-Outlook India A district collecToR takes it upon himself to rid the region of a degrading practice visited upon sick children—the scourge of daagna Umaria, Madhya Pradesh, goes to sleep at 7 pm. Or the roads give that impression—quiet and enchantingly deserted. The young (it was carved out of Shahdol in 1998) and small district is also home to Bandhavgarh National Park. Umaria also has a prevalent malpractice, called daagna, which has its...
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Not just JNU: How India's public universities becoming costlier hurts the most vulnerable -Aranya Shankar, Dipti Nagpaul & Ankita Dwivedi Johri
-The Indian Express The inequality in India’s education system gets a shot at redemption in the country’s public universities, which give students from different backgrounds a window to a more democratic future. As proposals of fee hike meet with protests, a look at how access to subsidised higher education has fuelled dreams and opened up opportunities for the disadvantaged Till three years ago, it was life as usual for Suraj Tiwari....
More »We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition -Harsh Mander
-The Indian Express Among all the countries included in the report, India has the highest rate of child wasting (which rose from the 2008-2012 level of 16.5 per cent to 20.8 per cent). Its child stunting rate (at 37.9 per cent) also remains shockingly high. The abiding disgrace of new India is that despite unprecedented quantities of wealth and the vulgar ostentation which has become customary in the gaudy glitter of...
More »A law alone will not serve as a panacea against ToRture by police in India -Yashovardhan Azad
-The Indian Express What is needed is ‘ease of policing’, better training and infrastructure Common Cause’s recent survey on the Status of Policing in India is said to have affirmed that the black sheep in the police force find nothing wrong with beating up criminals to extract a confession. It is still, however, too judgemental to suggest that ToRture is endemic to Indian policing, as Maja Daruwala does (‘Exorcising third-degree’, IE,...
More »Defecation death: Girl was molested too, say kin
-The Times of India BHOPAL: The family of the 12-year-old Dalit girl who was beaten to death in Shivpuri district on September 25 for defecating in the open has alleged that she was molested by the accused. Her 11-year-old cousin also died in the attack. Bhim Sena has called a complete bandh in Shivpuri town on Monday to protest the killings. Additional police force has been deployed in the region. Molestation isn’t mentioned...
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