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Tomatinoe Farce

While hundreds of millions of Indians are left to starve every year and denied access to basic services like Public Distribution System (PDS) which would provide them subsidized food, a section of the Indian super rich and their spoilt brats have reached another level of extreme self indulgence. Inspired by a latest Bollywood flick whose crew took part in the La Tomatinoe festival in Spain, they wanted to replicate this silver screen frenzy by throwing tomatoes at each other and have fun. So every major city event management companies are now wanting to hold these tomatinoe festivals. Novel idea indeed for a starving nation! But unfortunately for the organizers not many ordinary people were pleased this time. They started protesting. The first state to organize this was Karnataka and the government had to ban the event. read more

The scandalous land acquisition process robbing people of their livelihoods, destroying the environment and benefiting corporations for setting up Special Economic Zones – SEZ’s (or Special Exploitation Zones?), is today being met by resistance everywhere throughout India. In the case of Jaitapur too, a mass movement of the people has emerged against a project that is much more destructive than an SEZ, a nuclear power plant. read more

American Imperialist intentions stand exposed yet again at the cost of revealing the true character of Indian ruling class. The recent cable expose by the whistle blower site – Wikileaks (published by the Hindu) has truly exposed the true nature of bourgeoisie democracy in India & who really runs the show behind the scenes. Every party irrespective of ideology including the CPI(M) stand exposed & reveals how all political parties have been bending backwards in order to placate US imperialism. read more