-Express News Service Lucknow: A complaint has been lodged against BSP MLC Arvind Kumar Tripathi alias Guddu Tripathi at Hussainganj police station on Saturday evening for allegedly issuing threats to RTI activist Shamim Ahmed. Police said Ahmed has alleged that he had collected the documents pertaining to the site map of Tripathi’s hotel in Hussainganj area through RTI Act. He alleged that the hotel was not built as per the map and...
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NAC proposes legal changes to SC/ST Act -Liz Mathew & Anuja
-Live Mint Preventing entry of Dalits, tribespeople to places of worship should be made a punishable offence, says NAC Preventing Dalits and tribespeople from entering places of worship will be made a punishable offence under legal changes proposed by the National Advisory Council (NAC), which sets the social policy for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Obstructing members of such groups from using community resources will also be made an offence under...
More »Welcome to closet illiberalism-Vidya Subrahmaniam
-The Hindu Caste might be cast in stone judging from the way the dominant discourse gets conducted in India “Caste is the most overwhelming factor in Indian life. Those who deny it in principle also accept it in practice. Life moves within the frontiers of caste and cultured men speak in soft tones against the system of caste, while its rejection in action just does not occur to them...” Socialist thinker Ram...
More »The Nandy Bully-S Anand
-Outlook The sorts of corruption that matter are a purview of privileged &nBSP;&nBSP;&nBSP; “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.” &nBSP;&nBSP;&nBSP; —B.R....
More »Nandy made a bad statement with good intentions: Ilaiah
-PTI Dalit activist-writer Kancha Ilaiah on Monday sought to put a lid on the controversy over sociologist Ashis Nandy’s remarks on SC and STs, saying it was “a bad statement with good intentions“. “Prof Ashis Nandy made a bad statement with good intentions, however, as far as I know, he was never against reservation. The controversy should end here,” Ilaiah said in a statement here. Mr. Nandy had kicked up a storm at...
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