Posted on August 17, 2007 by sanghparivar
Counter View: A Few Myths, Fewer Facts about Muslims
When Zakir Hussain was sentenced to death by hanging for his part in planting the bombs during the “Bombay Blasts” of 1993, he shouted, “If a Hindu does something, a commission is set up. But if a Muslim does something, he is hanged.” This was in reference [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2007 by sanghparivar
A classroom struggle
Schools be damned. That seems to be the only message that keeps getting hammered with every disheartening report on the status of schooling in India. If last week it was the severe step of having to file FIRs against teachers in the face of a staggering number of cases of abuse of children, [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2007 by sanghparivar
394.9 million workers (86 per cent of the working population) belong to the unorganized sector
316 million workers live on less than Rs. 20, or $ 0.49, a day.
88 per cent of the Scheduled Tribes and the Scheduled Castes, 80 per cent of the Other Backward Classes and 85 per cent of Muslims belong to this [...]
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