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India, Incredible India?
Published by July 4th, 2009 in India, Photoblog and Photography. 0 CommentsToday is our heritage..
Published by July 2nd, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, History, Human Rights, India, Justice, LGBT, Prejudice, Regulation and Religion. 4 CommentsDilip says – today gives reason for every Indian to celebrate:
Well, the best news of I don’t know how long is what transpired in the Delhi High Court today. The judges there did overturn Section 377. No longer are our gay brothers and sisters breaking the law by doing what the rest of us do [...]
Prof. Neera Desai - pioneer of Women’s Studies in India
Published by June 30th, 2009 in Feminism, India and Women. 0 CommentsFeministsIndia breaks the news about the death of Prof. Neera Desai, who seems to have been an amazing woman.
One of the pioneers of Women’s Studies in India, Prof. Neera Desai, passed away on 25th June 2009 in Mumbai. She was 84.
Prof. Neera Desai was the Founder Director of Research Centre for Women’s Studies (1974) at [...]
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 [...]
How to claim an insurance
Published by June 29th, 2009 in Corruption, Development, Human Rights, India, Justice and Law and order. 0 CommentsAfter filing for an RTI, now it’s compensation or insurance claim. Ajay at
कोर्ट कचहरी explains us the details needed to claim for a compensation in an accident case.
ऐसे दावों में पंचाट पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चार विभिन्न मदों में भुगतान करने का आदेश प्रतिवादी को देती है. इलाज, यात्रा भत्ता, पोषाहार देतु तथा प्रभावित दिवसों में हुए आय का नुकसान .इसलिए पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चाहिए वो इलाज से सम्बंधित प्रत्येक कागज़ .दवाइयों की रसीद,अस्पताल आने जाने,रहने में लगे खर्चे की रसीदें तथा तथा पोषाहार हेतु लिए गए विशेष भोज्य पदार्थों पर हुए खर्च का सारा ब्यौरा संभाल कर रखे एवं गवाही के समय अदालत में उपस्थित करे.
Want to file an RTI ?
Published by June 27th, 2009 in Democracy, Development, Government, India and Justice. 0 CommentsYou want to know why or on what basis some decisions were taken or not taken by a public authority. In other words you want to exercise your right to seek some information but do not know how.
Ankur tells you how to file an RTI.
it makes them accountable to the public and makes it hard [...]
Afanasii Nikitin
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Books, History, India, Language, Media, Travel and World. 2 CommentsFëanor translates Afanasii Nikitin’s fifteenth century memoirs of his travel to India (Journey Across Three Seas):
Who was Nikitin? He was a merchant of Tver, a principality abutting the Mongol domains in Russia. He set out down the Volga sometime in the 1470s with some merchandise, was robbed by Tartars, and decided that he could not [...]
Ordinary crime
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Democracy, Human Rights, India, Justice, Media, Policy, Politics, South Asia and Violence. 0 CommentsAjay Govind spends what seem to be ten not-so-ordinary days in Kashmir:
But the words that caught my attention were from the title of that piece. ”I’ve learnt how ordinary crime becomes an issue”. Here were his ‘exact’ words from the interview itself “…It’s a case study for me to understand how if not handled right, an [...]
The Case of the Missing Servant
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Books, Fiction and India. 0 CommentsAparna reviews Tarquin Hall’s The Case of the Missing Servant:
The Indian class system and treatment of servants, rural poverty and the exodus to urban India, the stark contrast between slums and gleaming urban palaces, the tortoise-like pace of the Indian judicial system - all these become part of the case of the missing servant, Mary, [...]
So, the defending champion India is out of competition. The Indian team certainly deserves something. Brickbats, bouquets or simply a break ? See yourself.
Alok welcomes them.
Come back home our heroes, come soon.. Come earlier than you were supposed to come as if the union budget would not have been presented without you back in India. [...]
‘Because I wanted SRK’s Ikea furniture’
Published by June 15th, 2009 in Cinema, Culture, India and World. 1 CommentVicki’s story of how she grew to love Indian and South Asian culture:
It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I love all things Indian. I love saris, chapatis, rotis, and Saif Ali Khans. I can’t say for sure when this began, but I think it was around the time I saw DDLJ on [...]
The other side of every stand
Published by June 13th, 2009 in Caste, History, India and Politics. 0 CommentsMircea says the historian in India today has few options:
One can always be a card-carrying communalist, writing textbooks about Muslim invasions and finding a safe home in the arms of the BJP. One can be a righteous leftist going on about protest and resistance while the backyard burns from Naxalite murders and bombs. Or, one [...]
‘Mistaken Macroeconomics’
Published by June 13th, 2009 in Development, Economy, Government, India and Policy. 0 CommentsDr.Subroto Roy writes an open letter to the Prime Minister:
What, at the outset, is supposed to be measured when we speak of “growth”? Indian businessmen and their media friends seem to think “growth” refers to something like nominal earnings before tax for the organised corporate sector, or any unspecified number that can be sold to [...]
