Archive for May, 2009
Not dismiss all dissent as terrorism: Ilina Sen
Karnataka – Bangalore
Special Correspondent,
The Hindu
‘People protest because they hope to be heard’
‘Our democracy returning to Athenian model’
Bangalore: The ability to “understand unrest and anger” and “not dismiss all dissent as terrorism” is crucial to the health of a democracy, said Ilina Sen, feminist scholar and wife of human rights activist Binayak Sen, who [...]
Doctor in jail: Binayak in need of medical help
Op-ed
by Kuldip Nayar
The Tribune, Chandigarh
Dr. Binayak Sen
TALKING about human rights violations during elections is like raising one’s voice in a hall where the entire audience is shouting without pause. Even otherwise, elections in India are a noisy tamasha.
Still I would like to draw attention to the case of Dr Binayak Sen, a prisoner of [...]
Chinks in the armour : C Uday Bhaskar in DNA
DNA
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C Uday Bhaskar
Thursday, April 30, 2009 21:14 IST
The current political controversy over the Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi and his link with the Bofors payoff case that goes back to the mid 1980’s and the Rajiv Gandhi government on one hand, and the highly emotive statements emerging from Tamil Nadu about [...]
