by Santosh Kumar Biswal
Following the suit of actress Alyssa Milano in response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood, And #MeToo movement has arrived in India. Actress Tanushree Dutta’s allegation has created commotion, taking actor, (...)
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And #MeToo: Discourse in Indian News Media
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Aadhar Judgment: Triumph of Expediency over Principle
28 October 2018by Vijay Kumar
The majority judgment in the Aadhar case represents triumph of expediency, whereas the dissenting judgment delivered by Justice Chandrachud is extremely liberating and will go down in history as one of the most celebrated (...) -
Bhupesh : Some Reminiscences
28 October 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe 104th birth anniversary of the legendary Communist parliamentarian Bhupesh Gupta fell on October 20, 2018. On this occasion we have reproduced in this issue the tribute to Bhupesh Gupta by N.C. that was published in Mainstream’s August 22, (...) -
Floods in Kerala or Nature’s Fury
28 October 2018by K. Saradamoni
The floods in Kerala just before the State’s widely known festival of Onam appear to have subsided. But the havoc these caused will take a long time to be resolved. The government and people, including young adults, responded (...) -
Water Audit of Liquor Industry is Badly Needed
28 October 2018COMMUNICATION
There have been several reports in recent times that the serious situation of drinking water scarcity is being aggravated in many areas due to the liquor industry.
A report in India Today (October 15, 2010) by Kiran Tare on the (...) -
M.J. Akbar, Minister and Former Editor, Sexually Harassed and Molested Me
28 October 2018by Ghazala Wahab
The following is the article that appeared in The Wire giving details of the experiences of a young journalist, Ghazala Wahab, who worked in the New Delhi office of The Asian Age (1994-97) when M.J. Akbar was the editor of the (...) -
What’s in a Name? A Lot!
28 October 2018, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Frustrated lot, the rulers of the day can do no better than to go hacking names of our cities and villages and roads! Plucking off the traditional names. Planting new names to further the chaos unleashed by third-class governance (...) -
Oh No, Not I
28 October 2018by Pandurang Vombatkere
We roamed this earth once wild and free,
We lived on fruits and wild honey
And meat and nuts and roots and leaves;
We prospered from Nature’s bounty.
Then we grew clever and used our hands,
No more wandering in forest (...) -
Oscillating between Hope and Despair
19 October 2018, by SCEDITORIAL
As we go to press news has just come that Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar—who went on an overdrive on his return to India (following a prolonged trip to Africa) on Sunday (October 14) to attack the women journalists (...) -
Sabarimala Shrine and Women’s Entry
19 October 2018by Ram Puniyani
We live in a democratic society where all of us are supposed to be equal. In pre-industrial society the inequality was very much there and it was based on birth. In Indian society this inequality, the one based on birth, (...)
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