Sanand talks about a gift he got for representing a fishing community in Maharashtra.
On behalf of the fishing community, we filed a suit for injunction before the city civil court in Mumbai. It was fully granted (with respect to 2 pumps and 2 connecting tanks). Then, the other side went to the High Court in [...]
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Fishermen and their Lawyer
Published by January 17th, 2010 in India, Justice and Society. 0 CommentsJustice 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 [...]
Bant Singh’s struggle for justice
Published by December 8th, 2009 in Caste, Justice, Law and order, Violence and Women. 2 Comments“What would you do, if you were a lower caste Dalit farmer living in Punjab and your minor daughter was raped by a group of influential upper-caste men?”. Find out more about Bant Singh and the ‘retributions’ for his standing up for justice:
A phone call to “retrieve his body” actually found him barely alive but [...]
The jury bench determines the death penalty
Published by December 4th, 2009 in Justice, Law and order and Society. 1 CommentSwaroop thinks “Revenge cannot justify our criminal punishments anymore, surely”:
There remains, today, no justification for the death penalty. We’re talking of a state taking someone’s life – something it theoretically, politically, morally has no right to do. As pure retribution, the death penalty is uncivilised and retrograde; studies have shown that its claims as a [...]
Justifying reservations
Published by October 15th, 2009 in Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Human Rights, India, Justice, Politics and Society. 2 CommentsWinnowed argues for caste-based reservations:
In my opinion, purely caste-based reservations do perpetuate caste divisions in the short term. However, they also uplift untouchable and backward castes, to a large extent, though it is at the expense of the upper castes. If (social and economic) upliftment of the lower castes is the sole objective behind reservations, [...]
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 [...]
R.I.P. Dr.Balagopal
Published by October 10th, 2009 in Adivasi, Capitalism, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Government, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Politics, Poverty and Violence. 0 CommentsAditya pays tributes:
A relentless crusader for human rights for three decades now, Andhra Pradesh HC lawyer Balagopal has fought cases from extra-judicial killings of political dissenters to atrocities against Dalits and women. And he has often suffered personal attacks for his efforts, by the police and others shamed by his exposes. But he has never [...]
Justice for Dalits looks at caste bias in the judiciary:
Nowadays too much people claim their right in India.Without ever recognizing that this country never was theirs.
How can Dalits ask their right if India is the sole property of upper castes.How did they believe that the apex court, though legally it was out of their juridiction, [...]
Tarun asks the question, do we Indians remember Manipur?
Manipur, a small state tucked in India’s north-east, a state which I regret to say India and Indians forgot. That is why state which is going through turbulence since July because of a fake encountered which was carried out by the forces there and fakeness of which [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Meera is thrilled for the gay community after the Delhi High Court ruling and has dedicated a few cartoons to them. Please go check.
Perceptions are tougher to change?
Published by July 5th, 2009 in Human Rights, India, Justice, LGBT, Prejudice and Society. 0 CommentsRituparna Bhowmick asks: will India accept gay couples?
But it’s difficult to predict whether conservative Indians would change their perception of the gay community.
India has traditionally been a study in curious contradictions that are deeply interwoven in its social fabric through centuries. If it is embracing and tolerant of alien customs, it is also proud and [...]
Today is our heritage..
Published by July 2nd, 2009 in Gender & Sexuality, History, Human Rights, India, Justice, LGBT, Prejudice, Regulation and Religion. 5 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 [...]
Proud of the Statues
Published by July 2nd, 2009 in Dalit, Government, History, Justice, Politics, Prejudice and Society. 3 CommentsPrabin tells you why he is proud of Mayawati’s statues:
So I believe, what is disconcerting to the political parties about the statues that Mayawati unveiling and the Memorials she is constructing is not the wastage of precious resource – there are a lot many instances of govt. squandering revenues and tax payers money- but the [...]
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 [...]
How to claim an insurance
Published by June 29th, 2009 in Corruption, Development, Human Rights, India, Justice and Law and order. 2 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. 1 CommentYou 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 [...]
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 [...]
Women’s representation in parliament
Published by May 26th, 2009 in Caste, Democracy, Gender & Sexuality, General Elections 2009, Human Rights, Justice, Patriarchy, Policy, Politics, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsDeepali Gaur Singh writes on the unfinished business of women’s representation in parliament:
India ranks 115th of 162 countries in terms of gender development. Lack of representation directly translates into a de-sensitized political leadership that is completely cut-off from the issues facing half the population of the country. It also results in disproportionately less legislation empowering [...]
Red Sun
Published by April 1st, 2009 in Democracy, General Elections 2009, Human Rights, Justice, Politics and Poverty. 0 CommentsWhich is the biggest threat for Indian General elections to be held in April/May 2009?
a.Jihadi militants from across the border
b.Insurgents from the North East
c.LTTE from Srilanka
d.None of the above
Charakan says it’s option d.
Jade observes things have changed for the better in UP in Mayawati’s administration:
I was traveling from Singraulli to Varanasi few days back, there were few SP workers protesting the LPG rise hike & they had blocked the road. I was filled with pride that our bus driver yelled at them “Yeh Mulayam ka raj nai [...]
By the people
Published by March 22nd, 2009 in Announcement, Justice, Media and South Asia. 0 CommentsIn the new era of citizen journalism, a good idea is to take the best of such posts and freelance photography and give the mainstream media to pick up some of them (legally, I might add). Demotix is one such website, mostly featuring South Asia. Do check out Wais’s post on their blog about the [...]
The long march
Published by March 19th, 2009 in Activism, Democracy, History, Justice, Politics and South Asia. 0 CommentsWhat are the lessons of the ‘long march’ for Pakistanis? Khurram Shafique looks toward wisdom from Muhammad Ali Jauhar, first modern historian of Pakistan:
“Patience and hope,” writes Layla to Qais in the famous love poem by Nizami Ganjavi (whose 800th death anniversary falls this year, incidentally). “Do not look at the sower casting seed, but [...]
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