Heralding in the Hindu Rashtra … one bit at a time Diwali celebration in District Court Chandrapur All those who were deeply concerned that the BJP-RSS would usher in their dream project of Hindu Rashtra by amending the Constitution and replacing the words ‘secular, socialist’ in the Preamble, with the words ‘Hindu Rashtra’ should now understand that

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Yet Another Ministerial Meeting on Chandrapur Human-Wildlife Conflict No Comprehensive Policy in Sight Survivor of Bear Attack 2010, village Kitali, Brahmapuri In the last six months around 20 people have been died of tiger and leopard attacks in Chandrapur district and around fifty people have been injured. There has also been destruction of livestock and

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The Deliberate Shrinking of Intellectual Space in Universities The recent exclusion of authors and texts from university syllabi are overt political acts. Delhi University has eliminated the literature of Mahashweta Devi, Bama and Sukirtharini, and Kannur University has dropped excerpts from the writings of M.S. Golwalkar and V.D. Sawarkar. Obviously, the two universities have diametrically

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What ‘Moves’ the Politician? There is an increasing tendency amongst politicians to either avoid or dismiss citizens’ protest. Whether it is the Prime Minister addressing protesting farmers derogatorily as ‘andolanjeevis’ or the Guardian Minister’s dismissive attitude towards agitating Covid warriors in Chandrapur – it is apparent that our political masters are not ‘moved’ by the

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Bilingual Edict of Mauryan Emperor Ashoka at Kandahar written in Greek and Aramaic Review of Indo-Afghanistan Relations Taliban has marched into Kabul, victorious after an interregnum of two decades of US-backed state-building in Afghanistan. What is surprising is the rapidity of the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, perhaps, even more anti-climactic than that

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मौर्य सम्राट अशोकचा कंदहार शिलालेख. सदर शिलालेख द्वैभाषिक असून ग्रीक व अरमाईक भाषांमध्ये कोरल्या गेला होता अफगाणिस्तान भारत संबंध: एक दृष्टिक्षेप अफगाणिस्तान मध्ये पुन्हा एकदा तालिबानने स्वतः चे वर्चस्व प्रस्थापित केले आहे. जवळपास वीस वर्षांपूर्वी झालेल्या “९/११” दहशतवादी हल्ल्यांनंतर अमेरिका व त्याच्या मित्र देशांच्या आघाडीने केलेल्या सैन्य कारवाई मुळे तालिबानी राजवट अचानक कोसळली होती. जसे

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Sarkar Fails to Ensure Minimum Wages in Sarkari Departments Thekedars call the shots over wage rates   Covid Warriors of GMCH Chandarpur agitate for minimum wages   Even before India got its Constitution in 1950, the country’s workers were given a Minimum Wages Act in 1948. But as far as rural labourers are concerned this law could well be

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Reimagining International Day of World’s Indigenous People Time to honour the history of Gond rule in Vidarbha Pathanpura Gate of the Chandrapur Fort built by Gond Rulers In the last couple of years there has been welcome increase in the number of programmes on 9th August which has been designated by the UN as the International

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Caste Conundrum – Caste Census of OBCs in Maharashtra   The Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission prepares for statewide census as Kunbis contest Maratha claims for OBC status. (B.P.Mandal hands over Mandal Commission Report to President Giani Zail Singh) In 1931 the Census data included enumeration of castes but since then such data is collected only

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