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The Telegraph The Hour of The Saints
Election 2009 will be remembered as the first serious attempt by the BJP to create a Hindu vote bank, writes Meera Nanda
The Bharatiya Janata Party has worked hard to create the impression that it is not pursuing an aggressive Hindutva agenda in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. It has made good governance, development and security its election plank, and has promised to give us a “majboot neta, nirnayak sarkar”. Old Hindutva favourites like the Ram (…)

After the killing of Laxmanananda Saraswati on 23 August 2008, a Hindutva-led pogrom against Dalit Christians started in the Kandhamal district of Orissa. Till now, according to official reports, 39 people have been killed. Nearly, 50,000 people have been hounded out of their villages, their houses have been gutted and their belongings have been looted. When all this was happening, the Orissa Government and the district administration, to put it mildly, looked the other way and allowed the pogrom to continue for almost two months.

The government of Pakistan is planning to offer Arab investors legislative cover to protect them from changes in the government, but hardly any attention has yet been given to the need for protecting poor labourers who will be working for Arab corporate agriculture companies

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We, the youth groups, women’s groups, groups working on sexuality as well as disability rights and educationists wish to register our strong protest against the stand taken by the Parliamentary Committee led by Venkaiah Naidu vis a vis sex education [1]. We genuinely believe that education is a process that enables learners to access information, analyze their life experiences and understand principles of equality, equity, non-discrimination and justice. Since sexuality is an important dimension of the lives and experiences of individuals, a dimension that starts manifesting itself in ways that are positive and negative during childhood and is a significant aspect of adolescence, we firmly believe that sexuality education needs to be included in the school curriculum so as to inform and empower young people.

There are several myths and irrational notions about sexuality education in minds of many. It is appalling to see the learned committee of Parliamentarians (who people have empowered to take decisions on their behalf) also subscribing to them.