*Tehelkahttp://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne230808Incoldblood.asp
*
*Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh attacks the BJP just like Sushma
Swaraj attacked the Congress. 'Investigate the timings of the blasts', he
tells NEHA DIXIT*
*You have made a statement that serial blasts
http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade250808.htm
*Bomb Makers Of Hindutva **
Die In Explosion*
*By Subhash Gatade*
25 August, 2008
*Countercurrents.org*
*T*wo bajarangdal leaders were killed while 2 others injured on 24 August
when they were making bombs in Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar
One-third of world's poor in India: Survey; The Times of India, 27 Aug 2008,
0211 hrs IST,TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/One-third_of_worlds_poor_in_India/articleshow/3409374.cms
NEW DELHI: India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the
world. It also has a higher
*Excerpted from an earlier long Post by Rajeev Ram in one of the groups.. (
from an article by Sarbani Bandopadhyaya -in Sept issue of HIMAL
Southasian, captioned as Revolutionary Patriarchs)*
'Bad' women*
*How do Naxalites conceptualise the issue of feminine modesty and honour?
Feminine modesty
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Some Questions about the Counter-Terror Operation at Jamia Nagar, New Delhi
A team comprising activists, academicians and journalists visited the
site of the police operation against alleged terrorists staying in an
apartment in Jamia Nagar in the afternoon of 20.09.2008 (Saturday).
Two
Dear Comrade,
I find the article by Ambedkar written in 1930s, published in a
recent issue of Countercurrents well timed and still relevant for
debate.
Perhaps, the agenda for a National Debate on proselytism as
suggested by Mr.Vajpayee some years back has been violently put forth
by the Sangh
The Telegraph, September 21, 2008
Editorial
ON A NEW BATTLEFIELD
The wonder that is India may or may not have many Ramayanas, but it
certainly has a magnificent array of idiots of colourfully variegated
stupidities. The colour on display in the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad?s campaign
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20080923/804/tnl-police-get-flak-for-arabic-scarves-o_1.html
The Delhi Police is being severely criticised for covering the faces
of the three blast suspects-Saqib Nisar, Mohd Shakeel and Zia ur
Rehman- with 'Arabic' scarves with many terming the act as partisan
and
Dear freinds,
As I enter eighty, my mobility has been reduced
considerably but the way the country is going is very disturbing as I
like every one of you woud like better world for posterity. I do know
many people had a biased understanding of ny role as a human rights
activist , now for the best
The Asian Age
October 2, 2008
WHY EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD STEREOTYPE
by Antara Dev Sen
You support terrorists? my friend was horror-struck.
We can?t presume they are terrorists, I begin, there must be a
trial first.
Rubbish! They are terrorists! And it?s indefensible that Jamia Milia
Bailout Passes Senate; 9 Reasons That's Bad News for You
* By Sen. Bernie Sanders http://www.alternet.org/authors/2649/, Huffington
Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/. Posted October 1,
2008http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date%5BF%5D=10date%5BY%5D=2008date%5Bd%5D=01act=Go/
.*
Forcing each
The Bailout Passes Senate: 9 Reasons that's Bad News For You-
(Excerpted from a blog published in www.alternet.org)
The American people are bitter. They are angry, and they are confused. Over
the last seven and a half year, since George W. Bush has been President, 6
million Americans have
The story of the arrest as reported is disgusting enough, and further it
indicates that the police in this State are allowed to act with neither
accountability nor respect for the law.
High-handed 'branding' of critics of the State , intimidation, booking on
fictitious charges etc. by the
The Tribune
September 27, 2008
Editorial
SCRAP SALWA JUDUM
Brigandry in the name of self-defence
THE Supreme Court has strongly disapproved of the Chhattisgarh government's
Salwa Judum or self-defence group to combat the increasing Naxalite menace.
