Is it too much to ask the citizens of Delhi to fight for the basic rights of workers who are building them all the fancy new infrastructure for the Commonwealth Games in 2010?
Is it too much to ask the citizens of Delhi to fight for the basic rights of workers who are building them all the fancy new infrastructure for the Commonwealth Games in 2010?
The Afghan government last week threw tens of thousands of books into the Helmand river, in the south of the country. This peculiar story of animosity towards books has a history in Afghanistan as well as in its neighbouring countries.
All the focus is on madrasa reforms but Pakistan’s schools are also seen as encouraging extremism, while the government has shown little urgency about implementing a revised curriculum.
Habib Tanvir, the legend of contemporary Indian theatre, was also a writer, poet, actor, organiser of progressive writers and people’s theatre - passed away on June 8, 2009 at Bhopal . Habib Tanvir, whose plays make him a true citizen of the world will always be remembered for his abiding commitment to the values of secularism and progressive ideas.
That economic prowess spawns supremacist ideologies is a lesson best learnt from 19th century colonialism in the Afro-Asian region and in Europe’s conquest of the Americas. The Chinese on their part were forever prone to believing that non-yellow races were barbarian. Their recent economic prosperity has not brought any perceptible shift in that belief. Has India’s chosen neo-liberal economic model set it on a road to deepening social rifts with a matching new grammar of bias?
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