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Since February 2020, Varavara Rao has spent 149 days in hospitals: HC told
Rao s counsel Jaising argued that the 82-year-old poet s continued incarceration was a breach of his fundamental right to life and health.
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MUMBAI: Of the 365 days since last February, jailed activist-poet Varavara Rao spent 149 days in the hospital, his counsel Indira Jaising told the Bombay High Court Monday to highlight his poor health condition and push for interim bail in the Elgar-Parishad-Maoist links case.
The fact that Rao spent almost half the time in several hospitals made clear his poor health condition, Jaising said while arguing that the 82-year-old poet s continued incarceration was a breach of his fundamental right to life and health.
Varavara Rao s Incarceration Is Breach Of Right To Life And Health: Bombay HC Told
Advocate Indira Jaising said since last February, activist-poet Varavara Rao, arrested for links with Maoists, has spent 149 days of his jail time in hospital and appealed for interim bail PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-02-01T18:41:02+05:30 Varavara Rao s Incarceration Is Breach Of Right To Life And Health: Bombay HC Told outlookindia.com 2021-02-01T21:27:17+05:30
To highlight his deteriorating health conditions and push for an interim bail in the case of the Elgar-Parishad-Maoist link, counsel Indira Jaising told the Bombay High Court shared in the court that since February 2020, arrested activist-poet Varavara Rao has spent 149 in the hospital.
Caution: Reading books may expose you to different points of view
Kafka once said that a book must be an ice axe for the frozen sea within us. Here’s a tongue-in-cheek look at how disclaimers could blunt that statement. January 24, 2021 / 02:24 PM IST
According to a recent Reuters report, the Hungarian government has ordered a publisher to print disclaimers identifying books that contain “behaviour inconsistent with traditional gender roles”. The specific title that brought this about was
Wonderland Is for Everyone, a fairy tale anthology including stories with gay themes. It’s published by Labrisz, an organisation devoted to making the lives and issues of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women more visible.
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New Delhi, January 20
From Rudyard Kipling to O Henry and from RK Narayan to Enid Blyton, publishing house Hachette India is out with two grand volumes filled with some of the greatest stories ever written for younger and older children.
The books, 100 Greatest Stories for Young Children and 50 Greatest Stories for Old Children , features a wide range of stories from fairy tales, fables, folklore, classic Indian texts and epics written by international and Indian authors.
The contributors in these two anthologies are some of the world s finest and most-loved authors including the likes of Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy.