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Attack on Free Speech – UPA’s fascism
(Editorial Comment-The Centre for Internet & Society has reported that two posts related to recent Assam riots published on our site have been blocked by the Government of India. At the stroke of the midnight hour UPA govt decides to block twitter handles of many who dissent and challenge their...
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Fake DM cause mass exodus of journalist Indians from Twitter
August 20, 2012 | Agencies Rumours spread through direct messages (DMs) have spooked the journalist Indian fraternity in India, who, fearing a repeat of outrage under the banner of RadiaGate, are contemplating deactivating their twitter accounts. The DMs are reported to claim release of the second tranche of the radia tapes...
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Assam: Competitive Religiosity and Media Narrative
What essentially started as yet another episodic violence between largely Hindu Bodo tribes and predominantly Bangla Muslim peasantry in couple of districts of Assam (part of a long standing conflict rooted in complex socio-economic milieu) is now threatening to metamorphose in to a pan Indian strife reviving festering communal faultlines....
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Panoramic Charter for Hindutva?
In my last post, I had discussed the prospect of all schools of Hindutva thought working towards more concrete goals in order to make the Conservative movement more relatable to the electorate and the masses. The spirit behind my post in a nutshell was this- an attempt must be made...
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Assam Riots: How Should India Deal with Illegal Migrants?
Like any other region of India, Assam too has seen large scale migration throughout history. Migrants from both the sub-continent and the east were accommodated and assimilated in the larger Assamese society. For instance, Ahoms who ruled Assam for over 600 years were descendants of ethnic Tai people from Burma....
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UP Urban Local Body Polls – Do they tell anything
With the announcement of local body election results, the exultation amongst BJP supporters is palpable. BJP has done well in the local bodies where it is set to win 10 out of 12 municipal corporations. It has done well in second grade municipalities also, though not in the manner of...
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Try the middle stump guard
While facing a lefty who’s throwing in-swingers, it’s best not to take the offstump guard, it’s just a matter of time before you would be trapped leg before. No, I am not trying to give batting lessons, just responding to a chota mooh bada paragraph (reproduced below) “some day when the...
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Blow to Modi: Supporters accused of sneezing in public
Published: 10 June, 2012 Source: Agencies The recent act of sneezing in public by five supporters of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi has attracted sharp criticism from various quarters. Secular journalist Darkha Bhatt says “This is a sad reflection of the society we live in. Unnamed sources in the Congress party...
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Historians in a bubble
As defined by its constitution its primary object is the “promotion and encouragement of the scientific study of Indian history”. That is the main objective of the Indian History Congress, a body with 9,000 members as claimed by its website. What does “scientific study” mean? Here’s what Wikipedia says –...
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Moment Of Gloating
Well, a very warm evening to all the enlightened readers of CRI. Now I have been keeping horribly busy for quite some time, but work must make way for important things, which is gloating on the interwebs. So without further ado, first item, By now most of you must be...
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The Akbarabadi Mosque Controversy- Court Drama
About two weeks ago, on July 25, 2012, I was in the court of the Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, waiting for a PIL of mine to be heard. I wasn’t aware that on the very same day, the Court was scheduled to hear the Akbarabadi Mosque...
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What Caused the Ladakh Incident?
10 May 2012 will be marked as one of the lowest point in the Officer-Jawan relationship in an Army Unit when troops of an Artillery Unit undergoing training related activity in Ladakh got involved in fisticuffs with the Officers of their Unit resulting in hospitalization of three persons including the...
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In Defence of the Man
The BJP’s constitution, yes there is one, limits the holder of the President’s post to a single term. That at least is the rule, but of course there are exceptions. And that exception if press speculation is to be noted is Nitin Gadkari. Why Nitin you ask! Is he exceptional in any sense of the word...
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Inclusive Growth: Impossible without Manufacturing
‘Inclusive Growth’ and ‘Aam Aadmi’ have been two of the most commonly used slogans of UPA. The Eleventh five year plan is also titled ‘Inclusive Growth’. So let us try and define what Inclusive Growth should really mean. Why Growth? What kind of Growth ? Growth is not just an...