Point Blank 7 Get Involved, Stay Informed
[By Shashi Tharoor] NEW DELHI – A number of seemingly unrelated controversies in India actually have one important element in common: They all relate to criminal offenses codified by India’s ...
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Talking Points
The Limits of Capitalism with Communist Characteristics
[By Brahma Chellaney] NEW DELHI – As US President Barack Obama prepares to embark on an historic visit to Cuba, the future of the communist-ruled island is the subject of ...
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Citizens Speak : How is the Indian union budget 2016-2017?
Answer by Sanyam Gupta: FISCAL DEFICIT The government had set an ambitious target of reaching a 3.5% fiscal deficit from 3.9% last year though this target is hugely expected to ...
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National Affairs
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She Is The Ideal Role Model ‘Veer Nari’ – Bimla Devi
[By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)] Dwarhat though a non-descript small town along the serpentine road, amidst cedar and pine trees, is a heart-captivating destination in the Kumaon hills with numerous ...
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Two Iconic Five Star Marshals of The Indian Armed Forces
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Why India’s persecuted tribes are marking their alternative independence day
LetsTalkChange
Time To Narrow The Gender Chasm in National Income Accounting
|By Simran Brar| I read about Adam Smith and his iconic metaphor of the “invisible hand” for the first time as a teenager in the late ’90s. The “invisible hand” refers ...
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No action as mercury still poisons fish in West Bengal
Going to buy fish today? If you are living in India’s West Bengal state, where fish is a daily staple for millions of people whether rich or poor, beware! More ...
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Defending the right to watch violent porn – how can that be justice for April Jones?
[By Mari Marcel Thekaekara| New Internationalist] Rape and sexual violence in India pop up everyday, routinely now, in our newspapers. People have become blasé about ordinary rape. Yes. I did just ...
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Building A Life Beyond Manual Scavenging
[By Elsa Mathews] Alwar – Sunita Nanda, 30, still remembers the day she was thrown out of the ‘jajman’s’ (patron) house. She recounts the painful encounter, “As a newly married ...
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9 Things to Remember About Coming Out as LGBTQIA+
“I think there are some really important discussions to have about why disclosing aspects of personal identity can be challenging but important for all kinds of people, why the concept ...
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India: Cinema That Is “Real” And Entertaining
[By Shwetha George] Kottayam (WFS) – In Basupura, a small hamlet somewhere in the countryside in south India, Madevappa and his wife, Devakka, live a quiet life with their school-going ...
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This Village in India Plants 111 Trees Every Time a Girl is Born
[By Zsuzsanna Gal] In an atmosphere where every morning newspapers greet people with stories of girls being tormented, raped, killed or treated like a doormat, India’s beautiful small village communities ...
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Rape, marriage, and rights
A marriage contract shouldn’t be a license to rape ones wife, yet in many parts of the world today it remains effectively that. Far from being new, these developments form ...
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Is it the end of AIDS in 2030?
[By Syed Mohammad Afsar] Geneva – Writing on World AIDS Day a few years ago, I had shared the story of Seema (name changed), a young mother, and her daughter ...
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Bottled Risk
[By Brahma Chellaney] BERLIN – Over the last 15 years, the bottled-water industry has experienced explosive growth, which shows no sign of slowing. In fact, bottled water – including everything ...
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Healthcare For Women In Times Of Distress
Delhi (WFS) — Millions have been affected by the devastating earthquake that jolted Nepal on April 25, 2015. With half a million homes destroyed, and hundreds of thousands more damaged, ...
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What’s This Hoopla Around The Little Pink Pill
[By Elayne Clift] Vermont (WFS) – Flibanserin – perhaps derived from “female”, “libido” and “answer” – is Big Pharma’s latest controversial innovation designed, it seems, to respond to women’s quest ...
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Indian Prisoners Of War Holed Till Death In Pakistan
|By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)| Capturing prisoners of war (POW) is as old as man kind and warfare. In the earliest history, men captured used to be either slaughtered or ...
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AFSPA in Kashmir: A Battle of Perceptions
[By Adfar Shah] Tripura’s Manik Sarkar government’s decision on revoking AFSPA recently was much hailed in public and intellectual circles. However, the ripple effect as expected was the fresh revival ...
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Repealing AFSPA – Is that the need of the hour?
By Riti Sinha 55 years ago, in the face of rising political dissent in the North-east, India decided to add to its laws, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). ...
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OROP: Modi govt must know that ‘Acche Din’ will last only with ‘Acche Karm’
[By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)] At 3pm on 23 August 2015, my neighbour Brig IS Lamba, veteran ASC Officer, and I, like many others took the Metro to reach Jantar ...
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Dr. Jeewan Jyoti Sidana – Transforming education in Punjab
Dr. Jeewan Jyoti Sidana runs a chain of educational institutes in Amritsar of India’s Punjab State which covers 100 villages of the border district and who has become a beacon of ...
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Celebrating the Spirit of Women Entrepreneurship
It's time to celebrate the spirit of women entrepreneurship and the fact that more women are taking the plunge despite the cultural biases.
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This Policewoman Has Zero Tolerance For Domestic Violence
Ramallah (WFS) — As the head of the Palestinian Civil Police Family & Juvenile Protection Unit, Lieutenant Colonel Wafa Muammar, the highest-ranking female officer in the country’s police force, is ...
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Why I travel alone – The thoughts of a solo traveller
[By Esha Harkisandas] Not everyone who wanders is lost. Sometimes you have to wander to find, to go through a process of self- discovery. As cliched as it sounds, the ...
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Men Stand Tall Against Child Marriage
[By Chetna Verma] Agra – The young thrive on dreams for a brighter tomorrow. Most aspire to have a comfortable home, a rewarding career and a loving family – and ...
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Men For Women At The Panchayat
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Meet Men Who Shun Dowry, Share Property With Their Wives
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Woes of men as non-custodian parents
Environment
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The Paris climate summit must go beyond mere declarations of intent
[By Christian Gollier,Jean Tirole] As the Paris 2015 climate talks get under way, the fear is growing that this international conference will be reduced to a simple list of good ...
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Wealth in waste? Using industrial leftovers to offset climate emissions
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Let’s make sure that cleaning up the world’s water doesn’t send our climate targets down the gurgler
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Let’s Talk About Rhinos
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Opinion: Women breaking barriers to clean energy
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This Village in India Plants 111 Trees Every Time a Girl is Born
World News
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How to Stop Terrorism in Europe
[By Brahma Chellaney] BERLIN – Europe is under pressure. Integrating asylum-seekers and other migrants – 1.1 million in Germany alone in 2015 – into European society poses a major challenge, ...
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Since ancient Greece, the Olympics and bribery have gone hand in hand
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Britain votes to leave the EU, here’s what happens next
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Asia’s Troubled Water
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Confessions Of A Pakistani National
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Brussels attacks show just how desperate Islamic State has become
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The Limits of Capitalism with Communist Characteristics
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Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on Terror