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After Bangalore now Ahmedabad has been rocked by blasts taking a toll of 45 innocent lives and maiming a hundred others. Despite the oft unmasked state complicity, its collusion with, and its absolution of terror rained on the minorities since 1992, not one of its architects, promoters and practitioners has ever been punished let alone pilloried. This is tantamount to continuation of terror as institutional policy and official statecraft. That means, the state is determined not to (…)

[InfoChange News & Features, May 2008 >InfoChange News & Features, May 2008]
The Yamuna River is the site for spanking new stadia, sports villages, malls and multiplexes. Around 22 lakh people reside in the extended floodplains of east Delhi. Can this population withstand the new colonisation that is threatening to invade the floodplains? An interview with Dunu Roy of the Delhi-based Hazards Centre
There was a time when the Yamuna flowed by the Red Fort. Then she changed course (…)

The Hindu, May 26, 2008
Vegetarianism, tolerance and discrimination
tolerate .v 1. allow the existence or occurrence of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference (Concise Oxford English Dictionary)
One of the central tenets of the Indian constitution is an injunction on the state to refrain from discriminating on the grounds of religion and caste. Recently, however, the judiciary has failed to recognise enforced vegetarianism as indirect discrimination, which (…)