Ram Puniyani In the middle of April 2012 Osmania University (OU) witnessed an unusual violence on the issue of eating beef. A section of dalit students’ were demanding that University Hostels should have beef on the menu. They also organized a beef festival in which a large number of students ate beef biryani. The festivity [...]
Krishnaraj Rao “India is a corrupt country, but I’m not part of the corruption” — this is what each one of us believes. Even a traffic cop who takes a bribe doesn’t think that he is a corrupt man. He believes that he is only doing what is necessary to sustain his family with dignity; [...]
Anil Galgali Sachin Tendulkar not Bat RTI info on fine he paid for Bandra bungalow.Sachin Tendulkar Refuse to give any type of information under RTI Act where he had moved into the bungalow without procuring the mandatory OC. Following a controversy over the “illegal occupancy”, the Master Blaster paid a penalty to the civic authority. [...]
Soutik Biswas India has more than 10,500 drug makers with a domestic turnover of nearly $9bn. Yet, something is rotten with the way drugs are tested and sold in the country. A parliamentary panel investigation has found serious issues with the way approvals for foreign drugs are given and clinical trials are being carried out. Here are [...]
Abdul Khaliq for BeyondHeadlines The Right to Education Act is discussed a lot but very few understand its provisions. There is overwhelming level of ignorance among politicians regarding the Act and its implications. Before I get into the nitty gritty of the subject, I wish to flag a few very relevant facts that should set [...]
Krishnaraj Rao I praised Maharashtra Govt’s GR issued on 27th April as I believed that Maharashtra government had decided to create a a SECOND LINE OF AUTHORITY for the State Information Commissioner – a full-time “Additional Information Commissioner” who would work under the directions of the new Chief Information Commissioner, who would be appointed by the due [...]
Ram Puniyani The UP Assembly elections results (Feb 2012) gave a clear mandate to the Samajvadi Party of Mulayam Singh. Congress was claiming that the results of UP will be a shocker, meaning a surprisingly better performance of Congress. As results came through Congress was nowhere close the claims it made or the results it [...]
Dr. Habib Siddiqui Of all the Muslim rulers who ruled vast territories of India from 712 to 1857 CE, probably no one has received as much condemnation from Western and Hindu writers as Aurangzeb. He has been castigated as a religious Muslim who was anti-Hindu, who taxed them, who tried to convert them, who discriminated [...]
Hilal Ahmed The serious (and not so-serious) claims and counter-claims made by Azam Khan, a senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and the so-called Shahi Imam of Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid, Ahmad Bukhari, on ‘Muslim representation’ in post-election scenario in Uttar Pradesh (UP) can be interpreted in two possible ways. One may argue, in fact quite [...]
Ankit Lal for BeyondHeadlines The month of April was different. Within a span of few days there were campaigns over two issues in the Social Media about which the mainstream media was silent and quite surprisingly the Social Media had the final say both the times. In a country where politicians rule the roost and [...]
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