-The Hindu Even direct reportage of facts is being termed defamatory, says Nikhil Pahwa A bid by a private institution to scrub clean the web of all critical opinion against it and a backdoor censorship facilitated by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) have stoked the rage of prominent commentators on Twitter and Facebook. For the second day running on Sunday, the hashtag #IIPM was trending on Twitter across the Indian Twitterverse with several...
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The court of public opinion -Patrick French
-Manorama Online In the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, four characters have differing recollections of the same event. Did the samurai stab himself with his wife's dagger? Which of them, if any, is telling the truth? I felt like this after the session at last month's Jaipur Literature Festival during which Ashis Nandy said, among other odd things, “It is a fact that most of the corrupt come from the...
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-Outlook The sorts of corruption that matter are a purview of privileged “An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity, or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.” —B.R....
More »Clarification by women’s groups on Verma report
-The Hindu Sudha Sundararaman, General Secretary of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), writes: I am writing this on behalf of the women’s organisations which held a Press conference on Tuesday at the Indian Women’s Press Club in New Delhi in which representatives of seven women’s organisations were present, and two more were signatories to the statement. Those present were: AIDMAM (Asha Kowtal, Deepika Shokeen); AIDWA (Sudha Sundararaman, Kirti Singh, Jagmati Sangwan);...
More »A 'Cost-Benefit' Analysis of UID-Reetika Khera
-Economic and Political Weekly A cost-benefi t analysis by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy of the benefits from Aadhaar integration with seven schemes throws up huge benefi ts that are based almost entirely on unrealistic assumptions. Further, the report does not take into account alternative technologies that could achieve the same or similar savings, possibly at lower cost. Reetika Khera (reetika.khera@gmail.com) is at the Institute of Economic Growth on...
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