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Vinod Mishra: Selected Writings
Thirty Years of Naxalbari

July

2006

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Protesting Garment Workers of Bangladesh

Homage to Comrade KRP

Editorial

Whither Nepal : Will the New Deal Bring a New Dawn?

Propelled by the enormous power of an awakened people, events continue to move with stunning swiftness in Nepal . The 237-year-old feudal monarchy, which seemed to be in control of Nepal till the other day has already been relegated to the background......Full text

Commentary

	Women: Unwanted in the Indian Army A few months back, there was a hue and cry over an attempted Muslim census in the Armed Forces – and more recently, the anti-reservationist campaign showcased the Army as one place where ‘merit' was never compromised by affirmative action because the ‘nation's interest' was at stake,.....Full text
	Looking Back at the Anti-Reservation Agitation [In the last issue of Liberation, we looked at how the question of 27% reservation for OBCs ought to be a settled debate, and the key issue ought instead to be that of making education affordable and accessible to all. Now, we look at some of the contours of the anti-reservation agitation, and address some of the questions raised by it. ] ,.....Full text
	The Mahajan Saga: The scandal of Pramod Mahajan's murder and son Rahul's drug party has left the BJP scrambling for cover. The lofty and stern RSS injunctions about Hindutva family values as the bedrock of ‘Indianness' lie in tatters, mocked by a public fratricide and drug binge involving the family of one of their most public leaders. In response, the BJP rushed to distance the party from the ‘personal tragedy' for the Mahajan family.,.....Full text
	Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor The Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project has run into rough weather again thanks to the present coalition government's inconsistent stance and aimless politics. The project, the brainchild of the Asian Development Bank and the erstwhile Janata Dal government led by Mr. Deve Gowda in 1994.,.....Full text
	Roll Back Prices, Reverse Policies THE UPA government has just completed two years in power. If anybody was expecting a commemorative gift from the government on this occasion, the government has not refused to oblige.,.....Full text

Fact Finding

Salwa Judum Fuelling Civil War in Chhattisgarh

Citizens' Fact-Finding Report

[ We reproduce below a summary of the observations and recommendations of an independent citizens' team, which enquired into the Salwa Judum phenomenon in Chhattisgarh. ] .,.....Full text

Feature

Two Years of UPA Rule: A People's Assessment

Two years back, we heard the promise of a ‘Human Face' for Governance, zealously guarded by a Left watchdog. Now, two years on, what do we see, beyond the Sarkari self-congratulations?.......Full text

Update

Widespread Protest Against Jharkhand Government's Assault on Freedom of Protest

All over the country and beyond, there have been widespread and outraged protests against the Jharkhand Government's bid to frame the CPI(ML) General Secretary Comrade Dipankar and other CPI(ML) activists on charges of attempt to murder. A revision petition has been filed in the trial court challenging the framing of charges, and hundreds of people have demanded that the Jharkhand Government immediately withdraw the false cases.........Full text

Photo Essay

‘MY TONGUE IS THERE, I CAN STILL SING'

( Tehelka journalists Shoma Chaudhury and Vikram Jit Singh travelled to Mansa to meet Bant Singh and give him the generous contributions (Rs 3,85,000) sent by Tehelka readers. They were accompanied by renowned photojournalist Raghu Rai , who prepared a remarkable and moving photo-essay on Bant Singh. We reproduce from Tehelka [ June 10, 2006 ], excerpts from their impressions and some of the photographs.) .........Full text

Report

Bihar Panchayat Elections 2006: An Overview

The latest round of panchyat elections in Bihar , the second since panchayat elections were resumed in 2001 after 23 years, has just been over. Spread over ten phases, the elections were a month-long affair and even the counting of votes took nearly a week! This was the first election held under the new regime of Nitish Kumar. The new government introduced certain changes in the panchayati raj system..........Full text

Governor's NGO: Bold Scheme for Loot in Uttaranchal

THE GOVERNOR of Uttarakhand (Uttaranchal in official language), Sudarshan Agrawal has achieved notoriety, not for political partisanship, as in the case of other Governors, but for running an ingenious NGO from the Governor's seat!.....Full text

Article

When Success Becomes a Burden

Nothing succeeds like success, they say. But there are occasions when too much of it carries the ill omen of a systems failure that might not be far away. Such seems to be the case with the Left Front Government (LFG) in West Bengal.....Full text

Labour

Bangladesh Garment Workers' Struggle

Exactly a month earlier the informal labour of Bangladesh erupted in an unprecedented and un-planned upsurge in almost all cities of that country. Today they have again surfaced through another spurt. Garment industry is now the only viable industry of Bangladesh , which earns enough for the factory owners and earns less than daily living cost for the workers who create the surplus. Out of 3000 Taka per chemise....Full text

Activities

Power for Rural Poor” Yatra in East Godavari.......

Janmorcha Rally at Lucknow ......

Challenging Jharkhand Govt.'s Model of Development ......

Nationwide Protest Against Price-hike ......

Hunger Strike at Pipri.....

Tribute to Jayanta Kumar ....Full text

Remembrance

K. S. SINGH – A TRIBUTE

I belatedly came to know about the demise of K.S. Singh from a friend, and was taken aback. I had known that he was suffering from Parkinson's disease, but then I could not help wondering how I had missed the news, living as I do in an otherwise alive campus that follow news and events with sufficient keenness....Full text

Books

‘Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny'

At a time when the US-led so-called ‘War on Terror' is terrorizing thousands of innocent people around the world just because they happen to be or look like Arabs or Muslims comes a book by well known Indian economist Amartya Sen on ‘Identity and Violence'.....Full text