-The Telegraph Ranchi: The state government has failed to arrive at a formula to end the Nagri land imbroglio and will once again seek time from Jharkhand High Court during a hearing tomorrow. Sources said the state government affidavit, to be filed by the Ranchi district administration, would comprise details of two rounds of inconclusive talks with the villagers and will seek more time to resolve the issue. “We are pursuing the case...

The Guwahati molestation incident throws light on the violence women face overtly and covertly in India, at home and outside. The shocking incident of the beating and molestation of a young woman by a mob in Guwahati in Assam on July 9 has exposed the ugly underbelly of modern, globalised India, where women face violence, covertly and overtly, at home and outside. The incident has also exposed the lackadaisical manner in...

-The Telegraph Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court today slapped fines of Rs 10,000 each on the state chief secretary and another official for failing to ensure a timely government affidavit, a nagging problem that plagues the judiciary and against which the court has spoken out earlier. While hearing a public interest litigation filed by Md Ashique Ahmed on reorganisation of scheduled areas, a division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Tatia and Justice Jaya...

-The Telegraph Jharkhand High Court today ruled out return of land acquired by the state government in Nagri way back in 1957-58, even as it reproached public representatives for “blowing the issue out of proportion and misguiding the poor and illiterate”. The court also asked the government to translate all earlier court orders into Hindi and regional languages for circulation among the villagers so that they understood the issue better. “Land acquired cannot...

-Kafila.org Almost a century ago, Katherine Mayo published a book titled ‘Mother India’ that criticized the Indian way of living, and Rudyard Kipling  spoke of the ‘White Man’s Burden’. These writings reflected the colonial perspective that what colonizers did was in the best interest of the colonized people. Consequently, most well-meaning citizens of colonial powers were alienated from the horrible plight of the colonized. Purpose well served – unopposed exploitation. Years later,...