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With Suu Kyi silent, and the international community collectively golf-clapping as Burma edges toward freedom, the Rohingya are nearly friendless in their displaced-person camps and grim ghettos, with few real champions other than a handful of Muslim countries (Saudi Arabia, Malaysia) not known for their capacity to deal with humanitarian crises.

As we commemorate another Republic Day, We The People proclaim that the parade of the powerful at Rajpath does not represent us. We The People, Reclaim our Republic. This January 26, join us for a march ‘Of the People, By the People, For the People’

I am an evacuee from Futaba-town, Fukushima prefecture and now living in Tokyo, a place that I have relatives and go to Nuclear-free demonstration every Friday. At this time, I would like to tell you, both countries’ Prime Ministers regarding India-Japan Nuclear Agreement.

Protest dharnas in Delhi after 1989 became an oxymoron — agitations against the state in accordance with State-made rules. Contained within a half km-stretch at Jantar Mantar, inconveniencing nobody. So, ‘disruptive’ dharnas should be welcomed if we are serious about shaking up the status quo. It’s the rhetoric around the Aam Aadmi Party’s dharna that disturbs. One, it demands accountability of the Delhi Police to a Minister rather than to citizens. Two, it defends prejudice. And, it’s selling women’s rights short.

“The Indian high commission in Uganda is involved in sex trafficking, that’s why the Indian government is covering this up". Somnath Bharti NB: For Delhi's Law Minister to say this, with no rebuttal from the Union Government, is scandalous. To use documentation in the way the AAP leaders have done is to deliberately mislead the public. It is difficult to believe this is the law minister speaking. Far worse for his party is their conduct over the entire Khirkee affair. Whatever be the (…)