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The acquittal of several police officers accused in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case should alert all citizens. Are we a country whose police shoot people dead without a care about the rule of law?
The August 1971 protest launched by the Jan Sangh in Delhi, when Modi courted arrest, was to protest the India-USSR Treaty of Friendship – a treaty which gave India the diplomatic cover needed to wage war against Pakistan later that year.
The demand for reservations is conducted in a moral and political vacuum – there is absolutely no debate, no discussion and no political consensus on the need for equalising life chances.
N.S. Vinodh’s ‘A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain’ is about a man who played an important – if supporting – role in the independence struggle.
Bhagat Singh understood caste and the practice of untouchability and its associated binary of purity-pollution as an integral part of Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma).
“If we really want an effective end to violence, we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression.” – Fr Oscar Romero, a few days before he was gunned down.
There are six attributes that the farmers’ protest has come to exemplify. Like the prime minister, the author has put them in an acronym.
Official figures claim that the economy is on the road to recovery. But a closer look at these figures contradict this rosy picture of the economy. Two articles.
The government’s plan to privatise Public Sector Undertakings makes no economic sense as it will just help crony capitalists.
Indians are already among the most overworked workers globally. Despite their long hours, Indian workers are not making much money. India had the lowest statutory minimum wage of any country in the Asia Pacific region, except for Bangladesh as of 2019.
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