Army Chief should desist from playing politics New Delhi 27-Dec-2019 NCHRO is shocked to find the army chief General Bipin Rawat joining the debate on the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and offering people his …
Pathology of Power: Caste and Capabilities
S.Venkatesanm 24 October 2006The broad motivation for writing this note is to bring to light the pathology of power structure in the Indian caste system, its casual relationship with different castes and impact on people’s…
Karnataka Chief Minister's son named in attack on…
Johnson T A, Indian Express, Friday, October 27, 2006 BANGALORE, OCTOBER 26: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy’s only son, 19-year-old Nikhil is at the centre of a case of rioting and attack on a hotel…
Confessions dry up, ATS case falling apart
Menaka Rao, Indian Express, October 27, 2006 7/11: With two more accused citing police lapses, it’s left with only three key statementsMumbai, OCTOBER 26 : Weeks after claiming to have got to the bottom of…
Caste-Based Discrimination in Nepal
Interview with U.N. special representative Ian MartinRupesh Silwal (rooproop), 2006/10/22 © 2006 Ohmynews.COM, Korea.Nepal has survived a decade of internal, armed conflict, which has thrown human rights violations into relief. The root cause of the…
Jaswanth Singh'S speech interrupted at University of California
Berkeley, California, 27 Oct. (AKI) - A speech by Indian politician Jaswant Singh at the University of California, Berkeley, turned tense on Thursday as dozens of protesters stormed the hall where Singh, leader of the…
Rise and Fall of the UN
James Cooke, Socialist Perspectives.COM October 27, 2006In the United States, familiarity of the UN is limited to vague notions of ‘international democracy’ and ‘peacekeeping’, words that inspire the noblest of intentions; the World Bank and…
Reservation and the creamy layer
Kalpana Kannabiran The concept of creamy layer obfuscates the fact of caste discrimination within institutions of education, employment, and justice. THE RECENT Supreme Court judgment limiting reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes forces us…
A death sentence in India : Shubh Mathur
By Shubh Mathur, Open Democracy, 23 - 10 - 2006 The case of a Kashmiri Muslim convicted for terrorism raises serious questions about the operation of Indian democracy. On 4 August 2005, the supreme court…