BY SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN Come August 15, and India’s airwaves are full of patriotic film songs—from the stirring anti-colonial Ai Vatan, Ai Vatan, Hum Ko Teri Qasam, picturised on Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his comrades, and war-related tearjerkers likeAi Mere Watan Ke Logon to rousing… Continue Reading →
By Express News Service Rural journalist and People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) P Sainath having a word with Sadanand Menon at a seminar in Hyderabad on Sunday | a ra dhakrishna HYDERABAD: The Una Dalit movement is not a… Continue Reading →
Germán Velásquez Foto: El Telégrafo In a landmark decision that has been hailed as a victory of public health measures against narrow commercial interests, an international tribunal has dismissed a claim by tobacco giant company Philip Morris that the Uruguay… Continue Reading →
This post is jointly written by J DEVIKA and NIVEDITA MENON Bitter arguments rage within the community that we may term as broadly secular, leftist, even feminist, around the Farooqui judgement – in many ways, this judgement and the case itself, may be… Continue Reading →
Rahul Mahajani, Hindustan Times, Five doctors of Mumbai’s well-known LH Hiranandani Hospital accused of being part of kidney-transplant racket. (Shutterstock representative image) The country’s commercial capital sprang a story of illegal kidney trade recently when a new and upscale hospital… Continue Reading →
Ramachandra Guha | With the BJP in power, the RSS in the ascendant, and the airwaves dominated by channels whose TRPs depend on stoking jingoism, there is an increasing tendency to submit ordinary Indians to a series of coercive loyalty… Continue Reading →
BY ANATOLY LIBERMAN Its congener in Middle High German meant “brave, beautiful.” On that occasion and on several others, I noted that words may change their meaning in a truly incomprehensible, even bizarre way. I also admitted that semantic bridges… Continue Reading →
. BY HARISH KHARE Rural and semi-urban Gujarat remains a site of extensive and elaborate social discrimination. The only thing new about the Una violence is that it became available on social media and provoked a national hue and cry. Gujarat’s… Continue Reading →
, By: M.A.Rashid | Doctrine of sovereign immunity does not apply to cases of fundamental rights violation and hence cannot be used as a defence in public law. A distinguishing feature of any democracy is the space offered for legitimate… Continue Reading →
August 12, 2016 Combo image of rallies held for repeal of AFSPA at Ukhrul, Chandel, Tamenglong in Manipur State and Kohima and Dimapur in Nagaland on Thursday. Morung Express News Dimapur/Kohima/Chandel/Tamenglong/Ukhrul | August 11 In a show of nonviolence… Continue Reading →
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