Balanced view needed on juvenile age
Involvement of Juvenile in the recent Delhi rape case has generated strong discussion for revisiting and broadening the age range...
Month: January 2013
House panel report on food security bill flayed
Right to Food Campaign has urged Members of Parliament and political parties to reject the Parliamentary Standing Committee’s recommendations on...
Let Us Call Him Vasu: A cover-up
This was the time when I was still working in Dantewada. A recently appointed IG invited some journalists to his...
Joint Public Statement on Hindutva Terror
In a joint public statement, activists, teachers and journalists have demanded wider probe into the Hindutva Terror network and its...
Yeh hain Bombay meri jaan…
Even as the infinite sea moves like a gigantic, living creature in perpetual motion, bringing cool winds and the tide...
Cash Transfer or Congress Calling Card!
If Year 2012 earned the sobriquet of “Year of Scams’ due to serial expose of “super social cop” Arvind Kejeriwal,...
Activist harassed by \’Times Now\’
Noted social activist Shabnam Hashmi has accused the TV News channel Times Now of threatening to publicly ‘name and shame’...
Book review: The Curious Case of Binayak Sen
Here is review of Dilip D'Souza's book 'The Curious Case of Binayak Sen'. Ever since the pediatrician, public health...
Jaipur: Homeless freeze in the cold
With the mercury plummeting,thousands of homeless people continue to bear the harsh winter in the absence of sufficient night shelters...
Mumbai’s poor demand land, housing rights
Support to the Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan(GBGBA) agitation, demanding right to dignified housing of the Mumbai working class living...
Aruna Roy objects to direct cash transfer
National Advisory Council (NAC) member and MKSS leader Aruna Roy shot off a scathing letter to the finance ministry objecting...
Urban poor take to the streets in Mumbai
Thousands of activists and slum dwellers from across the city embarked on a two-day march on January 1 afternoon to...
