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Smoking & Drinking Jesus on Shiv Sena ex-Corporator`s Calendar

Religious community in Asia receives apology for offensive image of Jesus.

(MUMBAI) - The ex-Shiv Sena corporator, Tanaji Lonkar and publisher, K Sagar of the offensive calendar featuring a smoking and drinking Jesus has tendered an unconditional apology to The CSF and other community groups which had taken exception to it.

The CSF, MCYF, AOCC and CPF had filed police complaints in different police stations of Mumbai, like Vakola and Mahim. Joseph Dias, the CSF general secretary has also taken the issue up with the union minister for communications, Milind Deora to get the picture off the internet.

True Story of Miss India 2009 - Pooja Chopra,

Neera Chopra is her mother. This is her story.

(NEW DELHI) - I don’t know where to begin... they were terrible times. My husband was well-placed, but the marriage had begun to sink almost as soon as it began.

Like most women do, I tried to work against all the odds.

An Open Letter to Indian Decision Makers!

A serious mistake should not, yet again lead to another blunder. India wake-up!

(PARIS, France) - First of all let me give a brief introduction about myself. In the 1980s

I was one of the people who wrote a few articles and letters to Editors of various newspapers, justifying India’s support to the Tamils including Indian food drops in Jaffna.

Daughters of India Violated and Abused

A woman's lot...

(LONDON) - In the ancient land of India, where female deities deeply revered, Kali and Lakshmi, Sarasvati and Parvati, are held high upon the alter of Hinduism.

Each day thousands of Hindu’s ritually bathe in the Holy waters of the Ganges, cleansed within and without by the Goddess Ganga, women and girls; in the forests, cities, villages and towns, on buses and trains, in the street, the office, at school and in the home are being violated, abused, raped and trafficked into prostitution and domestic slavery.

Veterans are Bound to Fail in Political Activities Which Civilians Can Also Do

Indian Veterans joined civilian political parties, and are still there in both houses of Parliament, but did nothing worthwhile for the martial interests of India.

(BANGALURO, India) - The entire world is in the grip of a number of crises.

The civilian leadership of powerful democracies of the world are unable to solve for the simple reason that martial elements in these democracies have not been able to define their role in this changed democratic world.

India: Largest Democracy in the World, Today is the Worst Democracy in the World

The rape and brutal wounding of a young pair of citizens, a woman who had her life planned out and ahead of her, has just shaken India to the core.

(YORK, UK) - One of the most harrowing stories to come out of India in recent months was the Delhi gang rape of a 23-year old medical student that left her with mortal injuries.

She and a companion were thrown from a moving bus after being savagely attacked and raped.

This is Not an Invitation to RAPE Me

The myth persists that only rape by a stranger counts as ‘real rape’, in spite of the fact that the vast majority of attacks are carried out by someone known to the victim (often her husband or partner), and are every bit as damaging.

(GLASGOW) - With This Is Not An Invitation To Rape Me, Rape Crisis Scotland wants to confront attitudes blaming women for rape in a very direct way.

The group is inviting members of the public in Scotland to join them in putting an end to these attitudes.

The Miracle Trap

The test for China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and other current miracle countries... will they be able to sustain growth as the conditions of their initial success change?

(WASHINGTON DC Foreign Policy) - Over the holidays, I read an interview in which a leading global intellectual spoke in glowing terms of the great miracle.

Hundreds of millions of Chinese, Indians and other Asians have been and are being lifted out of poverty by the superior economic policies of their governments.

Mass Murder of Dalits: Ethnic Cleansing in South Asia

The Recent History of Brahmin Massacres of Dalit Blacks

(LONDON) - History is usually written by the victors. The Dalits have not had a voice for thousands of years.

The Dalit discrimination has to be aired by all peace loving people on the planet.

Rape In India: Why Are There No Mass Protests For Raped Dalit Women? OpEd

Special report explores problems faced by Dalit women and girls, lowest in India's archaic caste system.

(LONDON Eurasia Review) - The question is very simple.

While rape in any form is abhorred and should be severely punished by all nations what needs to be answered is what makes the recent gangrape by 6 men of a 23 year old on a bus in Delhi any different from the gangrape of a 16 year old Dalit women by 8 men who having taken photos of the crime had circulated it amongst the village leading to her father committing suicide out of shame?