myths perpetrated by governments can be exposed through consistent public campaigns
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: R. Ramakumar on the myths behind the Aadhaar project
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Supriyo Sen’s 2009 film on the Wagah border ritual
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The Forgotten Woman by Dilip Mehta
10 August 2011The Forgotten Woman by Dilip Mehta is a documentary on widows living in Vrindavan. It recounts the story of social indifference towards thousands of Hindu widows, abandoned by their families and left to fend for themselves in a ’holy’ city in Uttar Pradesh.
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New truths, or biases on Bangladesh’s war of liberation
10 August 2011Two book reviews of ’Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose’
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A constitutional value for privacy
by , 9 August 2011The notion of privacy has been under attack in recent times. Information technology, with its seemingly limitless capacity to hold, and give access to, all kinds of data and details about peoples, places, happenings and scores of other facts and fiction, has overwhelmed concerns about privacy. Facebook and its kin, though of remarkably recent origin, have already spun a web of forgetfulness around the significance of privacy.
