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#India – #Feku vs #Pappu: 2013 -The year we subverted social media

We said bye-bye to a medium of happy anarchy. Increasingly popular social media faced the same threat as traditional media The National Front government of V.P. Singh is remembered for a set of caste-based reforms that set fire to the… Continue Reading →

Discharge from Gujarat chemical estates’ effluent treatment plants is “much higher” than norm

By  Counterview, Rajiv Shah, Monday, December 30, 2013 The latest figures released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) suggest that the levels of industrial effluents discharge through the common effluent treatment plants (CETP) in chemical industrial estates across Gujarat… Continue Reading →

The silence of Muzaffarnagar

Dec 31, 2013, Asian Age If you were to ask most citizens what the most exciting event of the year was, most would talk excitedly about the rule of the Aam Aadmi Party. If you were to detain them a… Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE -Statement by the NALSAR Students on Justice Ganguly #Vaw

Statement by the NALSAR Student Body We have watched, with a growing sense of alarm, the developments following Stella James’ blog post on the range of emotions she felt having been sexually harassed by an eminent retired Supreme Court judge…. Continue Reading →

#India – From Nirma to NaMo

Jean Drèze It is interesting how media reports of Narendra Modi’s rallies differ from the real thing. To see the difference for myself, I attended Narendra Modi’s recent rally in Ranchi.   More than 10 days in advance, the rally… Continue Reading →

#India – The PM ’s Fingerprints: #Aadhaar and the garrotting of civil liberties #UID

SHYAM DIVAN | 30/12/2013 The Aadhaar project with its enormous potential of surveillance alters the relationship between citizen and state. It tilts the balance so steeply in favour of government that a citizen whose biometrics are controlled by the State… Continue Reading →

#India – 3 yrs after riots, Haryana dalits still suffer #WTFnews

The hardships in the appalling relief camps spread across Muzaffarnagar district in western UP for riot victims have left many in utter dismay. Faraway in Haryana’s Hisar district, a relatively similar predicament grips several dozens of riot-hit Dalit families who… Continue Reading →

#India – Bonded labourers hands chopped for refusing to work in Odisha #WTFnews

Jajati Karan,CNN-IBN Dec 30, 2013 a   Sambalpur: The hands that used to feed their family is no more and they now literally depend on others to get fed. The hands of two migrant bonded labourers were chopped off in the… Continue Reading →

#Racism – Indian student in coma after being attacked in Australia

India Today Online  New Delhi, December 30, 2013 An Indian studying in Australia is in a coma after being attacked by a group of people over the weekend. According to Australian media reports, Manrajwinder Singh, the 20-year-old accounting student supposed to spend… Continue Reading →

A starring role Farooq Sheikh kept hidden: How he helped a 26/11 victim

Shalini Nair : Mumbai, Mon Dec 30 2013, IE Shruti with her sons. “I regret I couldn’t thank him,” she says. Pradip Das The country knew and loved Farooq Sheikh as the actor behind many a sublime role. Few knew another side of… Continue Reading →

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