भेदभाव
December 3, 2016
कल झारखंड के संपुर्ण विपक्ष द्वारा सीएनटी एसपीटी एक्ट संशोधन के विरोध में सरकार के खिलाफ शांति पुर्वक झारखंड बंद
CNT act-SPT act संशोधन का सच
इस एक्ट की धारा-71A में चालाकी की गयी है। अब कोई उद्योगपति यदि चाहे तो कहीं की भी जमीन सरकारी रेट पर सरकार से सीधे खरीद सकेगा। पहले उस उद्योगपति को झारखंडी जमीन मालिक से और ग्राम प्रधान से बात कर सौदा तय करना होता था। जाहिर है कि सभी रैयत उनकी शर्तों...
December 2, 2016
With at least 84% of Airbnb hosts in LA listing two or more properties, the majority of Airbnb’s business is not part of a local sharing economy but rather a large profit economy that comes at the at the expense of low income families, Palestinians, and anyone else who gets in the way.
Ariel Gold disrupts Ashton Kutcher's Airbnb presentation. Photo credit: Mondoweiss
Ashton...
December 2, 2016
Feminist lesbians have been passionate activists from the beginning of the movement against men’s violence and remain an inspiration for women to live independently of men.
Lesbian feminists with a banner "I love, I trust, I value Myself: Stop Sexual Violence Against Women". Belgrade.
I came out as a lesbian in the feminist encounters at the end of the eighties in Yugoslavia...
December 2, 2016
An excerpt from a collection of short fiction set in the state.
..After his migration, Rahmaan’s first letter, besides enquiries about Muhammad Yousuf’s and his family’s well-being and many other things, asked him if he wanted anything from Delhi. Yousuf read it many times over and then, alone in his room, before stowing it in his leather vanity box, he smelled the thin...
December 1, 2016
Israeli legislation ostensibly intended to tackle noise pollution from Muslim houses of worship has, paradoxically, served chiefly to provoke a cacophony of indignation across much of the Middle East.
Image Credit: Carlos Latuff/Mondoweiss
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his support this month for the so-called “muezzin bill”, claiming it was urgently needed to stop...
November 27, 2016
Official reports belie the cash flow scenario within Indian banks: It could be “several months” before RBI is able to plug the Rs 14.18 lakh crore hole left behind by the withdrawal of the 2,203 crore pieces of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, as per the estimates.
As the country struggles to cope with a desperate shortage of currency, new notes worth only Rs 1.5 lakh...
November 27, 2016
Border Guard Bangladesh in Cox's Bazar district has pushed back at least 95 Rohingya Muslims who fled the country in the face of ongoing crackdown in Rakhain state by Myanmar troops
Photo credit: Dhaka Tribune
The 95 Rohingyas including women and children were sent back home from different border points of Teknaf till Sunday morning starting in the dead hours of the night....
November 27, 2016
नई दिल्ली। 8 नवंबर को 1000 और 500 के नोटों को रद्दी करार देने वाली सरकार इससे पहले कालाधन सफेद करने के मौके दे चुकी है। उस वक्त सरकार ने कहा था कि आप अपने अघोषित कालेधन को 45 प्रतिशत टैक्स देकर सफेद कर सकते हैं। इस स्कीम के तहत बहुत सारे लोगों ने अपने धन की घोषणा की।
सेंट्रल बोर्ड ऑफ डायरेक्ट टैक्स (सीबीडीटी) ने इनकम टैक्स डिपार्टमेंट को देशभर में अपने ऑफिस 30 सितंबर को...
November 27, 2016
Poems in Right filled Anger, Of Resistance
On November 16, 2016, the occasion of the KG Kannabiran Memorial Lecture at Madurai, feminist activist Vasanth Kannabiran read our three powerful pieces of writing. Teesta Setalvad, co-editor, Sabrangindia delivered the lecture. We reproduce these powerful poems of Vasanth Kannabiran, a fellow traveler in the democratic rights struggle, with a...
November 27, 2016
Eduardo Galeano’s Portrait of #Fidel
The following passage is excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s history of humanity, Mirrors (Nation Books).
His enemies say he was an uncrowned king who confused unity with unanimity.
And in that his enemies are right.
His enemies say that if Napoleon had a newspaper like Granma, no Frenchman would have learned of the...