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Nadal: Predatory Growth in India
Znet Article, July, 18 2010
Alejandro Nadal
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The Indian economy has maintained high levels of growth for several years and for many is an example worth following. It is even said that the experience of the subcontinent shows that neo-liberalism can certainly function. The reality is otherwis...
Qureshi: The Kashmiri Intifada
Znet Article, July, 15 2010
Yasmin Qureshi
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The images bring back memories of the first intifada (uprising) in Palestine in the late 1980s: Young protesters in jeans and bandanas hurling rocks at Indian troops, people blocking roads with burning tires to stop the Indian police, banners re...
Raina: GDP vs GDP
Znet Article, July, 15 2010
Badri Raina
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India’s GDP is set to grow at 9.4%, sayeth the oracle of the World Bank.
Raina: Food Or Nutrition?
Znet Article, July, 07 2010
Badri Raina
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As the Indian government contemplates a Right-to-Food Act, whereby some rice and/or wheat might be given to those below the “poverty line” (which, in diverse computations by the “experts” ranges from some 27% of Indians to some 77%) at nominal r...
Quigley: Double Standard: BP and Bhopal
Znet Article, July, 03 2010
Bill Quigley
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When President Barak Obama went after BP and demanded a $20 billion dollar fund be set up for victims of the Gulf oil spill, the people of India were furious. They saw a US double standard. The US demonstrated it values human life within the US ...
Raina: Capital’s Surge, Custom’s Dike
Znet Article, June, 28 2010
Badri Raina
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Old orders do indeed change, but “good customs” continue to corrupt and bloody India.
Surya: After the Bhopal Verdict
Znet Article, June, 24 2010
Radha Surya
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The Bhopal verdict has brought about an all but overnight transformation of the political situation for the ruling Congress.
Lausti: India in the throes of "progress"
BookReview, June, 21 2010
Tapani Lausti
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India has often been described as the world's largest democracy. At the outset of this new book Arundhati Roy asks what happens when democracy has been used up. The world elites assure us that democracy and "free market" are two sides of the same ...
Roy: Operation Green Hunt's Urban Avatar
Znet Article, June, 15 2010
Arundhati Roy
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While the Indian Government considers deploying the army and air force to quell the rebellion in the countryside, strange things are happening in the cities.
Qureshi: Kashmir
Znet Article, June, 12 2010
Yasmin Qureshi
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As a Muslim minority who grew up in India, it took me some years to take a position on the Kashmir issue.
Raina: India, America, Israel
Znet Article, June, 12 2010
Badri Raina
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India’s foreign policy has been to draw closer to both the United States and Israel.
Raina: India’s Globalised “Godmen”
Znet Article, June, 05 2010
Badri Raina
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Long before the Washington Consensus, and long before the empire began to write back, Indian globalization was first and truly effected by India’s “godmen.”
Basu: People's Tribunal
Zmag Article, June, 03 2010
Deepankar Basu
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An activist gathering to stop India's Operation Green Hunt
Mukherji: Have You Looked At Barsa Lakhma’s Face?
Znet Article, June, 02 2010
Nirmalangshu Mukherji
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The Hindu, 25 May, posted the photograph of a person in its frontpage under the head “Six Naxals held for Dantewada massacre”,
Ayyub: All’s Not Well With Your Home, Minister
Znet Article, June, 02 2010
Rana Ayyub
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IS THE noose tightening around Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his administration’s alleged complicity in the 2002 massacre of Muslims?
Raina: The Zionist State at it Again
Znet Article, June, 01 2010
Badri Raina
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Tweet: “Yes, unarmed activists attacked Israeli commandos—RIGHT! With bread, eggs, and bananas; it surely was an onslaught.”
Mukherji: Arms Over People
Znet Article, May, 22 2010
Nirmalangshu Mukherji
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The Indian state has amassed nearly one hundred thousand paramilitary forces—code-named Operation Green Hunt—ostensibly to confront an armed rebellion organized by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the Dandakaranya forests in the Bastar reg...
Raina: Crunch Time for India: Who Speaks for the People?
Znet Article, May, 19 2010
Badri Raina
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As violence in four or five Indian states—Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal—comes to a boil, the State blames the Maoists and the Maoists blame the State.
Roy: Fault Lines Interview
Video, May, 16 2010
Arundhati Roy
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Fault Lines presenter Avi Lewis sits down for a one-on-one interview with author and activist, Arundhati Roy.
Sainath: Farmers' Suicide Letters
Znet Article, May, 10 2010
P. Sainath
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Seeking authenticity for his letter to the Prime Minister and the President, Ramachandra Raut composed it with care on Rs.100 non-judicial stamp paper. Then he added a few more addressees, including his village sarpanch and the police, in the hope...
