Ram Puniyani Supreme Court Order on national Anthem (November 2016) has asked theatres to play the national anthem before a film show begins “for the love of the motherland”. This has yet again started the debate over the personal freedom and legal obligations in present times. This is in theContinue Reading
The decision to put a one day ban on Hindi NDTV, since withheld, came as a big jolt to the country. A major channel was asked to stop the broadcast. The charge was that its broadcast on Pathannkot revealed sensitive information regarding national security. On the same Pathankot issue thisContinue Reading
The flogging of 4 Dalit men, suspected of cow slaughter, has angered the community in Gujarat.Continue 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
Mumbai: The mother and brother of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar who committed suicide in Hyderabad, on Thursday embraced Buddhism here, saying they were now “truly free from shame”. “If my brother were alive, he would have been proud of us,” younger brother Naga Chaitanya alias Raja Vemula told mediapersonsContinue Reading
New Delhi: The BJP-led government decided on Thursday to fly the Tricolour atop a 207-feet mast in all central universities across the country to evoke nationalistic sentiments on campuses, many of which have been rocked by anti-establishment protests over the past few weeks. The first such flag will be unfurledContinue Reading