As per October 2019, BBC reports India is the home of the second-largest internet user base with 630 million internet users. It thus has been surrounded by the sobering reality of India’s continuing digital divide.
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2020
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Digital Divide to Social Divide: A Journey through Pandemic | Debatra K. Dey
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Is there a Kerala Model of Handling Covid-19? | Joseph Tharamangalam, Jos Chathukulam
4 July 2020, by Jos Chathukulam, Joseph TharamangalamIn the past 3 months we have been daily flooded with news about the unprecedented Covid 19 pandemic by newspapers and the media. Kerala’s people have been proud to see Kerala praised for its successful handling of the pandemic, not just in India, but in several international newspapers and media such as the New York Times and the BBC, just to mention two of the prominent ones.
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Journalism in India Has Placed Itself On Deputation to the Government | Anand K. Sahay
4 July 2020by Anand K. Sahay
Editors have become ‘faceless technicians’
By and large, journalism in India has been a mirror image of its rickety- and tawdry- democracy in the Modi years, and has probably hit its lowest point after the commencement of Prime (...) -
Alvida Kalpana Mehta: A Note from WSS on the Passing Away of a Feminist Activist
4 July 2020Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) deeply mourns the passing away of Kalpana Mehta in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The loss of a fellow traveller and a comrade at a time when we are going through a massive public health crisis and continuous clampdown on the right to dissent through arrests and detention makes is hard to bear. Kalpana has been with WSS ever since its inception in 2009.
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Letter from former Prime Minister P.V Narasimha Rao to the Editor, Mainstream on November 3, 2003
4 July 2020The following is the letter written by former Prime Minister P.V Narasimha Rao to the Editor, Mainstream on November 3, 2003 when a meeting was held in New Delhi to release the book, “India-Pakistan: Themes Beyond Borders-Selections from Nikhil Chakravartty’s Writings”; Narasimha Rao was to release the book, but he could not do so due to indisposition; hence this letter.
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Development & Family Planning: A Feminist Perspective | Ramneet Kaur
4 July 2020Often development and population (the numbers) are seen in an inverse relationship. Whenever it comes to development of a nation, population size becomes one of the biggest concerns. It is this concern which lead to emphasis on the practice of regulating population growth. In this process, family planning programmes, involving birth controls becomes an essential medium of attaining desired development. And women body often becomes the subject of focus, as childbirth and pregnancy take place from this body.
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IWPC Stands With PTI
4 July 2020The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) and Press Association express their deep concern over the threat issued by the national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, to review its subscription of the Press Trust of India (PTI), the national news agency, purportedly because it carried out an interview with the Chinese Ambassador to India on the Ladakh clashes.
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Theology of Race
4 July 2020, by Badri RainaIf God is Light, as the good book says, And Satan the Prince of Darkness be, Then is the seed of racism Buried deeper than we see? And in Eastern parts sun-worshippers Play to a similar theme; The Brahmin is tejaswi (radiant), The others (...) -
Helmswoman | AK Das
4 July 2020The sea is deep and rough; dark clouds hover overhead; it is wee hour in the dawn: time to set sail for fishing. She comes to the beach, readies the small, old boat, mends the fishing net, then starts the daily voyage along with her husband. (...) -
Why deaths occur in police custody everyday in India? | SR Darapuri
4 July 2020By the way, the Indian police, created by the British and operating under the Police Act of the same time, remains in the news and discussion everyday for its brutality, autocracy and anti-law activities. But recently it came up in the context of the police brutal murder of George Floyd in the US and in India in the context of Delhi Police brutality and inhumanity with injured young men during anti-Muslim violence. The functioning of the Indian police is once again under discussion at the national and international level in the case of the murder of 62-year-old Jayaraj and his 32-year-old son Benix by police torture in Sathankulam town of Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu.
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