UN Day against torture: hate philosophy is BJP’s raison d’etre on June 25, 2020Every year on June 26, the world observes the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture to speak out against the crime of torture and to honour and support victims and survivors throughout the world. Torture, according to globally recognized dictionaries, means action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as […]
Rape an established norm in Kashmir on June 18, 2020The wheels of civilization and egalitarianism seem to have reversed full circle in India, as, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Indian forces use rape as a weapon of retaliation against Kashmiri civilians. And this inhuman practice is going on in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley since Intifada of 1988. Call it by any name in […]
There is no room for pretexts in history on May 15, 2020The name of emperor ‘Nosherwan the Just’ (Nosherwan Adil) appears prominently in the books of history. It is said – and widely believed – that the system of justice was so failsafe and effective during his reign that ‘a lion as well as a lamb would drink water from the same pond’. Annals of history […]