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Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker
It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.
NHRC, Delhi High Court spring into action, pull up governments on women’s safety measures, utilisation of Nirbhaya Fund
The executive has failed by not implementing policies and governments have failed to keep the executive in check as there is no monitoring of implementation being carried out. In this atmosphere, there is always room left for perpetrators of crime to dare to commit such heinous crimes as the preventive machinery in the State crumbles.
Revisiting the Justice Verma Committee report of 2013: #JusticeForRapeVictims
Had the recommendations of the report been seriously considered and implemented, the Delhi crime may have been prevented in Hyderabad.
Five Actions You Can Take To End Gender Based Violence
A few days ago, a veterinary doctor was gang-raped,...
Reject culture of misogyny, democratise socio-cultural spaces: #Justice4RapeVictims
The horrendous rape and murder of Hyderabad's vet doctor...
Stop using rape cases for communal polarization
Four persons, Mohammed Pasha, Shiva, Naveen, Chennakesavulu who work...
Sikh Kirtan by women- the history, the way forward
The Punjab Govt. has recently allowed women to offer Kirtan inside the Golden temple. Despite no religious precedent which decreed excluding them in the first place, where do women stand in Sikhism? How do cultural norms, gender inequality, caste privilege, and religion intersect?
Maternal mortality down to 122 per 1 lakh, still highest in the world
In response to an unstarred question asked in the Lok Sabha as to incidence of maternal death occurring in the country, Minister of State of Health and Family Welfare Mr. Ashwini Kumar Choubey said that the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), i.e., death of mothers at the time of giving birth, has come down to 122 deaths per 1,00,000 live births.
WCD Ministry offers up cookie-cutter answers to queries on domestic violence
When asked about cases of domestic violence over the last three years, Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) Smriti Irani responded in Parliament with old figures.
Sabrimala activist Bindu Ammini attacked in Kerala
A man from a radical Hindutva outfit attacked her with chilli powder and pepper spray outside the Kerala Commisserate
Women Speak From Margins of Ayodhya Dispute
Not the loss of a mosque, but the disregard for Muslims causes anguish.
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UP CEO apologises for minority remark on official X handle, but who is responsible?
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India
Karnataka’s final SIR roll delete electorate by nearly 1 crore; Bengaluru loses over 43 lakh names
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SIR Karnataka: Six major ‘conspiracies’ exposed in the final electoral roll
The author argues that for six cogent reasons, the final, post-SIR electoral roll has ensured the deletion of not just 99.3 lakh voters as has been admitted; this includes 75 lakhs of voters in the “shifted” and “absent” category; hence 99.3 lakhs plus another possible 27 lakhs by a gross under-representation of the elector-population ratio (EPR); roughly this means that the deletions swell to an approximate 1.26 crore voter deletions in total that is a staggering 18 per cent of the state’s electorate