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Brinda Karat: We have moved forward in the resistance to domestic violence.-S. SUBRAMANIUM

Women not part of political agendas

Interview with Brinda Karat, Communist Party of India (Marxist) member of the Rajya Sabha.

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Dowry now has a new face, says Malini Bhattacharya.-C.V. SUBRAHMANYAM

Reinventing violence

Interview with Malini Bhattacharya, member, NCW.

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Woman as victim

There has been an escalation of all forms of violence against women in India in the past two decades.

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Uphill task

Factionalism and non-performance will make the Himachal Pradesh election a tightrope walk for both the main parties.

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Bitter memories

The Dulina lynching case, in which five Dalit men were killed by a mob in 2002, is still being heard.

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Miles to go

The third National Family Health Survey has immense significance for policymaking in health, nutrition and gender issues.

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Dalit rally

Dalit resentment becomes widespread in Haryana following the murder of a Valmiki youth.

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Aids patients and activists demonstrate in New Delhi on December 1, World AIDS Day, asking the government to ensure supply of second-line AIDS drugs.-V.V. KRISHNAN

Systemic ills

Preoccupied with AIDS control, government and funding agencies gloss over other health priorities.

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Students of Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, on their graduation day. Critics of the Bill say that the notion of equal rights to education has lost out to the trend of catering to the moneyed section of society.-MAHESH KUMAR A/AP

A degree of doubt

A Bill on the entry of foreign educational institutions faces stiff opposition as it promises little to stem the commercialisation of education.

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Workers in the unorganised sector must have a minimum floor-level security, say trade unions.-S.S. KUMAR

Less than secure

Trade unions are up in arms against a proposed social security Bill for workers in the unorganised sector.

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All for `honour'

Relatives kill a Jat couple in Haryana to safeguard the community's honour, and the authorities are apparently slow to react.

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Gujjars' anger

Gujjars of Rajasthan rise in violent agitation demanding inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe category.

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