Times of India pastes a picture taken by Kalyan Verma at its front page, lifted it out of Wikipedia. And before that they picked up a picture taken by PlaneMad. But then what is new!
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Times of India at it Again
Published by February 11th, 2010 in Activism, Blogging, Media, Photography and Plagiarism. 1 CommentJustice for Rathore
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Activism, Corruption, Culture, Development, Government, India and Law and order. 0 CommentsThat’s what The Diary of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala wants. That and Justice for ND Tiwari, Paneerselvam, Dinakaran..
Me: OK, I think …..I have a solution.
DINAKARAN: WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT !!! SIRJI! PLEASE DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME.
I’m the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court and was due for promotion to become a Supreme Court Judge.
But the media [...]
Justice for the High and Mighty
Published by December 22nd, 2009 in Activism, Gender & Sexuality, Government, Human Rights and Justice. 0 CommentsSudhadeep Bhattacharjee comments on the ridiculous punishment handed down to ex Haryana DGP S P S Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case :
Is the price of a young girl’s life compelled to commit suicide by a man just six months? How is it that Rathore a criminal who committed that crime in police [...]
How to make issue-based comic strips
Published by December 9th, 2009 in Activism, Art, Gender & Sexuality, Violence and Women. 2 CommentsThat was the title of the workshop organized by the Rights Advocates group in Lucknow. Read up more here:
The outcome of the workshop was an eye opener of sorts on questions like, “What are the most pertinent issues that affects the youth? How do they articulate the issues and what solutions do they suggest?
Three main [...]
The Ragpickers’ Education and Development Scheme (REDS) have been trying to help a lot of children on the streets of Bangalore. Vinayak Varma recently interviewed four such children rehabilitated by REDS:
“Before I came here, just after my studies, I did coolie work for a couple of weeks. And before that I was a cleaner on [...]
The hidden side of domestic violence
Published by October 30th, 2009 in Activism, Feminism, Gender & Sexuality and India. 5 CommentsUncommon sense says that :
Domestic violence against men by their spouse rarely come out in the open due to some obvious reason. A man wouldnt go out and tell the world, or say to his friends, or other relatives that his wife beats the hell out of him. The men are in a situation similar [...]
After years of ignoring Gandhi and tilting towards fire brand revolutionary politics, Himank is finally over awed by the Mahatma :
All my life even I have always been anti-Gandhi, always been in favour of Subhas (arguably the second biggest Indian in the Independence movement) – Bhagat Singh fire brand politics. But, the more I read [...]
The Dalits of Europe
Published by October 15th, 2009 in Activism, Dalit, Human Rights, Prejudice, Racism and World. 0 CommentsJai Bhim Network is a group that is working among the Romas (derogatorily referred as Gypsies) in Hungary. In their effort of creating linkages with the Dalit movement of India and draw inspiration the network has been in constant interaction with many of the young Dalit activists in India. The network is also instrumental in [...]
Remembering K.Balagopal
Published by October 14th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Capitalism, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Feminism, Human Rights, Justice, Politics and Poverty. 4 CommentsA site dedicated to the memory of human rights activist Balagopal who passed away recently.
Anand Teltumbde recalls his association with his ‘dearest friend and comrade’:
I knew Balagopal since 1980s and admired him for his sharp intellect and deep commitment to human rights. Not many in the movement knew that he was a brilliant mathematician and [...]
On Smiles and Interpretations
Published by October 1st, 2009 in Activism, Feminism, Society and Women. 0 CommentsBlank Noise conducted a small project on the busy city streets where their volunteers did nothing but Smile at the passers by. All you need is love, is it?
Neha Bhat:
Madam, kitna charge karega?” ( “how much will you charge?”)
This is was my first experience of being mistaken for a sex worker and being approached [...]
Medical Council of India: The Rot Within
Published by September 10th, 2009 in Activism, Corruption, Health, India and Justice. 1 CommentVijay , a medical blogger has cited a fellow medical blogger and colleague Dr. George Paul ,a highly respected teacher and practitioner who is well known in the dental & maxillofacial surgical fraternities. He and a group of like minded individuals have been actively involved in increasing awareness about irregularities in the functioning of private [...]
Music for Equality
Published by September 8th, 2009 in Activism, Music, Violence and Women. 0 CommentsMiss Malini has the details.
Bikram Jeet Batra from Amnesty International talks about the general lack of interest in prison issues in Indian ‘civil society’. He claims that these groups have restricted themselves largely to the domain of the ‘political’ prisoner while the few NGOs that work on prisons limit their interventions to humanitarian instead of human rights concerns. According [...]
