Year: 2010

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Manipur

Will Irom Sharmila Meet Her Mother?

4 December 2010

What makes a human being himself or herself is very much determined by the context of the social, genetic and environmental factors apart from the subjective will to make the necessary choices. When I look back, I am sure that I would not have become me, if Emergency was not declared in India. I learnt the fundamentals of political freedom because of Emergency. At this moment, I am seeing a parallel of my own experiences in Delhi more than three decades ago, on the present situations in the north east. read more

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Manipur

10 Years of Sharmila’s Fast

25 November 2010

She is Hungry for Justice-Peace-Democracy

Repeal AFSPA

During the last few decades, the people of North Eastern states and J&K have witnessed severe repression with the implementation of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (1958). Under this law, the security forces have: read more

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Analysis

India’s Own Economic Hitman

23 November 2010

Montek Singh Ahluwalia - India's Economic Hitman. Photo: indiadaily.org

Right from the days of the end of post war boom, when the frantic search for new markets were on, a plot was hatched to place locally bred but globally trained Econocrats all around the world by the three economic terrorist organisations IMF, WB & WTO. It was very much true in the case of South Asia, particularly India which had a special complication due to its proximity to the Soviet Union, though Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi & P.V. Narasimha Rao were giving the right signals favouring neo-liberalism, they had to buy their time. read more

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Jammu & Kashmir

Indian Democracy at Work: Silence Please!

23 November 2010

Indian ruling classes which often projects India as the world’s largest democracy, through their handling of the Kashmir nationality question in the past six decades, have shown their true colors. Their imperialistic & colonial attitude towards many nationalities is no different from their predecessor British imperialism that once oppressed the people of India. read more