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Communal Riots in Post-independence India
January 17, 2015
Since the nineteen sixties, India has witnessed some of its worst communal riots. Although religion appears to be the cause of these riots, in reality it is the mounting tension between different communities because of political, social, economic, cultural or even linguistic factors, that causes violence. A small and insignificant incident is sufficient to spark off a communal riot which is, not...
A Forgotten Liberator
January 9, 2015
The Life And Struggle of Savitribai Phule Esays on possibly the most important Indian woman in 19th Century. on her struggle against caste, patriarchy, work with peasants. Publisher: Mountain Peak (2008) ISBN-10: 8190627708 ISBN-13: 978-8190627702 ASIN: B0025G5NT0 Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches Language : English
Ambedkar Cartoon Controversy, 2012
June 1, 2012
A rational outlook on the debate surrounding the cartoons that appeared in the textbooks of the National Council of Educational Research and Training(NCERT).
Looking Ahead
April 1, 2010
Reservations for whom? If the Sachar Committee report was made public soon after its submission in November 2006, the report of the Ranganath Misra Commission, though submitted in May 2007, was tabled in Parliament only in December 2009. And that too because the government was left with no choice after The Indian Express made its contents public, publishing chunks of the same. The government...
Crime against Humanity: Findings and Recommendations (Volume II)
May 31, 2002
The Tribunal collected 2,094 oral and written testimonies, both individual and collective, from victim-survivors and also independent human rights groups, women’s groups, NGOs and academics. The documentation work done by relief camp managers and community leaders, from lists of persons killed or ‘missing’, to the meticulous tabulation of economic loss and religious desecration...
Supreme Court of India - Judgement on Vishakha (PIL) to enforce the fundamental rights of working women
August 13, 1997
Vishakha and others v State of Rajasthan was a 1997 Indian Supreme Court case where Vishakha and other women groups filed Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against State of Rajasthan and Union of India to enforce the fundamental rights of working women under Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India. The petition was filed after Bhanwari...