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Jury’s still out on amount of black money stashed abroad

-ENS Economic Bureau   Estimates on black money stashed away by Indians is still very much a grey area. So when the CBI Director emphatically declared on Monday that $500 billion of illegal money belonging to Indians was deposited in tax havens abroad, the figure caused more than a mild flutter.   Mainly because the information currently available on the black money economy is way too disparate and vague. Considering the available evidence, the...

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Jarawas video recent: JNU scholar by Manash Pratim Gohain

Terming the coming in contact of the Jarawas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with tourists and outsiders as hazardous, research scholar of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Pramod Kumar claims that this makes the tribals susceptible to communicable diseases and endangers them further. While Kumar claims that the video in circulation exposing the Jarawa tribals in the Andamans to tourists is relatively new, experts claim that the video proves that this happened...

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Ramanujan’s Three Hundred Ramayanas: Transmission, Interpretation And Dialogue In Indian Traditions by R Mahalakshmi

A.K. Ramanujan, while referring to the diversity and apparently contradictory element of unity in the Indian traditions, refers to an Irish joke about whether to classify trousers as singular or plural: singular from the top, plural from the bottom.1 A Concurrent Discipline Course in the University of Delhi for Second Year Honours students not doing History was introduced in 2005 on ‘Culture in India—Ancient’, and had sought to very sensitively...

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How the RSS co-opted Anna by Gyan Verma & Sreelatha Menon

This is a saga of how the Hindu outfit saw the promise in Anna and pursued him for its gains. How often do we meet strangers on a flight and realise that it could possibly be the beginning of a lasting friendship? This is how yoga teacher Ramdev and super cop Kiran Bedi met in mid 2010 when both of them were on the same flight and Ramdev spotted her. Although fate...

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JNU approves quotas till professor level by Vikas Pathak

The executive council (EC) of Jawaharlal Nehru University — the highest decision making body of the institution — has approved the principle of reservation in faculty positions at the higher levels, viz professor and associate professor. “The EC ratified the decision to extend reservation to all levels in its meeting on Monday,” a JNU EC member told HT. This is in conformity with the UGC guidelines issued in 2006 extending quotas to...

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