Why is Sujatha’s family unique, or slightly like the U.N.,?
My parents spoke to each other and to us in Telugu; my father spoke to his brothers and brothers-in-law in Tamil, to his sisters-in-law and sisters in Telugu, to my mother’s siblings in Kannada, to my maternal grandmother in Telugu and to my maternal grandfather in [...]
Illusion of Democracy
Published by June 9th, 2009 in Democracy, Education, Government, Human Rights and India. 0 CommentsDr.T.Prasad opines that democracy in India is an illusion:
Moreover, the instrument of governance used by such a ‘democratic government’ for delivering the services to the people remained the same which was designed and used for systematically exploiting a colony and is thus totally anachronistic and unsuitable for democratic governance. This renders the constitutional declaration of [...]
Viswanathan meets a popular radio show hostess in Buenos Aires who “feels at home” in India:
So I met Daisy May Queen last week . I found that she not only says Namaste but means it seriously and sincerely. Daisy May Queen told me ¨It is the Divya in me which says Namaste ¨ She has [...]
Different perspectives on the quota
Published by June 8th, 2009 in Dalit, Democracy, India, Patriarchy, Policy, Politics, Prejudice and Women. 1 CommentAbantika Ghosh on the proposed quota for women: Let’s at least have the good sense to feel ashamed of it.
Because in the end the need for women’s reservation arises in the mindset and after all the promises of universal education and compulsory primary education, somehow women, as young girls, always seem to miss out on [...]
Women’s reservations bill
Published by June 7th, 2009 in Democracy, India, Patriarchy, Policy, Politics, Prejudice and Women. 3 CommentsRaghav Parthasarathy thinks this is the right time for the bill:
We recently heard Sharad Yadav saying that he would kill himself if the bill was passed. The BJP has indicated that it is willing to support the bill. Its leader , Shri Advani has clearly indicated that the 15th Lok Sabha will see a new [...]
‘Us’ and ‘Vais’ in the North East
Published by June 3rd, 2009 in Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, India, North East, Prejudice and Racism. 5 CommentsParitosh Chakma says ‘racial discrimination’ thrives within the North East too:
Outsiders (meaning of course long-nose plains people) are called “vais” in Mizoram. “Vai” is a Mizo word and the term is used in contempt towards the people who look “different” from “us” in Mizoram. The people of Mizoram may contest my claim but I have [...]
Anu posts a lot of beautiful pictures from Poovar but check out her frog. There are a lot of other images too.
Savarkar’s apology
Published by June 2nd, 2009 in History, India, Politics, Religion and South Asia. 0 CommentsA Dalit analyses Savarkar’s petition for clemency to the British:
That Savarkar did not participate in any freedom struggle activities post his cellular jail is an established fact…as promised in the letter.
That Savarkar opposed congress and Gandhiji(who backed his release from cellular jail) is an established fact…. as promised in the letter
That Savarkar diverted lacks of [...]
Cool it please!
Published by June 2nd, 2009 in Human Rights, India, Indiaspora, Media, Prejudice, Racism and World. 1 CommentRajni A.Luthra asks Mediawallahs to cool it please!
Most Indian homes in Australia have had this phone call from concerned family in India by now. “Are you alright? What are they doing to you guys over there?”
It’s almost as if Australian gangs are roaming the trains seeking out Indians to bash up, or roaming the streets [...]
More on attacks in Australia
Published by May 31st, 2009 in Education, India, Indiaspora, Prejudice, Racism, Violence and World. 2 CommentsRashmi Bansal offers some insights:
Actually, back in March, the Economic Times had reported on this issue as follows:
The growing number of attacks on Indian students in Australia has become a big cause for concern at the Indian High Commission in Canberra. A senior diplomat at the High Commission told ET that in the last six [...]
‘..sensitivity of the local populace’
Published by May 30th, 2009 in Culture, India, North East, Prejudice, Racism and Women. 3 CommentsJune talks about racism in India:
In Bombay, racism manifested itself in ‘CHINA’ carved on my door- this in the posh Pali Hill neighbourhood, home to the rich and famous. At business meetings, people would ignore me and talk to my assistants, on realisation that I was the boss, their faces would first drop with surprise [...]
One world, different crises
Published by May 29th, 2009 in Capitalism, Development, Economy, India, Regulation and World. 0 CommentsWhy has the global financial crisis not generated any ‘existential angst about capitalism’ or any ’serious questioning of the role of the market’ in developing countries like India, unlike in the west? Arvind Subramanian offers some great insights:
There is a gradual realization that the diagnostic spotlight must shine on the revolving door between Wall Street [...]
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