Day July 10, 2014
D.N. Jha’s Reply to Arun Shourie [A shorter version appears in the Indian Express of 9 July 2014 athttp://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/grist-to-the-reactionary-mill/.] I was amused to read ‘How History Was Made Up At Nalanda’ (28 June 2014, the Indian Express) by Arun Shourie,… Continue Reading →
Ashley Tellis, in sify.com Ever since December 16, 2012, the public sphere, at least in Delhi, has been flooded with articulations of ‘feminist’ outrage.Feminist is in scare quotes because for many of us, it became quickly clear that even… Continue Reading →
Power at the expense of safety? The Modi government may seek to dilute the liability laws that would indict nuclear energy suppliers in the event ofan accident Kumar Sundaram Delhi The responses to India’s ratification of the IAEA’s Additional Protocol… Continue Reading →
PTI | July 08, 2014, 19.07 pm IST Picture used for representation purposes only (Photo: DC) Badaun: Three minor Dalit girls were allegedly assaulted and gangraped by seven men for opposing eve-teasing in Singauli village in Badaun, police said on Tuesday. Three… Continue Reading →
Military Authorities Detaining Dissidents, Critics Thanapol Eawsakul, © 2014 Matichon TV “Arresting an editor for a Facebook criticism of military rule shows just how far the junta will go to silence critics. The military can neither arrest all critics… Continue Reading →
Mon July 07, 2014 By AMANTHA PERERA VALIPUNAM (IPS): The village of Valipunam, 322 km north of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, occupies one of the remotest corners of the country’s former war zone. The dirt roads are impossible to navigate, there… Continue Reading →
July 9, 2014 | Colombo Telegraph,Opinion | By Nimalka Fernando – Dr. Nimalka Fernando The MOD & The NGO Surveillance Secretariat, Keep Your Letter In Your Archives As A Document To Remind You Of Your Collective Shame! The Rajapakse regime has… Continue Reading →
India TV crime desk [ New Delhi: A 22-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped in a moving car on Monday night in Ghaziabad by four men. The accused later dumped her near a private hospital in Noida. The survivor told the police… Continue Reading →
Girish Karnad – Dirty Tricks of TOI will not affect my political stance on Modi
On 5 July, at an event organized for the Chitra Film Society in Dharwad by its secretary, Abdul Khan, I was asked how I reacted to having Modi as the Prime Minister, given that I had criticised him earlier as… Continue Reading →