Day August 20, 2017
We Won’t Allow India to Be Turned Into a Republic of Fear: Indians in London Write to President Kovind of Human Rights Emergency LONDON: Indian organisations based in the UK have expressed their “distress and concern” to President of India Ram… Continue Reading →
Police in these three states have made it clear that these were just baseless rumours, with no credible evidence. District officials in Sahibganj said they, too, had conducted an awareness campaign on this issue recently. Written by Prashant Pandey | Ranchi |… Continue Reading →
HYDERABAD: At a programme organised under the banner “70 years of independent India: inclusion and exclusion” in the city on Tuesday, a Telangana-based Dalit rights group launched a campaign against domestic violence suffered by Dalit women.The organisation Dalit Sthree Sakthi’s… Continue Reading →
Indira alleges that the Reddy Sangam has imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on any member of the community who interacts with her family. Sama Indira × For nearly three months now, 50-year-old Sama Indira has found herself completely isolated… Continue Reading →
In Puerto Rico, women and children caught in the middle of a crisis Margaret Viggiani August 2017 A mother cradles her infant who was born with a microcephaly, as noted by the abnormally small and creased skull. Photo… Continue Reading →
By The Last Caveman @CarDroidusMax The 1965 film would cause the Sangh Parivar to take major umbrage at its inter-faith romance. Chemmeen, the 1965 Malayalam-language movie needs no introduction to any Keralite. This movie-adaptation of Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s eponymous… Continue Reading →
By Danish Khan, Mumbai Mirror | Fathema Ismail and Jawaharlal Nehru at the opening of her clinic in the military barrack at Marine Drive in 1947 Usha Cunningham, who was diagnosed with poliomyelitis as a two-year-old in the 1940s, recounts the tale… Continue Reading →
Human rights activists Thirumurugan Gandhi, Daison Jose, Ilamaran , Arun were arrested on 21.5.2017 for conducting candle light vigil for the dead in the Srilankan civil war. Thirumurugan Gandhi, is one of the most committed and honest activist… Continue Reading →
The Guardian has published pages from a customs intelligence notice alleging the company has shifted huge sums of money into offshore bank accounts Michael Safi in Delhi India’s main opposition party has called for a fresh, supreme court-monitored probe into allegations… Continue Reading →
Joeanna Rebello Fernandes| TNN | Sujatha Gidla. It was to escape the tyranny of untouchability — experienced even at IIT-Madras where she was a research associate — that Sujatha Gidla left for the US at age 26. But casteism followed her there too. In her memoir… Continue Reading →