In memory of Swami Nigamanand
Last year, on this day, the 19th February 2011, Swami Nigamananda took the place of another sadhu, Swami Yajnanda as a part of their long struggle against illegal mining of […]
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Tehelka
Quotes
A collection of interesting quotes by various people and from a wide range of sources ranging from books to speeches and even Twitter on occasion.
Access to Soni Sori in Raipur denied to Women’s groups
An all women team was denied permission to meet Soni Sori in Raipur on the 12th and 13th of January 2012. Soni Sory is a tribal and a school teacher
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Decluttering the Lokpal
The Lokpal debate is the rage all over again, and the clutter being thrown into the thinking is escalating. It suits many, because the less people are able to think,
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Debunking the great FDI savior
I had begun with a pro-FDI stance out of a natural affinity for the new, for change. However, as I am reading and thinking more, I think the FDI coming
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Ethics in education – Kunal Majumder
Sometimes, something is worth holding up as an example and promoting, because I believe it will enrich my country for more people to witness it. Kunal Majumder as a person, and the choices he made in this instance.
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The Ishrat Jahan case – weeding fact from fiction
Ishrat Jahan was reported killed in an encounter with Gujrat police along with three others Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar. Gujrat police claimed that they
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Naina died a Natural death
Today, Malti was supposed to meet the SSP in the afternoon. We had organized a lawyer, Shiv to accompany her. I got calls saying that the SSP and IO had
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Nothing suspicious about Naina Singh’s death
Yesterday, I wrote about Naina Singh’s death and how the police conspired to deny her mother avenues of justice by denying her an FIR. The FIR is a first information
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