99% of Indian Journalism Is Stenorgaphy

The journalism in action and in question The question of media and control is very serious and complex to maintain sanctity and honesty is toughest of all jobs as media person in situation where ground reporting is not encouraged, corporate interest overpowers everything. And also the communal presence in the media has been effectively influencing the nature of the public discourse not only in particular state but across the country.In...

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Mangalore Attack - Detailed Story

Violence is the weapon of choice for the impotent. Those who don't have much power often attempt to control or influence others by using violence- Hannah Arendt, political philosopherA repeat of the infamous 2009 pub attack in Mangalore, the hindutva hot bed in Karnataka, was played out on a birthday partying group of students this Saturday with more than 40 activists of the Hindu Jagran Vedike pouncing on them, molesting, slapping the women, and...

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Discrimination of RTE Kids in Karnataka - An Analytical View

The recent incident in Karnataka which shocked the state and civil society of cutting of hair of poor students admitted under Right to Education (RTE) to differentiate them with other shows a deeper tension within the society.Parents and Dalit groups protest Outside School - Pic by Imran Khan The story of these students is not stories from margin and hence must not be read in obscurity. The private schools are opposing the idea of RTE and...

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Abdul Qaudeer- Ghost of a Communal Riot

Abdul Qadeer in his hospital bed. Pic by Imran Khan In 1990, a month after Lal Krishna Advani’s Rathyatra sent seismic shocks across India’s secular fabric, polarising it across the fault lines of communal identity, Hyderabad witnessed one of its deadliest riots. When the mindless slaughter and arson which started on December 8, were quelled four days later by the military, it left over 150 people dead.Abdul Quadeer is one of the ghosts left...

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Deconstructing The Defiance of Yeddyurappa

Last week, the BJP finally gave in to former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa’s 10 month-long campaign to unseat Sadanada Gowda and installed Jagadish Shettar as Karnataka’s 27th chief minister. Catapulted to power in August 2011 by the very Yeddyurappa, who has now orchestrated his exit (to block then rival Shettar from getting the top post), Gowda dutifully carried out the difficult mandate that he was entrusted with by the party high command...

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RAW - India's External Intelligence - An Insiders Story

( Source- Outlook Magazine)Just finished reading VK Sigh's insightful book on the working of one of the premier external Spy agency in the world. Though RAW was created late unlike its Pakistani counter part ISI in 1950's, it has managed to prove itself a formidabble force with in a short span of time. However, the author of the book laments that, much of its history is shrouded in secrecy, which even the senior most officers working for the...

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