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| Current Issues |
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| Wake up New Delhi |
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Author(s) : Madhu Kishwar
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What the ISI-trained terrorists and their agents in Kashmir could not achieve in 20 years, Omar Abdullah and his patrons in Delhi Durbar have managed to deliver to separatists in less than 18 months. Farooq Abdullah is well within his right as the father of the present Chief Minister of J&K to advise his son not ... |
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| Prof G.D. Aggarwal to Resume Fast unto Death to Save Ganga |
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| Swami Avimukteshwaranand and others to join in Support |
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Author(s) : Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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| Resolves of the Emergency Meeting to decide Plan of Action against the illegal decision of the GoM to allow resumption of Loharinag-Pala Power Project
Shankracharya designate Swami Avimukteshwaranand ji presided over an emergency meeting organized by Manushi Sangathan, Ganga Ahvaan and Ganga Yamuna Jal Biradri t... |
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| Criminalizing Poverty for “National Prestige” |
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Author(s) : Farah Farooqi
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| Anwar Bhai, another Faqueer amongst many, sits near the Jamia campus, engrossed in reading a newspaper each morning, sipping tea. While others are begging for alms, he sits quietly, intent on his newspaper, and only looks up with a smile of thanks when someone drops a coin in his bowl.
I wondered how and when he learn... |
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| Pension for Arunjit |
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Author(s) : Harwant Singh
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| ARUNJIT was barely four years old when he suffered a head injury, which put an end to his mental growth. While he grew into his fifties, his mental faculties remained that of a child of four years. Although there was nothing childlike or childish in his behaviour and to a casual observer he appeared almost normal, he n... |
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| Band Aid Solutions Will Not Do for Kashmir |
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Author(s) : Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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| Amid reports that the Americans are using female marines in Afghanistan to gain access to local women and thereby swing the population to their side, there are suggestions that India could do the same in Kashmir. But, recruiting a few women to control human rights abuses in Kashmir would be like applying band-aid to a ... |
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| Response to Dialogue with Khap Panchayat Leaders |
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Author(s) : David Devdas and others
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| I wish I could have attended this important interaction - I balk at using the term dialogue, since that connotes `us and them.' We are all Indians, simultaneously individuals and members of various communities and identity groups, struggling to figure out ways to live together with respect. It is easy to forget that In... |
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| Responses to "A Question of Balance" |
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Author(s) : Bapa Rao and others
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| I don't know whether sagotra prohibition originally sprang from inbreeding concerns, but any scientific basis of gotra restrictions breaks down when we consider that gotra is only inherited from the father's side, and essentially the gotra of a married woman is that of the husband. In south India cousin marriage to fat... |
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