Vedanta Resources is under fire from heaven and earth, and even Hollywood has been asked to join in. Tribal rights campaigner Survival International has appealed to Avatar director James Cameron, through an advertisement in US entertainment magazine Variety, to help it stop the company from mining for bauxite in an Orissa forest. The ad drew parallels between the Na’vi tribe in Avatar, who try to stop humans from mining under their sacred...
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When women become 'witches' by Saira Kurup
On January 2, 2010, three masked men barged into Pinki’s home in Tapodana village, Ranchi district and killed her parents on the charges of practicing witchcraft. Pinki, 14, and her younger brother are now in hiding because she too has been named as a dayan or witch. Sushila Devi, 45, tries to hide the injury on her head with her sari pallu as she describes how she and four other...
More »Hidden apartheid by S Dorairaj
A recent survey carried out by the TNUEF brings to light details of the discrimination Dalits in Madurai have faced for generations. OVER seven decades have rolled by since the freedom fighter A. Vaidhyanatha Iyer successfully led Dalits into the Meenakshi temple in Madurai, overcoming all the impediments posed by the casteist forces that were hell-bent on thwarting the historic event. But the stark reality is that “hidden apartheid” against...
More »'Gujarat police one of the least paid in country' by Parth Shastri
Top cops of Gujarat might have some reasons to worry. The 53rd all-India police duty meet (AIPDM) at Karai and Gandhinagar is proving to be more than just an opportunity to compare of notes for police personnel. Here the cops are actually discussing pay packets. And, as it turns out — Gujarat cops are among the worst paid police personnel of the country. “Even states like Bihar pay more to...
More »Angry Information Commissioner releases minutes of RTI meeting on Act amendments by Vidya Subrahmaniam
Government seems disrespectful in treating October meeting as a non-event: Shailesh Gandhi At meeting, majority of 60-odd Commissioners vetoed amendments proposed by DoPT Meeting concluded on understanding that DoPT would forward minutes to the Commissioners The minutes of the stormy October 14, 2009 meeting between Central and State Information Commissioners and the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on the controversial issue of amendments to the Right To Information Act, 2005 are...
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