The Indian State’s contradictions
Published by September 3rd, 2009 in Activism, Democracy and Government. 0 CommentsVikram explores the contradictions within the flailing Indian State. He explains that the Indian state (i.e. the Union and State governments, various government departments, police etc.) is as confusing as the nation it represents and controls. Whereas on the one hand there are reports of its agents engaging in gross human rights abuses, it goes [...]
Goli posts a film on Kilikili (giggles) an initiative for children with different abilities. More details on Kilikili on his blog.
I tried embedding the youtube video code here but couldn’t get it right. Please watch the video from Goli’s blog.
Petition for Patients’ Rights
Published by July 2nd, 2009 in Activism, Health, Human Rights and Justice. 0 CommentsJan Arogya Abhiyan, an NGO working to defend and foster people’s right to health care in Maharashtra addresses a Petition to the Minister for Public Health and Family Welfare, Maharashtra, urging the Maharashtra government to adopt the Standard Charter of Patients’ Rights:
We believe that in Doctor-Patient relations, patients are inherently vulnerable. Hence they need to [...]
E-Campaign for Patient Rights
Published by June 30th, 2009 in Activism, Democracy, Health, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Recommended Links, Regulation and Society. 1 CommentAditya’s 3 year old son was prescribed a drug overdose by a pediatrician for the recurring fever. This led to very severe consequences and the child needed ICU care for 3 days and a painful process of recovery due to this excessive medication. Aditya wanted to register his complaint against the pediatrician and the hospital [...]
Equal Opportunity Commission
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Policy, Prejudice and Religion. 0 CommentsTarunabh, of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, writes to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, to further the public debate on equality of opportunities.
Seems to me more like an attempt to start a private, exclusive debate among a select group of elites in the academia, lawmakers and the enforcers, among others.
Lohia and the ‘People’s Movement Left’
Published by June 18th, 2009 in Activism, Capitalism, Caste, Democracy, Development, Economy, History, Politics, Science & Technology and Theory. 0 CommentsAmit Basole evaluates Lohia in a ‘time of crisis’ in the Indian left movements:
Along with the question of Eurocentrism, the question of the type of economic development was Lohia’s most fundamental theoretical challenge to Marxism. Marxists have been by and large unwilling to confront the possibility that industrialism and not capitalism may be the primary [...]
Manushi has a blog. The latest post features an article by Madhu Kishwar on Manushi’s efforts to reform the cycle rickshaw policy in Delhi:
Manushi has been engaged in the endeavor to reform the highly irrational and exploitative cycle rickshaw policy and laws governing the cycle rickshaw sector in India since 1997. The Cycle Rickshaw Bye [...]
‘Paper saves lives’
Published by May 25th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Business, Development and Women. 0 CommentsAnuradha Parekh talks about TARA, an NGO that changed the lives of women in an Adivasi community in Madhya Pradesh:
Sahariya tribe is a nomadic tribe in Madhya Pradesh that deals with poverty of the magnitude that mothers buy saris and tear them in half so that their daughters have something to wear. These people have [...]
The brown man’s burden
Published by May 13th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, General Elections 2009, Human Rights, India, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Secularism and Women. 0 CommentsAnother good post (after Adnan’s) that I found today: Jason Keith Fernandes looks critically at the dynamism of the ‘Friends of the BJP’:
It is because the BJP and the ‘Friends’ stresses this coded language of the club, that they appeal to the middle-class constituents of the ‘minority’ groups in India. ‘We are one of you’ [...]
Children and Indian elections
Published by May 13th, 2009 in Activism, Children, Democracy, Education, Food, General Elections 2009, Human Rights, India, Policy, Politics and Poverty. 0 CommentsRuby Nakka ponders on the question: how to make children count in elections?
Children need our attention because they are defenseless. Recently I also read a profound statement on the status of India’s children (to describe why they need our attention) published in the Hindu newspaper on May 3rd, 2009 which states the following: “If you [...]
Burma Digest
Published by May 12th, 2009 in Activism, Human Rights, Internet, Media and World. 0 CommentsFound this interesting online bilingual magazine that focusses on ‘Human Right Affairs of Burma’.
Abstractpsyche and a few friends started a charitable fund that has been helping a few people for a long time since its initial conception. Go read in more detail and donate if possible:
The idea developed, and we all agreed to fund for the education of his brother which would in a way, help the family [...]
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