Month January 2021
New Delhi: In the latest of a series of cases being registered against journalists, police in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur district have registered a first information report (FIR) against The Wire‘s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan for tweeting a story on the claims made… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JANUARY 31, 2021 While covering the ceaseless swirls and eddies in the epic farmers’ agitation on Delhi’s borders, a professional journalist would need to arrive at a vantage point from which to view, report and analyse the developments,… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JANUARY 30, 2021 The Court said it has to strike a balance between law and humanity The bail hearing of Varavara Rao based on his health condition, continued on January 28, whereby, the court assessed the medical report… Continue Reading →
‘Country of Incarcerated Artists & Flourishing Lapdogs’ is Where India is Headed, Kamra Tells SC To believe that an institution can be beyond all criticism in a democracy is irrational and undemocratic, the comedian has said in an affidavit to… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON JANUARY 31, 2021 In January 2020, Ramji Ram, a medical student at National Medical College, Birgunj, was ready for his fourth and final year examinations. A relief had crept in as he, a Dalit, was finally going to… Continue Reading →
Vinita Deshmukh Governments have chipped away at the RTI Act, making their actions less and less accountable and transparent to the people For 24 years, until the enactment of the Right to Information Act (RTI)in 2005, Shivaji Raut was an… Continue Reading →
Arundhati Roy Text of Arundhati Roy’s speech at the Elgar Parishad 2021 I thank the organizers of the 2021 Elgar Parishad for inviting me to speak at this forum to mark what would have been Rohit Vemula’s 32nd birthday and the… Continue Reading →
by- दीपक कबीर इन डबडबायी आँखों का ये, पैग़ाम देखिये हर दिल मे उठ गया है वो, तूफान देखिये तानाशाह से भिड़ गये हैं जो,इंसान देखिये इन इंसानों की हताशा पे ये, सम्मान देखिये कि अब जगती हुई आंखों का… Continue Reading →
SC order says the convicts will be sent to Indore and Jabalpur in two batches and kept under the supervision of district legal authorities. 28 January, 2020 1:53 pm New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of… Continue Reading →
Behavioural psychologists say hatred and fear are two sides of the same coin. That explains the Hindu Right obsession with Gandhi and Godse. Subhash Gatade 30 Jan 2021 For now, the invidious project of the Hindu Mahasabha to set up a Nathuram Godse Gyan Shala in Gwalior has been shelved. Perhaps what terminated the ill-conceived venture was the sheer… Continue Reading →