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New Socialist Initiative Condemns Hindutva Engineered and Inspired Atrocities on Dalits
. On 24 May, a Dalit man in the Ahmedabad district was beaten and his house attacked by a gang of socalled ‘upper’ caste men after he had attached Sinh to his name on his facebook post. On 21 May a dalit ragpicker was beaten to death in a Rajkot facto...
US Supreme Court Will Hear Landmark Case Challenging World Bank Group Immunity
May 21, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a landmark lawsuit challenging the immunity of powerful institutions like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank Group. I...
Drugged, Raped, Bashed to Death: Chargesheet Reveals Kathua Horror
The eight-year-old girl allegedly gangraped by six men who had held her in captivity in a small temple village in Kathua district for a week in January, was kept sedated so that she could be sexually assaulted once again before she was bludgeoned to death,...
Environmental Justice Debate
An Awkward Silence
Por Hartosh Singh Bal The historian Mukul Kesavan’s column in The Telegraph on 12 February was titled “A Delicate Balance: The state of the fourth estate.” In it, Kesavan begins by saying that “Midway through Narendra Modi’s term in office …...
Alvida Vinod Raina!
With the passing away of Dr. Vinod Raina today, India has lost one of its most eminent educationist and the person who worked towards the fulfillment of the 21a article in the form of 86th amendment, under which education became a fundamental right for chi...
Amit Sen Gupta- India
Protest at Coca Cola plant in India reaches 3,000 days
Agitation against Coke plant crosses 3,000 days G. Prabhakaran, 12 July 2010, The Hindu PALAKKAD - The agitation against alleged exploitation of groundwater by soft drink major Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. at Plachimada, a remote village in Per...