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Somnath Bharti – AAP true colors -racism and violent vigilantism against women

They held us in taxi for 3 hrs, took urine samples, said black people break laws’ Written by Ananya Bhardwaj | New Delhi | January 17, 2014   Two of the four African women who were taken to a hospital for tests… Continue Reading →

Green tribunal orders restoration of Mithi, Ulhas rivers

TNN | Jan 16, 2014 MUMBAI: The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the state pollution board to ensure that rivers Mithi, Waduli, Ulhas and Patalganga are restored to pure forms. “It has directed the MPCB to submit a… 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 →

Kamal Mitra Chenoy – Why I joined #AAP and Quit the CPI

                                       I first became conscious of politics as a student of economics in Kirorimal College, Delhi University in 1969 when I was… 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 →

#RIP- Namdeo Dhasal: A poet of the underbelly

Namdeo Dhasal, the radical poet and founder of the Dalit Panther party, dies of illness at the age of 64   Shougat Dasgupta Namdeo Dhasal will remembered for his maverick spirit. Photo: Indian Express Archive It’s not for his politics… 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 →

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