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Dear Reader,
Three years after 53 people were killed in the Delhi riots, the inevitable is upon us. Hindus and Muslims are migrating to ghettos of their own communities, ‘single-faith’ sanctuaries, reinforcing suspicions of each other and hardening communal stereotypes. ThePrint reports from Seelampur and Mustafabad in the national capital to bring home the tragic aftermath.
The Dom community in Varanasi have been traditionally the cremators of the dead for generations – the liberators of the soul. However, Janchowk, reports, how this community has been unable to break the shackles of the caste system which mires them in discrimination, neglect and poverty.
The Indian judicial system is severely lagging in meeting citizens’ aspirations for transparent and speedy justice. Now, the Supreme Court of India has begun to leverage technology to drive steam through the system. Just recently, CJI D Y Chandrachud launched the ‘live transcription’ of Constitutional bench proceedings through the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Supreme Court Observer looks at AI innovations in law globally.
And, Mojo Story talks to six-time National Badminton Champion and Arjuna Awardee Damayanti Vijay Tambay who ‘lost’ her husband Flt Lt Vijay Tambay in the 1971 war with Pakistan. With intermittent signs that he was still alive and incarcerated in a Pakistan gaol, she has been looking and waiting for him, for fifty long years.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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