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The panopticonic Aadhaar project, giving every citizen in India a unique identification number, and linking it to mobile numbers, bank accounts to your basic necessities in life like public food distribution system has turned lethal. In perhaps the first Aadhaar linked starvation death 11 year old girl Santoshi Kumari died at her village, Karimati, in Jharkhand since her family’s ration card was not linked to Aadhaar.
Prof Shah Alam Khan writes a moving poem on Santoshi Kumari's tragedy.
Iraqi forces have taken back Kurdish held, oil rich, Kirkuk. The causes of the defeat of well-armed and well-trained Kurdish Peshmerga militia at the hands of Iraqi government troops and allied Shi’a militias will come to light in due time, but what we now know for sure is that Masoud Barzani’s referendum for independence gambit has dismally backfired on the Kurds.
A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s third Muslim travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect on Wednesday October 18. Trump issued a proclamation on September 24 restricting travel to the US from nationals of eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, North Korea and Venezuela.
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First Aadhaar Linked Starvation Death Reported In Jharkhand
In perhaps the first Aadhaar linked starvation death 11 year old girl Santoshi Kumari died at her village, Karimati, in Jharkhand since her family’s ration card was not linked to Aadhaar.
Aadhaar: The Quite Darkness
by Prof Shah Alam Khan
Knock, Knock
“Who‘s there?”
“Hunger”
“Hunger who?”
“Santoshi hai?”
“You alone?”
“Na, na, Aadhar is with me”
The Kurds’ Loss of Kirkuk And Triumph In Raqqa
by Nauman Sadiq
The causes of the defeat of well-armed and well-trained Kurdish Peshmerga militia at the hands of Iraqi government troops and allied Shi’a militias will come to light in due time, but what we now know for sure is that Masoud Barzani’s referendum for independence gambit has dismally backfired on the Kurds.
Federal Judge In Hawaii Blocks Trump’s 3rd Muslim Travel Ban
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali
A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s third Muslim travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect on Wednesday October 18. Trump issued a proclamation on September 24 restricting travel to the US from nationals of eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, North Korea and Venezuela.
Harvey Weinstein And The Politics Of Hollywood
by Jonathan Cook
There is something truly exasperating about digesting the steady flow of horror stories relating to Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. In part, of course, it is because the reports that Weinstein allegedly raped and sexually assaulted women over decades are deeply disturbing.
Tear Down The Great Firewall Of China
by Walt Gelles
In 2013 the Chinese government announced that it had abolished its system of “re-education through labor” camps nationwide, but this cosmetic move is contradicted by multiple reports from survivors, relatives, and investigators. China’s widespread use of prison and slave labor is largely ignored by the West. All this in “beautiful China” to which Western tourists, politicians and hypocritical businessmen flock. One-sixth of humanity lives under a repressive dictatorship.
Kaepernick, NFL, America & U.S. Constitution Lock Horns In The Coliseum
by Irwin Jerome
Colin Kaepernick’s Herculean-like combat that has led him from the football gridiron into the American Coliseum’s arena can be likened to yet another modern mythic-hero who has taken on the American Empire and its modern civilization’s many-headed VIPERS – Vicious, Industrial, Political, Economic, Regimented Systems – who will venomously attack whoever dares threaten them with combat.
2 or 3 Things I Know About Capitalism (with apologies to Jean-Luc Godard)
by Phil Rockstroh
Due to the reality that capitalism, on both an individual and collective basis, drives individuals into madness, all as the system destroys forest and field, ocean and sea and the soul-scape of all who live under its rapacious dominion, our plight comes down to this: We either struggle and strive, by and any and all means, to end the system — or it will end us.
Sunil Jakhar’s Victory Gives Hope In An Era Of Cow Vigilantism
by Gurpreet Singh
The spectacular victory of Punjab state Congress President in the Gurdaspur parliamentary by-election is a big jot to the advocates of cow politics across India.
Accepting Freedom
by Mirza Yawar Baig
Free nations have dignity. Self-respect is a characteristic of free people which prevents them from being corrupt. You can’t steal from yourself but when you see yourself as an outsider you can steal from the “Other”. Corruption is a sign that you don’t consider yourself to be a part of the nation.Corruption is treason. It is the most anti-national of acts. It is an act of war on the nation. But in all our countries, it is rampant, accepted, even aspirational.
Permanent Fire Cracker Ban
by Vasudha Rao
The report by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) in 2013 stated that kids as young as 5 years old are employed for nearly 12 hours for making fire crackers. And for all this labour, the kids are paid measly amounts of Rs. 30-50/-per day. The children work in most dangerous conditions in tiny sheds with no safety gear .They are filling flower pots, fuses, paper pipes etc. The clothes of children are covered with chemicals as they make the fire crackers. These chemicals cause asthma, eye infections, tuberculosis, etc in 90 % of the child labour.
Disabled Women In Male Dominated Society
by Sheshu Babu
In a country where most assaults, attempts of rape and humiliation of women are under – reported, the condition of disabled women is even worse. They are easily vulnerable to manipulations of men who, on the pretext of assisting them, try to achieve sadistic satisfaction by their devious and promiscuous attitudes.
The Poor Know How To Escape From Poverty
by Moin Qazi
The right way ahead to let the poor lead the development agenda. Although the development community in India has a vast trove of expertise and wisdom on advancing social change, that knowledge is no blended with ground skills and wisdom. Together they can do more and do right for the millions of Indians whom they work with and for.
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