Will ‘apologists’ take a bullet for the nation?

Is the Commonwealth’s relevance fading?

Al Jazeera Published on October 30, 2010 Facing several serious human rights issues, the Commonwealth is under pressure to reform or become irrelevant. Commonwealth leaders met in Perth, Australia to discuss ideas meant to keep the organisation relevant and active. Controversially, however, leaders have failed to endorse a report put forward by an Eminent Persons […]

Chakmas, Hajongs starving in Arunachal, says rights body, The Hindu

The Hindu27 April 2020 ‘Their ration cards were seized in 1991’ A Delhi-based rights body has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities in Arunachal Pradesh who have allegedly not been included in the government’s economic package. The Chakmas and Hajongs, displaced in the 1960s by violence […]

Ramachandra Guha: Why Ram Mohun Roy’s colonial-era petition for press freedom is still relevant, Scroll

Scroll 21 June 2020 The Indian press is less free, more vulnerable to state intimidation than at any time since the Emergency. In 1824, the Government of Bengal (which was then in the hands of the East India Company) issued an Ordinance placing strict curbs on the freedom of the press. This gave the government […]