Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Patriot or nationalist? Why I will never be the latter

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It is easy for me to be labelled as a patriot. Do I love my country? Perhaps. Do I feel strongly about the achievements of my nation and fe...

Express report prods Karnataka to act, end boycott of Dalit cook

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The report prompted the administration to act, and on Monday, several officials of the Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement were rushed ...
Monday, November 09, 2015

How the BJP went from selling development as a holy cow to banking on the cow being holy

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For the Bihar campaign, the party went back to its Hindutva roots, using anti-Muslim rhetoric to sell itself to voters Shoaib Daniyal  · ...

No one religion is better than the other, says author Anita Nair

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Monday, 9 November 2015 - 12:06pm IST | Agency: dna webdesk Latha Srinivasan  "Let us go down to the people who need to be told wh...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Wake up, BJP! Admit how intolerance is settling in

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Just get out and eavesdrop on a conversation at your local teashop or on a bus: you will know how anti-Muslim hysteria spreads. POLITI...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Sir said I was a Dalit so couldn’t be part of Puja: Odisha schoolgirl

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According to her, as punishment, she and 20 other Dalit students were insulted, faced casteist slurs, were barred from offering prayers, an...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

You have no idea how badass Trudeau's Defence Minister really is

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By Sandy Garossino in Opinion | November 4th 2015 You might think Harjit Sajjan takes a pretty mean combat gear photo, but Canada'...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

శ్రీ కౌముది నవంబర్ 2015

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Source: శ్రీ కౌముది నవంబర్ 2015

Wearing caste on my wrist — green for Dalits, red for Thevars

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Last month, a 12-year-old Dalit boy in Jodhpur was beaten up by his teacher for allegedly taking a plate from a stack meant for upper caste...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Intolerance: PM Modi deliberately silent while colleagues keep issues alive, says Arun Shourie

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Pointing out that Modi finds time to tweet on events such as British PM David Cameron’s birthday, Shourie alleged that his silence on cruci...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Dying art, forgotten voters: The Mujra girls of Muzaffarpur

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They want the new government to give them and their art form the dignity they deserve. 31-10-2015 Ankit Tyagi @Ankit_Tyagi01 In an el...

When Putin’s nod got Russian girl heart in TN

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CHENNAI, October 31, 2015 | Updated: October 31, 2015 09:44 IST Ramya Kannan Viktoria Ivanova, a young girl from Siberia who underwen...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Muslims, Christians and others are made to feel as second-class citizens: Dr Pushpa Bhargava

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Friday, 30 October 2015 - 7:35am IST | Agency: dna | From the print edition Nikhil M Ghanekar @NGhanekar Bhargava, founder-director of ...

What Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa tells you that Valmiki’s Ramayana doesn't

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A lot can be learned from a comparative study of texts.  29-10-2015 Rohini Bakshi @RohiniBakshi Dussehra marks the end of the epic w...

From Dadri lynching to storming of Kerala House

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National NEW DELHI, October 30, 2015 | Updated: October 30, 2015 04:03 IST Smita Gupta   The anger was seen on the social media and ...