Index on Censorship

IT’S FATALLY FLAWED, PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE WITH THE FACTS BUT HAS AN UNQUESTIONING AND INFLUENTIAL FOLLOWING

INDIA’S MUSLIM MINORITY HAS BECOME DEFENSIVE IN RESPONSE TO AGGRESSIVE HINDU IDEOLOGY — NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM MUSLIM REACTION TO PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

INDIA’S PHENOMENAL GROWTH IN THE PAST DECADE HAS NOT ERADICATED POVERTY, BUT IT RIVALS THAT OF CHINA AND MIGHT HAVE SOUNDER LONG TERM FOUNDATIONS

FOR THE PAST HALF CENTURY, CHINA’S PEASANTS HAVE BEEN THE POOR RELATIONS OF THE REVOLUTION; NOW THEY MAKE UP THE FORGOTTEN BILLION OF THE COUNTRY’S ‘ECONOMIC MIRACLE’

UP TO 120 MILLION DESPERATE PEASANTS HAVE MIGRATED TO THE CITIES TO FUEL CHINA’S EXPORT-LED GROWTH. THEY HAVE FEW RIGHTS, LIVE AND WORK IN HARSH CONDITIONS AND FREQUENTLY GO UNPAID

FIFTEEN YEARS OF HOSTILITY AND NEGLECT HAVE DEVASTATED THE WORLD OF THE INDIAN PEASANT. FARMERS’ SUICIDES STALK THE LAND

THOUGH MANY IN INDIA DISPUTE ITS STRENGTH AND ITS POWER TO DISRUPT GOVERNMENT, THE NAXALITE MOVEMENT APPEARS TO BE SPREADING AMONG INDIA’S TRIBAL POPULATION

CONTROL OF THE FOREST AND ITS MINERAL WEALTH MIGHT LIE BENEATH A BATTLE THAT IS PITTING GOVERNMENT MILITIAS AGAINST MAOIST GUERRILLAS

A WELL-EDUCATED AND YOUTHFUL INDIA COULD LEAD THE WORLD AS A SOURCE OF INNOVATION AND IDEAS

INDIA’S BRUTAL CASTE SYSTEM IS A STAIN ON THE NATION AND RESISTANCE IS MET WITH SAVAGE REPRISALS

INDIA’S CASTE SYSTEM REDUCES ITS UNTOUCHABLES TO A LESS-THAN-HUMAN STATUS. TWO DALITS TELL THEIR STORIES IN RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

GENDER DISCRIMINATION AFFECTS THE DEMOGRAPHIC BALANCE IN A NUMBER OF ASIAN COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY CHINA AND INDIA, WHERE THE DISCREPANCY IS ALREADY EXTREME AND LIKELY TO WORSEN

THEY CALL THEM MATTERS OF ‘HONOUR’, BUT THERE IS NOTHING BUT DISHONOUR IN WHAT MEN DO TO WOMEN WHO FLOUT THEIR CODE

RELIGION, CENSORSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF OFFENCE

INDIA’S LAW CRIMINALISING HOMOSEXUALITY GOES BACK TO BRITISH TIMES, BUT BATTLE HAS NOW BEEN JOINED

FOREIGN NEWS AGENCIES ARE DRAWN INTO CHINA’S DRACONIAN MEDIA RESTRICTIONS

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