This week is One State Solution Week 2009. Throughout this week you are invited to write, to perform or to blog…to do whatever you can do to speak out for a harmonious one state solution between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
The One State Solution Weeks began as a redressal of the problem of Partition, that it [...]
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Kicking up a row
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Art, Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights. 0 CommentsMore updates on the One State Solution Week 2008, White Ribbon Campaign’s IRC tête-à-têtes continue and with more gusto than ever before!
Join them and some entirely new host characters at their room on the internet relay chat channel, IRC, at the Dalnet Servers.
The Second One State Solution Week.
Published by November 17th, 2008 in Activism, Religion, Secularism and South Asia. 0 CommentsWhite Ribbon Campaign announces it’s support for the Second One State Solution Week, which flagged off today and is on until the 23rd of November 2008.
This is an event that tries to gather voices in favour of a tighter political coalition between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Bloggers, writers and rabble rousers are invited to say things, [...]
Neha Vishwanathan responds to the story of 14 year old Aarushi’s murder at the hands of her father, and the media reports that followed.
‘If the death of a child didn’t make me so sad, these messages may have baffled me even more. For some reason or the other, there’s this grand assumption that childhood in [...]
“We, the society, have always been harsh and cruel to women who dare to complain about the violence faced by them and worse if they dare complain about sexual harassment. This is the main reason why most victims don’t speak up in the first place. If a victim musters the courage to speak up, then [...]
Demand for the establishment of Sexual Harassment committees
Published by February 9th, 2008 in India. 0 CommentsThe blogosphere has been largely silent on the Patan Gang-rape incident except for Atrocity News which covers incidents on Caste atrocities.
From news reports,
“The victim said she was gang-raped at least 14 times during the last six months in the college laboratory and computer room, where she was summoned under a threat that her career would [...]
Rahul Banerjee writes about the struggle of an Adivasi boy fighting for his community on Anar-kali, his blog about the lives of tribal communities trudging along with Shining India.
Banerjee tries to make sense of rural development in tandem with the lifestyle of the Bhils of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh. The blog is his means [...]
Gujarat Chunaav aur Gaurav.Simple si cheezein.
Published by December 12th, 2007 in India. 0 Comments{click on the ribbon}
This is a message circulated in public interest by the
White Ribbon Campaign for Peace(India).
Write to Anasuya Sengupta or Raheema Begum at apsidalobe@gmail.com
During this Gujarat Assembly Election 2007, we all need to ask ourselves some very important questions.
[click on the ballot box]
Pooja has been rescued from a kidnapper, by the Trivandrum Police and is now with Nirmala Sisu Bhavan in Trivandrum.
She has given the Police the following details about herself:
Father’s Name : Mr. Raju
Mother’s Name : Mrs. Munny Devi
Language [...]
Vaartaphalak Photos is a project that tries to locate and study Vaartaphalaks or Street Sign boards in the city of Pune.
This one is at Kumthekar road, Sadashivpeth. And the chronicler translates for us:
‘this is a typical space as defined by a vartaphalak. this message was written a [...]
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