All For the Publicity
Today: Reality is that Maoist violence is declining in the state, they (Maoists) have done this to gain publicity: Jai Panda This is such a recurring theme. Nuclear activists protest […]
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That Silent March
Silent Marches are mushrooming everywhere. Quiet, apologetic, they don’t want to inconvenience you, they will not cause anyone any trouble, they only want to quietly say their thing and dissolve
A Response to Primary Red’s post on Justice and the Gujarat riots
Primary Red and I often have differences on the subject of Gujarat Riots. This is a subject with many differences of opinion, but what disturbs me about my conversations with
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In memory of Swami Nigamanand
Last year, on this day, the 19th February 2011, Swami Nigamananda took the place of another sadhu, Swami Yajnanda as a part of their long struggle against illegal mining of
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 5
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 When the scale of money involved is what it is, the stakeholders are not always easy to identify. Between the CEOs in their
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Privatizing needs
Increasing privatization of necessities means citizens are forced to make purchases from private entities that are opaque to scrutiny and unaccountable to people. It is a permanent profit.
Self immolations and the unconscious mind
Sunny Singh makes a very intriguing and perceptive observation about the Arab Spring and the rash of self-immolations that it brought. She points out that while self-immolation is known culturally
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Transcript: Sainath on Mass Media v. Mass Reality: Part 1 of 5
P. Sainath on Mass Media v. Mass Reality: From Farm and Field to Wall Street Deals A lecture at University of Texas, Austin by P. Sainath, sponsored by the University
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Some thoughts on AFSPA
Again, the time is come to talk about the AFSPA and again, the rhetoric is the same on all sides. Another classic Indian stalemate. Omar Abdullah has taken on himself
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