-IANS Azamgarh: Amid the mushrooming convent schools, mosques still continue to be popular centres of learning at least up to the prIMAry class level in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district. The trend is more common in cities and towns where Islamic prIMAry schools are rare. There are more than 100 mosques in Azamgarh city and around 40 per cent offer prIMAry education. A majority of students in mosques come from the Muslim community...
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In U.P. polls, local dalit histories vie with BSP's grand storyline by Badri Narayan
All social communities have a history that is experienced, or perceived, or both. Communities survive and sustain themselves on these histories. When political forces try to mobilise these communities, they usually do so by exploring their history and then giving it a political meaning that suits their agenda. In the beginning, when the political party is new, it gives space and respect to the small histories of each community that...
More »Don't trash this law, the fault lies in non-implementation by Brinda Karat & Sabu George
There can be little quarrel with the argument that India requires a comprehensive policy to prevent sex selection as put forward by National Advisory Council members Farah Naqvi and A.K. Shiva Kumar in The Hindu (“India & the sex selection conundrum,” January 24, 2012). That the use of sex selection technologies to abort female foetuses is linked to the increasing devaluation and disempowerment of women is well known. It is...
More »Malaria deaths in 2010 were more than estIMAted by WMR, says study by R Prasad
The number of malaria deaths worldwide in 2010 was 1.24 million, nearly double the number previously estIMAted by the 2011 World Malaria Report (WMR). This is despite a 31-per-cent reduction in such deaths globally in the last five years. This was stated in a study published on February 3 in The Lancet. More deaths have been reported across all age groups and regions than the WMR. For instance, the study reports 1.3 times...
More »Didi, don’t roll back
-The Indian Express For once, Mamata does the right thing — by laying down work rules for her employees Mamata Banerjee’s politics, in a word, could be called “populist”, in the absence of a well-formulated and well-enunciated agenda. In her last years in opposition, and now as chief minister of West Bengal, Banerjee has steadily positioned herself as “more left than the Left”. The Luddite politics of Singur, her stint as the...
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