हक़ और आजादी
December 2, 2016
Revati Laul is an independent journalist and film maker, currently based out of Gujarat; where she is working on a book on the perpetrators of the 2002 riots. She is the creator of this blog. She tweets @revatilaul
Part One
If I told you that given a choice between the people and a convicted rapist, the courts have chosen to protect the rapist, you’d say I am making it up. I...
December 2, 2016
The policies of the government have consistently put the poor at a disadvantage.
The manner in which demonetisation was done
The “sudden” announcement of the demonetisation, which has often been claimed as necessary, but never adequately explained caused a lot more harm to the poor than those relatively well off with access to cards, likelier to have cash and/or...
December 2, 2016
पूर्व एटॉर्नी जनरल सोली सोराबजी ने सिनेमाघरों में राष्ट्रगान को अनिवार्य करने के फैसले पर न्यायपालिका को अपनी सीमा से बाहर जाना बताया है। उनके मुताबिक यह हमारी राष्ट्रीयता के मूल विचारों के ही खिलाफ है। संविधान में प्रदत्त निजी स्वतंत्रताओं के अधिकार भी इस आदेश से टकरा सकते है।
बुधवार को सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने आदेश पारित किया था कि देशभर के सभी सिनेमाघरों में फिल्म शुरू होने से पहले राष्ट्रीय...
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
The exercise of wisdom is the fundamental requirement of judges, even though this is a quality that may only be perceived, not measured.
"The disinterestedly wise ought to desire the holding together of all being" (Bhagwadgita, III 25)
"...When the national anthem is played it is imperative for everyone to show honour and respect. It would instil a sense of committed...
December 1, 2016
Censorship in democratic India continues to be on the rise. This dismaying trend was starkly evident in the first quarter of 2014.
Interview with T.K. Rajalakshmi
Although the constitution guarantees the freedoms of speech and expression, legal protections are not always sufficiently upheld by the courts or respected by government officials. A number of laws that remain on the books can be...
December 1, 2016
MEERUT: Hundreds of Facebook friends united to campaign against the blocking of the account of a social media activist for sharing an "objectionable" post.
Soon after Rajiv Tyagi, a Meerut-based ex-fighter pilot, received communication from Facebook that he had been blocked for a month for sharing an "anti-Hindu" post, a large number of his friends on the social media...
December 1, 2016
Tweeting about the conviction of a Karnataka journalist in a defamation suit, Amit Malviya said ominously, 'Hope other journos take note.'
Amit Malviya is a name that most readers, political junkies aside, are unlikely to be familiar with. But the banker-turned-political worker is one of the most influential figures in our public discourse. As the Bharatiya Janata Party...
December 1, 2016
हिन्दू महासभा ने टीना-आमिर की मोहब्बत पर खड़े किये सवाल
Video Courtesy: National Dastak