Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told chief ministers from 29 Indian states to end exploitation of tribal people. Speaking at a conference in Delhi, Mr Singh said...

“Being born a scheduled caste is the biggest curse for me”. The last words of Pappu Singh Darnal, a 46 year old school teacher in Darjeeling were found...

Since the time I began to think several years ago I have often heard several things in all kinds of fora. “Women are being oppressed”, “women are...

It is eerie how disparate news items are — if you examine closely — related to each other in a manner that provides interesting insights. First came the news...

Still traumatized, she recounts the events that led her to a safe house in Kabul. She was raped and nearly stabbed to death by her husband just seven days before we...

Israel’s army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel’s wars are “God’s...

On the eve of the Israeli school year’s start on Tuesday, recent Ethiopian immigrant Ayenew Belay didn’t know whether his 7-year-old son Avi would be...

George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet...

Yesterday, I was sitting home, watching my favorite news channel, where a news report showed a reporter roaming the streets of Jerusalem, close to the area of the...

A United Nations envoy slammed Australia’s military-led intervention in remote Aboriginal communities and said racism was “entrenched” in the country,...

In 1948, Zionist terrorist militias forcibly evicted or forced into flight out of fear of death over 800,000 Palestinians to establish a Jewish majority in a land...

Of course, everyday I could write a post titled as such for everyday the state of Israel makes Palestinian children cry as it kills their parents, siblings, relatives...

Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Amir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Zeenat Aman, Arshad Warsi and now Emraan Hashmi…the list is swelling with each passing day. They are celebrities...

It is hard to wonder a world with Australia’s researches. Just released, results of survey on how ethnic names affect employment opportunities in Australia hardly...

1) Starving nations won’t accept your ship with 77 tons of humanitarian aid. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has turned away a Mexican ship carrying...

Britain’s army of naturists find themselves battling on the sandy and shingled margins to protect a cherished way of life. Ban on Britain’s longest-serving...

Indians Everywhere and Nowhere There is this ‘joke’ going around on the web. An American went visiting India. On his return his NRI friend asks him how he found...

And they say Israel isn’t an apartheid state! Check out this story: The Hashmira Israeli Railways project sent on Sunday letters to some 100 Arab workers...

THEIR face is their fortune. Lipsticks and powder are their regular items. Their ill-fitted blouses and colourful saris make them awesomely unique as they walk the...

This blog has turned into a “Dear Abby” mailbox the last few days, but with letters like these you can see why! Here is a woman who should run for Prime...