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Daughter deficit?-R Krishnakumar

-Frontline Is there a shift in the attitude of Kerala society towards the value of daughters? Is son preference spreading in a State once known to be above extreme gender bias? A recent study on child sex ratio generates more questions than it answers. By R. KRISHNAKUMAR in Thiruvananthapuram ABORTION of female foetuses after parents learn of their gender using medical diagnostic techniques is believed to be one of the central reasons...

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Suryanelli girl to follow suit

-The Hindu Kottayam: With Director General of Prosecution (DGP) T. Asif Ali advising the State government against a reinvestigation into the role of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien in the Suryanelli rape case, the choices before the victim are narrowing down to taking the battle to the High Court. Legal advisers to the victim, speaking to The Hindu on Monday said they would file a writ petition in the High...

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Vayalar’s sexist swipe at scribe adds to Cong woes

-The Times of India Information and broadcasting minister ManishTewari on Thursday said that his colleague and minister for overseas Indian affairs Vayalar Ravi has apologized for his sexist comments, and the matter should rest there. Tewari said the remark was unbecoming for someone working in the public sphere, but since Ravi had apologized and withdrawn his remarks, the matter should now be put to rest. A woman journalist in Kerala sought Ravi's...

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No Need for Probe Against Kurien: Experts to Kerala Govt

-Outlook Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government has received legal opinion that there was no need to order a re-investigation against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien in the Suryanelli gangrape case. The victim in the case was only repeating the charge which she earlier raised and there was nothing in her new revelation that warranted a re-investigation against Kurien, the legal opinion report submitted by the State Public Prosecutor said, official sources said. There...

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I want my name back -Shaju Philip

-The Indian Express The victim in the Suryanelli rape case tells her story—a nightmare that lasted 40 days and the trauma that stayed with her every day for the past 17 years She is the ‘Suryanelli girl’. “But that’s not my name.” It’s not. It’s the name of the village in Kerala’s Idukki district where she lived a 16-year-old’s life—happy, innocent, smiling easily. She doesn’t smile easily anymore, but then, a lot...

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