It has directed the government to follow the
The Indian Express
Oct 02, 2008
HOME BIAS
Editorial
In reports emerging of the reactions of the judges of the Delhi High Court
who are hearing the government's arguments against the legalisation of
homosexuality, the outrage and confusion that they clearly feel at the
illiberal and
Hunter Better Than Nanavati
By R.B. Sreekumar
29 September, 2008
Countercurrents.org
The Nanavati Commission report deserves the description as a
whitewashing document of the aggressors than the conclusion of an
enquiry. This is an immature, partisan and inconclusive report which
has a
It looks transpired that propagating police stories in most sensitive
cases ,without checking their veracity is no journalism at all; call
it by other name whatever.
Further, it is certainly a good sign that there's been lot of
introspection among the media people themselves. Please keep it
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NYC PROTEST: SAT Oct 11 - Protest the Mass Violence Aganist Adivasis,
Dalits and Christians in India. Dalit Solidarity Forum Calls on all to
battle hatred
RAISE YOUR VOICE!!
STAND UP FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE!!!
JOIN THE MASS DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST THE MASS KILLINGS OF
CHRISTIANS, ADIVASIS AND
TERRORISM, POLICE AND MINORITIES
Asghar Ali Engineer
(Secular Perspective Ocotber-1-15, 2008)
The police as such has strong minority bias right from the dawn of
freedom. Our freedom came at the cost of partition and partition
further increased Hindu-Muslim divide and the police could not
A worth listening speech by economist Venkatesh..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4343898391323537541hl=en
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CONVENTION AGAINST COMMUNALISM
AND
ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY
OCTOBER 18, 2008
3.30 PM TO 7PM
MAVLANKAR AUDITORIUM
RAFI MARG, NEW DELHI-110001
It is clear today that our secular and democratic republic faces a
challenge regarding its very character. The Bajrang Dal and the VHP,
( Excerpts from a post in IHRO)
What kind of mother is Bharat Mata?
. When a young Catholic nun was being raped in Orissa's Kandhmal
district and paraded naked by men shouting Bharat Mata ki jai, one
only wondered what kind of a mother can allow this to happen to her
children? The violence
*Dalit shot for entering temple*
Manoj Chaurasia
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2theme=usrsess=1id=226461
PATNA, Oct. 11: A different face of fanatism comes to fore when Dalits
in Bihar are being killed and brutally tortured for entering temples
and offering prasad.
Despite
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*PRESS RELEASE*
Bangalore
24th October, 2008
Sangama and Karnataka
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*Karan Thapar:* * Hello and welcome to *Devil's Advocate*. Why is Arundhati
Roy angry with the police and upset with the press? That's the key issue I
shall explore today. Arundhati Roy, let's start with the recent encounter in
Jamia Nagar in New Delhi. You've called for an
... What do you know about CK Janu? Ever tried composting? Or protesting
against manual scavenging? How much does a farmer earn on a crop? ...
Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land will prove vital in empowering our
children to respect all kinds of peoples and their work, and to understand,
and
*Just the Tip Won't Do: Expose the Whole Iceberg *
No longer can the Sangh Parivar and BJP ever disown its role in terrorism. A
former firebrand ABVP leader and so-called 'sadhvi', Pragya Singh Thakur,
has been arrested for her role in the Malegaon blasts of September 2006 as
well as in the
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
നുഴഞ്ഞുകയറിയത് ആരാണ്?
പി. അനന്തരാമന്
കള്ളക്കേസ് ചമക്കാനും കള്ള സാക്ഷ്യങ്ങള് നിരത്താനും വ്യാജ ഏറ്റുമുട്ടലുകള്
സൃഷ്ടിക്കാനും
Congratulatory Letter from the First International to
Abraham Lincoln on His Re-election
http://marxists.architexturez.net/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
Address of the International Working Men's Association
to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of
*Sonal Shah and Links with Hindutva Brigade: More Info*
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20081109/814/tnl-no-vhp-links-our-family-condemns-guj.html
No VHP links, our family condemns Gujarat riots, says Sonal Shah's brother
...What he eulogized as the beautiful tree was largely a making of
Brahminic Hindu culture, and so any British attempt to uproot it, would
have, in effect, meant assaulting this tenacious culture. If this were to
happen, it would not have taken them long to bury deep the corpse of Manu
without
*Muslim Women's Newsletter* - *
*
*Vol. 2: No.20, November, 2008 **E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Muslim marriage oversight: women favour, others oppose* By IANS
*Kozhikode*: There were predictable differences among Muslim organizations
in Kerala over the state High Court's suggestion for a system
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Subject: Re: 'The beautiful tree' by Dharampal (fwd)- ...those who
cultivate land and those who cultivate brain..
