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  • Why We Need A Uniform Civil Code in India?

    by Shabana Azmi, 8 August 2005
    The Times of India, 7 July 2005
    Women, Stand Up For Your Rights: The real reason why we need a uniform civil code
    Let’s face it. For all the progress that is claimed to have been made in India, the fact remains that ours is a patriarchal society in which the woman counts for very little. It could be Imrana, Indira or Irene, the manifestations could be varied, but the real malaise is that violence against women — physical, emotional and verbal — has the tacit approval of society. This is a  (...)

  • Aggressive Vegetarianism

    by Ram Puniyani, 22 May 2005

    There are groups of people taking to vegetarianism, the vegans, on health grounds, which one can understand. The element of religiosity is not mixed up here. Neither are these people intolerant to the ones who consume non vegetarian food. The phenomenon being observed amongst the sections influenced by Hindu right operates at the level of religiosity. Vegetarianism here is a part of one’s religion so to say. Being mixed up with religion it becomes associated with emotions and that’s where the strong rejection of non vegetarians in the neighbourhood.

  • India: The Rising - Naxalbari to now | Amrith Lal

    1 May 2005

    In Andhra, both the state and naxals are talking peace, while in eastern UP they have promised to fight it out. Even as the ceasefire lapses this week, Sunday Times looks at the changes in Naxal politics and the state’’s outlook towards it.

  • India: Do the workers vanish into the blue?

    by Nagarik Mancha, 2 April 2005

    When a factory is locked out, the workers agitate. Soon the Government apparatus swings into action. A police picket appears in the vicinity. Maintenance of law and order seems to be the top priority. Weeks merge into months and by then the threat to law and order presumably subsides. Less and less of workers gather in front of the padlocked factory gates till only a handful are left behind. Things are back to ’normal’.

  • India, Pakistan in an insecurity trap

    by Praful Bidwai, 21 December 2004
    Buying Arms, Talking Peace
    It is regrettable that India and Pakistan have made so little progress on the worthy proposal, now 14 months-old, to launch a bus service between the capitals of divided Kashmir. And it is equally distressing that they remain stuck in a conservative groove while discussing nuclear and conventional military confidence-building measures (CBMs) which will genuinely reduce the threat of a conflict in this volatile and now-nuclearised region. While the hitch on the  (...)

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