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Izzat ka mamla hai: The doomed love story of Rizwanur-Priyanka The indictment of the police by the CBI in the Rizwanur Rehman case in Kolkata reveals the complicity of State and society in maintaining and perpetuating regressive socio-cultural prejudices in the name of family honour and religious belief More... The merits of affirmative actionAn important pillar of affirmative action in the US has been the preferential allotment of tenders and contracts in the corporate sector to blacks. What have opinion-makers and industry in India done to build a just society for dalits? Most recently,industry turned down the government’s request for reservations in the private sector More... Sixty years of women's struggles for freedom?It’s probably the best time to be Indian in the last few hundred years. But, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara on International Women’s Day, the many forms of gender violence make it seem as if things are worse for women today than they used to be More... We are what we eatThere are three ideal attributes of food, according to Carlo Petrini of the Slow Food movement: It should appeal to the senses; it should be clean and environment-friendly; and most of all these days, it should be fair More... Will the law against organ sale remain a moral victory?When India passed the Transplantation of Human Organs Act banning trade in organs, those who had agitated for the law may have thought they had won the battle. Instead the kidney trade has only flourished. The public is being told that the only way to put a stop to the kidney trade by people such as Amit Kumar, who has been running a global trade in organs since 1994, is to regulate the market for human organs More... Privatisation unlimited: Rivers for sale in ChhattisgarhIn March 2007, a Public Accounts Committee came down heavily on the Chhattisgarh government for allowing a private company to appropriate the waters of the Sheonath river. Nevertheless, business continues as usual. In fact, more corporate houses have been given easy access to river waters in the state at the cost of the drinking water and irrigation needs of local communities More... Happy New Year?We are beginning 2008 with a heady mix of tigers, tribals, state terrorism in the guise of ‘development’, and the occasional triumph of the public will. What will prevail as the year unfolds? A new monthly column by Ashish Kothari on the politics of biodiversity will assess whether we’re moving further towards, or away from, ecological suicide More... The prince, the priest and the merchantWe the people are supposed to be in charge of the modern manifestations of power. But are we? The secular democratic process is only the old Prince-Priest-Merchant nexus in disguise, says John Samuel More... Open letter to Gandhiji on his 60th death anniversaryOn the Mahatma’s 60th death anniversary, a former member of the right-wing RSS writes about his early indoctrination against Mahatma Gandhi and his eventual realisation of Gandhi’s relevance in modern-day India More... India must adopt free standardsIndia should not make the mistake of being pressured to adopt a non-free standard for computer applications or we could have big problems in the future More... A tale of two citiesIt's London, not Shanghai, that we in India should be emulating. London is emerging as the world's foremost global city More... Genuine progress, or so much 'Balihoo'?The best that can be said about the recently concluded Bali climate change conference is that negotiations didn’t break down altogether. Although India is being unnecessarily self-congratulatory about the correctness of its stand at the UN conference, it should adopt a much more proactive position on energy consumption at home More... Violence against women on the rise in literate KeralaWhy does a state that boasts India’s highest literacy levels and excellent social development indicators see a 300% increase in violence against women? Possibly because literacy and education do not change mindsets. In a deeply patriarchal society, education teaches women only to be good wives and mothers. A special report from Kerala as the fortnight-long Campaign Against Violence Against Women begins on November 25 More... Losing native breedsFor a country that prides itself on being the third largest biodiversity region in the world, the complete lack of respect for traditional animal breeds is unpardonable. We’ve lost half of the 27 breeds that once existed. Forty years after we began importing livestock, we are realising the folly of it More... |
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