To: Venugopalan K M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Venu,
Yes
(Fwded)
from a blog in
www.alternet.org
7-11-08
A Sexual Rights Agenda
*Posted by Marty Klein, Sexual
Intelligencehttp://sexualintelligence.wordpress.com/
*
Dear President Obama:
For months, I've been predicting that when you win, nothing will change
regarding sex. I've said you won't
THE MILITANT
Vol. 72/No. 44 November 10, 2008
*How Cuban Revolution has transformed women's lives*
(Books of the Month column)
Printed below are excerpts from the introduction to Women and the
Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Stone. The book contains documents and
speeches by Fidel Castro; Vilma
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFERENCE OF WORKING WOMEN, FINAL
DECLARATIONhttp://www.wftucentral.org/?p=727language=en 14
September 2007
[image: Women] http://www.wftucentral.org/wp-content/dscn2011.JPGThe
Conference on Working Women organized by the World Federation of Trade
Unions was held in
http://mid-day.com/news/2008/nov/121108-police-diktats-hijras-homeless-amrutahalli-bangalore.htm
*Hijras rendered homeless*
*By:* Savie Karnel
*Date:* 2008-11-12
*Bangalore:*
*A police diktat has left hundreds of hijiras homeless in the city. *
The Amrutahalli police station issued a notice to
The new shape of American politics
Now the issue is how Obama and the Democrats will use their power.
November 7, 2008
Barack Obama speaks at an outdoor victory celebration in Chicago's Grant
Park (Jewel Samad | AFP) THE SWEEPING victory of Barack Obama in the
presidential elections is a
...His (Ranade's) greatest opponents however came from the political
school of the intelligentsia. These politicals developed a new thesis.
According to that thesis political reform was to have precedence over
social reform.
..The thesis caught the imagination of the people. If there was one
Mahadeva Govind Ranade ,
Quoted by Dr.Ambedkar:-
You canned be liberal by halves. You cannot be liberal in politics
and conservative in religion. The heart and the head must go together.
You cannot cultivate your intellect, enrich your mind, enlarge the
sphere of your political rights and
I/III.
*Press Release by Campaign to Stop Funding Hate*
A virtual melee has ensued in print and digital media over the
selection of Ms. Sonal Shah, an American of Indian origin to the Obama
transition team's advisory board. Shrill accusations of Ms. Shah being
a racist and Hindu chauvinist are
Dear Friends,
This is a fact finding report into the current caste conflict in Chennai.
The
purpose is to muster quick support to the Dalit students involved because
they
are just feeling helpless. If any of you (including organizations) wish to
come
forward, you may contact me. My contact is
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Subject: [humanrights-movement:829] Custodial Torture in India: Call to Move
beyond Hypocrisy
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Date: Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Subject: [humanrights-movement:832] AIPWA Statement on alleged torture of
Sadhvi Pragya
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*ALL INDIA PROGRESSIVE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (AIPWA)*
Phone:
.
It is 4AM in India right now. I am in Mumbai reporting from the ground. I
have not slept a wink. Mumbai is under attack. People and forces who killed
Mahatama Gandhi, who demolished the Babari Mosque have triumphed. More than
16 groups of terrorists have taken over Taj, Oberai and several
*Hotel Taj : icon of whose India ?*
Gnani Sankaran- Tamil writer, Chennai.
Watching at least four English news channels surfing from one another during
the last 60 hours of terror strike made me feel a terror of another kind.
The terror of assaulting one's mind and sensitivity with cameras,
Editorial
As the Fires Die: The Terror of the Aftermath
As the smoke lifts from Mumbai, skepticism must prevail over those
conjectures which support the official state narrative. It is crucial to
increase the pressure for transparency and accountability at this moment to
ensure that India
... On the contrary, Obama and each and everyone of his foreign policy
appointments to the Pentagon, State and Justice Departments, Intelligence
and Security agencies are calling for vast increases in military spending,
troop commitments and domestic militarization to recover the lost fortunes
of
What does one make of the ignoring crucial leads in the first place and
then reacting angrily, with such passion to the innocuous demands of a
probe? This burst of pseudo nationalism needs to be understood. It is the
one which wants to intimidate the voice of reason and is primarily trying to
Unprecedented Numbers of Americans Question Israel's Actions in Gaza
* By Max Blumenthal http://www.alternet.org/authors/6621/,
Huffington Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/.
