God Votes in India, Abstains in Britain
by L.K. SharmaThis article is in two parts, the following is the first part. The second part will be carried next week.A lot depends on where you come from. It affects your way of seeing.Arriving from...
View ArticleIn Defending Press Freedom Real Tributes to Shujaat Bukhari can be Paid
by S.N. SahuThe killing of a journalist, Shujaat Bukhari, in Kashmir speaks volumes of the safety, security and independence of the press in India and that too in regions which are subjected to...
View ArticleThe Killing of Shujaat Bukhari - Joint Statement-cum-Resolution issued by...
A meeting of journalists was organised at the Press Club of India, New Delhi on June 18 to pay homage to the Kashmiri journalist, Shujaat Bukhari, who was assassinated in the heart of Srinagar on June...
View ArticleOn Shujaat Bukhari's Assassination - Editors Guild's Condemnation
The Editors Guild of India unequivocally condemns the assassination of Shujaat Bukhari.Mr Bukhari was a voice of moderation and a courageous, big-hearted editor who mentored a large cadre of young...
View ArticlePUCL's Statement nn Shujaat Bukhari's Assassination
The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) is deeply shocked and strongly condemns the dastardly assassination of Shujaat Bukhari, Editor-in-Chief of Rising Kashmir on Thursday, June 14, 2018...
View ArticleInterview of Shujaat Bukhari on the situation in the Valley
The following is the interview of Shujaat Bukhari, Editor-in-Chief of Rising Kashmir, Buland Kashmir (Urdu daily) and Sangarmal (Kashmiri daily) based in Srinagar, on the situation in the Valley and...
View ArticleJapan Council against A and H Bombs welcomes US-DPRK Summit Call
Yasui Masakazu, Secretary-General, Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo), has issued the following statement welcoming the US-North Korea Agreement on Denuclearisation of and Building a Peace...
View ArticleKim and Trump Tango
by Mahendra VedThat the sun rises in the East has never been fully appreciated in a world where the West has dominated for long. The much-trumpeted—and much-doubted—Asian Century may have actually...
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No to Jingoism and Strong-arm Tactics in J & K
EDITORIALAs we go to press, the political scenario in J&K has undergone a radical change thanks to the acrobatics of the ruling party at the Centre, the BJP, which was sharing power in the...
View ArticleRelease Dr G.N. Saibaba, urge UN Experts
The following report has come from Geneva on June 28, 2018.United Nations rights experts (Catalina Devandas, Special Rapporteur on Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur...
View ArticleTribals need Justice for Land and Forest Rights
It is by now widely agreed that tribal communities in India have suffered in many cases from extreme injustice in most basic livelihood contexts of farmland and forest rights.In a widely quoted paper...
View ArticlePeople's Movement and the Story of the RTI
BOOK REVIEWby Rakesh Kumar SinghThe RTI Story: Power to the Peopleby Aruna Roy with the MKSS Collective; Roli Books, New Delhi; 2018; pp. 424; Rs 495.The RTI Story: Power to the People is about one of...
View ArticlePreliminary Inquiry into Mega Projects of South America and South Asia
by Gopal KrishnaSimile of Water In his Budget speech in July 2009 Pranab Mukherjee (as India's Finance Minister) announced the setting up of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as a...
View ArticleChristianity and Development among the Tribes of North-East India: Pros and Cons
A majority of the tribes in all the States of North-East India, except Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura, have embraced Christianity leaving behind their traditional religions. However, their traditional...
View ArticleBJP's Pull-out from J&K's Coalition Government
MUSINGSThe BJP's political games are writ large in the Kashmir region soon after its pull-out from the PDP-BJP coalition government in J&K. In fact, to go a step backwards, it was more than obvious...
View ArticleSun Sets on the British Empire
On July 1, 1997 Hong Kong came back to the People's Republic of China from Britain. On the anniversary of Hong Kong's sovereignty having been resumed to the PRC, we are reproducing the following...
View ArticleAll is Said but not Done
Everything has been tried—From cajoling to condescension,Gentle pellets to ammunition.These are people of a differentKind; they think they haveA right to their own mind.They do not know that...
View ArticleScanning a Landmark
From N.C.'s WritingsImportant events are graduated into landmarks in History as they are invested with hindsight. Perhaps it would be premature to call an event a landmark on the very morrow of its...
View ArticleSnapshots at Border
Children being ripped awayfrom the arms of their mothers;parents not being able to seewhere their kids have gone;from within the metal cagesheart-rending cries rising,asking for their papi, mami—what a...
View ArticleThe OHCHR Report on Kashmir
The United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on June 14 published a “Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of Jammu and...
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