धार्मिक कट्टरपन
November 11, 2016
राजीव यादव यूपी में सामाजिक व राजनीतिक संगठन ‘रिहाई मंच’ के सक्रिय नेता हैं. मानव अधिकारों के उल्लंघन के मुद्दों को पूरी सक्रियता के साथ उठाते रहे हैं. भोपाल में कथित सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं के कथित एनकाउंटर पर भी इन्होंने ज़ोर-शोर से सवाल उठाएं और विरोध में लखनऊ में प्रदर्शन का ऐलान किया. अभी प्रदर्शन की तैयारी ही कर रहे थे कि पुलिस ने इन्हें पकड़ लिया और मारते-पीटते पुलिस चौकी ले गई....
November 11, 2016
Congress has already granted wide power to the president to alter immigration rules, so he will not need congressional approval.
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Candidate Trump was never particularly specific on the policy details of how the Muslim ban would work. But with President-elect Trump set to take office in January, and his pledge to implement the ban on day one now...
November 11, 2016
Trump’s victory is a tremendous opportunity for Israel to immediately announce its intention to renege on the idea of establishing Palestine in the heart of the country -- Rightwing Jewish leader Naftali Bennett
Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, recently boasted that the national-religious camp, though only a tenth of the population, held “leadership...
November 10, 2016
Twenty four hours of having Donald Trump as the president elect and the streets of the United States of America (USA) look different. Shaun King, an American civil rights activist shared a number of screenshots of women sharing their experience of racism, misogyny and religious intolerance by Trump supporters, on the very next day of the election.
A Muslim woman, in...
November 10, 2016
नई दिल्ली। तीन सप्ताह से ज्यादा समय से लापता जवाहर लाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय के छात्र नजीब अहमद का अभी तक कोई पता नहीं चल पाया है। इसके लिए विवि के छात्र लगातार धरना प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं। आठ दिन पहले एनएसयूआई छात्र नेता सनी धीमान सहित चार छात्र भूख हड़ताल पर बैठे हैं। इसके बावजूद प्रशासन नजीब अहमद के बारे में गंभीर नजर नहीं आ रहा।
भूख हड़ताल कर रहे चारों छात्रों की हालत बिगड़...
November 10, 2016
For years now, before anyone thought a person like Donald Trump could possibly lead a presidential primary, a small but respected niche of academic research has been laboring over a question, part political science and part psychology, that had captivated political scientists since the rise of the Nazis.
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How do people come to adopt, in such large numbers and so rapidly,...
November 10, 2016
Contextualizing the Secular Fabric of India and Section 123 of RP Act
The shadow of a sinister ghost lurks over the Indian polity. Opportunistic, even supremacist notions of society are being articulated by major political players and their parties, programmes and manifestos, all working decidedly against the rich tradition of India’s pluralism by narrowly using our religious and caste...
November 10, 2016
The state plea to change its position was resisted by the temple through senior advocate KK Venugopal. The case will now be taken up on February 20.
The Kerala government has changed its stance, once again, in the case before the Supreme Court of India relating to entry of women of all ages in Sabarimala temple. The state government told the court on November 7 that it is ready to allow...
November 9, 2016
Is the government really blameless for the crisis of credibility faced by the media?
On March 18, 2002, when the Gujarat violence had been dragging on more than a fortnight after its outbreak, then chief minister of the state, Narendra Modi, wrote letters of appreciation to over a dozen Gujarati newspapers for their coverage.
He was “grateful” to each of those...
November 8, 2016
From the ‘Hindu exodus’ in July, to the ‘Surgical Strikes’ in September, to sympathetic noises for Muslim women over ‘triple talaq’ and now vows to end ‘illegal mining’, the BJP appears unsure of what to actually make its poll plank for the forthcoming state assembly polls. Or is simply testing pre-election poll waters as alignments and re-...