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December 28, 2016
Local English daily Kashmir Reader hit the stands on Wednesday after it was banned by the Jammu and Kashmir government for nearly three months on the charges that its publication was a threat to peace in the valley.
Kashmir Reader was banned in October
The newspaper started its publication and distribution for the first time after it was banned through an order passed by District...
December 28, 2016
A few weeks ago Khalid Baig, a progressive Indian Muslim, posted a satirical status on triple talaq drawing attention to how it is used as a threat by men to subdue their wives. The post immediately went viral and was shared by hundreds of reformist Muslims and feminists before it was taken down by Facebook citing breach of it’s community standards and Khalid was banned from using Facebook...
December 28, 2016
Reflections on the many paradoxes of the demonetization process: the schizophrenia of the BJP, the desire of the well to do, the baffling sacrifice of the have nots, the faults and fault lines that propagate through our society in crisis.
Narendra Modi and Arun Jaitley, in their brilliant strategy to kill black money through the withdrawal of currency, show no basic understanding of what the...
December 27, 2016
RBI's figures on the number and value of new notes it has put in circulation do not add up. The discrepancy is of more than half a trillion rupees. Is RBI trying to deceive people by claiming to print more notes than it actually did? Or is the RBI, under the new governor, too inept to get its figures right?After demonetising the old Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes, the RBI claims to have issued...
December 27, 2016
तस्वीर में सन 1400 में तैमूर लंग के दमिश्क विजय का चित्रण है। सीरिया की राजधानी दमिश्क को जीतने के बाद तैमूर ने उसे जला दिया। शहर के बाहर 20 हज़ार नरमुंडों की मीनार बनाई गई। ये मुंड उन्हीं लोगों के थे जो इस्लाम में अक़ीदा रखते थे। दो साल पहले ही दिल्ली विजय के समय इस्लाम की दुहाई देने वाले तैमूर को अपने ही धर्म के लोगों के सिर काटने में कोई हिचक नहीं हुई।
लेकिन आजकल यह बताने की होड़...
December 27, 2016
‘Going Digital’ is a cynical and cruel joke played on the indigenous peoples of Central India
Image Courtesy: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP
Adivasi People in interior villages of central India are dying of starvation.
Here are some examples:
(1) Indradev Mali, aged 40, of Sarugaru Kala village in Katkamsandi block of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, died of starvation on December...
December 27, 2016
Vice President Hamid Ansari today said the ground reality of delivering social justice in India is dismal even after 70 years of legislating welfare laws and adjudicating measures.
“Where do we stand on the ladder of equity? This is a question that citizens of the Republic can ask the state after 70 years of legislating welfare laws and adjudicating measures to deliver social justice....
December 27, 2016
नई दिल्ली। पीएम मोदी ने 8 नवंबर को कालाधन और भ्रष्टाचार की बात कहकर नोटबंदी की घोषणा कर दी। हालांकि इसके बाद नोटबंदी को कैशलेस इकॉनमी की तरफ मोड़ दिया गया। जिसे लेकर पीएम मोदी लगातार लोगों के निशाने पर चल रहे हैं। कैशलेस के ही मुद्दे पर राजद नेता मीसा भारती ने पीएम मोदी पर निशाना साधा है।
सोशल मीडिया पर लगातार सक्रिय रहने वाली मीसा ने कैशलेस एवं ऑनलाइन लेनदेन की जरूरत पर सवाल खड़ा करते हुए...
December 27, 2016
The screenwriter and lyricist tries to look at the funny side.
“I want to perform standing up because the things I am going to say means that I have to be ready to run away.”
So begins lyricist, songwriter, screenwriter and comedian Varun Grover’s comedy routine on the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.
“For the past few days, it has become easy to...
December 27, 2016
आईआईटी-मुंबई के एक कार्यक्रम में एक आधुनिक पेंटिंग का प्रदर्शन किया गया जिस पर शिव सेना भड़क गई और लोगों की धार्मिक भावनाओं के आहत होने का हवाला देते हुए कालेज का विरोध शुरू कर दिया जिसके कारण कालेज प्रशासन को तुरंत उस पेंटिंग को वहां से हटाना पड़ा।
इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ टेक्नोलॉजी (IIT) मुंबई के एक कार्यक्रम के दौरान शिवसेना नेता ने हनुमान की एक पेंटिंग देखकर विरोध करना शुरू कर दिया।...