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Basu: Independent People's Tribunal Reveal the Underbelly of Indian “Development”
Znet Article, April, 20 2010
Deepankar Basu
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Organized by a collective of civil society groups, social movements, progressive academics, social activists and concerned citizens, the recently concluded Independent People's Tribunal (IPT) on Land Acquisition, Resource Grab and Operation Green ...
Raina: Destitution
Znet Article, April, 09 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The Hindustan Times is a leading herald of the developmental path that the current Indian government vows to carry forward in the main.
Raina: Troubled Times for Advani & Modi
Znet Article, March, 31 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
It suits India’s elite opinion-makers always to characterize the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) as India’s “principal opposition party.”
Roy: Becoming Internal Security Threats
Video, March, 29 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Roy talks with Laura Flanders about resistance and struggle, war and colonialism, how you can't fire bullets at an ideology, and why we should all become internal security threats.
Roy: Walking With The Comrades 4/4
Znet Article, March, 27 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Comrade Raju says that it isn’t safe for us to continue to camp here. We have to move. Leaving Bhumkal involves a lot of goodbyes spread over time.
Setalvad: The end of impunity
Znet Article, March, 27 2010
Teesta Setalvad
Setalvad's ZSpace page
It was not simply the number of lives lost, though the number — perhaps 2,500 — is not insignificant. It was the cold-blooded manner in which they were taken.
Roy: Walking With The Comrades 3/4
Znet Article, March, 26 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Part 3 of a 4 part series...
Roy: Walking With The Comrades 2/4
Znet Article, March, 25 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Part 2 of a 4 part series...
Surya: India-US Nuclear Deal Redux
Znet Article, March, 25 2010
Radha Surya
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The tortuous and interminable saga of the India-US civilian nuclear agreement has once again shifted to the forefront of the national political scene. As is well known to observers of the so-called India-US strategic partnership, a final determin...
Roy: Walking With The Comrades 1/4
Znet Article, March, 24 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers...
Roy: Obama’s Wars, India and Why Democracy Is “The Biggest Scam in the World”
Znet Article, March, 23 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Democracy Now interview...
Raina: Women’s Reservation Bill—II
Znet Article, March, 15 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
A cacophony of rather frightened voices seek to embroil this deepening of representative democracy in doubts and distractions...
Bidwai: Engaging Pakistan
Znet Article, March, 14 2010
Praful Bidwai
Bidwai's ZSpace page
India must open a broad-horizon dialogue with Pakistan on all issues including Afghanistan to achieve real progress in bilateral relations.
Raina: A Parliament of Women as much as of Men
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
For some fifteen years now, the proposal to accord 33% reservation to Indian women has been the most consequential and contested issue in India’s political discourse.
Ali: Scope for hope on the subcontinent?
Znet Article, March, 03 2010
Mahir Ali
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There is precious little risk of anyone putting too much store by last week’s talks between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan. Although Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir parted on a vaguely civil note by agreeing that the channels of comm...
Mishra: Indian Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Girish Mishra
Mishra's ZSpace page
As in the past, this year, too, a detailed report on the performance of the Indian economy during the current year was laid before Parliament and the people prior to presentation of the Union Budget for the coming fiscal year so that a meaningful ...
Sagar: The Monoculture of ‘Human Rights’
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Satya Sagar
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Over sixty years after Dr Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution, talked about the ‘essentially undemocratic’ nature of the ‘Indian soil’ his insight remains relevant to any discussion on human rights and civil liberties in the country.
Raina: Too Small A Country for One Great Artist
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
A determined falange of bigots were to discover some few years ago that a Husain painting was in existence which represented India partially in comely female form.
Sonnleitner: Is Gandhi Relevant?
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Michael Sonnleitner
Sonnleitner's ZSpace page
Today I have been asked to speak on the subject of Gandhian Social Values and Society Today.
Bidwai: Need-based development in a free, just society: the lasting legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
Znet Article, February, 22 2010
Praful Bidwai
Bidwai's ZSpace page
An emphasis on popular mobilization, essential to enfranchising the millions who were excluded from public life and political processes for centuries, remains one of Gandhi’s epochal successes.
