New Delhi: Veteran actress and social activist Shabana Azmi feels actresses nowadays are moving away from the I will remain silent mode through their films and the grip of patriarchy is becoming loose in current times. She also feels that art should be used as an instrument for social change[Read More…]
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Missing Pakistani activist Raza Khan returns after seven months
Pakistani social activist Raza Mahmood Khan, who had been missing for the past seven months, has returned home, the media reported on Friday. Raza, a convener of Aghaz-i-Dosti – a friendship initiative between the youth of India and Pakistan — was reportedly picked up by men in plainclothes from his[Read More…]
Wrote 32 letters to Modi, got no reply: Hazare
Social activist Anna Hazare on Sunday said he had written 32 letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, including 10 on the Lokpal and issues related to farmers and agricultural land, but received not a single reply. “I did not receive any reply despite writing consistently to the Prime Minister. So,[Read More…]
RTI on PM Modi, Manmohan Singh’s foreign trips denied as ‘vague’
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has denied information on various expenses incurred in foreign trips by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh, terming the query “vague”, an RTI activist informed. Nutan Thakur a social activist told IANS on Saturday that she had requested the documents from the[Read More…]