Category: Human Rights and Legal Issues

Quote of the Week

“Freedom…(is)  looking a policeman in the eye…” – a SEWA member, quoted in a profile of Ela Bhatt  Related: A few past quotes here.  

Is Raj Thackeray aware of this?

Alert reader Naren* brought this snippet of news from the “Sakaal” newspaper in Maharashtra to my attention…It is slightly unsettling. Titled, “Border areas Kashmiris in Nagpur” (Feb 19 ’09, report by Naresh Dongre), it talks about a large...

Muslim Anger vs. Hindu Anger – Excerpts

Excerpts from a paper by B Raman written just days befpre the Mumbai blasts: The manner of the current investigation by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai Police into an explosion at Malegaon in...