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#India – AAP is a Rorschach test

Wed, Jan 15 2014. 07 14 PM IST   Supporters believe the AAP will transform the nation. The real question is: into what? Switzerland or Cambodia? Conventional wisdom has it that corporate India is waiting for its messiah, Narendra Modi,… Continue Reading →

#India – Nothing gender neutral about Aam ‘Aadmi’ Party #AAP

Kamla Bhasin, Hindustan TimesJanuary 12, 2014 I must confess that I did not expect the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to do so well in the recently concluded assembly elections in Delhi. Nevertheless, I am happy that the party did well… Continue Reading →

Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti named Danish rape survivor in press release #Vaw #WTFnews

All India | Reported by Tanima Biswas, Edited by Surabhi Malik | Updated: January 16, 2014 New Delhi:  Delhi’s new Law MinisterSomnath Bharti acknowledged today that he accidentally named the Danish woman who was gang-raped in the heart of Delhi late on Tuesday night. In… Continue Reading →

#India – Jailed Maruti workers’ kin launch 17-day foot march

  The Hindu | ASHOK KUMAR| GURGAON, January 16, 2014 Release workers, families ask Haryana Govt. The families of workers jailed for violence at Maruti Suzuki’s plant in Manesar on July 18, 2012, set out on a 17-day-long Jan Jagran Yatra from Kaithal… Continue Reading →

#India – Couple defy taboo in inter-caste love story

JANUARY 16, 2014 NEW DELHI, Jan 16 ― When Tilakam, from one of India’s high social castes, married the love of her life in a simple ceremony 12 years ago, she feared outrage from relatives and ostracism.Tilakam’s husband Kathir is… Continue Reading →

Older Lesbians Reunite, Focused Now on Ageism

  By Amy Lieberman WeNews correspondent Alix Dobkin at a gay pride parade with grandchildren in Woodstock, N.Y.   Credit: Alix Dobkin Monday, January 6, 2014 In the 1970s they tackled issues such as workplace discrimination and losing custody of their… Continue Reading →

#India – Sexual Violence and the Death Penalty #Vaw

Vol – XLIX No. 3, January 18, 2014 | Arvind Narrain The judgment in the 16 December Delhi rape case imposed the death penalty based upon the depravity of the offence and the demands of the “collective conscience of society”. On the… Continue Reading →

#India – Nuclear plant in Haryana will risk lives

  Bhaskar Mukherjee, TNN Jan 12, 2014 FATEHABAD: Two anti-nuclear groups with separate list of demands have started protests against the proposed nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village in Haryana. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the… Continue Reading →

Support for#Neerajhatekar pours in from other universities

TNN | Jan 16, 2014, MUMBAI: Teacher unions of several universities have written to chancellor K Sankaranarayanan and vice-chancellor Rajan Welukar to reinstate suspended Mumbai University econometrics professor Neeraj Hatekar. Despite the suspension, Hatekar is conducting lectures outside the campus. The Dr Babasaheb… Continue Reading →

Tehelka sexual assault case: Tarun Tejpal’s bail plea rejected #Vaw

CNN-IBN Jan 15, 2014 at 05:54pm IST Panaji: The Goa session court has rejected a bail plea filed by Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal in the sexual assault case against him. Tejpal has spent a month and a half cumulatively in police… Continue Reading →

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