By: Raghumani Thoudam, kanglaonline.com Comprehend that, the world was governed by emperor and empress aeons back, when there was not democracy. The emperor with his precise supremacy ruled over the subjects with the sustenance of…
Call for Change in School Hours in Kerala
As a concerned mother of a six year old who has just started his first std.,schooling, i would like to know from the concerned school authorities,as to what is it that they gain by making…
Blunt message from shrapnels
Syeda Hameed, Indian Express, April 17, 2006Jama Masjid blast tears apart the simplistic theory that all acts of terrorism are linked and connectedBeyond the fact of its splendour and beauty, there are two reasons why…
Islands of Sanity : Raheel Dhattiwala
The slums of Ram-Rahim Nagar along with the slums of Khanpur Darwaza and the middle-class residential apartments of Khanpur are the only three localities which have yet remained relatively untouched by the virus of communal…
Islamophobia: A second Holocaust in the making
As German leaders traditionally do on visits to Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel recently visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the Holocaust. There she termed the Holocaust "a source of deep shame" for Germany, and spoke…
Vision Mumbai Submerged : Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor…
by Lila Rajiva,www.dissidentvoice.org ,July 28, 2005Over the last two days hundreds of people have died in Mumbai and across Maharashtra as the South-West monsoon lashes the state. 37.1 inches fell in one day -- the…
The legacy of India's counter-terrorism
By Jaskaran Kaur July 17, 2005, Boston Globe (www.boston.com)WHEN INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets with President Bush in Washington this week on his first official visit, and the first of an Indian head of…
Casteist. Communalist. Racist. And Now, A Nobel Laureate
Meena Kandasamy, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India You spit on your people, Your people applaud, Your former oppressors laurel you. The thorns biting your forehead Are contempt Disguised as concern. 'At Last', Sea Grapes,…