by Kancha Ilaiah and Mohasina Anjum Ansari
Unouchability is a major social issue in India, even in the modern times. In the recent past it had also become an international issue. In 2001 at the United Nation’s Conference on Racism, Racial (...)
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Is Untouchability in India Created by Islam?
19 October 2015 -
Bose unnecessarily Maligned
19 October 2015, by Kuldip NayarWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has done well to declassify the files on Subhas Chandra Bose. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have followed suit and made available to the public the documents and papers which the Centre possesses (...) -
Whiplash for the Union Government
19 October 2015by Sadhan Mukherjee
There seems to be no political leadership worth the name in the country today despite the massive majority of the present ruling dispensation, the NDA 2. The whoopla of 2014 is over. Non-performance is at the core of every (...) -
All the Turpentines in the World Cannot Remove Kulkarni’s Stain
19 October 2015, by M K BhadrakumarSeldom does adrenaline flow so instinctively the moment one begins reading the morning newspapers in the Indian Capital, but today is one such day. I am not entitled to claim friendship with Sudheendra Kulkarni but do have an acquaintance going (...) -
Unmasking Hindutva, Modi and Majoritarian Offensive
19 October 2015BOOK REVIEW
by Reena Cherian
India Since 2002 by Mukul Dube (Foreword by Professor D.N. Jha); AlterNotes Press, New Delhi; 2015; pages: xii + 198; Price: Rs 380.
India Since 2002 is a collection of articles published by Mukul Dube in the weekly (...) -
The who, what and where of Dadri
19 October 2015by Chapal Mehra
On September 28, a murderous mob got together to kill a man ostensibly for having kept some beef in his refrigerator. They seriously injured his young son and misbehaved with the women in his family. All of this over beef, a meat (...) -
CPI Congratulates New Nepal PM
19 October 2015The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement to the press on October 12, 2015 congratulating the new Nepal Prime Minister, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli:
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Assault on Secularism
10 October 2015POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has said, in the wake of the lynching of Mohammmed Akhlaq at Bisada village of Dadri in UP for allegedly storing and eating beef, that he supports banning (...) -
A Note on Dadri
10 October 2015, by Mukul DubeWhen I read of the killing, in Bisada village of Dadri, of a Muslim man by Hindus who suspected him of keeping beef in his house, I was taken back to the Gujarat massacre of 2002. That wound is fresh: the passing of a dozen years has done (...) -
Air warriors and Dadri - Bisada
10 October 2015, by Suhas BorkerThe lynching at Dadri-Bisada pushes the scorched earth into the throes of communal conflagration. Farmer Mohammad Akhlaq is dead and son Danish is battling for life. But the perpetrators’ diabolical machinations are thrown asunder as the air (...)
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