RTE: A step towards Edification and Development
Aishwarya Shetty Abstract: Education plays an important role in the overall development of a person. It helps one to become a good citizen, which could, in turn, become an asset in modern democratic...
View ArticleTime to declare Adivasis as Indigenous people of India
Vidya Bhushan RawatRadical Humanist, political analyst and human rights activist Today we celebrate World Indigenous people’s day but in the backyard of the biggest democracy of the world is the...
View Article‘The Adivasi Will Not Dance’ – the truth hurts | Stan Swamy
Stan Swamy Yes, I have read the book ‘The Adivasi Will Not Dance’ by Dr. Sowyendra Shekar Hansda. It was a painful reading. Painful, because the author has depicted the current reality of Adivasi...
View ArticleTime to look beyond caste for marriage. #India@70
Santhakumar V There may be a way to break the hold of the caste system in India! The breaking down of caste system occurs only when people marry or have sexual relationships and have children with,...
View ArticleDalits should give up reservations voluntarily, let upper caste enjoy it now....
Vivek Sakpal The Scheduled Caste & Tribes in India have enjoyed the so called “reservation” benefits. Some of the members of the community have progressed economically to a very well of status....
View ArticleWhat is RSS agenda in Education?
Ram Puniyani In its recommendation to NCERT, Shiksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas, an RSS affiliate asks for removal of English, Urdu and Arabic words, the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore; extracts from...
View ArticleIn London Secular Indians marched to protect democracy
Vidya Bhushan RawatRadical Humanist, political analyst and human rights activist In a massive show of strength hundreds of Indians living in United Kingdom gathered at Tavistock Square to express...
View ArticleHow to Revive the spirit of Quit India Movement ?
Ram Puniyani The ‘Quit India’ movement 1942, whose 75th anniversary is currently being celebrated, was the major landmark in the struggle for India’s Independence. On 8thAugust the Indian National...
View Article70 Years of Independence: Miles and Miles to go Before we Sleep
Irfan EngineerCentre for Study of Society and Secularism Seventy years as an independent country is a good enough period to reflect on how we have evolved as a nation and how our polity has evolved....
View ArticleCommunal response to Hamid Ansari’s parting truth
Adv. Masood Peshimam Its history but worth noting that it was at Aurangzeb’s court that his daughter zaibunnisa’s maid servant dropped the mirror of glasses which broke into pieces. The maid servant...
View ArticleA cowardly attack on human freedom #GauriLankesh
Vidya Bhushan RawatRadical Humanist, political analyst and human rights activist The fad of ‘tolerance’ is fast getting exposed but this is particularly for those who have been crying that we have...
View ArticleDid RSS Participate in Freedom Movement? | Ram Puniyani
Ram Puniyani Freedom movement was an all inclusive movement with the participation of people of all religions and regions. Its underlying premise was pluralism and the concept of Secular Democratic...
View ArticleInstitutional Murder of an Achiever #TamilNadu
All India Forum Right To EducationPresidium AIFRTE is shocked and deeply saddened by yet another `suicide’ of a young Dalit student whose academic achievement could not allow her to overcome the...
View ArticleMurder of Gauri Lankesh : An attack on Media or ideology?
Vidya Bhushan RawatRadical Humanist, political analyst and human rights activist The Press Club of India did not have space to even stand yesterday. The outpouring of grief and anger in the street as...
View ArticleVisions of Secularism: Triple Talaq Judgment
Irfan EngineerCentre for Study of Society and Secularism Secularism is once again being debated after the 5 member Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India set aside by majority of 3:2...
View ArticleMyanmar: Persecution of Rohingya Muslims
Ram Puniyani Massive protests are being witnessed in many countries, Bangla Desh, Pakistan, India among others against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (September 2017). This time around...
View ArticleContesting Marginalisations | Ambedkarism & Social Justice – An Introduction
Vidya Bhushan RawatEditor: Contesting Marginalisations | Ambedkarism & Social Justice The following is an extract from the Introduction of the book “Contesting Marginalisations | Ambedkarism &...
View ArticleAdivasis languishing in jail, no one to listen their cries
Stan Swamy “4000 Adivasis, charged as ‘Naxals’, are in the jails of Jharkhand” [Hindustan, Ranchi ed., 14 Aug.2017] “There are people who cannot take bail. There is nobody for them,” observed SC and...
View ArticleAppeal: Support Chief Judicial Magistrate Prabhakar Gwal #Chhattisgarh
This comes as an urgent appeal to you seeking support and solidarity for Mr. Prabhakar Gwal. Gwal has been a well known people’s judge from Chhattisgarh. Gwal a Chief Judicial Magistrate who was known...
View ArticleGauri Lankesh’s silence should unite all Democrats
Irfan EngineerCentre for Study of Society and Secularism Gauri Lankesh’s pen has been silenced by bullets of a coward. Those who killed her do not even have the courage to claim their action. They...
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