2015年1月16日 星期五

2015-01-17 India Spotlight


The death of the author   
The Hindu
“Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out,. Have I not. Always spoken the truth. in my books? And now. You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me!” Poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht wrote these lines in response to Nazi censorship and book ...


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Business Standard
   
SpiceJet's distress situation might help case for open offer exemption   
Business Standard
Fund infusion into budget airline SpiceJet reportedly also includes an application to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for exemption from an open offer. This is made when an acquirer buys more than a certain percentage stake in a company.

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Deccan Chronicle
   
Get better teachers   
Deccan Chronicle
The good news from ASER 2014 is that school infrastructure has picked up uniformly around the country. If the Annual Survey of Education Report brings only good tidings, the threat of complacency taking over would be real. This yearly survey, which covered ...


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Quitting writing   
The Hindu
The district administration that was engaged in parleys with the caste outfits over the book “Madhorubhagan” should have upheld the constitutional right of a writer of fiction instead of allowing those who indulged in vandalism to demand and extract an ...


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Right to information   
Business Standard
There are some disturbing signs emanating from the Union government - indications of a desire to control the narrative about economic development. The fear is that this may get in the way of doing real work, and even of basic liberties and rights.

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IBNLive
   
Salman Rushdie, threatened over book, defends free speech   
IBNLive
Burlington: Author Salman Rushdie, who lived for years under a death threat after his 1988 book 'The Satanic Verses' drew the wrath of Iranian religious leaders, said on Wednesday the right to free speech is absolute or else it isn't free. Following a speech at ...


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The Hindu
   
The Oscars and the rest of us   
The Hindu
This year's Oscars, like every year, will be a veritable stampede of women and men who are black, brown, yellow, red and everything in between, of all ages, shapes and sizes, speaking multiple languages in addition to English. On the day of the ceremony ...


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A logical response   
Business Standard
When the inflation numbers for December were published on January 12 and 14, they did show slightly higher inflation rates than in November. But they also delivered a positive surprise. The magnitude of the increase was clearly much smaller than many ...


   


Deccan Chronicle
   
Mystic Mantra: Spiritual resolution   
Deccan Chronicle
Every New Year brings us the feeling of a new beginning. Apparently, there is no diametric difference between December 31 and January 1, but there must be something very mystical deep down in our souls and hearts exhorting our minds to make a ...


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IBNLive
   
Administration let down Tamil writer Perumal Murugan, says his lawyer   
IBNLive
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan who was forced to drop his pen forever following protests by fringe Hindu outfits in Namakkal over his book 'Madhorubagan' was "totally let down" by the district administration, says his lawyer and the Special Public Prosecutor ...


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