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• Media and Children

  10 October 2015

  by Dipa Dixit
  India is home to 17 per cent of the world’s children, and has the world’s largest child population. Despite this, India’s children are often neglected and their rights ignored. Of the 430 million children in India, an estimated 55 per cent—a staggering 236.5 million—currently experience rights’ violations. Yet children are not considered a key audience segment in either news broadcasting or the print media.
  India’s media landscape, one of the oldest and largest in the (…)

• Exploring Women’s Spaces

  10 October 2015

  book review
  by Noor Zaheer
  Indian Women: Contemporary Essays, editors: Devaki Jain and C.P. Sujaya; Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broad-casting, Government of India; 2015; pages: (i)- (xi) + 235; Price: Rs 335.
  Feminist criticism grew from the moment attention was slowly but definitely focused on images of women in societies and particularly urban, escorted analysis of the socio-economic developments. Women’s effort to construct a movement to represent their (…)

• Nepal’s New Constitution and Contending Voices

  10 October 2015

  by Sangeeta Thapliyal
  Nepal created history by writing a new Constitution through an elected Constituent Assembly. The Constitution was promulgated on September 20 in the Constituent Assembly hall which acted as working place for the CA. On the historic day, the CA building was decorated with lights, flowers and balloons. People were invited to witness and be part of the occasion. The CA members, heads of diplomatic missions, party leaders, and invited guests were inside the main hall. In (…)

• Jayaprakash Narayan and Socialist India

  10 October 2015

  Jayaprakash Narayan (the venerable ‘JP’ of Indian politics) was born on October 11, 1902 and passed away on October 8, 1979. To make his 113th birth anniversary we are carrying the following article.
  by Vivek Kumar Srivastava
  The initial idea of socialism captivated the mind of Jayaprakash Narayan in his student days when he was engrossed in higher studies; he realised that India was being exploited by the colonial power, a Marxian thesis, which he accepted as the real analysis to the (…)

• Female Suicides : A Challenge in the Current Indian Scenario

  10 October 2015

  WOMEN’S WORLD
  by Shahla Tabassum
  The loss of human life in any form is not good for any society, as we know human beings are one of most important creatures of God and, more importantly, constitute vital human resources of the country. A report on Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2014, compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau and released recently, shows the grim picture of our society. The suicide defined in this report is deliberate termination of life and the essential (…)

• As IS Terror grows, Russia bombs Syrian Targets; the World is Changing — at India’s Doorsteps

  10 October 2015, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  When 10 million Bangladeshis poured into India to escape from the brutalities of Pakistan’s army, war followed. When 12 million Syrians were uprooted and four million of them fled across unwelcome borders to get into Europe, a good number perishing in the seas on the way, no liberation war broke out because too many players were working at cross-purposes.
  But with the rise and rise of the Islamic State, its barbarous beheadings and proclaimed goal of conquering the globe, the (…)

• Behind Lifting of US Sanctions: Washington’s Real Game-plan against Tehran

  10 October 2015

  by Michael Todd
  According to the WTO experts, a considerable part of the Iranian business will not benefit from the lifting of the US sanctions. Except in the case of some commodities, Washington intends to retain the full trade embargo. What is to be noted in particular is that in the mid-term perspective, the changes that have been contemplated do not apply to restrictions contained in the laws of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran imposed in 1996 (by virtue of the (…)

• True Education

  10 October 2015

  by D.K. Panigrahi
  Education means the acquisition of knowledge overcoming our own ignorance. Knowledge is the information, understanding and skills that we gain through education or experience. It is the state of knowing about a particular fact or situation. Knowledge is acquired in two ways: idea to object or object to idea. Education imparts knowledge. Education means the process of teaching and learning, the theory and practice of teaching and training in a particular subject. It gives (…)

• Remembering Mahatma Gandhi

  3 October 2015

  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  On October 2 this year falls the 146th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The day is observed the world over as the United Nations’ International Day of Non-violence. The Mahatma, who led India’s struggle for freedom, saw the victory of that struggle but it was a Pyrrhic victory. Freedom came with the partition of India and a communal bloodbath that took a very heavy toll of human lives—Muslims as well as Hindus. During the twilight years of his life the Mahatma was (…)

• Gandhi for Today

  3 October 2015

  [On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s one hundred and fortysixth birth anniversary on October 2, 2015, we are reproducing the following excerpts from his writings and pronouncements.]
  Soldiers drunk with the pride of physical strength loot shops and are not even ashamed to take liberties with women. The administration is powerless in the war time to prevent such happenings. The army fulfils their primary need, and they wink the eyes at their misdeeds...
  Hence arise questions which a (…)