Posted January 6,
2009http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date%5BF%5D=01date%5BY%5D=2009date%5Bd%5D=06act=Go/
.*
Could
Israeli barbarism in Gaza [image:
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By
Dekel Avshalom in Israel
At the dawn of a new year [image:
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By
Alan Woods http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php Friday,
New York Times, page A1 of the New York edition. January 2, 2009
FOR AFGHANS, A PRICE FOR EVERYTHING, AND ANYTHING FOR A PRICE
by Dexter Filkins
Kabul, Afghanistan ? When it comes to governing this violent,
fractious land, everything, it seems, has its price.
[Photo] Danfung Dennis for The
[Given the enormity of the ongoing tragedy and the brazenness of Israel's
war on Gaza, the stony silence on the part of Obama is quite understandably
being considered as a huge moral failure no matter what could be the
actual consequences of speaking up right now.
The reactions, however, widely
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From: ananth narayanan teaminfo...@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Subject: Change we all must do - Appeal for solidarity
To: ananth narayanan teaminfo...@yahoo.com
8th January 2009
Dear Friends,
Greetings….
*Monday, the 12th January,
[. I don't get how my own people can be doing this. Or rather, I do
get it. I am a Jew, by birth and upbringing, born six years after the
Holocaust ended, raised on the myth and hope of Israel. The myth goes like
this:
For two thousand years we wandered in exile, homeless and persecuted,
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=ULTbAtOd2fGCJcoHpzKGIUnw%2F07ez91W
January 8, 2009
Dear K.M.Venugopalan,**
*In our plea to the President Elect to speak out, CODEPINK harkens back to
the White Rose Society-the WWII non-violent resistance group in Germany. *This
tiny
*** Printer Friendly Version http://www.countercurrents.org/print.html*
*Gaza Under Fire*
*By John Pilger*
08 January, 2009
*New
Statesmanhttp://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2009/01/pilger-israel-gaza-palestine
*
*W*hen the truth is replaced by silence, the Soviet dissident Yevgeny
Dear friend,
The Times of India is running a campaign called 'Lead India'.
Please vote Dr.B.R Ambedkar. In what is a cheap pun, they say he is
unreservedly a candidate for the top leader's post.
*Steps: *
1) Follow the link:
This kind of attacks are best challenged by consolidation of all efforts by
words and deeds exposing these bigots, and also exposing those 'decent'
people whose petty histrionics and charlatanism which are often being
paraded as national interest take one for a ride, and unfailingly salute and
Kherlanji's many
IT IS A MATTER OF SECULARISM AND NOT A MATTER OF FAITH
By Irfan Engineer
In a developing country like India, if faith is pitted against secularism,
it proves advantageous politically to the rightist political parties. It
amounts to playing on their home turf. Sangh Parivar has always derided
this petition was not available online; can you help?
On 9/19/07, C.K. Vishwanath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note: forwarded message attached.
Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION -IS IT DESIRABLE?
Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer
*(Secular Perspective September 16-30, 2007)*
The Sacchar Committee Report also recommends setting up of an equal
opportunity commission to redress many of grievances minority community has.
