an open letter to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, highlighting some of the key concerns with the draft bill and demanding a wider public debate, before it is introduced in Parliament.
an open letter to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, highlighting some of the key concerns with the draft bill and demanding a wider public debate, before it is introduced in Parliament.
Communal forces have become active in a middle class dominated area of Delhi. Close watchers of the situation know the desperation in the ranks of the pro Hindutva forces when the results to the elections to the parliament were out. To the surprise of all, this area which use to be a stronghold of the saffrons, registred more votes to the Congress candidate vis-a-vis the saffrons. And thus apart from the national context where the saffrons faced humiliating defeat, the sense of vengeance among them had an added local context.
After more than three years of legal battles, the California sixth-grade History-Social Sciences textbook controversy has finally been put to bed with the conclusion of a lawsuit by California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials (CAPEEM) against members of the State Board of Education (SBE). The former had made broad claims that the textbook contents and the adoption process violated the US Constitution’s Establishment Clause. CAPEEM had also claimed that the SBE had violated its members’ equal protection as well as free speech and association rights.
Throughout the last stages of the civil war, the government of Sri Lanka claimed to be engaged in a hostage rescue mission on behalf of civilians in the Vanni who were being held against their will by the LTTE. How far are its words borne out by its actions?
I have been to many countries. I have seen many borders. I know of the Palestinian border, but outside of that this is certainly the most imposing, dominating, scary, border post that I have come across. I’ve gone across the Germany-Poland border, where you’ve had surveillance equipment, you’ve had people with night shooting guns, but in none of those situations have I seen anything that looks as scary as this particular fence.
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