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For a snapshot of how the all-male Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has kept its women’s wing relegated to a domestic role and away from all issues of gender justice, visit the three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, which was inaugurated by the organisation’s chief, Mohan Bhagwat, at Chhatarpur in Delhi ...

Human Rights Watch identified a total of 430 destroyed buildings in three villages of Maungdaw District from an analysis of very high resolution satellite imagery recorded on the mornings of 22 October, 3 and 10 November 2016.

This inaugural 2016 report is a first-of-its-kind effort to bring together research and advocacy groups from various countries in the region to form a “South Asia Collective” that will periodically track and document the situation of minority rights, country by country. The report utilizes a common UN minority rights framework that looks at various indicators such as identity, culture, discrimination, participation in public life, and access to socio-economic rights to assess the situation of minority rights in the region. The current report covers six countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

That the social development issues, health, education, ecology, rights of dalits, adivasis, women, minorities and the disabled, human rights of the oppressed sections of society- should form the core of social vision of the Left was the subject of the Durgbai Deshmukh Chair he held to work on this book. The PB Thesis that brings the issues of ‘social left’ and ‘cultural left’ to the centre of Left politics through a dialogue on framing of a five-dimensional, People’s Charter to achieve a socialist vision for Indian people and begin a process of reinventing the Indian Left is a great gift of our departed colleague not only to us but to the people of India.

Fifty years ago, an anti-cow slaughter mob nearly stormed Parliament House. Those who launched that attack constitute the core of the ruling establishment today