#kerala it act

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indian actors play in so many movies it's always so underwhelming to see other country's actor's filmography

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Data | Why Centre’s denial of rice through OMSS hits Karnataka the most

Picture used for representational purpose | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal Ever since the Congress-led Karnataka government came to power, it has been struggling to meet one of its major pre-poll promises — the provision of five kg of rice to Below Poverty Line (BPL) and Antyodaya card holders. This would have been in addition to the five kg of rice that is provided under the National Food Security…

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केरल में डायरेक्ट सेलिंग मुद्दों पर मंत्री GR Anil की बैठक: Monitoring Committee का गठन हो सकता है जल्द

Direct Selling Industry: आज केरल राज्य सरकार के Consumer Affairs मंत्री श्री GR Anil ने डायरेक्ट सेलिंग Associations और State Trade Unions के साथ एक महत्वपूर्ण बैठक की। इस बैठक में कई मुद्दों पर चर्चा की गई, जिसमें डायरेक्ट सेलिंग के क्षेत्र में सुधार और Consumers की सुरक्षा शामिल थी। इस दौरान बैठक में श्री अजीत कुमार, आई.ए.एस., सचिव – उपभोक्ता मामले और श्री मुकुंद ठाकुर, आई.ए.एस. – आयुक्त, सिविल…

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"Kerala High Court Rejects Plea to Quash Defamation Case: Trial to Proceed for Offenses Against Woman's Dignity"

The court dismissed the criminal petition holding that the allegations were serious enough to warrant a trial and that there was sufficient material to proceed with the case. The court ruled that the complaint could not be dismissed at this stage, as a trial was necessary to determine the validity of the charges.

The court reasoned that both Section 509 of the IPC and Section 120(o) of the Kerala Police Act were applicable in this case.

Background

The case revolves around Satheeshkumar B R, the petitioner, and Archana Varghese, the de facto complainant and Respondent before the High Court.

The primary conflict between the two appears to stem from past animosity.

Satheeshkumar allegedly engaged in behavior designed to insult Archana's modesty and defame her reputation between October 19 and October 29, 2023.

He is accused of spreading malicious content about Archana on social media platforms and even sending offensive postcards to her and her father.

These postcards allegedly contained defamatory claims that Archana had undergone two abortions, which was intended to humiliate her.

BR Satheesh Kumar v. The State of Kerala & Archana Verghese

Crl. Misc. Case No 5999/2024

Before the High Court of Kerala

Heard by Hon'ble Mr. Justice A Badharudeen J

Legal Issue

Whether the actions of the accused, which include the publication of defamatory statements and materials, constitute offenses under Section 509 IPC (insulting the modesty of a woman) and Section 120(o) of the Kerala Police Act, 2011 (causing nuisance or annoyance through communication).

Argument of the parties

Petitioner's (alleged accused) Argument

The allegations in the complaint and the subsequent police report did not meet the necessary elements to substantiate the offenses under Sections 509 of the IPC and 120(o) of the Kerala Police Act.

The evidence, including Facebook posts, failed to show intent to insult or defame the complainant.

The actions of the petitioner did not warrant the continuation of criminal proceedings.

Respondent's Argument

Petitioner's actions were deliberate and aimed at damaging Respondent-Archana’s reputation and dignity.

The publication of offensive content, including postcards and Facebook posts, clearly indicated an intent to defame and insult her.

The case requires trial to explore the gravity of the allegations.

Court's Observation

The court emphasized the nature of the content shared by the petitioner, specifically the postcards sent to Archana’s father and the defamatory Facebook posts, were aimed at tarnishing her reputation.

The petitioner intended to insult the complainant's modesty and cause public annoyance.

[thehansindiaseo]

Stormy start to Kerala Assembly session over bar bribery allegations

The 11th session of Kerala's 15th Legislative Assembly began on a stormy note on Monday, with the Congress-led opposition's protest over bar bribery allegations against the Vijayan government that surfaced last month. The opposition has demanded an inquiry under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act into the alleged bar bribery issue.

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Decoding Section 147: Mangalam Publications Verdict and the Essence of Tax Disclosures

In the intricate legal battle between M/S Mangalam Publications and the Commissioner of Income Tax, Section 147 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, takes centre stage. The case, marked as Civil Appeal Nos. 8580–8582 of 2011, reached its zenith on January 23, 2024, with Hon’ble Mr. Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ujjal Bhuyan delivering landmark verdicts. Mangalam Publications Verdict and…

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Viji Palithodi is the founder of a woman's trade union improving the working conditions of women. It focuses on the rights of saleswomen, who beforehand did not have the right to access a washroom even when they were doing 12-hour-shifts: "In shops, workers, especially the women, aren’t allowed to sit even when there aren’t any customers. After our protests, an amended law ensured seats."

