By Huned Contractor

If we can look conflict straight in the face, through the eyes of the young diarists who are included in Stolen Voices, we might be in a better position to deal with it, feels Zlata Filipovic, whose teenaged chronicle of a war-torn Sarajevo became a bestseller recently More...

By Ashok Gopal

A survey in 565 villages across 11 states reveals that in 73% of villages, dalits cannot enter non-dalit homes, and in 33% of villages non-dalit health workers will not visit dalit homes. Clearly, independent India's efforts to eradicate untouchability have not substantially shaken core beliefs More...

By Gautam Bhan

Gayatri Reddy's With Respect to Sex speaks of hijras not just as people who sit at one end of the gender and sexuality spectrum, but as Hyderabadis, as sex workers as well as ascetics, as sole breadwinners for their families, and simply, as people More...

By Manjri Sewak

The Human Security Report 2005 suggests that there is a gradual shift away from violence in human relationships and towards dialogue and reconciliation. This shift is reflected in the number of individuals - professionals, musicians, businesspersons - working to build peace and justice More...

By Darryl D'Monte

Is multiculturalism different from pluralism? Can an individual have several different identities at the same time, none of them conflicting? These questions are at the core of Amartya Sen's new book, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny More...

South Asia has the dubious reputation of being one of the most dangerous places for journalists to work in, says the Third Annual International Federation of Journalists Press Freedom Report released on World Press Freedom Day, May 3 More...

On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, the International Federation of Journalists released the second annual IFJ Press Freedom Report for South Asia, 'The Story Behind the News: Journalists and Press Freedom in South Asia' More...

Excerpts from the historic Supreme Court judgement on the Best Bakery Case, specifically, the case of Zahira Sheikh versus the Gujarat government. The judgement was passed by an apex court bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and Doraiswamy Raju, April 12, 2004 More...

By Rakesh Shukla

Two years after Godhra and the Gujarat riots that followed, a feminist report argues that the sexual violence in Gujarat was not random, impulsive or isolated, but a consciously-thought-out strategy to subjugate and humiliate a community painted as the Enemy Other More...

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