan to pass off the kidney seller… Continue Reading →

India – Stiffer cow slaughter laws may save cattle but what about people?

AAKAR PATEL When did you first read stories of cow vigilantes? When did Indian Muslims first begin to be killed over this issue and when did we first begin to brutalise Dalits over it? I suspect that like me you… Continue Reading →

To please mantri, Agra hospital forces patients out #WTFnews

Deepak Lavania Agra: TNN A visit by UP minister Ashutosh Tandon to the SN Medical College (SNMC) on Saturday morning turned into a nightmare for many patients, particularly those in the emergency ward. Several of them, including those in critical… Continue Reading →

Sikhs’ anti-hero, In­dian hero KPS Gill goes

– JAG­MO­HAN SINGH Car­ry­ing a dead con­science for a long time, since he started killing peo­ple of his own ilk with­out re­morse and with full im­punity from the In­dian state struc­ture, Kan­war Pal Singh Gill -the eu­phemistic su­per-cop of In­dia, died… Continue Reading →

Muslims stopped from praying in UP mosque, FIR filed

Nazar Abbas Amroha:   Muslims in an Amroha village were allegedly prevented from praying at a mosque by local authorities, following objections raised by the majority community .After the leader of an RSS-affiliated farmers’ organization turned up and warned both… Continue Reading →

Ajmer Sikh thrashing: Victims narrate horror, allege police inaction

TNN Representative image ALWAR: Rajasthan Police top brass has sought a report from Alwar police about a video showing four Sikh sewadars being heckled, pushed and severely thrashed in Ajmer district’s Naseerabad area. The Alwar police recorded the statements of… Continue Reading →

Mumbai woman given triple talaq in absence #Vaw

Mohammed Wajihuddin Mumbai: Even as the Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on triple talaq after hearing a bunch of petitions seeking a ban on it, Sumaiya Abdul Sattar Mearpra, a young victim of the instant divorce in Kurla, whom… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra Project revives women’s oral tradition set in stone and verse

Mohua Das Pune Activist, French Husband Documented 1,10,000 Couplets Sonyace ghosaphula Ramabai kadhi kele? Bhimaraja tice patiimainata pat havile Baman ace pori kaya t akitisa sad a? Ami gelo budhda vad ya ata tumhi d hora vad ha (Ramabai, when… Continue Reading →

India – Postcard News: Mass producing fake news

By Pratik Sinha On 18th May 2015, Twitter handle of postcard.news tweeted the picture of two young children claiming that they were Balochs who were being killed and brutalised. In reality, this image has been used by multiple media outlets… Continue Reading →

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