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GANDHIAN LITERATEUR DONATES BODY
Noted Gandhian litterateur, Padmashri Dr Giriraj Kishore, had pledged his body for medical research. Accordingly, after his demise on Sunday 9th February, at the age of 83, his body was donated to the local GSVM Medical College at Kanpur. Body donation has been the brainchild of Manoj Sengar who began the Yug Dadeechi Deh Daan…
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AFTER TAJ WHAT?
Does anybody remember Hina Rabbani Khar? You mean Hina Khan the TV actress from Kashmir? No I mean Hina Khar the Pakistani politician. Public memory is short indeed. She was Pakistan’s Foreign Minister from February 2011 to March 2013. When at the relatively young age of 33 she came India calling the country sat up,…
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10 Concerns of Indian Citizens
दस दिक्कतें भारतीय नागरिको की CAA से उत्त्पन्न दिक्कतें , विरोध और उसका समाधान
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SOFT P*RN OR HARD NEWS?
Do we have a choice? Why not? When I did a short course in journalism about 40 years ago we were taught the importance of the headline, the lead in and the bait to hook the reader. Today it is called grabbing eyeballs, and at times the other ones, minus the eyes! If you, dear…
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CITIZENS UNITE AGAINST CITIZENSHIP ACT
Most civil society and human rights activists had fixed 19th December for a nationwide protest against the recently enacted Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Central Govt’s proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). Together they form a lethal combination, not just against the Minorities, but more so against the landless and undocumented poor that form…
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BOOK REVIEW: A SCATHING INDICTMENT
“Lay Catechists – Their Formation in India.” Edited by Rev C.M. Paul SDB (Nitika, Kolkata: Pages 206, Price Rs. 150.00) This book is an outcome of the Nitika Silver Jubilee seminar on “Lay Catechist Formation in India”, held in Kolkata in November 2002. It is a compilation of the various presentations by 14 resource persons,…