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Day March 28, 2018

Aadhaar: Is India’s biometric ID scheme hurting the poor?

Soutik BiswasI Image copyrightRONNY SENImage captionJama Singh has an Aadhaar number but he can’t use it as his age has been listed as 102 For six to seven days every month, says Muniya Devi, her five-member family doesn’t get food… Continue Reading →

Why It Is Dangerous To Be A “Chill Girl” In A World Dominated By Rape Culture #Vaw

It’s been three months since I started a firestorm of sexual harassment allegations against High Spirits. Here’s what I’ve learned about how toxic spaces keep young women quiet – and coming back. Sheena Dabholkar Satwik Gade It’s Friday night and… Continue Reading →

SC declares it illegal for khap panchayats to stall marriage between consenting adults

HIGHLIGHTS The SC said that any assembly which is intended to scuttle a marriage of two consenting adults is also illegal An NGO Shakti Vahini had in 2010 moved the top court seeking directions from the central and state governments… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra CM’s office gulps 18,500 cups of tea a day #WTFnews

IANS Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images File photo of Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam Citing RTI replies, Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam said the amount spent on tea by the Maharashtra Chief Minister’s office has risen from ₹57… Continue Reading →

Regurgitating Truisms. Because Yet Again, The Burqa Is The New Black

To Burqa Or Not To Burqa? By Sarah Farooqui Usually, it is men who do the judging. Source: https://thesocietypages.org/search/ This last week has been exciting. Finally, we had a global political conundrum and a diabolic threat to democracy, stemming from the… Continue Reading →

Land decay to displace tens of millions, survey warns

  Logs that were illegally cut from Amazon rainforest are transported on a barge on the Tapajos river, a tributary of the Amazon, near the city of Santarem, Para state, Brazil on April 18, 2013. (FILE) | Photo Credit: REUTERS… Continue Reading →

18 Years On: Pathribal, Brakpora Massacre Victims Await Justice

“We will not forget until we get justice”  On the 18th anniversary of the massacre, the survivors and the families of the victims organised a commemoration at Brari Aangan village of Shangus in Anantnag district on Sunday. Five were killed… Continue Reading →

Demanding Justice for Murder of Queer, Black,Brazilian Human Rights Defender Marielle Franco

The nine shots that took Marielle from us were against all women, directly against the black people, the communities of Rio de Janeiro and the human rights defenders who fight to end the genocide of the black population in Brazil… Continue Reading →

Romila Thapar – History is not written by committees but by individual historian

History and mythology both try to explain the past but while history relies on evidence, myths rely on fantasy and must be examined differently, says the scholar The role of a public intellectual is not easy, especially when it comes… Continue Reading →

How to rig an election

In the digital age, democracy is becoming a delusion Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas Andrés Sepúlveda sleeps behind bombproof doors in a maximum-security prison in central Bogota, Colombia. When travelling to judicial hearings or to… Continue Reading →

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