By Sujata Anandan New Delhi, Feb 16, 2020: Every bit of news, every single day in these times brings home to me how badly India is regressing into the dark ages. The latest in this series is the report of girls at a college hostel in Bhuj in Gujarat whoContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb 15, 2020: Renowned human rights activist Harsh Mander has released a comprehensive report on the alleged police firing that killed many in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Mandar, a former civil service officer, released the report in Hindi and English titled “A State atContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 15, 2020: The corona virus epidemics that broke in Wuhan province of China and later spread to other countries affected the third Global Public Health Conference in Bengaluru, southern India. Several overseas participants had to cancel the trip in the last minute, Isanka Gamage, theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 15, 2020: An international conference has underlined the need for “equal rights, equal opportunities and equal participation for women” to eradicate deep-rooted disparity and discrimination prevalent in all nations. “An equal world is an enabled world,” asserted Anita Singh of the Center for Women’s StudiesContinue Reading
Amravati, Feb 15, 2020: On Valentine’s Day, students at an all-girls college in Maharashtra were made to take a pledge against the concept of love marriage. Students at the Mahila Arts and Commerce College, Chandur Railway, took the pledge in Marathi that they “will not love anyone and never haveContinue Reading
By Oliver Whang New Delhi, Feb. 14,2020 — Sitting in his basement, below the crowded dirt roads of Wazirabad village, Mohammad Saud leaned over the body of an injured black kite. The room was cramped, its walls chipping blue paint, the noise from the streets above drowned out by theContinue Reading
By Lalita Roshni Lakra Delhi, Feb 14, 2020: The national CRI (Conference of Religious, India) organized a day-long seminar for young religious (nuns) on Feb 9 at CRI House, Okhla, Delhi. There were about 45 young women religious from different Congregations of Delhi. Salesian Father Joe Mannath, secretary of nationalContinue Reading
Guwahati, Feb. 15,2020: “For the last twenty years, my only innermost wish has been to perform Hajj. I wish Allah somehow fulfills that dream,” Sakina Khatun says. A visibly devastated Sakina explains that not many people in their area have been able to go to Mecca for the annual HajjContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram, Feb. 2020: The legislative assembly unanimously passed the Kerala Christian (Malankara Orthodox- Jacobite) (Right to burial of bodies in cemeteries) Bill 2020 on Tuesday. Law Minister A K Balan said the law that ensured the funeral of a parishioner in cemeteries belonging to his or her respective parish wasContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 14, 2020: In a significant decision, the Assam government has decided to shut down all government madrasas and Sanskrit tols, to reinvent themselves as high and higher secondary schools. Finance and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma quoted as saying that the government would bring about a regulationContinue Reading
