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Abode Of God
7 October 2018A.K. Das has sent the following poem with a letter from Lucknow that reads: “The Supreme Court has delivered the landmark judgement upholding the right of women of all ages to worship at Sabarimala temple. Earlier I had composed a poem on the (...) -
Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Must Quit: CPI
7 October 2018The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement on September 21, 2018 demanding resignation of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India accuses (...) -
Time to Breach the Wall
7 October 2018, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
The last few months have witnessed the deterioration of Indo-Pak relations to the point of almost eye-ball-to-eyeball confrontation. Tempers have been stoked high and the fiercest propaganda bombardment has been going on (...) -
COMCASA and the Historic Fight for Peace
7 October 2018by Archishman Raju and Meghna Chandra
The External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj, and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently concluded two-plus-two talks with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Defence Secretary James Mattis (...) -
More Problems Ahead
7 October 2018by Hemant Varshney and Bhavesh Yadav
Introduction
A five-judge Constitution Bench on September 27 decriminalised the 158-year-old law of adultery in Joseph Shine v. Union of India. The impugned law was mentioned under Section 497 of the Indian (...) -
An Unhealthy Judgement
7 October 2018COMMUNICATION
By striking down IPC Section 497 as unconstitutional and declaring adultery as no offence recently on September 27, 2018, the Supreme Court will set in a highly undesirable trend in the society. The society is already tottering and (...) -
Statement of Five Petitioners to the Supreme Court on Activists’ Arrest
7 October 2018The following is the press statement of five eminent persons on the arrest and subsequent house confinement of five activists.
We approached the Supreme Court when five well-known lawyers, journalists and civil rights activists were arrested (...) -
Statement by Gautam Navlakha
7 October 2018The following is the press statement by human rights activist Gautam Navlakha after being freed of house arrest by the Delhi High Court on October 1, 2018. He was arrested with four other activists on August 28 and subsequently placed under (...) -
Nationalist Discourse: Hundred Years of Sociology in India
7 October 2018, by Samit KarOne hundred years have passed since the inception of the Department of Sociology in Bombay University. Here Sociology began to be taught and studied for the first time in India at the University level. Patrick Geddes (October 2, 1854-April 17, (...) -
People’s Mobilisation on Land Reforms deserves Wide Support
7 October 2018, by Bharat DograCOMMUNICATION
Keeping in view the extremely important role of land reforms for reducing rural poverty and ensuring sustainable food security to the most vulnerable sections, there is clearly a need for strong government action on this front but (...)
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