Category Kractivism
Round Table India spoke to writer and political activist Sudhir Dhawale in Mumbai last week, after his release from a long term spent in prison due to false charges of being involved in Naxal activities. Arrested in January 2011, he was acquitted last week by… Continue Reading →
“Can you really hide your natural weakness or character as a woman?”posted on May 26, 2014, at 1:39 a.m. Tasneem NashrullaBuzzFeed Staff The Durga Vahini is the women’s wing of a Hindu nationalist organization in India — the Vishwa… Continue Reading →
Florida’s IQ Limit For Death Penalty Isn’t Constitutional, Supreme Court Says by BILL CHAPPELL May 27, 201411:44 AM ET i Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall challenged the state’s use of an IQ cutoff to determine mental disability. The Supreme Court sided… Continue Reading →
LAHORE, Pakistan — A pregnant woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court on Tuesday for marrying the man she loved. Nearly 20 members of the woman’s family, including her father and brothers, attacked… Continue Reading →
Salon / By Brittney Cooper Black men are not rolling into college campuses and movie theaters to shoot large numbers of people. Photo Credit: screenshot via salon May 27, 2014 | Welp. Another young white guy has decided that his disillusionment with his life… Continue Reading →
Edited by Swati Gupta | Updated: May 28, 2014 00:41 IST Photo credit: PTI AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal leaves after being released from Tihar Jail in New Delhi on Tuesday. New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party who has been in… Continue Reading →
Yesterday Mahel Arar, Today Akshardham Six ! by – subhash gatade How many people remember today Canadian-Syrian Mahel Arar, a softward engineer, whose travails and tribulations at the hands of the US government’s extraordinary rendition programme had shaken many… Continue Reading →
Press Trust of India | Jodhpur May 26, 2014 Last Updated at 19:09 IST Almost three years after the murder of auxiliary nurse Bhanwari Devi, a court here will commence the trial from June 23 while it framed murder charges against all the 17 accused… Continue Reading →
– Muzaffarnagar feels appointment of Baliyan will reopen wounds IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI Vivek Baliyan, the younger brother of riot-accused Sanjeev Baliyan who has been made a minister of state. Picture by Imran Ahmed Siddiqui Muzaffarnagar, May 26: Several residents of… Continue Reading →
It’s been close to 10 months since communal riots and massacre broke out in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in Western Uttar Pradesh. The riots not just led to killings but displaced over sixty thousand people. They were forced to live… Continue Reading →