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Sailing between Karachi and Bombay | Ajmal Kamal 27 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
I have a happy dream. Sometimes, when I am particularly distressed by the politics that carries on in our sorrowful subcontinent adding to its various peoples' misery, I allow myself to be lost in thi...
Ramachandra Guha on the role played by Kalpavriksh in development debate in India 25 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
Thirty years ago, a group of students from Delhi University went on a long walking tour of the Narmada valley. The journey was arduous, and it was not undertaken for pleasure. The students wished to s...
Posters for a public discussion on Demilitarisation, Democracy and Social Justice in South Asia | SAAPE - August 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
two posters by Harsh Kapoor for a public event on Demilitarisation, Democracy and social justice in South Asia organised by SAAPE in New Delhi on 24 August 2013 - Resources / Links / South Asia, Pho...
After the inferno 25 Aug 2013 | 01:33 am
One year has passed since the monsoon of 2012, which witnessed, in Assam, the country's largest displacement caused by ethnic and communal mass violence after the Partition riots of 1947-48. Half a mi...
India: Pune Film School Students Appeal for Solidarity to Students and Citizens - Against violence by fascist forces 24 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
On the 21st of August 2013 students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Yugpath, Pune organized a screening of ‘Jai Bhim Comrade', followed by a discussion with Anand Patwardhan a...
To an American girl, an apology from India 24 Aug 2013 | 06:51 am
I read your story on CNN.com, in which you describe your trauma at being subjected to repeated sexual aggression and assault in India. I wish I could tell you that what you had to experience is limite...
India: Punyanagari (The Virtuous City) 23 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
KKM lived upto its promise. They began with a song they dedicated to the memory of Narendra Dabholkar. It was the Ambedkar inspired song against superstition “Amhi Devhara Bajula Saarlay” (We have set...
While we pray 23 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
Can we please stop the nation worship, glory-talk and world class mumbo-jumbo for a few minutes and think about the people in factories, slums and villages? What is a nation less its people? - Nation...
India: Reason under attack 23 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
THE cowardly assassination of a leading rationalist near Mumbai on Tuesday is a grim reminder of the threat faced by those that question the brazen political patronage the Indian state bestows on vend...
India: Modi Phenomenon - an attack on Indian Democracy 22 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
What we have to remember is that BJP as a party cannot and should not be compared with any other party, as BJP is not just and electoral party, it is basically the electoral wing of RSS, whose agenda ...