Male-centric trade unions did not respond to these human rights violations, so Viji took it upon herself to form a women-centered union.

"After relentless protests and strikes, the government amended the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act (1960) in 2018, mandating toilet facilities for women workers. Local administration built public toilets in Kozhikode."

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I literally can't believe that trade unions centered around men did not take these torturous conditions seriously, but love that she stood up against it ❤️ and actually changed something

[metamatar]

October 10, 2022

Amit Kumar had everything going for him. After graduating in engineering and landing a decent job, Amit wanted to settle down with his childhood sweetheart Renu. The couple had known each other since Class IX and dreamt of a life together. The only difficulty was that Renu belonged to a Brahmin family and Amit was a Dalit.

With their homes barely a kilometre apart in Garhwa district of Jharkhand, Renu knew her family would never approve of the match. The couple decided to run away and tie the knot in another State. And thus began their tale of unending harassment and tragedy.

The couple married at a temple in Dehradun and got their marriage registered there. They had just about settled down at Paonta Sahib in Himachal Pradesh when, in a midnight raid, the Uttar Pradesh police took away Renu, claiming that she had been abducted. Amit and Renu have not seen or spoken to each other since that fateful night of August 13, 2021.

Amit’s life has been a quagmire of legal battles and dismissed habeas corpus petitions since then. “I fear my wife is no more,” he told The Hindu.

Activists say such tragic situations can be avoided if couples like Amit and Renu are provided safe houses and special protection by the State governments as mandated by the Supreme Court.

According to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the number of “honour killings” in the country was 24, 25 and 33 in 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively. Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand topped the list in 2021 and 2020, while Manipur was on top in 2019.

The government in 2021 informed Parliament that there were 145 “honour killing” incidents in the country between 2017 and 2019.

Interestingly, though the NCRB report attributed only 25 deaths to “honour killings” in 2020, it said there were 27 deaths due to casteism and 1,558 due to “illicit relationship”. Similarly, in 2021, 33 deaths were listed under “honour killings”, but 1,544 and 1,532 under “illicit relationship” and “love affairs”, respectively.

So far, only Delhi, Haryana and Punjab have safe houses for inter-faith and inter-religious couples. Kerala has only announced the setting up of a safe house.

In fact, only 21 States have said that they have complied with the Supreme Court directives, which means that they have asked the police officers concerned of a State for strict compliance, according to Dhanak for Humanity, a non-governmental organisation which works with such couples, helping them solemnise their marriages and providing legal support.

The Supreme Court had in 2018 directed that safe houses be set up in every district as well as a special cell in States for couples facing opposition from families and community.

Gaurav Yadav, an engineer from IIT Chennai, said he was working with survivors of “honour crimes” and couples who are in hiding to petition the government for more safe houses across the country.

“Soon we will form an official grouping and petition the government to follow the Supreme Court directives on safe houses and special cells,” Mr. Yadav said, adding that he had organised a convention regarding the same in Delhi recently.

He said though couples had been demanding that safe houses be set up, the State administrations had looked the other way.

An example is of Ravikant Chandrawanshi and Alisha, who had a harrowing time getting married under the Special Marriage Act in Chhattisgarh.

The inter-faith couple at first decided to elope and marry in Bilaspur. However, a lack of support system and security, including finances, saw them return home in Kawardha within four days.

“As my wife’s family were well to do and politically connected, they kept up the pressure on us. Finally, we had to take legal recourse and approached the High Court asking them to direct the State administration to provide the mandated safe house and police protection.

“However, we were informed that there was no safe house and Alisha had to go to a sakhi centre or a women’s safe house,” Mr. Chandravanshi said.

Though the couple approached the highest of authorities, they were not given any police protection either and had to go into hiding for around six months after their marriage.

According to Asif Iqbal of Dhanak for Humanity, most States send the girl to a Nari Niketan after couples approach them. “It is here that the girl is the most insecure as her family mostly approaches her and puts pressure to go back. Many a time, this also leads to what is known as honour killing of the girl”.

Sanjay Sachadev of Love Commandoes, an organisation which rescues and shelters such couples, said, “The need of the hour is safe houses across the country. In almost every case, the police try and send the girl to a women’s shelter and the boy is left to fend for himself.”

A couple who are staying in a Delhi safe house and did not wish to be identified said that they could not have thought of living together had it not been for the security of the safe house.