The Report says, The
Can someone reflect on Artile 51-A, invoked by Justice S N srivastava,
which according to him, makes it a duty for every citizen to follow the
principles propounded by the Bhagavad Geeta ? If this view actually had
some basis vis a vis the Constitution, there needs to be a nation wide
debate
Ram Sethu: Man Made or Natural
Ram Puniyani
Different agitations are on to oppose Sethusamudram project linking
Gulf of Mannar with Palk straight. Dharam Sansad (religious
Parliament, a VHP initiative) has been mobilized around 'faith', on
the ground that this project will destroy Ramar Sethu,
Dear all,
*Please see the updated draft here:
*
[Following is the translated text of an appeal drafted originally in
Malayalam, to be released to the press in a press conference at Kannur, on
behalf of the Chithralekha Rehabilitation Committee, Kannur, shortly after
the Committee's scheduled
-- Forwarded message --
From: Venugopalan K M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sep 22, 2007 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: {greenyouth} Re: Fwd: Article-Ram Sethu
To: Anivar Aravind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm afraid you cannot condemn the communalizing and criminal acts of the
Sangh Parivar running away
Ice Withdrawal 'Shatters Record'
By BBC
http://www.countercurrents.org/bbc220907.htm
Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest area on record this year, US
scientists have confirmed. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
said the minimum extent of 4.13 million sq km (1.59 million sq miles)
What Would I Do If I Was A Terrorist?
By Dominic Jermano
http://www.countercurrents.org/jermano220907.htm
Can you imagine that; look what Bush has done! He has given DU to
terrorists? They don't care if they become contaminated because they would
die anyway from their conventional TNT bombs.
Racism And War: Overcoming Us And Them
By Ramzy Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud220907.htm
Even when it doesn't pertain to race, most people seem to slide easily into
greater tribal memberships that divide the world into us and them, often
using words of negation and often utilising
,
Murali.
On 9/22/07, Venugopalan K M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, I must agree to your point at a broader level; but the
manufactured 'issue' that is being floated by the BJP from a communal
plank
cannot be ignored too.
--
Ranjit
Report by Anhad team
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
Minorities Under Attack: Sangh Prepares for the Coming Elections
After receiving distress calls for help from members of the Muslim
community from various villages of Surat district a team rushed there.
Yusuf Shaikh, President All India Quami Mahaz
This may be considered an independent posting, though it triggers off from
the general discussions taking place in this forum these days on 'issue
based solidarity' of people of different political convictions.
Ranjith's objection to Ramasethu being fundamentally raised as an
environmental issue,
The erasing of Iraq
It's a tried-and-tested torture technique: strike fear into your victims,
deprive them of cherished essentials and then eradicate their memories. In
2003, the US applied this on an enormous scale for its invasion of Iraq.
And then, after Saddam's regime crumbled, Washington
Robert Fisk: TE Lawrence had it right about Iraq
'Rebellions can be made by 2 per cent active and 98 per cent passively
sympathetic'
Published: 14 July 2007
Back in 1929, Lawrence of Arabia wrote the entry for Guerrilla in the
14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is a chilling read
Subject: An Appeal Made On Behalf of The Chithralekha Rehabilitation
Committee, Kannur, Kerala
Dear all,
**[Following is the translated text of an appeal released at a press
conference today in Kannur, by the Chithralekha Rehabilitation Committee,
Kannur, ]
Dear friends,
Despite
Subject: An Appeal Made On Behalf of The Chithralekha Rehabilitation
Committee, Kannur, Kerala
**[Following is the translated text of an appeal released at a press
conference today in Kannur, by the Chithralekha Rehabilitation Committee,
Kannur, Kerala ]
Dear friends,
Despite our
*Bush At The UN: A War Criminal Lectures The World On
Human Rights*
*By Bill Van Auken*
27 September, 2007
*WSWS.org http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/bush-s26.shtml*
*G*eorge W. Bush delivered his next to the last annual address to the United
Nations General Assembly Tuesday. Taking
*Bush Makes Mockery Of UN Declaration Of Human Rights
In NY Speech*
*By Matthew Rothschild*
27 September, 2007
*The Progressive http://www.theprogressive.org/*
*A*t his speech to the UN, Bush had the audacity to invoke the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights several times, despite the fact
*Full Text Of Ahmadinejad's Remarks
At Columbia University *
*By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad*
27 September, 2007
*Fars News Agency*
*Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed students and professors at
the US Columbia University during his short sojourn in New York before his
address at the 62nd
... But the successes of the green revolution are in retreat. ... Use of
sewage and industrially contaminated water for irrigation has drenched
Punjab's soils in heavy metals and other poisons. ... Meanwhile, the
report by Punjab's government encourages farmers to alleviate the twin
crises of
-- Forwarded message --
From: Venugopalan K M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sep 29, 2007 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: {greenyouth} MODERATION AND CENSORSHIP
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The moderation here definitely smacks of double standards, knowingly or
unawares displayed. How the issue be got
) Bush's disregard for UN declaration of human rights
That was well thought out and logical!
