-The Indian Express The victim in the Suryanelli rape case tells her story—a nightmare that lasted 40 days and the trauma that stayed with her every day for the past 17 years She is the ‘Suryanelli girl’. “But that’s not my name.” It’s not. It’s the name of the village in Kerala’s Idukki district where she lived a 16-year-old’s life—happy, innocent, smiling easily. She doesn’t smile easily anymore, but then, a lot...
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Verma panel recommendations negated: CPI(M)-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) too objected to the "selective and arbitrary approach" of the Government to the recommendations. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has denounced the ordinance which the Union Cabinet issued on Friday to curb sexual violence against women. When Parliament was to convene for the budget session in three weeks, the promulgation of the ordinance ran counter to democratic norms, a statement issued by the...
More »Pillorying of Ashis Nandy: His critics need hearing aids -Shiv Visvanathan
-First Post The Jaipur literary festival is almost notorious for creating storms in a teacup. To its credit though, if offers a different flavor of literary tea every year. Last year, it was a variant of the Rushdie phenomenon, where a group of aspiring litterateurs read out passages from the Satanic Verses and then succumbed to political correctness. This year, the controversy came in a session chaired by Urvashi Butalia, publisher Zubaan, where...
More »Malegaon blast accused starts Legal Aid NGO to help those ‘wrongly arrested’ -Smita Nair
-The Indian Express Mumbai: In 2006, soon after the Malegaon bomb blasts, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested a Unani medicine practitioner alleging he harboured Pakistanis and smuggled the RDX used in the explosives. After five years in prison, and a year outside on bail, Dr Salman Farsi Monday launched a NGO called Justice Legal Voice (JLV) to provide Legal Aid to the “wrongly arrested”. Farsi recalls that he was nothing but ‘accused...
More »When victims are forced to lie to save their violators…. -Jiby Kattakayam
-The Hindu “In the present case, it may be that the prosecutrix (victim) had given a correct statement before the learned magistrate under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.PC). But while deposing in this court she has given a statement absolutely contrary to her earlier statement U/s 164 Cr.PC, then of course, a serious doubt arises about the credibility of such a witness. A witness who is not a...
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