In-Pursuit-of-Justice

In Pursuit of Justice by the late Justice Rajindar Sachar

Justice Rajindar Sachar will be most-remembered for having Chaired a committee constituted by the Government of India to document the social and economic condition of Muslims in India. The committee’s report documented their poor condition in devastating detail and included a host of suggestions about the sorts of initiatives that ought to be taken to

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IN CHURCH, THE SINNER’S HOSPITAL, SOMETIMES DOCTORS ALSO FALL ILL – DOES GOD CARE OR CONDEMN?

IN CHURCH, THE SINNER’S HOSPITAL, SOMETIMES DOCTORS ALSO FALL ILL – DOES GOD CARE OR CONDEMN? https://youtu.be/BzR26DreRrk We Christians come from a long line of liars, fornicators, murderers, you name it – the list could go on and on. That’s why the Bible says, “ (Romans 3: 23)

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The Brass Notebook

The Brass Notebook by Devaki Jain (Foreword by Amartya Sen)

The strange title of The Brass Notebook is a nod to Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, and that (in my view, quite inappropriately!) suggests a comparison of the author’s life to brass vessels which were used in Indian kitchens. Was my generation the last to see such vessels in our kitchens, or do such vessels

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Azadi

Romi Mahajan’s Review: Arundhati Roy’s “Azadi”

In approximately 5 weeks the United States will hold the most important Presidential election in its short and violent history. Bookmakers and Psephologists alike think of it as a 50-50 proposition. The incumbent Donald Trump has been hinting that the election, whatever the result, will be tainted, rigged and that, as such, he would not

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Dispossession without Development

Dr. Nikhil Deb’s Review: “Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India”

  Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India. Michael Levien. Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Dr. Nikhil Deb in the LSE Review of Books blog; used here by permission. In Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India, Michael Levien examines how the shift from state-directed capitalism to neoliberalism in India from the 1990s has led to

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