By M L Satyan Bengaluru: Sudha was a healthy student in southern India. The 16-year-old is no more. She was found hanging in her house in a rural village of Tamil Nadu in May, 2020. She died shortly afterwards at a nearby hospital. Sudha committed suicide, after being forced toContinue Reading
By Feroz Fernandes Canada: Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted church services. Disruptions led to strict compliance with government safety measures. Churches adopted protocols of social distancing, disinfecting, and wearing a mask. But priests find themselves bombarded with opinions of those refusing to wear a mask, conspiracy proponents, and devotees demanding toContinue Reading
By P Sainath New Delhi: The new farm laws disable the right to legal recourse of all citizens, not just farmers – to an extent unseen since the 1975-77 Emergency. The farmers at Delhi’s gates are fighting for the rights of us all. “No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedingsContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai: There’s a lot of misunderstanding about privacy and security that’s been articulated in many groups and especially on social media. As someone who is very particular about devices and accounts being secure let me dispel some of the myths. What WhatsApp collects about each individual, thereContinue Reading
By Brinda Karat New Delhi: The 11-page order of the Supreme Court on the bunch of petitions it was hearing on the farm laws substantiates in full measure the skepticism of the protesting farmers and their organizations about this process. Is the order really “a huge blow to the Government,”Continue Reading
By Ajay Kumar Singh Bhubaneswar: We observe Minority Rights on December 18. It is time we critically examined how India empowers and protects the rights of minorities. There is no internationally agreed definition as to which groups constitute minorities. Francesco Capotorti, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Sub-Commission on PreventionContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to make slow but steady inroads into Kerala, an unassailable bastion for the saffron party so far, results of the recently held local body elections indicate. Although the BJP failed to perform as expected in the Kerala civicContinue Reading
The world has seen wars over religious freedom. But India seems to be regressing with the implementation of various “anti-conversion” bills as it carries out the agenda of the government in power. Religious freedom is a relatively recent phenomenon. Most countries across the centuries gave their citizens no such allowance.Continue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: From last three decades or so the debate comes up intermittently as to whether Congress and BJP are two sides of the same coin. Many political parties; time and over again; have been taking up this formulation as a justification for Third front, which is awayContinue Reading
By Tejaswi Ravinder Hyderabad: When the Bengal famine struck the British India province in the mid-nineteenth century, over 3 million lives were lost. A group of researchers from IIT-Gandhinagar, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Indian Meteorological department Analyzed the weather and soil data for the past 150-yearsContinue Reading