-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A fact-finding Team of intellectuals from JNU and Delhi University (DU), hit out at the Samajwadi Party government in UP, alleging it has outsourced relief work for Muzaffarnagar riot victims to Muslim communal organizations like the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind. After several visits to riot-ravaged Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts, the Team comprising Dr Mohan Rao and oncologist Dr Vikas Bajpai, and Hindu College professor Ish Mishra released its...
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India Inc ready for business under Lokpal watch-Lubna Kably & Namrata Singh
-The Times of India MUMBAI: After Parliament's assent to the Lokpal Bill, India Inc has engaged legal eagles and consultants to examine its ramifications. At first glance, it appears that nothing much changes for the corporate sector, which is governed by anti-corruption legislations such as the Indian Penal Code or The Prevention of Corruption Act. Besides, as business is now global, anti-corruption laws of other countries also apply. Yet, with the bill...
More »Social media rescues dying Indian languages-Bijoyeta Das
-Al Jazeera The Internet and mobile communication are doing the most unexpected - resurrecting hoary languages given up for lost. In the language of the Bhatu Kolhati, a remote nomadic tribe in India's western Maharashtra state, tatti means Tea and gulle is meat. But, Kuldeep Musale, 30, who belongs to this tribe barely remembers his mother tongue. Well educated and having studied in boarding schools since he was six, Musale insTead uses...
More »Bihar Mid-day Meal Tragedy: 'I don't trust this school food or water, but my father can’t afford another one' -Santosh Singh
-The Indian Express Gandaman (Chhapra): Neha Kumari (10) sits on a plastic mat like the other students at Gandaman Middle School. As a cold wind blows in through the open windows, she tightens the scarf around her head. Among the 30-odd students of Class III and IV who share the 20 ft by 20 ft room in the school, it's easy to miss the slight Neha. However, the five Teachers including...
More »Unlearning undemocratic values-Sukhadeo Thorat
-The Hindu India's long-standing legacies of caste, gender and class antagonism replicate on campuses as well. As higher education moves forward, it does so on these social cleavages The brutal sexual attack on a young woman in Delhi, in 2012, and a savage attack on a girl student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on its campus this year are just two examples of extreme violence that have shocked the nation. Acts of...
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