An exemplary judgment upholding Social Justice
Alandmark judgment delivered by
a Division Bench of Madras High
Court comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and S.R. Singaravelu corrected un injustice that the Union Public Service Commission has been perpetrating on the Schedule Castes Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes for quite a long time.
The historic ruling struck down rule 16(2), an amended provision of the Examination Rules issued by the UPSC for the Civil Services Examination 2005, adjusting candidates belonging to SC, ST or OBC recommended against unreserved
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The male Feminist !
Moral values
The General Assembly
Bhagat Singh
Faith narrows
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Promoting Scientific
Temper
It is an award-winning marvel of avant-
garde architecture, not a dark, dank,
dungeon-type structure associated with ghouls and gremlins. But the architectural wonder that is the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha still spooks some legislators. A bunch of lawmakers fears that the assembly building, designed by renowned architect Charles Correa, is a virtual death trap. Twenty-one sitting MLAs have died since the Assembly shifted to its new hill-top address in the mid-90s.
Apparently, legislators believe that vaastu shastra, or the lack of it, in the lay-out and design has come to haunt the new building. The clamour for corrections in the design in accordance with the ancient Indian architectural and building code has become strong
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Dinner with Darwin
I’d tell him that the thing which defeated him all his life, the mechanism of inheritance, had been solved and it didn’t destroy his theory - as he had thought it might - but actually supported it. He was a very rare thing, an honest scientist. Scientists are often extremely unwilling to accept that some of their ideas might be wrong and will go to any lengths to deny that possibility. But when Darwin wrote the Origin he was written to by a Scottish engineer called Fleming Jenkins with what Darwin thought was an absolutely fatal enquiry. Darwin thought that heredity worked somehow by the mixing of the averaging of the blood of the parents. In that case, Jenkins asked, if you have an advantageous character in the blood, how could you ever get it back, wouldn’t it just dilute away? Darwin immediately saw that that was fatal to his theory. He did six editions of the Origin, each one worse than the one before, as he got more and more tangled up and less
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Because Religion’s morality has failed
Religionists are always asking us, “How can
Atheists possibly be moral?” What they
mean, of course, is how can anyone be moral without the fear of god or the threat of punishment in hell. Yet, despite religion’s exclusive claim to morality, and despite more than 2,000 years to perfect their system, religion and the churches have failed abysmally to create a moral, just or principled world.
Let’s define “morality” : According to Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, morality is (a) a doctrine or system of moral conduct; (b) particular moral principles or rules of conduct; (c) conformity to ideals of right human conduct.
Religion violates own codes
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Dr. HEMALATA LAVANAM
Social reformer, writer, well known atheist, and a crusader
against untouchability and caste system, Dr. Hemalata
Lavanam died of cancer died at Atheist Centre, Vijayawada , India on Wednesday, 19 March, 2008.
Dr. Hemalata Lavanam was born on February 26, 1932 in Vinukonda, Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh, India. She was the daughter of eminent Telugu poet Padma Vibhshan, Gurram Joshua and Mirayamma. Ever since her childhood, she faced the rigours of untouchability and caste. She challenged the rigid structures of caste system and fought for social equality with determination and utmost commitment for the cause.
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A bizarre form of worship
Periyar used to say: if you become a devotee
of god, you will lose reason (Bakthi Vandaal
Puthi Poekum). A report in the Chennai edition of the Deccan Chronicle dated 22
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