2025

Abstract
The devastation and atrocities of the Second World War led to the foundation of the United Nations in 1945. It was not merely an international organisation but a solemn promise by sovereign states to uphold human rights, international peace, and security. Over the past 80 years, the UN has thrived in an anarchic world order, disciplining the global community while promoting its core values. Its existence has safeguarded these principles and reduced the likelihood of a third world (…)

December 16, 2024
Lack of awareness of health policies related to prevention of violence, non-reporting by doctors and delays in remedial proceedings lead to such incidents.
In November, a renowned oncologist at a government hospital in Chennai was stabbed several times by the son of a cancer patient, allegedly for providing incorrect medicines to his mother.
WHO data shows that between 8-38 percent physicians have experienced violence at least once in their medical career.
Not all (…)

President Donald Trump

A baby from the time he arrives into the world from his mother

RELIGIOUS beliefs and science have coexisted for centuries. Science and superstition can also find a way to trudge along together. A brilliant scientist may not tread the path that has been crossed by a cat. Ergo, superstition and science can coexist provided they do not interfere with each other

Abstract: India

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[ . . . ] global society witnessed several social and national movements. Many of them were anti-systemic. Some such as the Russian Revolution and the uprising in 1968 in Europe or what Wallerstein calls the

The Editors Guild of India
Press Statement
February 18, 2025
The Editors Guild of India is deeply shocked by the recent blocking of the Tamil magazine web portal Vikatan.Com, without any prior due process, by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) over the publication of a cartoon depicting the prime minister.
Cartoons have always been a legitimate means of journalistic endeavour and the sudden blocking of the Vikatan website is a brazen instance of overreach (…)

22nd February, 2025
PUCL Condemns Handcuffed Deportation of Indians from USA
& demands that
The Indian Government must Apologise to the migrants for the complicity of the Indian government in this inhumane treatment; and Compensate the migrants for their physical and mental suffering. Must make public the terms of the 2012 protocol with the U.S. regarding deportation procedures; and initiate its revision if it is not in conformity with international human rights (…)

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AMU: Institution of Learning or Identity
by Anil Maheshwari and Arjun Maheshwari
Ink/Occam
Pages: xvii + 431; Price: Rs 899
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Anil Maheshwari, the lead author I know, is as secular an Indian as one can be. The book recognises, and rightly so, how the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come under repeated and unfair attacks from the Hindu Right because of its Islamic character. The authors are against the Modi government