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CAN COMMUNAL RIOTS BE ADDRESSED WITH STATISTICS?
After reading Rupa Subramanya’s article does the reader feel reassured? There were as many if not more communal riots when the Congress party was in power. Cherry-picking is defined as the selection...
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WHY NEWSLAUNDRY IS AVERSE TO THE IDEA OF CARRYING PIECES BY ANONYMOUS AUTHORS
We frequently receive pieces to be published in Newslaundry by writers, who want to use a pseudonym and remain anonymous, sometimes by journalists or anchors (often friends). A recent one that landed...
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IN DEFENSE OF PSEUDONYMS: WHY NEWS ORGANISATIONS SHOULD ALLOW PEOPLE TO WRITE...
I recently sent a piece to Newslaundry marked to Abhinandan Sekhri, who I have known through a friend, and he refused to publish it under a pseudonym. Newslaundry, Sekhri claims, has a policy of no...
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FOUR FACTORS THAT WILL DECIDE BIHAR POLLS
Given that the ongoing Bihar elections could be decided by the slimmest of margins–and, with a vast redrawing of the political landscape, too confused to call, according to this Mint analysis–the...
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THE NJAC JUDGEMENT: ARUN JAITLEY PRESENTS AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
The Supreme Court of India, by a majority opinion, has struck down the 99th Constitutional Amendment, which provided for the establishment of the National Judicial Commission to appoint judges of the...
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ARUN JAITLEY WEIGHS IN ON THE CULTURE OF INTOLERANCE, SAYS “ENGAGE IN DEBATE,...
In a media conference on Tuesday, October 20, finance minister Arun Jaitley criticised the use of violence as a method of protest. “Some of these issues are extremely serious, some can reflect on...
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THIS ISN’T HOW YOU USE DATA: A DATA-BACKED RESPONSE TO RUPA SUBRAMANYA
As we write this, there are already reports in the media about another incident of mob-lynching over the bovine issue, this time in Himachal Pradesh. Many Indian litterateurs and public intellectuals...
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IT’S TURNING OUT TO BE THE UNCRACKABLE CODE: UNIFORM CIVIL CODE
The issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) keeps coming up in India every now and then. The latest was on last Monday, October 12, when a Supreme Court bench which was hearing a petition “challenging the...
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THE OH CAPTION! MY CAPTION! CONTEST#23
Fill in the blanks and be part of a Clothesline gag. Enter our photo dialogue contest and you (and your winning dialogue) could be featured in next week’s Clothesline. You wring ‘em clean, and we’ll...
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CRIMES AGAINST BIHAR’S VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES SOAR
Image Credit: Pal Teravagimov / Shutterstock.com An inadequate police force is struggling to cope with a rising crime graph against Bihar’s vulnerable communities. Bihar has seen a 20-fold increase in...
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THE CIC IS ADMITTING LESS THAN 10% OF CASES IT DID IN JANUARY 2015. IS THERE...
The Central Information Commission is in the news for all the wrong reasons, on the eve of the 10thanniversary of the RTI act. After the fiasco about inviting people from the civil society to the...
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DENIED ENTRY: WHY ARE FOREIGN JOURNALISTS BEING BARRED FROM COMING INTO INDIA?
Image Credit: ShutterStock As part of BoomLive’s Freedom of Expression series, they are creating a list of profiles — of journalists, activists and academicians who have been denied entry into India...
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THE ANGER AND CONFUSION IN PUNJAB: WHO TORE PAGES FROM GURU GRANTH SAHIB?
Over half-dozen instances of desecration of the holy book of the Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib, within a span of a couple of weeks in Punjab could not have been merely a coincidence. The sheer timing of...
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THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF EATING AND SERVING BEEF IN DELHI
Sanitised spaces repulse me. The fact that there are no real dive bars – the truest test of one is stinky washrooms – in Delhi is perhaps my most serious issue with the city. I am shallow like that....
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VK SINGH CONTINUES HIS AFFAIR WITH PRESSTITUTES
Shortly after wishing party boss Amit Shah a very happy birthday, VK Singh, the Minister of State for External Affairs, delivered sterling birthday gift for Shah who has been battling to control the...
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10 YEARS OF RTI: WHAT AILS THE IMPLEMENTATION?
Right to Information has completed 10 years. But what has been the experience of these 10 years? Where is the implementation failing? October 12th, 2015 marked the 10th anniversary of the...
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BEEF CONSUMPTION IN INDIA RISES, MARGINALLY
Amidst the controversy over banning beef, consumption across rural and urban India has risen marginally, according to data released by National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), a division of the...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 38
Vipin Pubby, former Resident Editor of the Indian Express in Chandigarh, joins us to shed some light on the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib in Punjab that led to violence in the state; why the...
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE ANONYMOUS AT NEWSLAUNDRY? OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND US HAVE A...
In the almost four years that Newslaundry has been around, we have stayed away from publishing anonymous pieces. I explain why here and Rain Man disagrees with me here. There have been a few...
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IF WE WANT CHANGE, WE NEED TO CHANGE PUBLIC OPINION ON INTOLERANCE.
Dear Farhan Akhtar, I saw your moving post on Facebook, expressing outrage on the recent killing at Dadri. I wanted to share two divergent American struggles with gun control laws and gay rights and...
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