When A Womb Is Attacked…
Public memory is short term. Some of you may remember. Many, won\\\'t. Ten years ago, in the heart of Delhi,...
Month: December 2012
Dissent on Cash Transfers and UID
The statement by eminent Indian citizens ( signatures below) opposing the rush to cash transfers and UID: We support...
Chhattisgarh\’s Food Act Welcomed
Chhattisgarh Food Security Act (CFSA), an improved version of the "national food security bill" that has been languishing in Parliament...
So what are we demanding at India Gate?
A mass mobilisation on the issue of sexual violence looks like a feminist dream. Especially, if you recall that only...
Right to Food campaign holds \’dhikkar rally\’
The "Right to Food Dharna" convened by the right to food campaign concluded with an extended plenary session and a...
Protest for Naticonal Food Security bill
Over 1000 people from all across the country will sit at a three-day ‘Right to Food’ dharna at Jantar Mantar...
Kotkasim fiasco victims meet Jairam Ramesh
Hundreds of the victims of failed \\\'cash transfer\\\' experiment in Kotakism met the Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh at Jantar...
The Quiet Grip of Caste
Some time ago I visited a Dalit hamlet in Rewa district. It was hemmed in on all sides by the...
500 J&K security men involved in HR abuse
(International Peoples\\\' Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice (IPTK), along with Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has released...
MGNREGS: Fake and Fraudulent
The streets of the obscure town of Pandharkawda in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra have come to life. Hundreds of villagers...
Students charged with attempt to murder
Students and youngsters, who faced brutal lathicharge on August 9, 2012, at Delhi’s Parliament Street where they had gathered to...
Struggle against TISCO: Xavier Dias arrested
Activist Xavier Dias and six adivasis have been arrested by Jharkhand police on various false charges levelled against them at...
Widows of debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers
Dilapidated huts on one side and cotton fields on the other line the potholed road to Pada, a hamlet in...
Vidarbha: Insatiable and Corrupt
It is telling when thousands of crores of rupees are spent on irrigation projects and yet the irrigation potential of...
King the Con
The irony about Arvind Kejriwal is that his propaganda adrenaline and ‘I am the only Prophet’ aphrodisiac are driven by...
