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B Ravichandran
The recent incident of Dalits smearing human excreta for saving their homes in a place called Savanur in Haveri district, Karnataka, one of the southern Indian states, has created diverse responses from civil society. The most common response from the incident is that it is the ‘worst’ kind of protest anyone can do. Some people even [...] Nilratan Shende
Why do the political parties engaged in fighting for the rights of the marginalized are opposing “progressive women’s reservation bill’ and why congress, BJP and left have combined to vote for the bill? Why BJP which had mobilized people against reservation for OBCs, supporting it? Is it just because that ‘they owe the bill to their [...] A S Ajith Kumar
Quite different from the Paul George murder case the media have no complaints about the investigation regarding the murder allegedly committed by Dalit Human Rights Movement. Every one, the media, political parties and the police seem to be so cocksure. All sorts of stories have been pouring in establishing the `extremist’ nature of DHRM. Interestingly [...] Anivar Aravind
[Cross Posted in ManipurFreedom.org] Dear Friends, On 2 November 2009, Manipur poet and activist Irom Sharmila, will enter the 10th year of her hunger strike demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Introduced in 1958 the AFSPA grants the Indian military special powers throughout North-East India to: Arrest citizens and enter [...] |
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Corporations Out of My Hair! or ‘Mairay Pochchu!’
‘Scientists discover way to convert human hair into high grade fuel’ read the innocuous looking news item tucked away in a corner of the technology pages of my daily newspaper. At first I didn’t take it seriously and thought it was another self-promoting piece of propaganda from some corporate biotech lab somewhere. Little did I [...]