Guess what is the total percentage of dalit or tribal members in the boards of big Indian private and public sector companies listed on the stock exchange? Well, shocking as it might be, the real count is nearly zero. A fresh study conducted by D Ajit, Han Donker and Ravi Saxena reveals that at a time when the issues of ethnic and racial inequalities is being discussed all over the world,...
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She lives it! -Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
-The Hindu Well-known feminist Kamla Bhasin says that Indian men will have to change, not to support women but to save themselves from being brutalised by centuries of exposure to patriarchy. "Mian, aap mein kuch kami hai" (Gentleman, there is something wrong with you)." Some months ago, when Kamla Bhasin, well-known feminist from Delhi, came up with this retort to Aamir Khan on his headline-grabbing tele-show Satyameva Jayate on saying that he...
More »Dalits of Pabnawa take out protest march
-PTI Kaithal (Haryana): Scores of people belonging to a Dalit community of Pabnawa village took out a protest march today and held a demonstration in front of mini secretariat here, demanding arrest of the remaining accused in the violence in which several villagers and seven policemen were injured about 10 days ago. The Indian Bahujan Sandesh Party (Kanshi Ram) also held a demonstration in support of the demands of Dalits of...
More »Supreme Court and the aam aadmi -G Mohan Gopal
-Frontline It is the goal of social revolution that connects the aam aadmi to the judiciary and to its highest institution, the Supreme Court of India. By Prof. G. MOHAN GOPAL WHAT should be the appropriate mea-sure of the relationship between the apex court of a country and its common people? Should an apex court be evaluated by who invokes its jurisdiction, from which area and for what purpose? Is an apex...
More »Catholic school refuses to relax dress code for Muslim girl-Sushanta Talukdar
-The Hindu ‘We have nothing against Fathima, but cannot make a special case for her' Guwahati: The mother of a four-year-old Muslim girl has moved the Gauhati High Court after the authorities of a Catholic Mission-run school, Kristo Jyoti School, near Bokakhat in upper Assam's Golaghat district refused to allow her daughter Fathima Beevi to wear a ‘hijab' (headscarf) along with the school uniform. The school's authorities have given the girl's parents 15...
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