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• Colors launches two new love stories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  After the tremendous success of the third season of Bigg Boss, Colors is now introducing two new shows- ‘Yeh Pyaar Na Hoga Kam’ and ‘Laagi Tujse Lagan’, to fill the prime time band once the Bigg Boss season 3 gets over. Both these fiction shows are love stories with absolutely distinct and unique ...
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• Another Interview

  
  Meena Kandasamy — Authority: 91
  (An edited version of this interview appeared in the Indian Express North American. Sujeet Rajan interviewed me for the weekly . This came out about a month ago, but only today I was suitably lazy to do this job) You write candidly of love and love-making; leaving windows open to the bedroom sometimes. If it is ...
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• COLORS announce two new prime time fiction shows

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Yeh Pyaar Na Hoga Kam and Laagi Tujhse Lagan to fill in prime time slot to be vacated by Bigg Boss 3.After the tremendous success of the third season of Bigg Boss, COLORS- the Viacom 18 channel and India’s No. 1 Hindi General Entertainment Channel is now introducing two new shows to fill in the [...]
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• Book Review of “A Forgotten Liberator : The Life and Struggle of Savitribai Phule”

  
  TruthDive — Authority: 115
  ISBN 978-81-906277-0-2 “A Forgotten Liberator : The Life and Struggle of Savitribai Phule”, is the first endeavour in English to spotlight upon one of the supreme names who fought against the totalitarianism of caste and other social evils in India. The book brought out by “Mountain Peak Publishers” on ...
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• Don’t see Dinakaran issue in caste terms, says Congress

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Congress said Sunday that it does not see the matter of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, who is facing an impeachment motion, in terms of caste, community or region.Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said that political motives should not be injected in a constitutional ...
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• Self Perpetuating Egos

  
  http://newilluminati.blog-city.com — Authority: 125
  Self Perpetuating Egos World Governance by Personality Cult     Have we learned nothing? Are we still subject to the dictates of instinct, essentially foraging primates set loose in a fragile paradise, ruled by outdated notions of pack-minded primacy and destructive competitiveness? How ...
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• Congress critical of Mayawati for politicising Dinakaran impeachment issue

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 20(ANI): The Congress party on Sunday termed the views of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on the impeachment of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran as an instance of politicising the issue. Dinakaran’s elevation to the apex court has been kept on hold following allegations of ...
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• Reservation will not help Muslims, will only open Pandora’s box (Comment)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Firoz Bakht AhmedThe way to hell, we are told, is paved with good intentions. The Ranganath Mishra Commission report, tabled in the winter session of parliament, recommends 15 percent reservation for all minorities in government jobs, education and welfare schemes, of which 10 percent quota is for Muslims - the ...
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• Special Investigations Team Sought in Orissa Violence

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Acquittals increasingly surpass convictions due to shoddy or corrupt police investigators.NEW DELHI, December 7 (CDN) — Christian leaders in India have called for a special investigations team to counter the shoddy or corrupt police investigations into anti-Christian violence in Orissa state in August-September ...
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• The Concept of Caste System

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 569
  The word caste comes from the Portuguese Casta meaning lineage an its application to the system in India shows that the first westeners to reach the region understood the central place which kinship has in  the maintenance of gradation.The Hindu word for caste is varna meaning color and there is little doubt that in ...
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• Brahman ka ladka aur Kayast ki ladki

  
  The Furobiker — Authority: 123
  Or something like that.. I heard this ad on TV few minutes ago while watching Bigg Boss 3. It sent me into the thinking mode that when will people get over this caste n all crappy stuff!! Blame it on my birth in punjabi community or on the environment around me. I never had any such feeling towards any cast, creed ...
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• 10th International Children’s Festival of Performing Arts starts off in capital

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec.16 (ANI): The 10th International Children’s Festival of Performing Arts meant to promote global peace and unity through the medium of performing and allied arts was formally inaugurated in the capital on Wednesday. At least 250 programmes are scheduled to be presented by the participants at four ...
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• villages without moonlight

  
  kufr — Authority: 111
  as one poet described it, moonlight was stolen from too many villages in telangana for too long. the fear of police patrols in naxal-infested, as the media would describe it, villages was too strong for people to step out of homes in the evenings. do you think moonlight was ever stolen from the lives of these two ...
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• ‘Discrimination continues even in Goa’s reserved constituency’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Panaji, Dec 15 (IANS) Goa’s only Scheduled Caste (SC) cabinet minister Manohar Azgaonkar Tuesday alleged that members of the SC community in his reserved constituency of Dhargal were still not treated at par with others.Azgaonkar, a panchayati raj minister in the Congress-led coalition government, was speaking ...
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• Community marriages are the flavour of the season

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Agra, Dec 15 (IANS) Hindu marriages are becoming costlier each year, causing a great deal of stress and anxiety in middle class families. The only way to alleviate the financial burden is to promote community mass marriages, according to leaders at the 14th Agrawal Maha Sabha-sponsored mass marriage programme here.The ...
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• Honour Killing

  
  Of Cabbages and Kings — Authority: 406
  .The Supreme Court gave a controversial ruling a couple of days ago, reducing the sentence in a case of murder, from death penalty to 25 years of imprisonment without any option of release for two accused, and to 20 years for a third."The case relates to the killing of one Prabhu, a member of Ezhavarcaste of Kerala, ...
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• The Indian Caste System, A Collection of Images

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 480
  More information on the Indian Caste system is here . Other collections of human rights images here . More on the Jogini or Devadasi system here . Dalit or "Untouchable" ( source ) Brahmin, member of the priest caste ( source ) Indian caste system Posted in culture, discrimination and ...
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• Will Hyderabad get union territory status?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Hyderabad, Dec 10 (IANS) As the central government initiates the process to form Telangana state, all eyes are on this technology hub with demands coming from some quarters to make it a union territory.A section of leaders of the ruling Congress and the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) want Greater Hyderabad ...
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• New show to replace ‘Bigg Boss 3′…

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  “Bigg Boss 3′ is all set to wind up this month and there are two shows lined up to fill the vacuum. One is Creative Eye Production’s “Yeh Pyaar Na Hoga Kam’ while the other is Playtime Creation’s “Laagi Tujse Lagan’.“”Yeh Pyaar…’ is launching on December 28th and will be in the 9 pm [...]
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• LS gives nod to People’s Representation Act amendment bill

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (ANI): The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2009 with a voice vote.The centre amended the Representation of People Act 1951 to discourage non- serious candidates in elections to the Lok Sabha and to the state assemblies.With parliament giving nod to the ...
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