So, while the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) vice-president, Vincent Concessao, has no quarrel with an ordinance that seeks to prevent conversion by force or fraud/inducement, his fear is ...
They were armed with sophisticated explosive materials, country weapons, daggers and trishuls. They also carried water bottles, to sustain them in their exertions. The leaders were seen communicating ...
Unfortunately for women, there are not many groups like FASH. Also there are not many people who think that the ability to walk to work safely is as critical and substantitive a right as the right to ...
I had been invited to Diyarbakir by the Human Rights Association, which does courageous and impressive work under conditions of constant serious threat. The preceding days I spent in Istanbul at the ...
It is a time when Shiv Sena, an unshakable ally of BJP, who in turn is the handmaiden of RSS and its Hindu Rashtra project, is going to face the assembly elections. The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is ...
Certainly then, Gupta should have been the last witness any judge would quote to discharge Advani in the Babri Masjid demolition case. But exactly the opposite has happened. She is, in fact, the first ...
But after the Civil War, things began to change. In the last year of the war, on November 21, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln looked back on the growing power of the war-enriched corporations, and ...
After an enraged mob allegedly set a train packed with Hindus on fire in Godhra, killing fifty-eight, a wave of retaliatory violence was unleashed on the minority Muslim population in the region, ...
Grass: I regard this man as a danger, a threat to world peace. He reminds me of one of those characters in Shakespeare's historical plays whose only ambition perhaps is to stand before his father, the ...
Those of you who are in India or who log onto Indian news portals are already aware of their latest move, i.e. to frame a criminal case against me of fraud and intention to cheat, through a young ...
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