The nettled issue of whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is a public authority or not hangs in balance, with the Central Information Commission mulling the option of referring the case to a larger bench. At the first hearing of the transparency panel in the presence of TV cameras, Information Commissioner M L Sharma indicated that the matter may be decided by a larger bench. The...
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Dantewada's dilemma by Smita Gupta
The tribal people of Chhattisgarh are in an extremely dangerous situation, caught as they are between the state forces and the Maoists. THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Soni Sori, an Adivasi schoolteacher from Chhattisgarh, was arrested in Delhi on October 4 on charges of acting as a conduit between the Essar group and the Maoists, the former accused of giving “protection money” to the latter. On October 7, she moved the Delhi High Court to...
More »Bring electronic Media under Press Council: Katju
-The Hindu Writes to Manmohan Singh seeking more teeth to council Press Council Chairman Markandey Katju has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suggesting that the electronic Media be brought under its purview. He has also sought “more teeth” to the council. “I have written to the PM that the electronic Media should be brought under the Press Council and it should be called Media Council and we should be given more teeth....
More »Press Council chief says he has a dim view of most journalists
-The Times of India Describing journalists in general as having "very poor intellectual level", Press Council chairman Markandey Katju has called for the electronic Media to be brought under the purview of the council. Katju went on to say in a television interview that he had a very poor opinion of most people in the Media. "The general rut is very low and I have a poor opinion of most Media people....
More »1984 and the violence of memory by Ravinder Kaur
We must not allow the pain and suffering of the Sikh victims to be transformed into a political instrument to mute calls for justice for the ‘other' victims of similarly orchestrated massacres. More than a quarter century on, not much remains of ‘1984' — shorthand for one of the largest pogroms in India's postcolonial history when thousands of Sikhs were massacred in retribution for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination — in...
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