Art v/s Obscenity: Bombay High Court overturns seizure of …
Nov 9, 2024 · Only recently the Bombay High Court, in B.K. Polimex India (P) Ltd. v. Union of India, overturned the Assistant Commissioner of Customs’ (ACC) confiscation of artworks by renowned artists F.N. Souza and Akbar Padamsee. The ACC deemed the artworks “obscene,” relying solely on his personal interpretation and disregarding expert opinions and …
Chokhamela’s Bhakti: the past transforms into a radical present
Jun 12, 2023 · The Warkari (Varkari) tradition goes back centuries in Maharashtra; within it lies a deeply inclusive tradition and spirituality, a questioning evening that has seen the emergence of women and men poet-philosophers, all of whom spoke of transforming society, wrote and spoke in the language of the people, Marathi, and drew practioners of the Bhakri-Sufi faiths.
How Hindus and Muslims together built India’s composite culture
May 5, 2018 · Speech by former vice-president of India, Hamid Ansari at the Australian National University, Canberra Image: https://www.outlookindia.com Allow me to begin with some recollections. In the 80s of the last century, I spent four happy and purposeful years in this city, a resident of Mugga Way, travelling across the length and breadth of the continent, […]
How vote splitting by VBA shapes Maharashtra election outcomes
Jun 5, 2024 · The 2024 Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections demonstrated some impact of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) in fragmenting the anti-BJP and anti-Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) vote base.
15 years on, memories of the Kalinganagar massacre still haunt
Jan 8, 2021 · Adivasis (indigenous communities of India) assembled in large numbers at Jajpur in Odisha on January 2, 2021 to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the Kalinganagar massacre wherein armed forces allegedly killed at least 13 Adivasi men, women and children allegedly to protect the Odisha administration and the Tata Steel plant.
A Kashmiri Pandit fact-checks The Kashmir Files - SabrangIndia
Mar 22, 2022 · What was the sequence of events in 1989 and 1990? Could you describe the overall atmosphere (fear and intimidation) that prevailed? It actually started from 1988, when there were some bomb blasts on vehicles/ jeeps marked ‘Bharat Sarkar / Government of India’ used by government officers.
Lessons Unlearned: Nine years after the Thorat Committee report
Jan 25, 2016 · In 2007, then prime minister Manmohan Singh set up the Thorat Committee Report following grave and widespread allegations of differential treatment and discrimination against students belonging to what is commonly regarded as students from marginalized sections of society as also students from the Adivasi sections of society. Dalit students also known as students from […]
MOE: Alarming dropout rates among SC, ST, and OBC
Dec 6, 2023 · On December 4, responding to multiple queries regarding the challenges faced by SC, ST, and OBC students in higher education institutions and private schools, Minister Subhas Sarkar in this winter session of the Lok Sabha presented statistics that reveal the harrowing figures about dropouts by marginalised students studying in central universities, Indian Institutes of Technology, and Indian ...
Eddelu Karnataka, understanding a unique civil society …
Jun 19, 2023 · The author, a senior activist and vital part of the Karnataka civil society experiment in the 2023 state assembly elections, documents the experience and journey in a four-part exploration
The environmental impact of the Sardar Sarovar Dam
Jul 6, 2020 · In part two of a three-part series, we look at the widespread ecological damage upstream and downstream of the dam and the loss of flora and fauna
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