Month November 2017
Film bans, censorship and death threats — the veteran actor says it like it is! [email protected] Naseeruddin Shah is known to speak his mind. This actor doesn’t mince words or thoughts — a rare quality these days. While there’s plenty… Continue Reading →
Pavan Dahat Threatened, beaten, sexually assaulted, husband dead, but the tribal activist shows little signs of giving up In June last year, Madkam Hidme from Gumpad village in the dense forests of Sukma in South Chhattisgarh, was raped and killed, allegedly… Continue Reading →
November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. MADHURI DANTHALA On November 25, 1960, three of the four “butterflies” were bludgeoned to death in the eerily silent Dominican countryside. The butterflies, as the Mirabal sisters were… Continue Reading →
An NGO in Chhattisgarh is addressing the urgent deficit in nutrition by providing three meals a day to children under three along with daycare [email protected] Sumita Dhruv’s life revolves around rice — sowing, irrigating, and harvesting it. And yet very… Continue Reading →
Hadiya, escorted by a heavy police presence, left for New Delhi on Saturday. She is being accompanied by her parents, too. Neethu Reghukumar | File photo of Hadiya. (CNN-News18 photo) Kochi: Hadiya, earlier known as Akhila, the woman at the centre… Continue Reading →
ADITYA MENON| Even 70 years after Independence, it appears that the Gujarat government continues to view Adivasis through the racist lenses of British colonisers. A website of a department of the Gujarat government has referred to the tribal Bhil community as “black” and… Continue Reading →
Makarand.Gadgil The Latur Bar Association on Friday passed a resolution demanding a court-monitored CBI inquiry into the death of former CBI Special Court Judge BH Loya, who died in mysterious circumstances in Nagpur three years ago. At the time of… Continue Reading →
The Swedish Academy, whose headquarters in Stockholm’s old city is pictured on Nov 23, 2017, announced Thursday that several of its members and their relatives have accused a man connected to the institution of sexual assault. — AFP STOCKHOLM: The… Continue Reading →
Yusra.Husain @timesgroup.com Jais (Amethi district): Even as the world is caught up in a storm over ‘Padmavati’, people in this quiet village – the birthplace of Malik Mohammad Jaisi, the writer of ‘Padmavat’ – wonder what the fuss is all… Continue Reading →
A Subramani| TNN | CHENNAI: It is perhaps time to look for fake judicial officers too, not just fake lawyers. The authorities at the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherryare yet to get over the shock of finding that a man managed… Continue Reading →