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Sunanda K Datta-Ray has a brilliant take on modern day racism. She says, the elite Indians were always global anyway. Its the rest of us that still have not been accepted.
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By Doreen Carvajal / International Herald Tribune
Paris: The rush of job recruiting ads on MonsterIndia.com tells the story of the latest class of workers to watch their trade start migrating to another continent.
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Undertrial: Naxalism: (K) Voices from Bhopalpatnam
Quite an insightful political blog..
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Racial Profiling Pulls Indians From Plane
Dutch authorities detain 12 Northwest Airlines passengers for 30 hours
Praful Bidwai (internews)
The 12 Indian men, who were arrested and detained for 30 hours by Dutch authorities following a security alert on a Northwest Airlines from Amsterdam to Mumbai earlier this week, were victims of racial prejudice. All of them are [...]

Indian State to Bypass Microsoft ‘Monopoly’ - New York Times
NEW DELHI, Aug.29 — In a new attack on multinational corporations, the Communist government in India’s southern state of Kerala is campaigning to eliminate Microsoft from use in public institutions, just weeks after it imposed a ban on Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
As part of a drive against [...]

NDTV says it irks the Jewish community in Mumbai. That such sick reporting, because it should agitate even the staff of NDTV, Jews or not!
Hitler’s Cross irks Mumbai’s Jewish community - NDTV.com - News on Hitler’s Cross irks Mumbai’s Jewish community
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 (Mumbai):

A restaurant in Navi Mumbai with the name Hitler’s Cross, has [...]

A spectre haunting India
Aug 17th 2006 | DANTEWADA DISTRICT, CHHATTISGARH
From The Economist print edition
Maoist rebels are fighting a brutal low-level war with the Indian state
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GANESH UEIKE, secretary of the West Bastar Divisional Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), seems a gentle, rather academic, man, who does not suit his green combat [...]

The Hindu : Front Page : It is like a fatwa, says Taslima
KOLKATA: Controversial Bangladeshi writer-in-exile Taslima Nasreen is yet to receive an official intimation but has learnt “from authentic sources in New Delhi” that her application for the renewal of residential permit in the country that is to expire on Thursday has been rejected [...]

We’ll keep N-weapon options open: PM : HindustanTimes.com
With an impassioned defence of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday largely swung the Rajya Sabha in his favour on the issue that had, at one stage, threatened a combined Left-BJP campaign against the government.
By the time he was through, the PM had secured [...]

Indo-US nuke deal infringes on our independence’
August 14, 2006 13:11 IST
Last Updated: August 14, 2006 18:33 IST
Eminent nuclear scientists have issued an appeal to India’s parliamentarians, asking them to insist on the ground rules for the Indo-US nuclear deal at this stage itself, since they believe the deal, in the form approved by the US [...]

A very comprehensive report on how MSM covered Nepal. Highly recommended!
Ambush Journalism on Nepal
by Pratyush Chandra and Bela Malik
A spate of print media reports, mainly in the Times of India, but also elsewhere (kantipuronline.com), point to tendencies in the media that have their provenance in geopolitical games. All the reports taken up here [...]

This link was sent to me by a journalist friend in India. It has been 25 years since I left home, but nothing has quite prepared me for this: the unholy bed partnership we now have with the US and Israel –in the name of democracy, progress, globalization and all that makes OUR worlds [...]

Found the story on a public forum posted by Abhishek Srivastava
Contact the author at guru.abhishek(at)gmail.com
Fake Awards & Special Journalists of our times!

When we talk of journalism, journalistic activism, media’s social responsibility and accountability, let’s never forget about the journalism awards which are being given anually in the name of many renowned journalists, sponsored by big [...]

Vinoda Mehta’s scathing criticism of Indian Middle Class in Outlook, is an excellent piece of conscentious journalism. This is just in context of the issue of reservation. Mark he ends the essay, saying “It could be the fire next time”!
Eyes, Ears And Minds Closed
Why is India’s middle class so hostile to the empowerment [...]

Thanks, Satya for sending this out (in response to an earlier blog entry on reservation policy in India! It was written for “Indian Manifesto” mailing list at UMass., Amherst.

Dear All,
1) Firstly, reservation is NOT the solution.The solutions are universal education including higher education and jobs for all.
Reservation is nothing but a futile effort at managing [...]

For India’s secular and democratic political forces, now is the time to prepare for a principled offensive against “political Hinduism,” or Hindutva. The political party engaged in spreading Hindutva, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), is now in an identity crisis. A timely analysis by Sankar Ray.
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Fact finding report on killing of tribal protesters in Kallinga Nagar, Orissa. It is posted by Sandip Dasverma on Ornet list.
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Lets do a small news analysis. News item is published by BBC. Click here to read the story.
The headline says: “Woman ‘ordered to marry rapist’”. That’s news. Sure.
Next, lets read on.
“An Indian woman who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law is now being ordered by a Muslim council of community elders to marry him.”

That’s [...]

Will Time apologize?

The Time Magazine’s “Asian Hero” Gautam Goswami’s bail plea has been finally rejected. Goswami, whom Time said had the reputation for upholding the law, has been evading arrests in a multi-million dollar flood-relief scam!
Does the media have a duty to apologize even for the strongest opinions gone haywire? Or should it imply that [...]

WhoseMedia.com is co-sponsoring a Film screening today
Kaya Taran (Chrysalis): A FILM BY SASHI KUMAR
DATE & TIMING: May 10, 2005: 6-9pm. Screening followed by Q & A with Sashi Kumar.
LOCATION: Cambridge Community Center, Room 1205, University of Maryland, College Park.
Directions: http://www.parking.umd.edu/themap/
Visitor parking is available in the Regent’s Garage and there is a parking lot nearby.
METRO: Green [...]