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India: 2009 CSE Study on Contamination of soil and water inside and outside the Union Carbide factory, Bhopal
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I Witness That Faith is the Legacy of One’s Upbringing
by , 1 December 2016A couple of years ago, I paid obeisance at the shrine of Maulvi Mohi-ud-Din in Nihalpora, Pattan. Maulvi Mohi-ud-Din was my maternal grandmother’s spiritual and religious mentor. Visitation at shrines and tombs was an integral part of my grandmother’s religious experience, and I was keen on keeping the tradition, which my grandmother had cherished, alive.
Legend has it that despondency afflicted Akbar Jehan’s parents, Rani jee and Michael Henry [Harry] aka Sheikh Ahmed Hussain, because, (…) -
Audio: Free Speech in a Plural Society | Salil Tripathi
1 December 2016February 2009 audio recording from The British Library
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All these years later, nobody has chronicled the Partition like Ritwik Ghatak
30 November 2016artition did not mean quite the same thing for Punjab and Bengal – the two provinces that got divided on the eastern and western borders of India – but there was one aspect that was common to both: most ordinary citizens found it difficult to accept the fact of partition and their lives changed beyond recognition once they became refugees.
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India: It’s 2016 But The Practice Of Witch-Hunting Still Persists | Pranjali Bhonde
30 November 2016According to some reports, about 1,000 women have been killed across India in the past decade for "practising witchcraft". According to the Assam Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rockybul Hussain, at least 77 persons were killed and 60 others were injured in witch hunting incidents across Assam since 2010, and 35 of them were women. Though official cases have been filed against witch hunters, not much progress has been made due to absence of witnesses.
