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The New York Times - Travel A new addition to Lexington Avenue, home to the most diverse and concentrated hub of Indian restaurants in New York City.
Sahib, in Curry Hill, Lets You Eat All Over India
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The menu darts from Kashmir to South India and beyond at the newest restaurant from the prolific Hemant Mathur (with help from Shiva Natarajan).
109 months ago
TechCrunch Your tech regulation experts
Bradley Tusk, Hemant Taneja, and Ted Ullyot are talking policy at Disrupt SF
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It's a question every major startup has to answer eventually: What do you do when the regulators come knocking? The answer varies depending on who you ask..
115 months ago
Leher Gender inequality is not funny. Yet sometimes, the best way to shake us out of our tranquility and lack of proactiveness towards the glaring atrocities faced by #children due to their #gender is with humour, sarcasm and dark wit. Cartoonists and illu Read more ... strators alike have done the job many can’t do, advocating for the rights of little humans and repeatedly emphasising that #childhood must have no gender.
Here are some #cartoons and #illustrations that show just how gender hostile our society is towards children. #childrenbeyondgender
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Hemant Morparia Cartoonist Satish Acharya Calvin and Hobbes CartoonStock The Cartoon Movement Cartooning for Peace / Dessins pour la Paix Homegrown Upworthy Scroll ScrollDroll ScoopWhoop BuzzFeed BuzzFeed India YourStory SocialStory TheBetterIndia The Logical Indian Gaysi Family GLAAD LGBT News Genderlog Human Rights Watch Gender Across Borders Gender Spectrum The Caravan Magazine PinkNews Gaylaxy Magazine Maitri Dore Illustrations My Father illustrations Illustration Friday Illustration Age Illustrated Monthly MANJUL R.K.Laxman
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Gender inequality is not funny. Yet sometimes, the best way to shake us out of our tranquility and lack of proactiveness towards the glaring atrocities faced by children due to their gender is with humour, sarcasm and dark wit. Cartoonists and illust Read more ... rators alike have done the job many can’t do, advo...
117 months ago
Vivek Sawhney 1. UNDER WHICH PROVISIONS OF INDIAN LAWS HON'BLE JUSTICE OF DELHI HIGH COURT QUASH AN F.I.R. IN DEFIANCE OF SELF-ADMITTED & DULY SIGNED COMMUNICATION BY D.C.P. LEGAL CELL OF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE DELHI & THAT TOO OF A NON-EXISTING POLICE STATION IN Read more ... DELHI IN GROSS VIOLATION OF HON'BLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA JUDGMENT IN KALABHARTI ADVERTISING VERSUS HEMANT VIMALNATH NARICHANIA & OTHERS -UPON LEGAL MALICE DATED 06.09.2010?
2. UNDER WHICH PROVISIONS OF INDIAN LAWS AFTER PASSING OUT OF A NOTIFICATION BY MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT HON'BLE JUSTICE OF DELHI HIGH COURT IN VIOLATION OF JUDGMENT IN W.P. NO. 21407 OF 2005 DECIDED ALREADY PURPOSELY & INTENTIONALLY MUS-INTERPRETED EVEN AGAINST THE BASIC WRIT PETITION NUMBER 1040 OF 2007 IN GROSS VIOLATION OF HON'BLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA JUDGMENT IN KALABHARTI ADVERTISING VERSUS HEMANT VIMALNATH NARICHANIA & OTHERS -UPON LEGAL MALICE DATED 06.09.2010?
3. UNDER WHAT PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES HON'BLE CHIEF JUSTICE OF DELHI HIGH CORT OR HON'BLE CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA DESPITE REMINDING SEVERAL TIMES PURPOSELY AVOIDED TO PROTECT THE LEGAL MALICE COMMITTED BY THEIR TWO FELLOW JUDICIAL MEMBERS FOR OBLIQUE REASONS IN CONTEMPTUOUS VIOLATION OF IN GROSS VIOLATION OF HON'BLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA JUDGMENT IN KALABHARTI ADVERTISING VERSUS HEMANT VIMALNATH NARICHANIA & OTHERS -UPON LEGAL MALICE DATED 06.09.2010?
4. WHO IS THE COMPETENT PERSON IN INDIAN JUDICIARY TO SUO-MOTTO REVIEW THE TWO ILLEGAL ORDERS PASSED BY DELHI HIGH COURT IN ABSOLUTE VIOLATION OF THE FACTS, FIGURES CIRCUMSTANCES & THE CORE ISSUES INVOLVED IN CRL. MISC. APPL> NUMBER 3593 OF 2010 PASSED ON 04.02.2013 & IN CIVIL WRIT PETITION NUMBER 1040 OF 2007 IN ABSOLUTE DEFIANCE OF KALABHARTI ADVERTISING VERSUS HEMANT VIMALNATH NARICHANIA & OTHERS DECIDED ON 06.09.2010?
