Friday, December 08, 2006

Ray of hope

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The Other Half The Hindu Sunday Magazine (December 3, 2006) LAST month, a depressing story in a newspaper related how in Gorakhpur, Uttar P...

Why are Maharashtra's Dalits so angry?

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The Hindu (December 2, 2006) WHY DID Maharashtra burst into flames on Thursday following Dalit protests, almost without warning? To those w...

Before the year ends

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ulti khopdi I have been lazy about keeping this blog updated. One of the reasons is that there are not many who access the blog. Nor have ...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

A suggestion for Munnabhai

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Source: The Hindu The Other Half GANDHIGIRI has become the flavour of the month. All of a sudden, following the release of the immensely pop...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

Islands of despair

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Islands of despair KALPANA SHARMA IN every State in India, no matter how prosperous, there are islands of deprivation. Maharashtra is no exc...

Battling unjust laws

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THE OTHER HALF PRESIDENT Parvez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh might have called a temporary truce during their Havana meeting ...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

Forced departures

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Source: The Hindu THE OTHER HALF EARLIER this week, on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and the terror attack on the World Trade Centre in New ...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Wounds that have yet to heal

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Source: The Hindu Kalpana Sharma The judgment in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts should not obscure the absence of closure on the 1992-93 comm...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

Babies in the well

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Source: The Hindu THE OTHER HALF KALPANA SHARMA IT is a story that should remain on the front pages of newspapers. Come to think of it,...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

Commerce, cosmopolitanism, and bans

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Source: The Hindu In an age where the flow of information cannot be stopped, are bans of the kind recently witnessed in Mumbai — on telecast...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

To the women of South Africa

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Source: The Hindu To the women of South Africa THIS is a letter to our sisters in South Africa. Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1956, 20,00...
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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Blogging in Beirut

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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2006/08/06/stories/2006080600060300.htm) THE OTHER HALF IMAGES of the Qana massacre in Le...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

Why Mumbai escaped a flare-up

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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/08/05/stories/2006080504921100.htm) Kalpana Sharma MUMBAI HAS not seen a serious communal...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

IIT profs take on Modi

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IIT professors denounce Modi Chennai, July 28: Two IIT Madras professors today protested Narendra Modi’s presence at a convention on the ins...

How 'normal' is Mumbai

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On the surface, life in Mumbai is normal. Better than normal, some would say, because despite the July 11 bomb blasts, trouble has not brok...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Can Mumbai take any more?

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Source: The Hindu THE SERIAL bomb blasts on Mumbai's trains on July 11 have almost made us forget another anniversary that will take pla...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Learning from Mumbai

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Source: The Hindu THE OTHER HALF PEOPLE living in this great metropolis of Mumbai are angry and sad. Not just because seven serial blasts...

First Post

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I've joined the league of bloggers, finally, for two reasons: One, the Indian government recently blocked blogs in its attempt to do som...
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