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A video of Protest by Bombay’s Feminist Groups out side the Times of India (the owners of Mumbai Mirror) - April 18, 2009
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See Also a newsreport re the protest:
The Hindu
Women’s groups protest newspaper report on rape case
Ananth Krishnan
— Photo: Vivek Bendre
Protesting a violation: Students of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences demonstrating in front of the Times of India building for sensationalising the story of a rape victim in the Mumbai Mirror.
MUMBAI: Eight (…)

UTHR(J) Information Bulletin No. 47
0. Shrouded in Lies: An Introductory Note
A young mother is injured and her three month old baby killed by shell fragments as she breastfeeds the child in the government declared no fire zone.
Parents hide their children in roughly dug bunkers to escape LTTE press gangs who comb the no-fire zone for conscripts.
A woman loses her husband to sniper fire and the toddler he was carrying too drowns when they attempt to wade across a lagoon to escape the (…)

The Sunday Magazine / The Hindu, March 22, 2009 Forgetting slaughter
Seven years after the engineered communal hate and carnage, Gujarat remains a bitterly divided society…
Only when there is remorse and healing, ‘they’ and ‘we’ will together be able to authentically ‘move on’.
Seven years have lapsed since blood spilt on streets across Gujarat and fires rose to the skies, in a terrifying inferno of engineered communal hate. Wounds refuse to heal, people of diverse faiths live side (…)

Orissa: Tragedy Continues
The after-effects of the anti Christian violence (2007) in Kandhamal district of Orissa are not over, so to say. Recently the Archbishop Cheenath of the state said that the elections in the Kandhmamal district should be postponed as the refugees living in the camps are not able to return. The reason is that many of them who returned were threatened by the local Bajrang Dal workers and associates. They were told to renounce Christianity, convert to Hinduism pay the (…)