Month November 2018
Devaki Jain The statue is of a man who had not wanted to make a claim to be taller, but to be one among the people I cannot help but feel depressed when I hear people exclaiming in delight about… Continue Reading →
by National Alliance of People’s Movements Multiple Power Project along the coastline, rapid urbanization, industrial pollution driving away fish population from the coasts in Andhra Pradesh; Sagarmala and Industrial Corridor responsible for the devastation Amravati, Andhra Pradesh: On 25th day of… Continue Reading →
Trigger Warning- Sexual Harassment Issues and concerns have been raised by Sarita who was working with Centre for Health and Social Justice ( CHSJ ) especially working on the issues of social justice , it is also an example of how performance… Continue Reading →
NALIN MEHTA The growing clamour for a law to build the Ram temple in Ayodhya is reminiscent of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s 1849 satirical aphorism: “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” The carefully constructed public symphony we… Continue Reading →
Kolkata: At 21, Md Sazzadul Hoque seems to have been abandoned by everybody he ever cared for. His family, in Bangladesh’s Chittagong, has stopped supporting him and Hoque has been expelled from his college in Dhaka. For the last one-and-a-half years,… Continue Reading →
Tells Court He Felt Sad That They Killed Haren Pandya Rebecca.Samervel Mumbai: Udaipur-based gangster Azam Khan, deposing as a witness in the alleged fake encounter cases of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and his associate Tulsiram Prajapati on Saturday, said Sohrabuddin told him… Continue Reading →
Two tiny villages in Hingoli district in rain-starved Marathwada bring into sharp focus the inadequacies of the state’s ambitious loan waiver programme The case of the conned villagers (below) may be an isolated one, but experts tell Mirror the ‘karj… Continue Reading →
Vinita Deshmukh While the government is going ahead with amendments to the Right to Information (RTI) Act aimed at seriously and adversely affecting the power and dignity of information commissions, which will effectively kill the Act, no less serious is… Continue Reading →
Women allege sexual harassment at All India Radio’s Dharamshala, Obra, Kurukshetra stations by- Rituparna Chatterjee Jyoti Pathania, 45, was in the All India Radio’s dubbing room in Dharamsala on 20 August 2016. She was on day duty, waiting for a message… Continue Reading →
Rape is a criminal offence and one of which the State can take suo motu cognisance Barkha Dutt MJ Akbar or Tarun Tejpal — and whoever comes next — cannot and must not be mythologised as brooding men of intensity… Continue Reading →