130 months ago
Dilip Banerjee [Sic. Nepal is comfortable with free speech and dissent. Nepal is also the only country in South Asia with no restrictions on community radio. Anybody can set up a local community radio station. News and politics are allowed. There were 263 operation Read more ... al community radio stations when the earthquake struck; 20 of them have been destroyed. Community radio is a powerful tool for bridging the information divide in poor societies like ours. India doesn’t even allow news on FM radio.]
HEARING THE UNHEARD
From forced Mann Ki Baat broadcasts to ban on politics, community radio in India is choking
Mayank Jain • 12 May 2015
The government insists that they stay away from politics and news, leaving them crippled in terms of content. The concluding part of our series on community radio.
India, with a population of 120 crore people, has 179 community radio stations, many of which are struggling to survive on shoe-string budgets. And they face constant government interference. The latest missive came from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on April 30 ordering community radio stations to record and send their daily programming schedules to Delhi over email .
The order, which was seen as a brutal form of crackdown over community voices, after its action on the non governmental organisations, was reversed the very next day because of a fear of backlash from the activists who have been long fighting cases in the courts to free up community radio in India from the clutches of the government.
While the latest order may have been withdrawn, community radio is far from free in the country, 13 years after the government first opened itself to the idea of having community-run radio services. Even now, the community radio stations are required to maintain archives for three months and the government is free to ask them for programming of a certain day in case it receives a complaint.
However, an official at the I&B ministry claimed that not one complaint has been received in the history of community radios in India.
“The format is self correcting, if you violate community sentiments nobody will hear you,” said the official, requesting anonymity. “The government should be trying to promote, instead of curtailing, the freedom of community radios.”
Only dance and drama
The policy guidelines framed for community radio services bar stations from airing anything remotely political or news-like. The problem arises because the restriction has made the radio lose its relevance and importance for certain communities.
“The policy document is so loosely worded that it hangs like a sword over us all,” said Hemant Babu, director of Nomad Communication which manufactures transmitters and helps set up community radio stations across the country. “Anything could be political or newsworthy for the government when it tries to prosecute you and there’s no way of getting out of it.”
Shubhranshu Choudhary, who has won accolades for his work with community radio and citizen journalism in Chhattisgarh, agrees. “All that we have on community radio is government propaganda, dance and music,” he said. “Nothing remotely political or newsworthy can be transmitted. A farmer needs to know what’s happening around him and a fisherman cares about high-low tide more than he cares about what new scheme the government has come up with.”
The grouse of not being able to air news programmes is one of the few common things between community and commercial radio stations as they stand together to support a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court which argues that radio is the only media barred from broadcasting news in the country.
“India is perhaps the lone democracy where the dissemination of news and current affairs programmes on radio remains a monopoly of the government-owned broadcaster, Prasar Bharati Corporation, which owns and operates All India Radio/Akashvaani,” the petition by the NGO Common Cause stated.
Calling the different policies for community and commercial radio stations “discriminatory”, the petition argues for the government to allow political news as well since a lot of news like weather updates is already bundled under the banner of “information”.
Arm-twisting tactics
From attempts at monitoring to informal circulars advising these radios to run programmes on Prime Minister’s pet projects such as Mann Ki Baat and Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan, those who operate these services don’t view the recent decisions in a very positive light.
“These are not orders, these are ‘strong advisories’ for the broadcasters to do Mann Ki Baat and other programmes,” said Babu. “Many of our partners claim that they are forced to broadcast because otherwise their grants will be delayed and they would be arm-twisted further.”
The I&B official corroborated this. “Over time, the screening committee on community radios is being overruled by orders from the top,” he said. “From broadcasting government programmes to granting of licenses, nothing has ever worked on principle.”
Back door entry
Evidently, people like Shubhranshu Choudhary and Hemant Babu have been waiting for licenses to come their way while government departments have been getting licenses in complete violation of the guidelines.
The government of Madhya Pradesh’s tribal affairs department Vanya has at least two community radio stations listed under its name even though the policy document clearly bars any political or government arm from obtaining a license.
Similarly, religious groups have long been receiving licenses, despite the screening committee rejecting their applications. “In such cases, the government manages to overrule whatever we suggest,” said a member of the committee, on condition of anonymity. “There are many temples, churches and other religious organisations in India running community radios under the garb of being an NGO while we all know that they are not.”
Hemant Babu, who has applied for a license of starting a community radio in Maharashtra said that his application has been pending for four years now. “We have fulfilled all the necessary conditions yet it’s turning out hard to obtain the permission,” he said. “On the other hand there are radios operating out of temples in Karnataka where saints and demigods sit and broadcast their messages to the community violating all guidelines.”
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