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Home minister in BJP-run Madhya Pradesh state describes rapeas a ‘social crime’ in comments playing down rapes Reuters in New Delhi theguardian.com, Thursday 5 June 2014 08.40 EDT Women in Uttar Pradesh protest against the state goverment after two cousins aged 12… Continue Reading →
6 JUN 1, 2014 6:03 PM EDT By Pankaj Mishra Bold initiatives characterize India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, who famously lives in a 27-story building in Mumbai, a city where most people languish in slums. Last month, his company, Reliance Industries Ltd.,… Continue Reading →
Indian court has been asked to rule on whether a revered Hindu guru is dead or alive – and whether it is a matter of religious faith or scientific fact His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj is thought to have died… Continue Reading →
in Big Story, India s The mob vandalizes a mosque and madrassa in Pune, Maharashtra. Dozens of mosques and madrassas across the city have been targeted by the Hindu radical groups. Twocircles.net PUNE – Muslim homes, shops, mosques and madrassas have been damaged in… Continue Reading →
May 31, 2014 | : Age Correspondent Various protests against the Jaitapur power plant The proposed 10,000 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra has been a controversial one. The controversy may now see a clash between the Shiv… Continue Reading →
Mumbai Mirror | Jun 5, 2014, 01.20 AM IST A Pune techie Mohsin Sheikh who was killed by a mob on Monday night iWITNESS Jyoti Punwani, Mumbai The news of a Muslim being killed by a mob on a public street in… Continue Reading →
MUKTSAR VILLAGE RAPE CASE Police crackdown fails to deter protesting villagers Archit Watts Tribune News Service Muktsar, May 30 Their elders in jail, the families protesting the delay in the arrest of the main accused in a rape case are… Continue Reading →
Yogesh Joshi, Hindustan Times Pune, June 04, 2014 First Published: 18:57 IST(4/6/2014) | Last Updated: 13:40 IST(5/6/2014) Soon after killing a Muslim youth unconnected with uploading indecorous morphed pictures of late Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray and Maratha icon Chhatrapati Shivaji… Continue Reading →
Wed, May 28, 2014 by Susan Rosenthal BOOK REVIEW: Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism(2011), by Hal Draper, August Bebel, Eleanor Marx, Clara Zetkin, and Rosa Luxemburg.* Edited by E. Haberkern. The organic connection between women’s liberation and socialism has been shoved so deeply down the Memory… Continue Reading →
By AMANA FONTANELLA-KHANJUNE 4, 2014 WHEN a distressed father is reporting his daughter’s disappearance to a policeman in India, there are some questions he doesn’t want to hear. “What is your caste?” is one of them. Yet, the father, Sohan Lal,… Continue Reading →