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India's Lower Castes By Nishikant Waghmare Mahatma Jotirao Phule, Social Reformer of India, stared the fight against castes exclusion in our education system . His book titled Slavery took the Marathi world by storm in 1873. It was Phule who told the Hunter Commission in 1882 that the...

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Misdirected Hyderabad Bomb Blast Investigations By Adv. Irfan Engineer First in Malegaon and now in Hyderabad, the blame for the recent bomb blasts is being laid on the doorstep of "Islamic terrorists" like Jaish-E-Mohammed. One ends up asking the question, what could be the aim of the...

India rebels turn to poppy for funds By Amarnath Tewary Jharkhand Rebels say the returns from poppy trade are handsome (Photos: Prashant Ravi) Maoist rebels in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have been growing opium poppies to fund their operations in the region, officials...

Christians: A Faith Under Assault In Secular India By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Christians from all over India are gathering to protest against the Hindutva assault on their faiths in different parts of the country. On May 29 th, 2007, when they all assemble at Jantar Mantar seeking...

Assam: ULFA’s Rerun of Violence against Migrant Workers Dr. Anand Kumar After all the negative publicity ULFA received in the wake of Dheemaji blasts, which killed several school children, the terror outfit has been looking for other soft targets. In this quest of ULFA, the...

Forgotten civil war in northeastern India By Somini Sengupta and Hari Kumar The New York Times IMPHAL, India A garland of red hibiscus adorned the dead man's portrait, and provisions for the afterlife were laid out for the mourners to see: new slippers and towel, a white undershirt, and...

INSIDE RAW - THE SECRETS OF INDIA'S PREMIER INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Gp Capt SM HALI (retired PAF officer) examines the historical capacity of Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) of India to conduct clandestine operations Introduction Espionage, euphemistically called the second oldest...

Muslim Deprivation: Some Thoughts In The Context Of The Sachar Committee Report By Yoginder Sikand [Paper presented at a conference on the Sachar Committee Report, 19 May, 2007, Trivandrum, organised by the Forum for Social Action] This presentation is not a rigorously-argued academic...

165m low-caste Indians face ‘lifetime of abuse’ Over 165 million people on the bottom rung of India’s caste ladder are condemned to a ‘lifetime of abuse’ because of a government failure to protect them, two US-based rights group charged Tuesday. ‘India has systematically...

Persecution of Assam's Hindi speakers By Subir Bhaumik BBC News, Guwahati, Assam Hindi-speaking migrants have started fleeing India's north-eastern state of Assam again after a week of massacres and bomb attacks left nine dead and more than 20 injured. Separatists of the United...

Notorious criminals of Dhaka's underworld seek safe haven across the border. What are they doing there? How are Dhaka's 'top terrors' in Kolkata faring? The daily routine of one of these characters is pretty much like this: An hour's morning walk from 5 am to 6 am. Breakfast and another...

Manipur’s gathering storm Anil Bhat WITH no respite from different Meitei insurgent groups indulging in extortion, abduction and murder despite the detention of about 300 of them under the National Security Act over the last two yeas, the Manipur government found it necessary to seek...

RAW's support to Nepali terrorists The Maoists have fantastic intelligence support. In Pili, RNA intelligence was conspicuous by its absence. The officers had no inkling about the imminent attack. Above all, their mobility is legendary, which more than compensates their inferior numbers and...

Assam Rifles top in AIDS/HIV Assam Rifles jawans top in the list to have endured with AIDS/ HIV while among the three defence forces Army jawans rank highest to have contacted with this dreaded diseases, said Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services (DGFAMS), V.K.Singh. "The...

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - India 2006 Released by the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor March 6, 2007 http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78871.htm

Muslims And Sikhs Need Not Apply By Saikat Datta and Bhavna Vij-Aurora You can blame all of India's intelligence fiascos mainly on Hindus, as the agencies don't find Muslims or Sikhs fit to work for them. Noted educationist and former parliamentarian Humayun Kabir was known, among...

Condoms for troops battling N-E rebels SHILLONG: Defence authorities have asked soldiers battling violent separatist insurgencies in India's troubled northeast to carry condoms to prevent contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. "We have instructed our men to carry stocks of condoms...

Spy who knew Bangladesh better than its president ‘‘A foreign intelligence agency is the eyes and ears of the government. Its activities are the direct resultant of the policies of the government, without which any government would be left in a state of limbo’’ — R.N. Kao, the first...

Letter to Atal Bihari Vajpayee written by Yasin Malik, Chairman, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Fmr. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Dear Atalji, In public life, from time to time, it becomes necessary to communicate one's perceptions, concerns and...