-Bridge the Gap Bring the Change

Category media

Police Continue To Make Arrests Using ‘Unconstitutional’ Section 66A of IT Act, Struck Down By SC 3 Years Ago

Charu Bahri December 3, 2018 Mount Abu: On March 20, 2017, the Uttarakhand High Court accorded the status of living human entity to the rivers Ganga and Yamuna. The same day, Zakir Ali Tyagi, an 18-year-old from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh posted… Continue Reading →

India’s rewritten textbooks talk of demerits of democracy, praise Hitler, underrate Mughals

A 7th grade book shows Maharana Pratap fighting a Muslim warrior in Haldighati A detailed, 3,800-word review of the books rewritten under directions of the BJP rulers across India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in May 2014… Continue Reading →

Mumbai -The Hindu Journalist thrown out of Azad Maidan, CM seeks report

‘I was pushed out of Azad Maidan’ Alok Deshpande The melee outside Azad Maidan after the incident on Tuesday night. The Hindu journalist describes how police refused to let him cover protest I wasn’t supposed to be a part of… Continue Reading →

Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris director, dies aged 77 #RIP

Politically pioneering Italian director of The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris, who went on to win the best director Oscar for The Last Emperor, dies from cancer Andrew Pulver Bernardo Bertolucci, the multi-award-winning Italian director of Last Tango in… Continue Reading →

Sanatan Sanstha Named In Murder Of Journalist Gauri Lankesh

Of the 18 people named in the chargesheet, 16 have been arrested. One of the two persons shown as absconding – who was earlier identified only as Murali alias Shiva – has now been identified by the SIT in the… Continue Reading →

India – Why Maoists will endure despite Chhattisgarh elections

In spite of an intense pushback by the state, left-wing rebellion in election-bound Chhattisgarh won’t end until poor governance does Sudeep Chakravarti An army man in Dandakaranya region during the first phase of elections earlier this month. Photo: Shaswati Das/Mint… Continue Reading →

Goodbye, Alyque Padamsee #RIP

1928-2018 Alyque Padamsee, the creative mind behind some of India’s most memorable ad campaigns, passed away on Saturday. He was 90 Delshad Irani Even before I started covering the advertising and marketing industry for ET, I had heard the name Alyque… Continue Reading →

SC- Criticising a judge on Facebook is not Contempt #FOE

The judgment was contradictory to the contempt notice issued by the court to former Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju, prompting experts to suggest laying down of consistent principles. Supreme Court of India. Credit: Reuters New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench, on… Continue Reading →

Journalist accuses primetime anchor Gaurav Sawant of sexual assault #MeToo

For The Record SAMIA SINGH IN THE LATE 1990s, Gaurav Sawant became an overnight star. The offspring of a retired brigadier of the Indian army, Sawant joined the Indian Express in 1994, and was soon paradropped into the defence beat. The Kargil… Continue Reading →

Will Women Decide India’s 2019 Elections?

MILAN VAISHNAV,  JAMIE HINTSON Summary:  Seven decades after India gained independence, women are still woefully underrepresented as political candidates in state and national elections. Yet despite their gross underrepresentation as politicians in the upper echelons of India’s electoral system, women have… Continue Reading →

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2024 Kractivism — Powered by WordPress

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