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Death Penalty -Brings out basal instincts of a society

  Irfan Engineer, Dec 1, 2012:Deccan Herald       The march of history has been from more brutal and violent societies to more humane, inclusive and less violent societies; and from authoritarian to democratic states. The objective of punishment… Continue Reading →

Jharkhand government digging up old cases against activists to silence them

Muzzled in Jharkhand Unable to deal with rising protests against land acquisition, the Jharkhand government is digging up old cases against activists to silence them. Soumik Mukherjee reports Gagged Xavier Dias was earlier honoured by the Jharkhand government for fighting… Continue Reading →

A pecking order falls #sundayreading

Author(s): Garga Chatterjee, DOWN TO EARTH Date: Dec 15, 2012 The veil of civilisation and Hurricane Sandy Garga Chatterjee We live in a world filled with theories of human nature, or more correctly, theories of human nature that explain differences between people…. Continue Reading →

Done to Death -Politics of punishment #deathpenalty

Manoj Mitta | November  2012, Times Crest     The higher the penalty, the greater the rigor that the courts are expected to display in arriving at the decision. It is however hard to apply this principle, ironically enough, to the highest… Continue Reading →

Facebook bans when you post anything anti-israel- try it ! #censorship

Facebook is controlled by the same people who are in control of other media.Whenever I post anything against the Israeli aggression or against any Arab dictators my posts are deleted and I get warning or get punishment of not being… Continue Reading →

UN makes resounding vote in favour of Palestinian statehood

Guardian.co.uk Overwhelming majority votes to recognise Palestine as non-member state as US and Israel are left to condemn decision   Palestinians celebrate in Ramallah after the general assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images… Continue Reading →

What ails India’s democracy – THE SILENT EMERGENCY

Over two weeks ago, many of you – in fact a group of a hundred women – signed on to an appeal letter addressed to Selvi Jayalalitha, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, and the Chairperson of the National Commission on… Continue Reading →

Despite state pardon, J’khand activists sent to jail, get bail

Deepu Sebastian Edmond :  IEChaibasa, Thu Nov 29 2012 Six activists of the Jharkhand statehood movement, who were sent to jail on Saturday by a Railway Magistrate in a 1991 case, were on Monday bailed out from the Chaibasa jail. Xavier… Continue Reading →

Zakia Jafri loses right to file protest petition against SIT report

Ahmedabad,Nov 27, DNA A local court on Tuesday ruled that Zakia Jafri, whose husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Zafri was killed in Gujarat riots, has lost the right to file protest petition against the SIT report, giving a clean… Continue Reading →

#India- Shocking case of miscarriage of justice

Wanton Lawlessness, Outlook The Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case of 1996 shows horrendous police culpability — if the court had not noticed the ‘casualness and slipshod approach’ of the police, three persons might have been wrongly executed by the state… Continue Reading →

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