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Posted 11-Mar-2013 Vol 4 Issue 10
Student power
In a knee-jerk reaction to the swelling support for the indefinite fast by students of Loyola College in support of Eelam, Tamil Nadu police evicted the protesters in a midnight operation
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Posted 06-Mar-2013 Vol 4 Issue 9
Chilling findings
For even routine complaints like abdominal pain, unscrupulous doctors are removing the uteruses of women from BPL families to avail of their health insurance money, finds Swapna Majumdar
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Posted 02-Mar-2013 Vol 4 Issue 9
We are foes
Sri Lanka is an enemy country and will remain so till justice is meted out to the Ealem Tamils, says Dr. V Maitreyan, AIADMK MP, while urging the UPA government to change its Sri Lanka policy
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Posted 28-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 8
Dragon's agents
The Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka has come under the virtual suzerainty of China. Even as Colombo comes under the UNHRC scanner once again, Sam Rajappa identifies the Chinese proxies in India
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Posted 23-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 8
A billion ways
The One Billion Rising campaign on Valentine’s Day is a movement without full stops, says Aditi Bishnoi, who spoke to women from different walks of life gathered in Delhi to be ‘over it’
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Posted 23-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 8
It is confirmed
Farmers are killing themselves in Tamil Nadu due to crop failure. Though the government is denying it, a study by activists, S Kannaiyan and Jayaram Venkatesan, has confirmed the suicides
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Posted 15-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 7
Angry Goans
Goans are shouting: ‘NO to paedophiles’. With the government doing little to stop child abuse, though concerns had been raised earlier, they are now up in arms. Albertina Almeida tells us why
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Posted 14-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 6
Changing times
A Kerala minister resigned from the cabinet in the 1960s after he was caught in a scandal involving a Congress worker, Padma Menon, but P J Kurien has survived a rape case, says Sam Rajappa
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Posted 09-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 6
Kite shelter
Brothers Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud, who live in Chawri Bazaar area of Old Delhi, have built a shelter in their home for treating birds injured by manjha threads, says Ankur Paliwal
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Posted 07 Feb 2013 Vol 4 Issue 5
Growing protests
Bihar MLA Som Prakash Singh is now echoing the demands of Tamil Nadu politicians that war criminal accused Mahinda Rajapaksa should not be allowed to enter the country. Akash Bisht reports
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Posted 04-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 5
Seize the moment
The need for a referendum on Eelam is more felt now as Sri Lanka is slipping into dictatorship, says P C Vinoj Kumar. Seize the opportunity and mobilize global support for the cause, he says
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Posted 01-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 5
Burning indignity
By burning the ‘basket of indignity’, many manual scavengers shrugged off the past at a rally in Bhopal. Agrima Bhasin records the event, a harbinger for a better future of safai karmacharis
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Posted 01-Feb-2013 Vol 4 Issue 5
Easing pain
By assembling children suffering from cancer on a reed mat in the courtyard of AIIMS and involving them in group activity, an NGO, Cankids, has come up with a new therapy, says Rahul Chhabra
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Posted 31-Jan-2013 Vol 4 Issue 4
Timely report
Justice Verma Committee Report is a potential game-changer in the struggle for women’s rights. Pamela Philipose says the political system needs to translate the recommendations into laws now
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Posted 26-Jan-2013 Vol 4 Issue 4
Soft targets
Women have become soft targets in the government’s sterilization drive, which has caused many deaths. Swapna Mujamdar sees in the ‘target approach’ a violation of women’s reproductive rights
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Posted 18-Jan-2013 Vol 4 Issue 3
Inside story
As an insider, Amitabh Thakur knows the Indian Administrative Service well. Here, the UP cadre officer, who seeks a revamp of the system, explains how the British legacy has lost its relevance
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Posted 11-Jan-2013 Vol 4 Issue 2
Battle for land
Despite their leader, Dayamani Barla’s incarceration, tribals of Nagri in Jharkhand refuse to let go their farmland for elite institutions and are continuing their fight, says Moushumi Basu
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Posted 22-Dec-2012 Vol 3 Issue 51
Women rising
One Billion Rising is an ongoing global campaign to fight violence against women. With a slogan ‘Strike, Dance, Rise’, it is also about building bridges and friendships, says Pamela Philipose
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Posted 20-Dec-2012 Vol 3 Issue 50
Million rupee question
As the gang-rape of a girl in New Delhi has outraged an entire nation, an email from a reader to P C Vinoj Kumar wants to know what happened to the man who stripped an Adivasi woman in public
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Posted 14-Dec-2012 Vol 3 Issue 50
Super fast
Irom Sharmila has become an icon for civil rights activists as she has been on a fast in Manipur for over 12 years now. Is it time she changes the mode of protest? Ninglun Hanghal checks out
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Posted 10-Dec-2012 Vol 3 Issue 49
A holy cause
The Bishops of Mannar, Jaffna, Anuradhapura, Galle, and Kurunegala, have sought the release of 3 Jaffna University students who have been arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Department
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