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Bankura rapist doctor arrested

 Friday, 02 March 2012, Pioneer Dr RK Sarkar of Bankura Sanmelani Medical College, charged with raping a differently-abled patient, was arrested and produced before a district court on Thursday. He has been charged with section 376(2D) even as the preliminary… Continue Reading →

Rashtriya Viklang Manch-RVM (National Confederation of Disabled-NCD) writes to Mamata Bannerji

To:- MS Mamata Benarji,    The Chief minister, GOVT. of West Bengal, West Bengal, Colkata, March 1, 2012 Dear Madam, We the members of Rashtriya Viklang Manch [RVM] [National Confederation of Disabled-NCD] on behalf of 70 million disabled people of… Continue Reading →

Open letter to Mamta Bannerji- ‘ Fake- Rapes’

18-02-2012 Madam Chief Minister, We, the members of Maitree, a women’s rights network in West Bengal, are writing to protest against the manner in which the complaint of rape of a woman in a car in Kolkata on Feb 5,… Continue Reading →

Apalling and Shocking -West Bengal: Disabled teenage patient raped in hospital by medical staff

Feb, 29, Kolkata: A hearing impaired patient has been allegedly raped by an employee inside the Bankura Medical College in West Bengal. A complaint has been lodged in the case. The victim’s clothes and bed sheets have been sent for… Continue Reading →

Differently-abled passenger off-loaded SpiceJet Flight for flying unescorted

   Feb 20, 2012- An independent, widely travelled woman with cerebral palsy was forced off a Goa-bound plane minutes before take-off from Calcutta airport on Sunday morning because the pilot had reservations about her being on board without an escort…. Continue Reading →

Mamta and Madan Mitra’s Medieval Moralising

Kolkata police find holes in rape case; Mamata says cooked up By: IANS Date: 2012-02-17 Place: Kolkata As the Kolkata police said there were “certain technical discrepancies” in the rape complaint filed by an Anglo-Indian woman, a state minister questioned… Continue Reading →

Letters to God, letters to Supreme (Court) Judges

By – Umang Kumar It will be fair to assume that we all remember writing – or thinking of writing – a letter to God at some point in our lives, typically when quite young. Those were letters of various… Continue Reading →

Soni Sori’s Letter to the Supreme Court Judge

Sir Judge Upon your order, I was treated in Kolkata, which saved my life. Then why have I been sent back among the same people? I am not safe here. I’m having to battle many problems. If your court believes… Continue Reading →

We cannot let them break the pen or ration the ink: Vikram Seth

The Speech upon Inaugurating the First Kolkata Literary Meet, 26 January 2012 Thank you very much for inviting me this Republic Day to inaugurate the first Kolkata Literary Meet – or KLM – or (most aptly of all) ‘Kolom’. By… Continue Reading →

Gallantry Award for Sexual Torture on Republic Day in India

The Victim of Sexual Torture Soni Sori, an adivasi school teacher and warden from Chhattisgarh, is currently facing trial in Chhattisgarh. Accused as a Maoist supporter, despite evidence of her having being framed as one in several cases, she has… Continue Reading →

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