By Rajnish Singh (19:26) New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) contains amendments to five major grounds mentioned in the Citizenship Act, 1955. The CAA aims to provide Indian... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By NP Ashley Jan 16, Delhi is a city that has naturalised caste: a gardener believes he is born to be a gardener; a maid believes she was born to... Read more »
Source: International Policy Digest The caste system is an ancient societal classification of people based on their varna (caste order or class) or jati (birth). An apartheid-like system, India’s caste order is... Read more »
Source: The Logical Indian By Sumanti Sen A 19-year-old Dalit woman who had gone missing on December 31, was found hanging from a tree in Modasa, Gujarat on Sunday, January 5. The... Read more »
Source: Scroll.in By Qudsiya Contractor & Suryakant Waghmore In 2018, when actor Kangana Ranaut asked spiritual teacher Jaggi Vasudev about a Rajput organisation known as the Karni Sena burning buses in an... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net Martin Macwan, founder, Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat’s premier Dalit rights organisation, has declared to hold a unique public programme at the Dalit Shakti Kendra, village Nani Devti, Sanand-Bavla Road, Sanand taluka,... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Sandeep Pandey, Anandi Pandey At New Delhi’s Jamia Millia University if one visits the library it may appear as if a pitched battle was fought here. Almost all glasses... Read more »
Source: Kashmir Times By Ram Puniyani Dated: 1/6/2020 The offensive slogan is not a ‘natural’ reaction but a cultivated denial of India’s secular ethos ‘Go to Pakistan’ is probably the most-used phrase... Read more »
Source: Counterview.org By Vishesh Gupta Pavement dwellers include people living on the pavement, under the bridge, flyover, bus stop, near the railway station, in parks or under the open sky in any... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in Talking about dire poverty in the country and living in dire poverty are two completely different things. An example of this came to light when Kerala woke up to reports... Read more »
Source: Countercurrents.org By Vidya Bhushan Rawat The proposed Citizenship amendment bill is an assault on the Constitution of India which never based our citizenship on our religious or caste identities. On the... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net Even as criticising India’s courts, especially the Supreme Court and the Guwahati High Court, for complicitity towards exclusion and abuse perpetuated through the Foreigners Tribunals set up across Assam to... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Pankti Jog Government data on Universal Identity (UID) or aadhaar website may show a coverage of up to 95% till March 2019. But ground realities are not so glorious.... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in A recently released survey report says that over 96% of toilets in rural India have either septic tanks or different kinds of pits to collect human excreta. [See chart below]... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in By Dr. Aurobindo Ghose In January 2018, four top Supreme Court Judges in a surprise move, held a press conference declaring that ” Democracy is at stake, and we have... Read more »
Source: Counterview.org The Jaccha-Baccha Survey (JABS), conducted by student volunteers in June 2019, took place in six states: Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. In each state, the... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ In 2017, Pope Francis dedicated a special day, to be observed by the Universal Church, every year, as the ‘World Day of the Poor’. This... Read more »
Source: The Indian Express EARLY IN his career in the civil services, P S Krishnan received an entry in his confidential report that he would read out as the perfect summation of... Read more »
Source: Sabrangindia.in At a time when election preparation is at its peak in Jharkhand, a case of starvation death brings the focus on an issue that has been plaguing the mineral rich... Read more »
Source: Counterview.net By Sandeep Pandey, Babloo Loitongbam, Meera Sanghamitra Thuingaleng Muivah, the supreme leader of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) [NSCN (IM)] says that Nagaland may be weaker in material... Read more »