Mr. Iqbal, whose organisation has helped many couples seek legal recourse to stay together and get married, said that of the distress calls he receives, the most were from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

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Kerala has been widely lauded for having achieved human development goals comparable to those of economically advanced countries despite being economically poor. Its allegedly egalitarian economic model was highlighted as an alternative to neoliberal, free market policies. However, the ‘pro-poor’ policies largely passed over the plantations. Plantation workers have not benefited from the land reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, and thus the majority have remained poor, landless labourers working within the exploitative plantation system. Moreover, the women plantation workers face multiple levels of discrimination because they are, at the same time, Tamil, Dalit, and female. Remarkably, though, the Pembillai Orumai challenged the negative caste prejudice and ethnic stereotyping of the plantation Tamils. The ethnic stereotyping of lower class Dalit Tamils is epitomised by the slur ‘pandi’, which symbolises the inferior in the oppositions of modern/non-modern, and resourceful/unresourceful. The portrayal of the Tamil plantation women as unresourceful was evident in the racist colonial conception of Tamil plantation workers as hard working but unintelligent. Echoes of this imagery were everywhere during the Pembillai Orumai strike. Many commentators, including trade union leaders, framed the strike as an anarchist act that could not be considered a proper form of resistance. They also repeatedly claimed that ‘invisible forces’ instigated the strike, an accusation the leaders of Pembillai Orumai strongly denied. These accusations were meant to rob the underclass—lower caste—Tamil speaking women of their due credit by suggesting they were incapable of organising themselves. Yet it was this very community who designed and implemented a model of resistance that interrogated the contradictions of the widely celebrated Kerala development model and its egalitarian claims. And as all actions, this one had its own momentum. It also became an act of rebellion that challenged the social relations responsible for their alienated condition, including the ethnic stereotypes that characterised them as inferior. It was an attempt to reclaim human personality in a Dalit liberation tradition, not only for them but also for their men and their dead indentured ancestors.

— The women strike back: the protest of Pembillai Orumai tea workers by Jayaseelan Raj

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same anon, do not apologize about taking an excuse to rant because it was a very enjoyable read 👍 especially because i share similar frustration regarding the lack of lore on rivain and even less lore on the lords as a faction. My very first rook was a lord and it was honestly kind of a miserable playthrough roleplaying wise 😭 i think i only got like five faction related dialogue options throughout the ENTIRE game!!! That combined with rook acting like they dont know anything about their own factions or even their own nation was absolutely maddening… anyway whoops sorry for my own little rant

RIGHT.... you do not have to apologise either anon i am right there with you. the map surrounding rivain being so nothing is just insult to injury when 1) like you said, almost no dialogue choices, 2) jack all content because i was running around for 70 hours hoping to find decor related to them/finding none because there IS none/absolutely nothing in the lighthouse being customised as a result and 3) they have decided the only thing you get to say about being a lord is repeating their catchphrase like this shit is scooby doo

the art book also has some pages on the lords that gave me mixed feelings lol spread that i scanned under the cut

i really thought that they would lean into the "mix and match" thing especially because even when i was designing my rook pre release, i was trying to incorporate elements of this! i was looking at duncan's armor to try and patch together something that reflected rivain! but when the game comes out it's just. orientalist. and there's a bull on my crotch. even though the art book discusses this idea of the lords having patchwork armor that they've stolen or put together because they're so diverse. there's a few designs in here that i would have loved to see in the game with the more piratey longcoats and hats, and if they were going to draw inspiration i wish they'd looked more at mauritius and south india (kerala, tamil nadu) instead of . i'm not actually sure what the fuck they were doing here. my first thought when i saw the jewelry and design in game had been indigenous south american? but ofc the longer i looked the more i leaned away from that initial judgement and the more i got confused, and what little we know of rivain is obviously inspired by south asia (asha's maiden name being bahadur, bharv, hari, etc. but there's also mateo?) so i think it is the tried and true method white people looove to do where they mishmash cultures into one place and then get defensive when poc say "we aren't interchangable like that"

visually i think veilguard is so so successful in most cases with that consideration of shape language, colors, etc (though sometimes i think it goes too far. let the crows wear black again) but rivain/the lords is one of the weaker ones because i wish there was something specifically rivaini that tied it all together. like if dragons are found here (presumably. taash has a reputation as a dragon hunter. they would need to hunt dragons in rivain) then maybe scale armor as an identifier. or if rivain is known for pearl farming then it features more in their armor. or if the climate is hotter, so the fabric they wear would be linen and would actually cover more of their skin to avoid sunburn! or if they wear lots of blue, is that because they're a producer of that dye? just worldbuilding things like this completely ignored to make their main thing 'lots of gold and it should be revealing' and be weirdly racist/orientalist in the process.

