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Day May 13, 2017

I wrote on Facebook what I witnessed in Bastar: suspended jailer Varsha Dongre

RAJKUMAR SONI|  Varsha Dongre, the suspended assistant jail superintendent of the Raipur Central Jail in Chhattisgarh, has sent a 376-page reply to a show cause notice from her superior, deputy jail superintendent RR Rai. She has defended the Facebook post… Continue Reading →

Punjab Farmers Threaten To Burn Crop Remains as Govt. Has Not Waived off their Loans

Punjab farmers on Tuesday threatened to burn crop remains expressing their anger against Punjab authorities for not waiving off their impending loans. The farmers are also irked by the imposition of heavy fines by the authorities over the burning of… Continue Reading →

An injured cow, a death, murder charge split a village in Madhya Pradesh

The cow’s owner, Ghanashyam Lodhi, and other Hindu villagers alleged that Akhtar Khan, another resident, had shot at the animal. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Silawan | Why would he commit suicide, says Radha, wife of Ghanashyam Lodhi. (Source: Milind… Continue Reading →

2012 Delhi gangrape verdict: Did Supreme Court rely too much on ‘collective conscience’?

Saurav Datta With its judgment sentencing to death the four rapists and murderers of Jyoti Singh, the Supreme Court has revived the trope of “collective conscience” to ride roughshod over the legal process. In an obvious sleight of hand, it… Continue Reading →

Chhattisgarh Women Forced To File Complaint Over Toilets That Exist On Paper, Not In Real Life

Two women have filed a complaint about their toilets missing, but read before you make any nebulous predictions. Toilets have gone “missing” from a house in a Chhattisgarh village and a woman and her daughter want a bewildered police to… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – This doctor’s clinic at a railway station charges Re1 as fee, treats hundreds in 48 hours

The 12-hour outpatient ward of the clinic in Ghatkopar has three MBBS doctors and visiting MD specialists. In what has come as respite amid rising medical expenses, a clinic at Mumbai’s Ghatkopar station is treating patients for a fee of… Continue Reading →

India – A healthcare system in the emergency

 Kavita Kishore Not on call: Assault on the medical staff is a growing concern in Puducherry. Unlike Tamil Nadu, where an ordinance protects doctors, Puducherry has no such law | M Samraj Puducherry is a popular medical hub for patients… Continue Reading →

Fact- Finding Report- Demolition of Ambedkar Nagar in Mumbai

Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) Fact Finding Team’s Report on Ambedkar Nagar Demolition (May, 2017) Rubble at Ambedkar Nagar post demolitions seen in the backdrop of Cuffe Parade’s famous World Trade Centre (L); A child’s school textbook lying… Continue Reading →

India – Some unsacred questions about the sacred cow

It is unfortunate that cow politics continued to flourish even after Independence. At its root was the same brahmanical mindset that led to the inclusion of the ban on cow slaughter under the Directive Principles of State Policy in the… Continue Reading →

Sexual violence against women in riots and other mass crimes is being ‘normalised’

We live in a social regime where women are seen as an embodiment of men’s izzat (honour). Attacking ‘their women’ then becomes the undoing of the whole community. Syeda Hameed and Salina Wilson Bilkis Bano, one of the survivors of… Continue Reading →

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