Rajab Ali

The Delhi High Court has strongly criticized the Sentence Review Board, stating it renders convicts' lives invisible. Ordering the release of a rape convict after 22 years, the court found the SRB repeatedly rejected remission pleas without considering reformation. The judge highlighted the board's "undemocratic functioning" and "indifference to the inmate."

If celebrated kavishar(folk writer)Rajab Ali’ poetry could get writers and publishers behind bars for reproducing it for it being castiest or derogatory in nature, the state action could also be same against persons penning words from Bhai Gurdas, Waris Shah’ works having equally castiest content in few chapters!

To contain the rising temperature in literary circles over the arrest of two writers and publishers, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has directed his support staff to diffuse the situation by solving the vexed tangle arising out of castiest words in celebrated kavishar (folk poet) Rajab Ali’ poetry.

In a big blow to Barnala police, a local court has discharged a writer and the publisher of the charges of using caste denoting words in a reproduced book about renowned Kavishar (folk writer) Babu Rajab Ali.

The dissenting voices against the unprovoked arrest of Punjab based two writers and publishers are rising by the day.

In a blow to police here, a local court has acquitted a writer and publisher over charges of using casteist words in a reproduced book about renowned folk writer Babu Rajab Ali.

Anhad, Prashant and various other NGOs have organised a cultural programme on Saturday as tribute to the memory of Vasant Rao Hegiste and Rajab Ali Lakhani.

To celebrate the spirit of communal harmony, city-based human rights group, Prashant will host a musical evening on July 1.

asant Vyayamshala near Bhadra, Lal Darwaja, has stood the test of time and then some more.

Assaults on suspected child lifters seem to be spreading its tentacles all over the city.

Usha Raol, 20, a student, broke many of her ‘prejudices' in an unique way. She recently visited her friend, Tah-meena Diwan, 16, at her house in Juhapura, putting all communal differences aside.

District fire officer Vasanth Kumar HM said that preliminary investigation has revealed that the explosion took place when the workers were dismantling a hydraulic compressor cylinder using a gas cutter. Due to the presence of oil and gas, the cylinder exploded.

To celebrate the spirit of communal harmony, city-based human rights group, Prashant will host a musical evening on July 1.