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The Times of India, 25 May 2008
Nudity isn’t obscenity, it’s just art
Shashi Tharoor
It is not often that an individual judge in our country wins the plaudits of the artistic and creative community. But that is what Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the Delhi High Court has just done. His landmark judgement of May 8, upholding a number of petitions submitted by the great Indian painter Maqbool Fida (M F) Husain, not only ensures that justice has been done to an authentic national icon, but (…)

A number of armed conflicts smolder in India’s Northeastern border region. For instance, the Naga rebellion, which began in the 1950s, is one of the world’s oldest unresolved armed conflicts.

Prime Minister’s High Level Committee, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. | November 2006

Economic and Political Weekly, 26 July 2008
Built on the logic of “development”, big dams have wreaked havoc on indigenous communities in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh with regular flooding. By pursuing predatory development the central and state governments are equally culpable of visiting disaster on the region.
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initial findings of the Independent People’s Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India that took place in Delhi at the end of September 2007