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Kerala State Film Awards: पृथ्वीराज, उर्वशी, बीना आर चंद्रन ने जीता शीर्ष अभिनय सम्मान

Kerala State Film Awards: 54 वें केरल राज्य फिल्म पुरस्कारों की घोषणा आज 16 अगस्त को दोपहर करीब 12 बजे की गई. पृथ्वीराज सुकुमारन ने सर्वश्रेष्ठ अभिनेता का पुरस्कार जीता जबकि उर्वशी और बीना आर चंद्रन ने सर्वश्रेष्ठ अभिनेत्री का पुरस्कार साझा किया. ममूटी की ‘काथल – द कोर’ को सर्वश्रेष्ठ चित्र के रूप में सम्मानित किया गया. ब्लेसी ने अपनी फिल्म ‘आदुजीविथम’ के लिए सर्वश्रेष्ठ निर्देशक का पुरस्कार…

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Bureaucrats trying to sabotage RTI Act, says Kerala info panel chief

A. Abdul Hakeem | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Those assuming public offices should take an oath of transparency upholding the spirit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act rather than an oath of secrecy, which is the case now, State Information Commissioner A. Abdul Hakeem has said. He was speaking at a seminar on RTI Act organised at the Ernakulam Press Club here on October 5 (Saturday) in…

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I’m Still Here: This Brazilian political drama holds global significance, resonating from Palestine to various regions of India

Set against the backdrop of Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–85), Walter Salles’ political biographical drama I'm Still Here — screened recently at the IFFK 2024 — is a profoundly well-crafted film.

One moment, you are enjoying one of the most memorable days of your life — sharing heartfelt laughter and savouring your favourite food at a local hotel; the next, you sit across from that very table, teary-eyed, watching another family create similar memories, as you grapple with the reality that you may never experience such moments again. Set against the backdrop of Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985), director Walter Salles’ political biographical drama I’m Still Here — screened recently at the 2024 International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) — is a profoundly well-crafted film, telling the story of Eunice Paiva (played by a brilliant Fernanda Torres) and her five children, whose lives are irrevocably changed after the forced disappearance of her husband, Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), a former congressman, at the hands of the military regime.

What allows the Portuguese-language film to resonate so deeply with audiences is that it is based on Ainda Estou Aqui, the autobiography of Eunice and Rubens’ son Marcelo Rubens Paiva — a renowned Brazilian novelist, playwright and journalist — thus imbuing the narrative with a palpable sense of authenticity and emotional depth.

I’m Still Here opens in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s, when the military dictatorship had reached its peak and the armed forces held absolute power, conducting arbitrary searches and detaining people without explanation or accountability. Amidst this climate of fear, the liberal Paiva family resides in a “peaceful” beachside neighbourhood, surrounded by friends and a close-knit community. In their household, politics isn’t just a subject for the adults; even the younger family members actively engage in political discourse and closely monitor the events unfolding around them, demonstrating their commitment to civic responsibility.

What makes the film so poignant — even without graphic depictions of physical torture — is Salles’ remarkable ability to capture the family’s moments of joy and connection before Rubens’ forced disappearance, thus underscoring the devastating extent of their loss.

In the global context, this sequence resonates deeply, especially as Palestinians continue to endure the brutalities of Israel and its military. I’m Still Here carries significant relevance in the Indian context too. The plight of political prisoners like Umar Khalid, those imprisoned in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case such as Surendra Gadling and Jyoti Jagtap, and those who remain behind bars under draconian laws such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) — which is often used to target dissenting voices — highlights the film’s relevance.

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[theburialofstrawberries]

finished up at the socialism conference - brain on fire thanks to ruthie wilson gilmore, tracy rosenthal & leo vilchis, the idea that we have to act our way into thinking, that praxis informs theory, that abolition is the rehearsal of communism - also got to chat about being a new york liberty hater with hanif fucking abdurraqib (!!!!!!!!!!) - but now I must speak

the american left (and I do NOT mean only caucasian americans, the american left is black and brown and queer as fuck, good, but my puzzlement stands) is so freaking weird about the global south and interacting w global south people. relax. I am literally from India, you didn't make a faux pas by asking where I'm from. like just relax. also stop silver bullet-izing kerala, an extant example of communists seizing and holding onto electoral power IS exciting, it is very very exciting I am with you, but that doesn't absolve you from doing the slightest bit more research, you need to go beyond "mass provision of public goods" for the love of God, and you need to treat apologists of sindur-nandigram like vijay prashad a little more critically. it is like the self-recrimination but also titillation of being Main Character that is really really annoying

[competitivedust]

So a Jewish woman visited Kerala, India and came across a pro-Palestine poster here. And then she proceeded to tear it down.

When she was confronted, she decided to act entitled and argue with the locals. She even said that "we make money off the jews. And then spread hate against them."

You do not get to go to another country and vandalise people's private property there. And you certainly don't get to enjoy the services provided by us and then blame us for taking money for said services.

And most importantly, if a poster which appeals to people to stand up for humanity triggers you so much, maybe take a look at who you are. Don't make this conflict and being pro-israel your entire personality.