New Year’s Message And Warning From A War Correspondent
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India is one of the most hazardous place on earth for journalists. We pay respect to Gauri Lankesh and other 11 journalists who laid down their lives in their mission of telling truth.
Our war correspondent, the inimitable Andre Vltchek gives a gives a warning and New Year's message in his article. He writes, "Once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018! Happy Discovery Of The World! Happy Struggle For Survival Of Our Precious Planet!” Year 2018 will be crucial. Let us all join forces in order for Humanism and that beautiful lady called ‘The True Reality’survive, to prevail, and to triumph."
Aaadhaar, the 12 digit unique identification number that is being coercively being implemented in India, continues to take more lives. Now two more lives have been lost. Son of a Kargil martyr in Haryana’s Sonipat accused that he lost his mother after she was denied treatment in a hospital due to an unavailability of the Aadhaar card. Meanwhile an old aged pensioner in Deoghar district of Jharkhand lost his life because his thumb impression did not match with Aaadhar.
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2017: Dreaded Year For Journalists In India
by Nava Thakuria
As the year 2017 sets to bid adieu, India finds itself in an embracing situation with the annual statistics of 12 journalists either murdered or died in suspicious situations. The populous country, better known as the largest democracy in the globe, thus emerges as one of the hazardous place for media persons across the world after Mexico, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia etc.
New Year’s Message And Warning From A War Correspondent
by Andre Vltchek
Once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018! Happy Discovery Of The World! Happy Struggle For Survival Of Our Precious Planet!” Year 2018 will be crucial. Let us all join forces in order for Humanism and that beautiful lady called ‘The True Reality’survive, to prevail, and to triumph.
An Open Letter To Anant Kumar Hegde By Devanoora Mahadeva
by Devanoora Mahadeva
Union Minister, Mr. Anant Kumar Hegdeji,It is frightening to have to listen to the words you have spoken at Kuknoor in YelburgaTaluk.‘Those who are unaware of their parentage are the ones who call themselves secularists’you say deridingly.Now we have to make you aware of your own parentage – It is hatred that is your father, intolerance your mother, illusion your ancestry,falsehood (Mithya) the source of your knowledge. I think this should be enough.
Systemic Maladies Demand Systemic Remedies: In The Context Of Indian University Education System
by Dr KS Sharma
Here is the Text of Presidential Address Delivered By Dr.K.S. Sharma, President, Indian Academy of Social Sciences, ISSA, Allahabad, at the 41st Indian Social Science Congress, held in Salem, Tamilnadu. The Annual event , held for five days from December 18 to 22, 2017, was attended by a few hundred academicians, educationists, and research scholars. Sharma is Joint Director, Indian Institute of Marxist Theory and Practice, Hubballi, Karnataka.
Killer Aadhaar Kills Two More: A Kargil Martyrs Wife And A Pensioner
Son of Kargil martyr in Haryana’s Sonipat accused that he lost his mother after she was denied treatment in a hospital due to an unavailability of the Aadhaar card. Meanwhile an old aged pensioner in Deoghar district of Jharkhand lost his life because his thumb impression did not match with Aaadhar.
The Cross All Heretics Must Bear
by Rachel Olivia O'Connor
I have had great difficulty securing even conversation with priests about how we can honor the pope’s encyclical. It’s unbelievable how uninterested some representatives of the Church seem to be respecting implementation of what was urged by the Holy Father. But I plan to continue my outreach in that realm, and all realms, religious quarters all along the spectrum and elsewhere. It is the cross all heretics must bear in this unfair and unintelligent world. A blessing.
RSS Promoting Clash Of Civilizations
by Abdul Majid Zargar
This article is in response to Ashok Swain’s column titled ‘Why does Hindu Diaspora in developed multicultural Countries hate Minorities back Home in India’ published in ‘Outlook’ of 20th December 2017. The essence of Swain’s article is to probe the mindset & behavior of Hindus working & earning abroad in multicultural & secular countries while targeting their fellow citizens professing a different faith, back home.
The Pot, Broom And Battle of Koregaon:Its Significance And The Rattling Rhetoric
by Asang Wankhede
The Bicentennial celebration “Elgaar Parishad” of the Battle Koregaon by the Dalits, Muslims, Christians and Bahujans, both by organizations and individuals, at the Shaniwar Wada in Pune on December 31, followed by a march toward Bhima Koregaon 40 km from Pune, have seen opposition from the right-wing organisations. These organizations had the audacity to call the event, and the organizations and people celebrating it, as ‘anti-national’ and casteist (or reserve casteism(t)).
Widows Too Have A Right To Live In Happiness, Sushmaji
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Kulbhushan Jadhav’s mother and wife were made to look like widow, said our external affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj in parliament. She added that the Pakistani authorities actually asked them to remove their Mangalsutra, bindi and Saree and wear simple salwar kameej, before meeting Jadhav in the Jail. It is humiliating, she said, forcing the married woman to look like widow. Many Parliamentarians were equally shocked.
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