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Posted inIndia / News / Women
Gender discrimination results in the deaths of extra 239,000 girls per year in India
A new study has found that there is an average of 239,000 excess deaths per year of girls under the age of five in India, … Gender discrimination results in the deaths of extra 239,000 girls per year in IndiaRead more
Posted inHindutva / India / Language / ToMl
Was Hindi Really Created by India’s British Colonial Rulers?
https://cdn.thewire.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/13120658/de-Tours-Characters.jpg Hindustani characters of the Grammatica Linguæ Indianæ Vulgaris (1703) of Francois-Marie de Tours. As a person who studies early modern vernaculars, I often hear … Was Hindi Really Created by India’s British Colonial Rulers?Read more
Posted inHindutva / India / Language / ToMl
Hindi was devised by a Scottish linguist of The East India Company
If the Anglophone Indians are derided as ‘Macaulay’s children’, then the Hindi speaking Indians can also be called ‘Gilchrist’s children’. My late maternal grandmother – … Hindi was devised by a Scottish linguist of The East India CompanyRead more
Posted inCartoon / Economics / Hindutva / India / Multimedia
Oh My God!
— source cartoonistsatish.com | 09/01/2020
Posted inAboriginal / India
Investigation Reveals Illegal Acquisition of Land by Adani Group
Amid the ongoing resistance against mining in the region, villagers of the Hasdeo Aranya forest in Chhattisgarh have now alleged that their land was acquired … Investigation Reveals Illegal Acquisition of Land by Adani GroupRead more
Posted inDeath / India / News / Pesticide
Three Maharashtra Farmers Sue Syngenta in Switzerland
On September 17, three farmers from Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district filed a lawsuit in a civil court in Basel, Switzerland, seeking monetary compensation from agrochemical giant … Three Maharashtra Farmers Sue Syngenta in SwitzerlandRead more
Posted inIndia / News / Politics / Protest / Worker
Lathis, FIRs Fail to Deter Farmers’ Agitation
There is seemingly no end to the agitation led by farmers’ bodies in Haryana. The farmers were met with a brutal lathi-charge on Thursday, September … Lathis, FIRs Fail to Deter Farmers’ AgitationRead more
Posted inDeath / India / Migration / News / Worker
Govt Admits, 97 Migrants Died On Board Shramik Special Trainss
The government has informed the Rajya Sabha that 97 people died on board the Shramik Special trains, admitting for the first time that migrant labourers … Govt Admits, 97 Migrants Died On Board Shramik Special TrainssRead more
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India’s GDP crashes by 23.9%
— source cartoonistsatish.com