Tag: violence

Successful banning of weapons of mass destruction, targeting the root cause of cross-border conflict and a global bent towards peace may be important steps in averting war.

Priyanka Gandhi returns after meeting Sonbhadra victims, ends dharna.

When local outfits gathered to protest against mob lynching in different parts of India, conflict broke out between the police and the protesters.

In a brutal incident in Tokyo, sixteen people have been injured and two have been killed.

What message does it convey about a society when people from its most downtrodden strata are brutally assaulted for merely demanding their dignity?

We love to kill Gandhi -always, and at every occasion.

A residential school’s hurry in burying the body of a twelve year old student after he was killed by seniors in the school premises at Dehradun, points to the emergence of the school as a site for abuse and sadism instead of the nurturance of potential.

we love to kill Gandhi -always, and at every occasion. We kill him when we promote mob lynching and cow vigilantism. We kill him when in lavish malls-the magical space of global capitalism, we engage in the never-ending process of conspicuous consumption. We kill him when we celebrate the militarization of the consciousness, and cherish the cult of violence. We kill him when the aggression implicit in the mega projects of 'development' destroys rivers and forests, and displaces the adivasis and farmers.

BRINGING UP CHILDREN The challenges of bringing up our children in an increasingly turbulent world demand that parents and educators throughout the world unite and strive for ways to inculcate peace and brotherhood across the world.

NEWS Last week the AICACU wrote a letter to Maneka Gandhi to probe into the matter of negligence that women who filed complaints of sexual assault against the permanent employees of All India Radio faced and requested her to hold a through probe.