By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, June 17, 2020: The unprecedented spread of coronavirus in India should have increased sensitivity and concern for each other. But the opposite is happening such as objecting the burial of dead bodies of Covid-19 victims, leaving dead bodies unattended by family members, and ostracizing persons inContinue Reading
Kochi: A young woman in southern India is painting her body black to protest against what she calls the growing intolerance in the country against the low-caste Dalit community, writes Ashraf Padanna in Kerala. One could run into 26-year-old Jaya PS anywhere in the southern port city of Cochin –Continue Reading
Authorities in India failed to stop “incidents of religious violence” and often “contributed to tensions through polarizing speeches”Continue Reading
Kolkata : Intolerance, violence and disillusionment against the establishment is on the rise among the young globally, Nobel Peace Price recipient Kailash Satyarthi said here on Saturday. “I see that intolerance, violence, frustration and disillusionment against the establishment is increasing among the young people globally. On the other hand, theyContinue Reading
New Delhi: On a day that the State and street alike turned to choke dissent in the capital, one of India’s most eminent voices told the citizenry it wasn’t dissenting enough. “The problem is not that Indians have been intolerant, it is that we have been much too tolerant ofContinue Reading
Panaji : One or two national leaders of the BJP, as well as from other political parties, make nonsensical comments and stoke intolerance to lure voters, a Catholic leader of the party said here on Monday. BJP’s Goa legislator and the party’s minority face Michael Lobo also accused leaders ofContinue Reading
London: India will never tolerate intolerance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Thursday. “India is committed to protecting every citizen’s freedom,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after being asked about the “growing incidents of intolerance” by the British media. The Prime Minister, who is on a three-day visit toContinue Reading
President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday once again called for preserving the multiplicity and pluralistic character of the country and said India has thrived due to its power of assimilation and tolerance. The President, who had on a number of occasions spoken against growing intolerance in the last three weeks, wasContinue Reading
A day earlier, a group of over 100 scientists and several academicians had filed a petition with Prez Pranab Mukherjee urging him to take suitable actionContinue Reading
The artistes gathered at the Safar Hashmi Memorial Trust premises in New Delhi on October 27Continue Reading