What is the CPI(M)s stand on the recent guidelines issued by the Supreme Court with respect to filing of cases under Section 498A of the CrPc?  Is it not a fact that this section is used to harass innocent men and their family members?   Ramchandra Pathak, LucknowIN the last decade of the 1970s, a parliamentary committee travelled around the country taking submissions about needed amendments to the laws regarding dowry abuse and rape.  After considerable thought and consultation, amendments to these laws were made and Section 498A was added to the Anti Dowry legislation.

SPEAKER after speaker called for unity among the journalists fraternity to fight the onslaught of the Chandrasekhar Rao government which was threatening the freedom of press.The speakers lambasted the TRS government for adopting a dictatorial attitude towards the journalists at a round table meeting on "Government's attitude towards media and journalists" at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad on August 11. The meeting was attended by senior journalists representing different working journalists unions, trade union leaders, women activists and NGOs.

SPEAKER after speaker called for unity among the journalists fraternity to fight the onslaught of the Chandrasekhar Rao government which was threatening the freedom of press.The speakers lambasted the TRS government for adopting a dictatorial attitude towards the journalists at a round table meeting on "Government's attitude towards media and journalists" at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad on August 11. The meeting was attended by senior journalists representing different working journalists unions, trade union leaders, women activists and NGOs.

After independence, the government of India took an initiative to establish a liberal democratic education system in general and higher education in particular to build a strong human resource base for the country.The first report on National Education Policy was released in 1968, which was based on two landmark reports, namely the University Education Commission Report of 1948-49, popularly known as Radhakrishna Commission Report, and the Education Commission Report of 1964-66 known as Kothari Commission Report.

ARTISTS and creative community of India are aghast at the vandalism proposed against the artwork of one India's greatest artists by a representative of the BJP government in Guwahati. A statement issued by SAHMAT on August 11 said Ramkinkar Baij pioneered the modern movement in mid-twentieth century India. He was dedicated to the person and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, as he was to the adivasi communities and subaltern figures in the ethos he inhabited. He sought to find a form for this in several smaller sculptures of the Mahatma.