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Afghanistan’s women fear Taliban’s return to power would ’wipe away’ hard-won achievements of past 11 years

On IPTA (Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association) and PWA (Progressive Writers’ Association) in the first year after independence, from Habib Tanvir, the theatre maestro’s posthumous memoirs

Online petition re Media Coverage on Disaster in Uttrakhand and Narendra Modi visit to the area.

The Indian government should enact clear laws to ensure that increased surveillance of phones and the Internet does not undermine rights to privacy and free expression, Human Rights Watch said

It is the money of the people that pays for every governmental and semi-governmental car, building, air conditioner, meeting, transportation, food, luxury, waste, lifestyle, foreign travels, shopping, and so forth. Maybe people do not notice, but the bulldozer demolishing their homes, the RAB or police baton hitting their heads, the muscle-flexing of the ministers, MPs, and bureaucrats, and the pageantry, the new buildings, and the expensive cars are all made possible because of their money. The government leaves everyone indebted with its promises and resources, but the source of that money is neither governmental nor private. It is people’s money.