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  • Why be Afraid of Being called a ‘Feminist’?

    Prasenjit Bose, Pragoti.org

    The passage of the constitution amendment bill to introduce 33% reservation for women in parliament and state assemblies in the Rajya Sabha is a progressive and substantive step towards the...

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  • Subsidising US Suppliers: The Nuclear Liability Bill

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick 3 March 2010

    The Congress-led UPA Government has placed the Nuclear Liability Bill as one of 36 legislations it wants the Parliament to pass this session.

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  • The Real Mossad Vs Spielberg’s Mossad

    Prabir Purkayastha Newsclick 23 Feb 2010

    The Dubai assassination of a senior Hamas figure has created a diplomatic embarrassment for...

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  • The Golden Cage of Stardom

    Sudhanva Deshpande, Samaj Prabodhan Patrika

    In the end, then, Mumbai got to see My Name is Khan and the Sena had to retreat, tail between legs.Even 24 hours before the film was finally exhibited, this seemed unlikely.

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  • MNS Goons and Australian Skinheads – Why are they Similar?

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, 10 February 2010

    Hate and dividing communities is the hallmark of right wing politics, wherever they are. Whether it is in Mumbai, bashing north Indian taxi drivers or Australian skinheads attacking Indian...

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  • Genetic Modification Technologies: Who should Control it?

    Amit Sengupta, Newsclick, 06 February 2010

    While the controversy on genetically modified foods rages in India, very similar issues are being debated in many parts of the world.While the controversy on genetically modified foods rages in...

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  • Book Review: Alladi Memorial Lecture

    N. R. Madhava Menon, The Hindu, December 2009

    Alladi Memorial Lecture is collection of essays on Constitutional law and related matters by eminent jurists and academicians.

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  • Austerity of Panic

    Seema Mustafa, The frontpage

    It is strange what happens to the Congress party every time it hits an obstacle. The party managers, or should one say Sonia Gandhi managers, hit the panic button and go into a senseless...

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  • The masks are off

    J Sri Raman, The Frontpage, 11 September 2009

     

    It is tragic-comic to see the traumatising effect of the Jaswant episode on the same purveyors of jejune punditry. It is excruciatingly entertaining to hear them...

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  • Flying frogs and the world's oldest mushroom: a decade of Himalayan discovery

      Felicity Carus, The Guardian, 10 August 2009

    A pretty ultramarine blue flower which changes colour in response to temperature, a flying frog and the world's oldest mushroom preserved in amber are among the 350 new species discovered in...

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  • Big quake hits off India's Andamans, no tsunami

    Sanjit Kumar Roy, Reuters, 11 August 209

    A major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands early on Tuesday, but a tsunami alert for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later...

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  • The Real Sell Out

    J.Sri Raman, The Frontpage, 22 July 2009

    New Delhi is under pressure to get its nuclear act together in time for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's scheduled visit to India on July 20-21. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's...

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