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Month July 2018

Uttarakhand – Scam of Rs. 2.32 Crore in Sterilization in Garhwal District

– Sterilization scam in Garhwa district highlights pathetic condition of family planning services. For providing sterilization services, health department has signed MoU with 11 private hospitals CMHO came to know about the scam after going through the files of 2016-17… Continue Reading →

Amartya Sen: India Has Taken A Quantum Jump In The Wrong Direction After 2014

The government has also deflected from issues of inequalities, the caste system and the schedules tribes have been kept out, said Sen. PTI FILE PHOTO Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen said that despite being the fastest-growing economy the country… Continue Reading →

Prof Shoma Sen will be 60 on August 1st in Yerwada Prison – Send her Greetings #DefendDissent

Mulaquaat #2 Yerwada Women’s Jail Pune 3rd July 2018 By- Koel Sen We wait. The wait is long this time. Monsoon clouds hover above us. Papa, hasn’t met her since they picked her up from home. We park ourselves on… Continue Reading →

Pyaasa Meets Parichay: Remembering Guru Dutt and Sanjeev Kumar on their birth anniversaries today

Guru Dutt and Sanjeev Kumar birth anniversaries: Guru Dutt and Sanjeev Kumar’s turbulent, tragic and unlucky-in-love personas haunted the two stars throughout their life, cruelly and creatively manifesting itself both on screen and off it. by Shaikh Ayaz | Even though Guru… Continue Reading →

Panchayat orders 4 slaps as punishment to man who tried to rape 13-yr-old girl #WTFnews

Mohd Dilshad| TNN |  Muzaffarnagar: In yet another instance of a kangaroo court delivering instant justice in serious criminal offences, a village panchayat in Bhopa area of Muzaffarnagar ordered four slaps as punishment to a 35-year-old man who allegedly attempted to rape a 13-year-old… Continue Reading →

FTII expels 2 from hostel for ‘hum dekhenge’ graffiti #FOE

Students’ plea on the words borrowed from a Faiz Ahmad Faiz poem falls on deaf ears, as director terms it sullying of the revamped canteen and breach of discipline | [email protected] In a step that has drawn severe criticism from students… Continue Reading →

Gurgaon girl stands by childhood friend, reports father for rape #Vaw

TIMES NEWS NETWORK Gurgaon: She was in a place she fully trusted—her best friend’s house—and in company she had been familiar with since she was in Class 3. But in a flat at The Belaire in Gurgaon that was like… Continue Reading →

Union Minister garlands lynchers , says he was honouring due process of law #WTFnews

TNN & AGENCIES Hazaribag: Union minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha found himself in the midst of a raging controversy over his felicitating eight men convicted in a lynching case. They are currently out on bail. Opposition parties… Continue Reading →

Shoma Sen – Demonising a Beloved Teacher and Life-long Activist

by- Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) A teacher, a reader and learner, an intellectual, an activist and a human rights defender. Shoma Sen is all of the above, and more. The state would like the world to believe… Continue Reading →

India – Caste Discrimination and the curriculum taboo

Schools, colleges and other educational institutions desist from engaging with caste in the false hope that education will remove the social inequality. by Krishna Kumar | If you are part of the urban middle class, you learn to perceive caste as something… Continue Reading →

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