The decision to introduce the Bhagavad Gita in the Haryana school curriculum goes against India’s secular character and its present policy of education
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Indoctrination in the guise of education
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India’s vote against the right of United Nations staff to benefits for spouses of the same sex (selected editorials)
30 March 2015The mix of bigotry, cowardice and pseudo-logic shown by the Indian government in voting against, and then losing the vote, on the right of United Nations staff to benefits for spouses of the same sex is fostered by the bizarre history of Section 377 of the penal code in India. India happened to be in the august company of Pakistan, China, Nigeria, Syria and Saudi Arabia, among several other nations, in voting against the official recognition of same-sex unions by the UN.
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Bangladesh: Blogger Oyasiqur Rhaman killed in knife attack of 30 March 2015 - reports and statements
30 March 2015Barely a month after the Avijit Roy Roy was hacked to death in in Feb 2105, now a 27 year old blogger Oyasiqur Rhaman was attacked and killed in similar way in Dhaka on 30 March. See reports and statements
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India: Illegal arrest and harassment of women and children at Village Kevadia of Narmada District on 28th March 2015 - Letter to NHRC
by , 30 March 2015Women and children in Kevadia village, Gujarat face atrocities by Gujarat state authorities on 28th March 2015. See the letter from Trupti Shah to NHRC
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Tribute to Tahira Mazhar Ali (Omar Waraich)
30 March 2015When Tahira Mazhar Ali, Pakistan’s pre-eminent women’s rights activist, was a teenager, she encountered the man who would go on to found the country. In 1941 Muhammad Ali Jinnah went to see her father Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, Prime Minister of the then undivided Punjab, at his office on the Upper Mall in Lahore. “I know all about you,” Jinnah said reproachfully when introduced to her. “You prefer Jawaharlal to me.”