Best regards,
Murali.
On 9/30/07, Venugopalan K M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to share my view that
it's time we stopped our concerns being deflected by this kind of
geographically
While I fully agree that Ranjith's polemical contribution has been a
powerful source of energy to continue the wavering struggle in the
Chithralekha's cause, I don't take the latter part of your observation; the
thought of one being 'used' merely as a cannon-fodder for political aims
whatever
-
Dear Friends and comrades,
I think we should look at the concept oh human right in it's proper
political historical and theritical context the human rights discourse or
the denial of human rights in India should be seen in the context of
incomplete modernities or fractured modernity of the post
Vvahh vahh!
this is exactly the the kind of concern our sakshara keralam sundarakeralam
in general, has with 'peedanam' . you cannot always be 'decent' while you
are tired of this kind of culture talk, which unfailingly despise the
victim women / poor people / the working class on the one hand,
I would like to share my view that
it's time we stopped our concerns being deflected by this kind of
geographically oriented, quasi-expansionist, militaristic, Indian
Exceptionalist petty preoccupation with shallow nationalistic sentiments,
even as the political class is often seen caught red-
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http://www.indiatogether.org/interact/2007/itr-000481.html
http://www.indiatogether.org/interact/2007/itr-000481.html
Posted by http://www.indiatogether.org/interact/2007/itr-000481.htmlGeorge
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-Gujarat: Towards Vibrancy or Abolition of Democracy?
Ram Puniyani
Recently while visiting one
of the cities close to Ahmadabad, one was struck by the semi clothed,
starving groups carrying saffron flags and making their beeline for
the trip to Ambaji. Ganesh, Navaratri and Vsant panchami occupy
*So What About Iran?*
*By Uri Avnery
*
04 Octobe, 2007
*Gush Shalom*
*It is no secret that the Pro-Israel lobby and its allies - the (mostly
Jewish) neo-cons and the Christian Zionists - are pushing America into this
war, just as they pushed it into Iraq.*
*A* RESPECTED American paper posted a
Godra, Gujarat: POTA-affected
Families Struggle To Survive
Almost six years after a deadly wave of genocidal
attacks that targeted Muslims in Gujarat, the victims
of the state's worst case of anti-Muslim violence
still wage a tough battle for survival. In one of the
worst-hit parts of the
HISTORICAL MEMORY WITHOUT HISTORY
by Romila Thapar
Questions of identifying location and chronology do bother
archaeologists and historians, but they need not be of consequence to
those whose concern is only with faith, and the distinction has to be
reiterated. What is at issue in the
*The American Empire
And The Commonwealth Of God*
*By Jim Miles*
05 October, 2007
*Countercurrents.org*
*Book Review: The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God – A Political,
Economic, Religious Statement. John Cobb, Richard Falk, David Griffin and
Catherine Keller. Westminster John Knox
*Inventing the next enemy*
October 5, 2007 | Pages 8 and 9
ERIC RUDER examines the claims made by politicians and the media about Iran
and its president--and shows that the real threats of war in the Middle East
come from a different source.
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When Godse killed Gandhi and the 'parivar' people distributed sweets in
celebration of the act of finishing the 'traitor' in 1948, no sensible
person could have imagined that this breed of fire brand 'patriots' after
four decades would ride over a massive hate campaign against
*US/Indo Nuclear Agreement:
Derailing A Deal*
*By Noam Chomsky*
08 August, 2007
*The Khaleej Times
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2007/October/opinion_October24.xmlsection=opinioncol=
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*N*uclear-armed states are criminal states. They have a legal
Indian left is incapable of protesting against these kind of issues or may
be they are intentionally keeping quiet.
The suppression against women is more predominant among Hindus than any
other religion.
Khuran is more of straightforward in imposing its belief systems but Hindu
ideologies
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