-The Hindu The Dalit-Bahujan theory or Ambedkarism cannot negotiate with funny theories of sociologists like Ashis Nandy. The best way to counter them is to write a better theory Utsa Patnaik, a noted economist said in a small note that she circulated "Ashis Nandy had earlier made approving remarks on the 1988 Deorala burning to death of a young widow in the name of sati (terming it a courageous act in a...
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RTE notice awaited, schools admit students under quota-Puja Pednekar
-The Hindustan Times Mumbai: With the proposed government guidelines on the Right to Education Act nowhere in sight, many city schools have enrolled students under the 25% RTE quota, despite the risk that such admissions could be declared illegal later. The government notification containing guidelines and schedules for the implementation of the RTE Act was to be issued in November 2012. Many schools had delayed the admission schedule waiting for the notification...
More »Don’t be ashamed of Parliament attack, Afzal wrote -Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
-The Hindu Srinagar: ‘Why should you call it a conspiracy? If Dec 13 is a conspiracy, then entire Kashmir militancy is,” Afzal told Hizb chief Salahuddin through an Urdu weekly editor in 2008 Nearly five years before his execution at Delhi’s Tihar Jail for the December 13, 2001, terrorist strike on Parliament, Afzal Guru purportedly justified the attack in a letter to the editor of an Urdu weekly in Srinagar. Writing by hand,...
More »No reason to be 'ashamed of Dec 13', says 'Afzal letter' -Bashaarat Masood
-The Indian Express Srinagar: Over a fortnight after Afzal Guru was hanged, an Urdu weekly here has published a letter purportedly written by the Parliament attack convict, in which he tells Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin not to be “ashamed of December 13”. The Parliament attack took place on December 13, 2001. While the weekly, Qaumi Waqar, claimed that its editor, Shabnum Qayoom, had received the letter through ordinary post three years ago,...
More »Nandy made a bad statement with good intentions: Ilaiah
-PTI Dalit activist-writer Kancha Ilaiah on Monday sought to put a lid on the controversy over sociologist Ashis Nandy’s remarks on SC and STs, saying it was “a bad statement with good intentions“. “Prof Ashis Nandy made a bad statement with good intentions, however, as far as I know, he was never against reservation. The controversy should end here,” Ilaiah said in a statement here. Mr. Nandy had kicked up a storm at...
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