I started out with the intention of linking to both sides: blogs that oppose reservations and those which support them. Less than two pages of Google Blog Search results yielded these reactions:
Jasdeep feels reservations won’t undo the damage done by a poor public education system:
Revolutionary changes needs to be done in Education system, But [...]
Archive for the 'Justice' Category
Mandal lives!
Published by April 11th, 2008 in Caste, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Politics, Prejudice, Society and public space. 6 CommentsKashmir Singh
Published by April 6th, 2008 in Government, Human Rights, India and Justice. 0 CommentsThe Catapult questions the failure of the Indian government in taking care of patriots:
Shortly after his release from a Pakistani jail after nearly three decades of solitary confinement Kashmir Singh has admitted that he was a spy who was captured on the line of duty. And what did the Indian government do for him all [...]
‘Of Laws and Lawmakers’
Published by April 6th, 2008 in Government, Justice, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsThe Government of India woke up to the fact that the Development of Women and Children is important enough to be granted a Ministry of its own, only in 2006. Before that this onerous responsibility was carried out by a Department , which did not exist before 1985. No better source than the horse’s mouth. [...]
The Shaming of Scarlett Keeling
Published by March 26th, 2008 in Feminism, Government, Human Rights, Justice, Media, Patriarchy, Women, public space and sexuality. 17 CommentsIf the killing was brutal, the reactions that followed haven’t been kind either- Sharanya condemns those who are condemning the victim:
In other words, the condemning of the murdered girl, her family, her friends, their lifestyles and their choices is a typical misogynist response – the wicked woman gets her dues. And this time, there are [...]
Shariah in the West
Published by March 21st, 2008 in Human Rights, Justice, Patriarchy, Policy, Religion, Secularism and Women. 0 CommentsAsghar Ali Engineer foresees conflict between conservative ‘ulama and progressive Muslims if Shariah laws are applied in the West:
I have met many ‘ulama in UK. They are as conservative as in Islamic countries, perhaps even more in the alien environment of UK and other Western countries. If any attempt is made to apply Islamic [...]
Talking around Tibet
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Culture, Democracy, Geopolitics, Human Rights, India, Justice, Media, Politics and Religion. 0 CommentsKaran ponders on what India should do:
The Tibet issue is bound to remain in the headlines given the scrutiny the world has thrown on every aspect of Chinese existence. From levels of pollution, to dealing with dictators in Africa, to poisoned toys being exported, the lack of free speech and media and their crackdown on [...]
Calling Into Question
Published by March 19th, 2008 in India, Justice, North East, Prejudice, Racism, Spotlight Series and Women. 1 Comment[ This is Essay # 27 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Calling Into Question
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Swar Thounaojam
“In the old days, they didn’t even know they were Kurds. And it was that way through the Ottoman period: None of the people who chose to stay went around beating their chests and crying, ‘We are the [...]
Naxalism and conventional politics
Published by March 18th, 2008 in Adivasi, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Government, Human Rights, Justice, Policy, Politics and Poverty. 0 CommentsGautam Sen says he doesn’t support Naxalism but he doesn’t seem to believe in the efficacy of ‘conventional politics’ either:
Despite these differences, my answer to my brother’s imprisonment is not the advocacy of violence. It is a waning and tenuous hope that perhaps the system does work, as Pai thinks it does. Perhaps my brother [...]
More on the Gulabi gang
Published by February 23rd, 2008 in Activism, Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Feminism, Government, Justice and Patriarchy. 2 CommentsBecky B devotes some (much needed?) attention to the gang:
What is so amazing to me is the anomaly that the leader figure represents. Not only that one woman could be so unabiding to the expected norm, but also that she can mobilise hundreds of women to fight for her causes. As I said in my [...]
Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in Adivasi, Business, Caste, Community, Culture, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Environment, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Poverty and Spotlight Series. 7 Comments[ This is Essay # 18 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Rural Poor- Human Rights, Inhuman State?
Theory and Practice in a Liberal Democracy
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Rahul Banerjee
Over the past two years or so the normally un-newsworthy rural poor in India have time and again made the headlines with their vehement opposition to the forced acquisition [...]
Shande writes about the conductors in Bengaluru’s Volvo city buses. One-off incident? Maybe, but we wouldn’t be discussing it if it were a normal bus.
Passenger says: “You are not supposed to do like this, you are a public servant, I will complain about this”
Conductor: “Go and do whatever you want, I don’t care. I am [...]
Blank Noise
Published by February 18th, 2008 in Activism, Cinema, Community, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, India, Justice, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society, Spotlight Series, Women, public space and sexuality. 8 Comments[ This is Essay # !6 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Blank Noise
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Jasmeen Patheja
How have you felt every time you ignored a stranger’s eyes stripping you naked?
How often have you been a mute witness or spectator to street sexual violence?
How often have you whistled, passed remarks, leched, intimidated a female stranger, just [...]
The Gulabi Gang
Published by February 16th, 2008 in Activism, Feminism, Government, Justice, Patriarchy, Women and public space. 0 CommentsI keep reading about this gang on a lot of blogs, but never on an Indian blog. Why do so many outsiders find the Gulabi gang so fascinating? This post by SocProf might provide some answers:
This gang resembles the groups of Sicilian women trying to fight back against the Mafia because no one else will. [...]
