Counter lies with Truth
This old piece remains among the best on the organized right wing takeover of Indian media. *** What have been the inroads made by the RSS into the media over […]
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Employment
Scientific Outlook ~ Narendra Dabholkar
Just look around and you will realize the state of affairs in our country. All of our villages have roads and there are plenty of vehicles that run on them
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The language of development
There is some debate on whether Hindi should be used officially as a government language, that is meeting resistance from anti-Hindi quarters who see it as marginalizing the non-Hindi population
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Feeding Big Business
As of August 4, 2014, selling food on the street will be a criminal activity. Say goodbye to your favourite panipuri wala, sandwich wala, frankies stand and every other kind
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10 big problems with the Aadhaar UID card project
While there is no denying that in a country like India, there is a need for identification that people can create easily and use nationwide, the Aadhaar card project goes
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Could prompt police action have saved the hands of the labourers?
In a voice news report at CGNet Swara, social activist Bighnaraj Panda who tells Mahammad Ashlam from Kalahandi Odisha that he went to SP office on 13th December itself to inform
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Suggestions to AAP for party agenda
I had contributed a series of suggestions about party agenda to the Aam Aadmi Party, and several people asked me about them. Instead of forwarding a whole series of emails
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Quick charts: Why do we need education reinvention?
A few days ago, I wrote about why education reform in itself is not important and why we need existing ideas of education scrapped and new and useful ones to
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Farmer suicides in India: Peddling anti-farmer bull shit
There is a category of journalists and publications which consistently publish seemingly scientific articles that are aimed at one or more of the following goals: Trivializing the problem of farmer
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