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Bidwai: Radiation Crisis
Znet Article, February, 17 2012
Praful Bidwai
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Ten months after the accident began, the levels of airborne radiation have dropped, but soil levels remain high, and food chain contamination is growing in many locations
Bidwai: Needed: A Food Security Law
Znet Article, April, 25 2010
Praful Bidwai
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For 60 years, India has consistently failed its poor and now is high time for a Food Security Act that would improve nutrition levels among the masses.
Bidwai: Engaging Pakistan
Znet Article, March, 14 2010
Praful Bidwai
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India must open a broad-horizon dialogue with Pakistan on all issues including Afghanistan to achieve real progress in bilateral relations.
Bidwai: Israel as a Rogue State
Znet Article, March, 08 2010
Praful Bidwai
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Israel's practice of illegal assassinations, such as the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhough in Dubai, is in line with its ruthless policy of consolidating its occupation, expanding illegal settlements, and tightening its economic hold over Palestinian...
Bidwai: Need-based development in a free, just society: the lasting legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
Znet Article, February, 22 2010
Praful Bidwai
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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.
Bidwai: India's New Anti-Terror Laws Draconian Say Activists
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Praful Bidwai
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Following the late November terror attacks in Mumbai, India has passed two tough laws being seen by rights activists as potentially eroding the country’s federal structure and limiting fundamental liberties.
Bidwai: Descent into Chaos
Znet Article, August, 16 2008
Praful Bidwai
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Less than five months after Pakistan installed its first freely elected democratic government following eight years of military rule, it again seems headed for a big crisis. A confrontation of potentially large proportions is reportedly brewing be...
Bidwai: South Asia Courts Nuclear Insecurity
Znet Article, June, 08 2008
Praful Bidwai
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Instead of abandoning nuclear weapons, India is trying to have them legitimised through the US nuclear deal.
Bidwai: The Illustrious Gandhian Legacy
Znet Article, May, 19 2008
Praful Bidwai
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The pro-freedom Tibetans were there. So were stern-looking Chinese diplomats. People from both sides of Kashmir were in mourning. Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Afghans mingled with Indians as her last rites were performed in Delhi--signifi...
Bidwai: Vive La Revolution!
Znet Article, May, 16 2008
Praful Bidwai
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The issues raised by the May 1968 upheavals in France and elsewhere about the iniquities of capitalism and the need for a just alternative have not gone away.
Bidwai: Unfinished Agenda
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Praful Bidwai
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An undercover investigation has revealed that the massacre of 800 muslims in 2002 during riots in Gujarat was systematically planned and covered up by leading right-wing BJP politicians.
Bidwai: Modi's modus operandi failing in Gujarat
Znet Article, December, 27 2007
Praful Bidwai
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Is the tide turning in Gujarat? A month ago, most Gujarat politicians, social scientists, activists, bureaucrats, and citizens agreed on the dead certainty of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the Assembly election — but with a smaller margin.
Bidwai: Carbon culprits: South is fast catching up
Znet Article, December, 24 2007
Praful Bidwai
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With Indian emissions rising three to four times faster than the world average, it is time to end the government policy of hiding behind the poor to defend elites who enjoy Northern levels of consumption.
Bidwai: The Left: Rethink or Perish
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Praful Bidwai
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The Indian Left survived, even extended its influence, in the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism collapse. Yet in one year it has undone this and seriously damaged its credibility as a force which speaks for the underprivileged, the excluded, and...
Bidwai: Nuclear Clouds Gather Over the Asia Pacific
Znet Article, January, 10 2006
Praful Bidwai
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The Asia-Pacific region has not only emerged as one of the main engine...
Bidwai: Charter of Dependence
Znet Article, July, 25 2005
Praful Bidwai
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In the early 1980s, the British peace movement, then at its peak, invented a delightfully imaginative phrase to highlight the skewed and unequal character of the Anglo-American defence relationship. Britain, it said, was America’s âS...
Bidwai: BJP in Dire Straits
Znet Article, November, 18 2004
Praful Bidwai
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Not even the most inveterate critics of the Bharatiya Janata Party could have imagined that the party would prove so incapable of dealing with its recent election defeat that it would find itself in the hopeless and utter disarray that it does tod...
Bidwai: A Dangerous Collusion
Znet Article, August, 07 2003
Praful Bidwai
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India is again under pressure to get drawn into the Iraqi quicksand and become America's accomplice in its plans for a global Empire. IT is a measure of the extreme frustration and desperation that the United States is experiencing in Iraq that ...
Bidwai: Indian Troops in Iraq?
Znet Article, June, 20 2003
Praful Bidwai
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The proposal to despatch Indian troops to Iraq under the general command of the United States military has ballooned into a first-rate political controversy in the country. Going by the mood of a well-attended public meeting in New Delhi on Monday...
Bidwai: Asia Social Forum
Znet Article, January, 12 2003
Praful Bidwai
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The just-concluded Asian Social Forum (ASF) saw a unique confluence of grassroots social movements, people's organisations and radical NGOs which interrogate globalisation and counterpose equality, human rights and justice to the shop-worn agendas...
