LEAD STORY

DALIT RIGHTS:Retrospect and Prospect

The PoA Act, now two decades old, was enacted to protect the SCs and STs from wanton attacks by those claiming to be superior. But the law has not achieved desirable results to reduce the number of crimes against them, including murders and rapes, and the conviction rates are dismally low... –PS Krishnan

Special on SC & ST (POA) Act

Khairlanji: whither the atrocity act?

If the justice delivery system is blind to the social reality of caste, the entire exercise of creating the constitutional structure and laws for protecting Dalits becomes selfdefeating....-Dr Anand Teltumbde

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“Right not to be treated as UNTOUCHABLE ”

There is an urgent need to redraft Article 17 in the form of a right - 'right not to be treated as an untouchable.... -Justice (Retd) H. Suresh

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A neglected component

In the last five years, the system has denied SCs a whopping sum of Rs 76,690 crorethatshould have been earmarked for them under the special component plan... -N Paul Divakar & Abhay Kumar

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An experiential review of SC/ST (PoA) Act

Dignity of life and equal opportunities to Dalits are distant dreams despite 20 years of enactment of SC/ST (PoA) Act... –V Nandagopal

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DALIT RIGHTS

Tardy implementation in Rajasthan

The affected groups experience violence on daily basis and the deterrence envisaged in the laws especially enacted for this purpose is not in evidence.
-P L Mimroth

Justice Punnaiah Commission report

The safeguards ensured by the Constitution have become merely "proclamation of theory" in the backdrop of nonimplementation of the laws meant for Dalit upliftment.
–Imran Ali

Dalit laws: Mere paper tigers?

Across India, the SC/ST (PoA) Act is operating more in defiance than in compliance. A ground reality report from Gujarat

WORDS& IMAGES
Thorny journey to justice

Somehow off-the-track book, "Law & Life" by Justice VR Krishna Iyer throws light on complex and multiple aspects of the justice delivery system in India.
–Suresh Nautiyal

Narrating evolution of Indian politics

The book is an attempt to fill an important space a journalistic, non-academic pedagogical narrative for students who wish to explore the contours of the evolution of politics in independent India.
–Hormazd Mehta

Capturing systemic violence against Dalits
The documentary is a moving narrative of systemic violation of the rights of the Dalits in a society where caste prejudices continue determining social, economic and political reality of millions –Keya Advani

PRISONERS' ABUSE

Condemned Twice

Various forms of abuse by prison staff and other inmates have become a common feature in the lives of those incarcerated women whose basic human rights stand violated while they serve a sentence.
–Leni Chaudhuri & Reena Mary George

ADIVASIS
Jharkhand's dispensable tribe

After the police firing incident on the Adivasis near Kathikund in December 2008, the tribals want the government to cease its repression of the community and terminate the catastrophic project.
–Thomas Becker

TRIBAL RIGHTS

Lost world of Chakmas

The ancient tribe of Chakmas today desperately needs to be uplifted from the depths it has been spurned into.
–Kenn Larsen

ENVIRONMENT

Haunting Beauty of the western Ghats

The book captures the diversity of the Western Ghats or Sahyadri even as the volume examines the ecological wounds caused by the greedy.
–Suresh Nautiyal

JUDGEMENT

HIV/AIDS: HC brings hope

In a landmark judgement, the Bombay HC has ordered free of cost second line treatment to persons living with HIV/AIDS.

Interpreting the Interpretation

The book presents interplay of concepts like 'social context', 'understanding', and varying forms of 'genre' when assessing the media-audience correlation
–Rosie Rogers

FARMERS' SUICIDE

Farmer graveyard?

On an average, four farmers kill themselves everyday, in this Re 1 rice land!.
–Shubhranshu Choudhary

VILLAGE COURTS

Speedy justice at grassroots
A superficial view may create a misconception that the Gram Nyayalaya and Nyaya Panchayat are competing entities, but a closer look shows they are totally different in their approach.

DOMESTIC WORKERS

Domestic worker in a hostile world

Ending up as domestic servants, in the absence of any legal mechanism to protect their rights they not only face harassment at the hands of their employers but also become victims of abuse by placement agencies.
-Anisha Mitra & Karelia Rajagopal

OBITUARY

A Tribute to people's advocate K. Balagopal

Remembering Prabhash Joshi

A tireless defender of human rights Prof Iqbal Ansari

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–P S Krishnan

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Previous Issues
Volume 8 Issue 3&4

MAY-AUGUST 2009

India's educational policy: A historical betrayal

Inadequate funding for elementary education

RTE Bill : bane for the poor

A still born legislation !

Implementing Article 21A

Experts speak on RTE BILL


Don't neglect the foundation of life Dr. Justice Mukundakam Sharma
When Judiciary gave the young wings to fly -Dr Justice B S Chauhan
Meeting constitutional obligations -Justice A K Patnaik
Abolish inequality in School System -Prof Muchkund Dubey
The Right to Education Bill -Prof Nalini Juneja
Reinforcing colonial legacy -Ms Madhu Prasad
Ineffective enforcement -Justice Jayant Patel
Let private actors also play a role -Justice C N Ramachandran Nair
Enforcing RTE Bill -Justice Akil A.Kureshi
Urban poor out of schools -Simantini Dhuru
Emphasis on pre-school education -Prof Vrinda Datta
In defence of childhood -Dr L D Mishra
Education: development, human capability, freedom -Justice Biswanath Somadder
A Basic right -Justice Rajiv Bhalla
Significance of RTE Bill -Justice S Muralidhar
Tribals: Where a child means two hands to earn food -Justice P S Narayana
Make it a mass movement -Justice Chandraiah
It is not the failure of the child -Justice V N Sinha
Strengthen primary education first -Justice Satish K Agnihotri
Don't make it business -Justice P K Misra
Bring govt. schools upto standards of pvt. schools -Justice Ranjana P Desai