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WHY FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS AN IDEAL WORTH FIGHTING FOR
The best ideas emerge when inferior ones are challenged. We are forced to dive deep and think of better arguments, creations, designs, devices and explanations when we are confronted with conflicting...
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THE HEROES IN THE BATTLE AGAINST SECTION 66A
The Supreme Court struck down Section 66A of the Information and Technology (IT) Act, 2000. While Justices Jasti Chelameswar and Rohinton Fali Nariman, who passed the judgement, have emerged as...
View ArticleMAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT SAYS BEEF BAN A MATTER OF FAITH
Beef is off menus and livelihoods of about one million people may be at stake. But the Maharashtra government says this move reflects the will of the people. The Maharashtra Government’s Animal...
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CYBER CRIMES IN INDIA: WHICH STATE TOPS THE CHART?
The Supreme Court struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act (IT Act) that has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. The court said that this section is violative of...
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RTI APPLICATION HELPS THE GOVERNMENT RECOVER RS. 1.8 CRORE
Prashant Burge from Karnataka is like any of us but, with one difference. An ordinary citizen who used the Right to Information (RTI) act to expose the excess toll collection by a toll collecting...
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MASS LAY-OFFS AT DD NEWS?
Mass lay-offs may be on the anvil at the national broadcaster, Doordarshan News (DD News). Several contractual journalists, who have worked with the state-owned news channel for years, claim they have...
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CLASH OF THE PRIME-TIME TITANS
It’s not rare for news channels these days to gloat over exclusives, target rating points, or TRPs, and the mistakes of their rivals. One thing though remains constant, plausible deniability is rule...
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LOOK WHO SHAMED THE NATION LAST NIGHT
If life gave Arnab Goswami lemons he’d question life’s motives, the wages of the farmer who grew the lemons and end by calling the lemons Pakistani agents and asking for their resignation as fruit....
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LEADING WELFARE STATE GETS LESS FUNDS FROM DELHI, REBELS
Tamil Nadu–which is in an election year and runs India’s most extensive welfare state–has rebelled against the devolution of financial power to the states, part of the decentralisation process put...
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MMRDA’S METRO PLANS WILL DISRUPT ADIVASI LIVES
In Mumbai’s Aarey Milk Colony, 28 adivasi padas have existed for generations away from the hustle and bustle of the big city. The villages, such as Vanichapada, Borichapada and the pada nearest to the...
View ArticleA RESPONSE TO ABHINANDAN SEKHRI’S “WHY I AGREE WITH BILL MAHER’S VIEWS ON ISLAM”
It was after reading Abhinandan’s article that I actually went and listened to some of Bill Maher’s jokes on Islam. It made me realise one thing immediately – that I had no solid viewpoint on Islam. My...
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MORE THAN 2,57,000 SCHOOLS IN INDIA ARE WITHOUT TOILETS
Multiple studies have shown that lack of toilets is one of the prime reasons for the dropout of children, especially the girl child from the school system. Other than lack of toilets, the school...
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WHY VOGUE NEEDS TO MAKE BETTER CHOICES
It looks like the opening scene from The Ring. And what follows is far scarier. Homi Adjania, maker of Being Cyrus and Finding Fanny, has rallied the troops and made a Vogue Empower video on what else...
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AND THEN LEE SAID – “LET THERE BE LIGHT…AND AIR-CONDITIONING”
Lee Kuan Yew achieved an extraordinary, and arguably unparalleled, political vision in his lifetime. Singaporeans leapt from living by third-world standards to one of the highest first world ones...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO INDIAN ‘NATIONAL’ MEDIA
My dear Indian ‘national’ media, The recent Twitter trend against a national television news channel has once again highlighted the flimsy basis of sensationalism and mass hysteria combined with...
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THE (SLOW) RISE OF WOMEN-ORIENTED POLITICAL PARTIES
Since 2001, at least 14 political parties with a women-oriented political agenda have emerged across India, according to an analysis of an official list of political parties from April 2001 to January...
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(MIS)USING THE MPLAD FUNDS SINCE 1993
“Many of the systematic weaknesses affecting the implementation of the MPLAD had persisting since its inception 17 years ago. The lapses were brought to the notice of the ministry by the CAG in two...
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