हक़ और आजादी
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 27, 2016
इंदौर में सोमवार को एबीवीपी ने शक्ति प्रदर्शन के लिए अपनी रैली निकाली। इस रैली के कारण सैकड़ो वाहन जाम में फंस गए और शहर की यातायात व्यवस्था चौपट हो गई। इस जाम में एक साल के बीमार बच्चे को अस्पताल ले जा रही एक महिला फंस गई। बच्चा सख्त बीमार था और बच्चे की जान पर बनी हुई थी। लेकिन एबीवीपी के कार्यकर्ताओं ने रास्ता रोके रखा और पुलिस मूकदर्शक बनी देखती रही।
Photo courtesy: Naidunia...
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
Provoked: A True Story
‘ Today, I have come out of my husband’s jail and entered the jail of the law’
Kiranjit Ahluwalia 1989
Kiranjit Ahluwalia and Rahila Gupta
Published by Harper Collins India 2007
ISBN 9788172236700
The Southall Black Sisters' Inspiring Campaign:
‘Today, I have come out of my husband’s jail and entered the jail of the law...
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
The Telegraph reports a gruesome incident that showcases brute caste dynamics in rural areas of the country. 70-year-old farmer died in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand region after he was reportedly forced to stand on one leg for about three hours to "atone" for a calf's death.
The village panchayat is reported to have issued a brutal diktat that eventually led to the man...
December 27, 2016
In bringing objectionable practices and policies to light, whistleblowers break the lawful trust of their bosses in order to better serve their real employers – us. President Barack Obama conveyed the displeasure of an unhappy boss in his initial response to government-contracted techy Edward Snowden’s exposure of uncouth data gathering – spying, by another name, on Americans...
December 27, 2016
अगर एक जनवरी तक मेरा बेटा वापस नहीं आया और ABVP के गुंडों की गिरफ़्तारी नहीं की तो मैं दिल्ली के किसी भी बड़े चौराहे पर अपने बेटे मुजीब के साथ भूख हड़ताल पर बैठूंगी. क्या तुम लोग मेरा साथ दोगे..?
ये अपील सोशल मीडिया पर 2 दिन से घूम रही है. ये अपील है एक बेबस और मजबूर माँ की जिसका जवान बेटा दिल्ली की एक बड़ी यूनिवर्सिटी से 2 महीने से ज़्यादा समय से गायब है. जेएनयू का छात्र नजीब अहमद 2 महीने...
December 27, 2016
Last year at this time, a Mondoweiss video report showed one of the checkpoints Palestinian day laborers have to use to enter Israel. It takes hours for the thousands of men seeking day work to get through the checkpoint.
And since they’re not allowed to stay in Israel overnight, they queue at two or three in the morning, sleeping on cardboard, lighting fires with scrap wood, until...