First posted March 31, 2013 Shame, Guilt, and Violence / James Gilligan James Gilligan is the author of Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as “laboratories” in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between… Read More James Gilligan on Shame, Guilt and Violence
Shatrughan Sinha: अगर ताली कप्तान को तो गाली भी कप्तान को Ajit Anjum: जवाब देने से भागते मोदी Punya Prasun Bajpai: Modi’s Big Mistake: कांग्रेस के नाम पर अपनी ही पोल खोल दी मोदी ने ! ********************************************************** The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror. By Ullekh N.P. Gujarat riots documentary: BBC’s motives are less clear… Read More Shatrughan Sinha: अगर ताली कप्तान को तो गाली भी कप्तान को / Ajit Anjum: जवाब देने से भागते मोदी / Punya Prasun Bajpai: Modi’s Big Mistake: कांग्रेस के नाम पर अपनी ही पोल खोल दी मोदी ने
For a state that has imposed curfews, internet restrictions, and heavy militarisation, the violence has curiously not even shown signs of declining. Source: The Wire Deepanshu Mohan After a harrowing video of two Kuki women being paraded naked in Manipur’s Kangkopi went viral on social media platforms, state functionaries, local politicians, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were all… Read More Why Does Our Government Need a Graphic Depiction of Violence Against Women to Act?
It is crystal clear that it is the March 27 ruling of the Manipur High Court to award ST status to the majority Meitei community (mostly Hindu) that led to mass protests by Zo-Kukis in early May which in turn led to violent attacks by Meitei vigilante groups and then a spiral of violence on… Read More Radical Socialist Statement on Manipur
Pratap Bhanu Mehta It took a horrific video to get the Supreme Court to intervene, the Prime Minister to break his silence through a grudging and mendacious reaction full of whataboutery, and the nation to express its shame at the events in Manipur. But these reactions do not wash off the taint of vile moral callousness, the indifference… Read More Manipur and our self-serving morality
Punya Prasun Bajpai Twitter : https://twitter.com/ppbajpai Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ppbajpai.off… Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/prasunbajpa… *************************************************** Rape FIR gathered dust for 62 days as high-level meetings went on The women were stripped and paraded on May 4 in the valley district of Thoubal, and a police complaint was filed by the husband of one of the victims on… Read More Manipur Report & Modi : सुप्रीम कोर्ट में खुलेगी मणिपुर फाइल ? / Rape FIR gathered dust for 62 days as high-level meetings went on
Martin Sherwin struck the deal and dived into the research. But it was only when Kai Bird joined as a collaborator that American Prometheus came to be. By Andy Kifer Martin Sherwin was hardly your classic blocked writer. Outgoing, funny, and athletic, he is described by those who knew him as the opposite of neurotic. EDDIE… Read More Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making
Opposition women leaders slammed the Union minister for sharing the video on Twitter, however, not taking quick action even as the incident reportedly took place two months ago and a case in this regard was lodged last month. After the Opposition parties on Thursday slammed the Centre’s silence on Manipur and questioned the Bharatiya Janata… Read More Opposition women leaders slam Smriti Irani over Manipur incident, demand CM’s resignation / ‘Deeply disturbing’: SC takes suo motu cognisance of purported Manipur video
When the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb in 1949, US President Harry Truman ordered American scientists to embark on a new programme to build a hydrogen bomb, whose nuclear explosion could be 1,000 times more powerful… Oppenheimer, the government’s chief scientific advisor on nuclear policy and defence, objected on moral and practical grounds, reportedly telling… Read More ‘The father of the atomic bomb’ spent his final days as a Caribbean castaway
By Sanjib Kr Baruah/Imphal And Churachandpur It is 3pm and the sun is blazing down. The lush green plains and paddy fields readied for sowing are in the shade of the mountains. A smartly dressed Rameshwar Basnet, 48, wearing sunglasses, staggers out from a hutment, seemingly quite drunk. Almost zombie-like, he asks: “Daju (elder brother in Nepali),… Read More Why the situation in Manipur is a nightmare for India
