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After mushroom growth of seminaries, organised religious groups and some alleged extremist outfits are now making significant inroads into the education sector by opening and operating English medium schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata to compete with the conventional private educational institutions.

Television documentary about the expelled maoist Sabyasachi Panda’s letter to the maoist party leaders in India on the question of violence and democracy.

This is a film by Deba Ranjan Sarangi about the killing of 17 innocent adivasis, six of them minor, by paramilitary forces on 28th June 2012 at Basaguda area of Chhatishgarh.

Ten years after the Gujarat killings, a special court in Ahmedabad has found 32 people guilty of premeditated violence in the massacre of 99 Muslims in Naroda Patia, one of the many murderous sprees that made up the pogrom of 2002. This is a landmark judgment because in India the instigators of murderous communal violence are almost never held to account. The court’s judgment is a landmark because it highlights the enormity of the evil of 2002 and it demonstrates how close we were to endorsing the political class’s sense of murderous entitlement by being prepared to look the other way and ’move on’

Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1995. It was among the first things the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition sarkar did on coming to power in Maharashtra.
You might think the news has yet to reach ’em posh people who still refer to their quarter of the metropolis as ’South Bombay’. In fact, it’s SoBo now!
Could SoBo symbolise a cosmopolitan resistance to the chauvinism of the Senas? Banish the thought, the SoBoietis love their Thackerays. (Perhaps Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, too.) Call it the mutual attraction of the bold and the beautiful.