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Juxtaposing the Hathras, Khairlanji and Bilkis Bano cases against the 2012 Nirbhaya case shows that the thinking of the judiciary often depends on the social status of the victim. Also: “The Valmiki Family in Hathras Defied Caste Order. Their Dead Daughter Paid the Price.”
While celebrating their devotional verses, it is important to acknowledge the inequities they battled too.
In the midst of all the hullabaloo around the award to the musical score ‘Naatu Naatu’ at the Oscars Academy Awards ceremony, let us spare a few moments to see the song and its film in a wider context – which is both cultural, historical and political.
Industrial concentration by these top private players has allowed them to charge much higher product prices than their competitors, the former deputy RBI governor said.
Historians suggest that the heroes the BJP is invoking to attract castes either do not exist or their role is being exaggerated.
A good harvest is no longer good for farmers. It benefits traders, hoarders, middlemen, and corporations more. Without government safeguards through MSP and public procurement, the “free-market” system is rigged against farmers.
The US is divesting from working people and investing in banks and venture capitalists, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
President Emmanuel Macron has impose his pensions bill by decree, thus avoiding a parliamentary vote he would have lost. It has led to spontaneous demonstrations across France. The lower house of the Parliament is also set to vote on a motion of no confidence in the government.
The Doomsday Clock indicates we’re living on borrowed time. We owe to future generations every possible effort to renounce all war and protect the planet.
Rachel Corrie, an American Palestine-solidarity activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer twenty years ago this month. She was murdered while attempting to defend a Palestinian home from demolition in Rafah, a city in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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