ILLUSTRATION BY SORIT OPINION A Cowed-Down Nation Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef? MEENA KANDASAMY in The Outlook “The university and all teaching systems that appear simply to disseminate knowledge are made to maintain a certain social class… Continue Reading →
SALEM,April 20, 2012 Special Correspondent, The Hindu The “untouchability Wall” was demolished in Narasothipatti in Salem on Thursday. Photo: E.Lakshmi Narayanan It prevented 300 Arundathiar families from using a road laid by Corporation The wall that separated Dalits of Senkodan… Continue Reading →
By R. B. Sreekumar, Former DGP, Gujarat Newzfirst, April 17, 2012 On April 11, a metropolitan magistrate in Ahmedabad disclosed that a Special Investigative Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court has found no evidence that on the night… Continue Reading →
New Delhi. First Post –Normal Baba, an aspiring godman who claims to help people with his invisible “Third Arm”, has successfully received 15 crore rupees of investment from Banyan Capital, a venture capital firm funding promising godmen, tantriks, black-magicians etc. Normal… Continue Reading →
Chasing shadows in Abujmard AMAN SETHI The Hindu—GROUND ZERO: Apart from reports of civilian deaths and property damage, the outcomes of ‘Operation Hakka’ are still unclear. A burnt house. Photo: Aman Sethi ‘Operation Haka’ has been dramatically projected as the… Continue Reading →
Hindu, Apr, 9 Robin Jeffrey The media’s failure to recruit Dalits is a betrayal of the constitutional guarantees of equality and fraternity. There were almost none in 1992, and there are almost none today: Dalits in the newsrooms of India‘s… Continue Reading →
BBC News- 9th April A court in India has found 23 people guilty of killing Muslims in religious riots in Gujarat state 10 years ago. Twenty-three other defendants were acquitted and one other died during the trial. Most of the… Continue Reading →
EDITORIAL, The Hindu April 6, 2012 Don’t lose the plot now The continuing efforts to criminalise protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project and portray all opposition to nuclear energy as anti-national must be unequivocally condemned. For over seven months,… Continue Reading →
Down To Earth Author(s): Latha Jishnu Date: Apr 5, 2012 Varshini, 10, speaks for a new generation that is against nuclear energy Varshini, a fifth standard student, has a question for the prime minister. Why does he want to expose… Continue Reading →
by Minakshee Rode In a place like Pune University, whenever I look around, particularly, at the post graduate students studying English Literature, Caste and gender studies, one question always bothers me: what do we expect our mind-sets to be? Students… Continue Reading →
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