संस्कृति
March 3, 2015
BMMA Maharashtra Unit submitted 6000 signatures and endorsement from 23 organisations and networks demanding Maharashtra government to withdraw ban on beef. sudden unemployment faces families involved in beef trade. Some glimpses of the dharna organised by BMMA
BMMA Maharashtra Unit submitted 6000 signatures and endorsement from 23 organisations and networks demanding Maharashtra government...
February 20, 2015
India with its extraordinary diversity is home to a very large number of languages, some very ancient, widespread and even international, others limited in area and numbers, but all part of the mosaic of Indian nationhood. India must also be among the few multilingual societies in the world engaged in building a new nation without actively forging a common means of communication. Hindi today is...
February 7, 2015
Shama Futehally, Githa Hariharan, Ranjan De PDF DOWNLOAD
Concerned by the divisive forces of communalism, and its influence on children, the Centre for Science, Culture and Education conducted a workshop to examine ways of dealing with the situation. This collection of short stories focusing on communal harmony is an offshoot of this workshop. It is the first in a series on affirmative themes...
January 25, 2015
The first edition of Human Rights: Questions and Answers, was published by UNESCO in 1981 and translated into many languages. It was then substantially redrafted and updated by taking into account recent developments in the field of human rights. This Indian edition, like the new UNESCO publication, provides basic information on major human rights instruments, procedures for their implementation...
January 5, 2015
Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Physicians for Human Rights,
1991 - 43 pages
Language - English
December 24, 2014
Pandit Vikash Maharaj, famed Sarod playerof the Banaras Gharana to Teesta Setalvad in an exclusive interview
The Prevalent Public Discourse of Aggressive Consumerism and Communalism can be countered by interventions of Hindustani Music and Art: Pandit Vikash Maharaj, Banaras
Sangeetkar ko na jaat- paat, na unch-neech ki baat karni chahiye:Pandit Vikash Maharaj
The...
October 15, 2014
Baba Adhav, at 84 remains a doyen of the working class movement having organised the unorganised section of India's working class, the ragpicker, the domestic worker into what Pune and many parts of Maharashtra proudly know as the Hamal Panchayats. Hamals, mainly from backward castes, came from all over rural Maharashtra to Pune's markets, unloading heavy sacks of grain or cement on their...
July 1, 2012
Robert Frisk covers the fallout of the Arab Spring and how Egypt reacts to the Electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood.
October 1, 2011
Fear and the farce
Even for a party that pays mere lip service to constitutional principles, it was a moment of great shame. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India directs the Special Investigation Team (SIT) – specially appointed by the court to reinvestigate the major cases of carnage in Gujarat in 2002 – to also investigate the role of chief minister Narendra...