-The Hindu The case of the juvenile offender in the Delhi gang rape is a wake-up call for investing more in a protection scheme that will stop children from turning to crime During the 11 years I worked with the emergency helpline service Childline, I have had the opportunity to befriend many children who live on the edge of society. Among them was 11-year-old Arif, who lived with a gang of boys...
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The Riddles of Ashis Nandy by Vijay Prashad
-Counterpunch.org “The rearing and guiding of a civilization must depend upon its intellectual class.” BR Ambedkar, Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah, 1943, Delhi. I. Arrest. States are clumsy with their enormous power. When it suits the modern state, it uses it immense apparatus to constraint those who make claims upon it or who say things that denigrate this or that section of society. A college professor in West Bengal draws a cartoon of...
More »School rejects admission under RTE, in writing -Garima Prasher
-The Times of India BANGALORE: When Samuel Joseph (name changed), a parent, went to the Indian Public School in Sultanpalya on Monday to get his five-year-old daughter admitted under the Right to Education Act (RTE), this is what he was told by the headmaster. "First go and ask the government to pay me the remaining reimbursement amount and deposit it with the BEO. Then come to me for admission." Blame it on...
More »Moving to the House -Upendra Baxi
-The Indian Express On the Delhi rape case, let’s keep the indignation, disturb legislative slumbers The Verma Committee Report (VCR) speaks against civil society and political rape cultures. The poignancy and urgency of the VCR owes much to the experience of conversing with rape survivors and traumatised children. A precious message of the VCR is this: one may not take law reform seriously without taking human and social suffering equally seriously. The committee...
More »The Nandy Bully-S Anand
-Outlook The sorts of corruption that matter are a purview of privileged “An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity, or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.” —B.R....
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