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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Chinese author Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mo Yan is often referred to as the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller, according to Wikipedia. He beat perennial......

Are Maoists 'political prisoners'?

Recent court decisions have granted 'political prisoner' status to arrested Maoists. Bibhu Prasad Routray examines how that decision will affect India's battle to control and fight the Maoist......

'The Arab Spring is in great distress'

Former diplomat MK Bhadrakumar delivered a keynote address -- The Arab spring: The region and India -- at an international seminar held in Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. Here's the complete......

Day 3: Live Oprah at Jaipur, Rushdie ghost haunts fest

As the four authors who read out from The Satanic Verses have been asked to leave Jaipur, yet another speaker steps across the line. Rediff.com's Abhishek Mande takes you through the day in......

Kashmir under spotlight at literature fest

The biggest session of the day on Day 3 of the Jaipur Literature Fest was one titled 'Kashmir Kashmir'. Held at the largest area in the venue -- the front lawns -- the session was the most attended......

Freedom, hurt sentiments and dissent

Can there be a democratic polity without a culture of democratic behaviour? This may seem like a hackneyed question. But it has, once again, been brought into sharp focus in two very different......

Argumentative Amartya

When the Nobel Prize marked its centenary in 2001, the foundation asked a handful of laureates for two mementos each that might be included in an exhibit. "They took away my bicycle, on which I had......

People speak for literature of dissent

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Q. I HAVE SEEN ONE THING, the males are more beautifull in this Nature's creation. Just see Animals, Birds, Reptiles etc etc. everywhere the MALES are BEAUTIFULL. But when the matter come to the human race, we always praised and exaggurated the FEMALE BEAUTY. \We have given (even our literature, poets etc etc)over importance to the female beauty. Why it is like this? \Is it the tendency of human beings to go against the nature or something else ? Whats your view friends....?
: A. No, Peekay, it is not that way as we relate it to even the human species. Who said males are not beautiful. You watch National Geographic or...... more

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Creating a threatening other

Aruna Roy Like my rural friends, i find a story for most occasions. The story of the famous dervish, Mullah Nasruddin , fits this one. The story... ...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/comments-analysis/creating-a-threatening-other-the-alarming-attitude-of-the-state-and-its-political-faces/articleshow/20643063.cms

Iran election offers choice, but little change

By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - Friday's presidential election in Iran is unlikely to bring significant change to the Islamic republic, whose... ...

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Iranian voter views suggest wide open race

On the roughneck streets in south Tehran, a group of paramilitary volunteers looks to hard-line presidential candidate Saeed Jalili ? Iran's top... ...

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Change and the churning

Paradigm shift: Students at a presentation in Delhi University, which has made all UG programmes four-year courses. Photo by ARVIND JAIN Related... ...

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Shades of repression

Shantanu Kamble was charged with sedition and waging war against the state. Evidence? He wrote and sang like Gadar. The continuing arrests of... ...

http://infochangeindia.org/human-rights/crackdown-on-cultural-activism/shades-of-repression.html

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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Are Maoists 'political prisoners'?

'The Arab Spring is in great distress'

Day 3: Live Oprah at Jaipur, Rushdie ghost haunts fest

Kashmir under spotlight at literature fest

Freedom, hurt sentiments and dissent

Argumentative Amartya

People speak for literature of dissent

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