Archive for November, 2013

6-year-old PhD scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) committed suicide by consuming poison at his hostel on the campus in Gachibowli on Sunday, leading to a four-hour protest by students. The victim was identified as M Venkatesh alias Venkateshwarulu, 26, from Lingampally village in Ranga Reddy district. The PhD second-year student was carrying out […]


The Supreme Court held three doctors — Dr Balram Prasad, Dr Sukumar Mukherjee and Dr Baidyanath Haldar — guilty of negligence in treating Anuradha, who had contracted a rare skin disease. Prasad and Mukherjee have been directed to pay Rs 10 lakh each to Saha, while Halder will pay Rs 5 lakh. AMRI hospital, where […]


When Sachin Tendulkar started out, Anil Gurav was Mumbai’s brightest star, offering him tips and once a bat. As Sachin calls it a day, Bharat Sundaresan meets the man who disappeared into the shadows. Former Mumbai cricketer and a Sachin confidant, Rajesh Sutar, remembers that everyone from Achrekar’s nets thought it would be Gurav among […]


Mr Veer Singh From IIT Kharagpur takes pride in racist India. He could be contacted on veersingh@gmail.com. He writes with his mind wide open. Let’s analyse what his colleague thought process: He writes on Atrocitynews: “racism is in root of earth. some people are extremely black some are extremely white,some have small eye (chinese) some […]


How many of TV viewers know about the father of Sachin Tendulkar was working in Dr Ambedkar’s founded Siddharth College. He was teaching Marathi in the college. Owing to have felt blue swing of social movement, Sachin’s father would have been first to negate the Media hype of Cricket over issues of prominence i.e. Civil […]


Talking earlier this week to a 100 very bright and very young students at the nascent Ashoka University, I asked if they thought of their country as India, Bharat or Hindustan. The answer, from a young woman, came fast: “India”. She spoke, I think, for everyone of them drawn from different parts of India and […]


Ms Jayashree writes from UK| Submitted on 2013/07/24 at 8:12 am Dr. Ambedkar’s ideology is universal. His views are true even after 100 years. Need of “Equality Act” in U.K. makes it more pertinent. What He had said in 1916 in his paper “Castes and its genes” that if Brahmins of India would go outside […]


Dr Aiswarya from TN writes : Although Tamilnadu ranks No: 3 most developed states in India according to the Raghuram Rajan report, this report of compiled atrocities as per NCSC data that TN is among the top 10 states for incidents of atrocities reported against Dalits goes to show the dichotomy in our society. Shame […]


A huge number of Dalits and Tribals in India are engaged in uncertain marginal work which offers them less than six months employment in a year. That means for the most marginalized groups are unemployed which reflects the nature of uncertainty and timidity of their existence. As per the census data on SCs and STs, […]


Kanker fast track court sentenced the life imprisonment to three convicts of Zaliyamari rape case of government girl’s hostel’s 15 tribal minor girl’s at Kanker distric, Chhattisgarh. And also court directed penalty about one-five lacks to accomplices in the matter. The rape scandal came into light in January when the relative of one of the […]