The Booker prize-winning author on her essay The Doctor and the Saint and more
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India: Saba Naqvi Interviews Arundhati Roy on B.R. Ambedkar
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India: An Open letter to Sonia Gandhi
3 March 2014It was a breath of fresh air reading your public statement on the issue of homosexuality in the backdrop of the recent Supreme Court judgement upholding Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises homosexual acts. Ironically, this Apex Court judgement of 11.12.2013 had overturned the 2009 Delhi High Court judgement on the issue. Naturally there have been popular protests—and not just by Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender (LGBT) groups—all over the country and abroad. A large section of civil society appears to be in favour of decriminalising homosexual acts.
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India: Hitting The Poor, Pampering The Rich - Disaster on four wheels
by , 3 March 2014Indian society will pay dearly for this artificial state-induced automobilisation—through greater road congestion, slower commuting speeds, horrendous levels of air pollution, widespread health damage, and increased fatalities and injuries from road accidents. India has one of the highest rates of deaths from road accidents, estimated at over 140,000 a year . . .
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India: Women workers in Delhi’s electronics industry in the late 1990’s | Amrita Chhachhi
3 March 2014A 1997 paper on women workers in the electronics industry in the Okhla industrial area of Delhi.
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India: 1990 Statement by SVA (Movement Against Communalism) following the arrest of LK Advani
3 March 2014