Statement of Protest
Published by February 16th, 2008 in Human Rights, Justice, Patriarchy, Society, Women and public space. 0 CommentsFound this Statement of Protest at Arpita’s Tangled Up In Blues:
Justice S.R.Nayak, Chairperson- State Human Rights Commission, delivered his opinion on the Mumbai New Year molestation case on the occasion of speaking on “Human Rights and Lawyers Role”. He expressly mentioned that “Yes, Men are bad“, “But who asked them (the women) to venture [...]
Demand for the establishment of Sexual Harassment committees
Published by February 9th, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Appeal, Caste, Feminism, Human Rights, Justice, Prejudice, South Asia, White Ribbon Campaign, Women and sexuality. 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 [...]
Who owns copyrights in the judgments of the Supreme Court?
Published by February 2nd, 2008 in Globalisation and Justice. 2 CommentsThat might seem like a strange question but the highest courts in the land are seriously engaged with that issue: Pratibha M.Singh analyses a recent Supreme Court judgment.
Kiran Bedi: not retired
Published by January 30th, 2008 in Activism, Government and Justice. 1 CommentWhat’s Kiran Bedi doing these days? Gopika Paul finds out that Bedi has not given up on the job of trying to make India safe:
One of the first things Bedi did after quitting was to launch saferindia. It’s no surprise. As a long-time member of the city’s police, Bedi is only too aware [...]
A victory for Indian environmentalists
Published by January 29th, 2008 in Activism, Development, Environment, Human Rights and Justice. 0 CommentsI was hoping to see some reactions on this important piece of news from Indian bloggers : ‘for the first time in its ten-year history, the National Environmental Appellate Authority* (NEAA) has overturned a decision by the Government of India, quashing an environmental clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests‘. This is a [...]
‘Rape is the fastest growing crime in the country’
Published by January 16th, 2008 in Culture, Government, Justice, Society, Women and public space. 6 CommentsJhoomur Bose reacts to that news:
Congratulations People! The way things are going, soon we all will know at least three women who have been raped. I am not counting the 2-month-old babies because they usually die after they have been raped. Like the two-and-a-half-years old INFANT who had her throat slit by her neighbour, of [...]
On the Mumbai molestation incident
Published by January 3rd, 2008 in Feminism, Human Rights, India, Justice, Media, Society, Women and sexuality. 10 CommentsBlogger reactions on the molestation of two women by a crowd outside the JW Marriott Hotel in Juhu, Mumbai after a New Years party at the hotel.
Gauri sees a familiar pattern
Women’s associations will cry hoarse.
Women will have to think twice before going on a night out.
The papers and the news channels will hash the issue [...]
Do corpses have voices?
Published by December 26th, 2007 in Democracy, Development, Economy, Human Rights, Justice, Media, Policy and Politics. 0 CommentsRadical Hypocrite looks for the ‘obvious’, the ’sensible meaning’ in Nandigram:
To be specific, two pieces of leg bones, bits of flesh and wood, all charred, were found from the first two graves. The third grave contained burnt body parts like the hip joints, spinal cords and ankles. The fourth and fifth graves contained burnt leg [...]
Social Entrepreneurs– Silently Changing the World
Published by December 18th, 2007 in Activism, Community, Development, Education, Environment, Feminism, Human Rights, India, Justice, Poverty and Spotlight Series. 2 Comments[This is Essay #4 in our "Spotlight Series". Click here for archives]
Social Entrepreneurs - Silently changing the world
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Shantanu Dutta
When I had first heard of the Ashoka Foundation, I had imagined in my mind that it would be the social arm of a traditional Indian business house. With a name linked to the Emperor Ashoka, this [...]
Mukundan Menon, fighter
Published by December 18th, 2007 in Activism, Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Human Rights, Justice, Media and Politics. 0 CommentsChespeak mourns the passing away of veteran journalist and human rights activist, Mukundan C. Menon:
Mukundan’s professional life can be divided into three stages: the first , his days in Delhi in the most turbulent period of Emergency and its aftermath; then his life in Andhra Pradesh when the state was the inferno of Indian left [...]
Rizwanur’s classmate writes
Published by December 16th, 2007 in Caste, Human Rights, Justice and Society. 0 CommentsTanmoy does a guest post on Alka’s blog and writes about his classmate, Rizwanur Rehman. He also comments on teh Nandigram issue, and has a lot of philosophical directions worth pondering over.
These phases would probably pass. Perhaps in our lifetime we would not see any change in our mindset. The growth statistics would keep on [...]
Two reasons…er..actually, only one
Published by December 16th, 2007 in Caste, Justice, Politics, Religion and Secularism. 1 CommentReason says there are only two reasons why voters could vote out Modi:
A) Nothing, other than caste combinations exploited by fourth-rated regional politicians, has decimated congress so far in India’s 60 year history (except in West Bengal where congress walked away from the fight a long time ago). Examples where congress has been decimated are [...]
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