Media Literacy: A Need for Development of India
There are very few mainstream news channels or news organisations that cover developmental issues with the aim of promoting ‘public service journalism’. Most organisations are lost in their need...
Human Rights Justice: Methods of Testimonial Therapy to Generate Human Rights Movement – II
In the second and final part of the research article, Amit, our Editor-at-Large (Europe) examines the methods of Testimonial Therapy (TT) to generate the human rights movement. He tells...
Karnataka Governor Vala has acted like a RSS Pracharak: His Decision to Invite BJP Contradicts Sarkaria Commission
Governor Vajubhai Vala has acted like a RSS pracharak rather than a custodian of the Indian constitution. The most sordid aspect of this whole drama of government making is...
A Felt-Need to Refound the Universities That Failed us
India’s colonial past gave birth to the modern education system where ‘academically trained minds’ were supposed to serve the British Empire, not to challenge them. In fact, in current...
Tripolar Creative Ashtray Tabletop: An Impugnment of Woman by Amazon!
Who gives Amazon India or the artist the explicit right to design a vulgar and obscene artifact? This particular product, so aggrandising described as a “Tripolar Creative Ashtray”, even...
Why is Secularism Misunderstood in India?
The political meaning of secularism is a separation of religion and state, popularly known as separation of the State power and the Church. Secularism is formed and adopted in western countries...
The Right to Life, Liberty and Security: Has India Failed to keep its Human Rights Obligations?
The growing number of extra judicial killings, rampant discrimination against vulnerable groups, tribal and Adivasi, including minorities and legal immunity (of perpetrators) Custodial torture, inherent in daily police practice, still remains...
The Politics of Human Rights in India: Past, Present and Future
Human rights no longer dominate the intellectual and policy making in India as it was until 1970s. However, recent invocation of human right’s language by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his...