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Massive AIALA protest in Guwahati: Special Assembly Session Demanded
On 21 January, 2010 a massive protest rally was taken out in Guwahati under the banner of Sadou Asom Gramin Sramik Santha (Assam unit of AIALA) along with the Kisan... (read full text)
Update : Construction Workers’ Maha Dharna to be held at Parliament
A meeting of All India Construction Workers’ Federation- a federation of unions of construction workers affiliated to AICCTU- was held on 9 January 2010 at Bhagalpur, Bihar. Leaders from states... (read full text)
Update : Month-Long Campaign on NREGA
A month-long campaign on implementation of NREGA and related issues culminated in a 2-day demonstration of hundreds of people in front of Harpanahalli taluk office in Karnataka on 15 and... (read full text)
Avatar: Anti-imperialism in 3-D
(Excerpted from a review that appeared in the Socialist Worker, January 7, 2010) Avatar is a visually stunning marvel of film technology, as many reviewers will tell you, but what... (read full text)
It’s the Market, Idiot!
3 Idiots has been hailed as a film that asks uncomfortable questions about the nature of learning and academics in our ‘premier’ institutes of education. The filmmakers have apparently offered... (read full text)
Haiti: the Disaster Both Natural and Political
At around 5 pm on January 13, 2010 a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on Richter scale hit Port-au-Prince, the heavily populated capital city of Haiti. Within the next few days... (read full text)
On 2nd Cover : Why is Mr. Chidambaram Silent on the Adivasi Ruchikas of Bastar?
Why is Sodi Sambho being stopped from meeting her lawyer and the public Sodi Sambho is one of 13 eyewitnesses who have petitioned the Supreme Court in the case of... (read full text)
In Memory of Faiz Ahmad Faiz
(February 13 1911- November 20 1984) (Translations by Agha Shahid Ali, from his book The Rebel’s Silhouette.) You Tell Us What To Do When we launched life on the river... (read full text)
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Pressing the ‘Replay’ Button
The Congress had contested the Jharkhand election with the slogan “Chuniye unhe, jinhe desh ne chuna” (elect those who have got the mandate of the nation). It abandoned its former... (read full text)
India Signs Undemocratic US-scripted Accord
The 15th Conference of Parties (COP-15) has finally ended in Copenhagen, and it is now time to officially write the obituary. This week-long conference, where 110 countries of the world... (read full text)
Attack on an Adivasi Land Struggle
Narayanpatna is a block in Koraput district of Orissa (bordering AP), mostly populated by tribals and some dalits. Here, lands belonging to tribals have been grabbed over time by non-tribal... (read full text)
Shopian: CBI On A Spree Of Manufacturing Lies
(The author is Executive editor Kashmir Times and member of Independent Women’s Initiative for Justice in Shopian, which recently came out with a report on the double rape and murder... (read full text)
The Issue of State Reorganisation and Autonomy
The intense agitation for a separate Telengana, especially the upsurge of students, in the face of severe repression, eventually succeeded in wresting an announcement from the Central Government that steps... (read full text)
Will India Take Lessons from the David Headley Case?
Partnership with the US will secure India from terrorism – this is the ‘wisdom’ peddled by the Vajpayee Government as well as by the Manmohan Singh governments. Much of the... (read full text)
India’s Sorry Performance
The UN’s Global Hunger Index 2009 ranked countries on three leading indicators – prevalence of child malnutrition, rates of child mortality, and the proportion of people who are calorie deficient... (read full text)
Dubai Crash and the Kerala Crisis
The crisis of the much-trumpeted ‘superpower of the Middle East’, Dubai, came out into the open at the end of November ‘09 when ‘Dubai World’, a government-owned company, sought a... (read full text)
An obstacle race for the poor
What is the magical figure that can ensure that the poor survive in India? Rs 446.68? Rs 578.80? 2100 calories? 2400 calories? 25 kilograms of grain? Or Rs 90 a... (read full text)
‘Maoism’, State and the Communist Movement in India
Part II Commentators have romanticised, eulogised and demonised ‘Maoism’ in many superficial ways; the point however is to appropriately assess this important trend and develop a correct political approach to... (read full text)
Red Carpet for US Nuke Companies and Impunity for Killer Corporations
It’s absolutely essential, “If there was not a cap and if there was not suitable legislation insurance in place, then we wouldn’t be in the nuclear industry.” – Peter Mason... (read full text)
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