The long dark tea time of the soul

I first read about Sunil in Harsh Mander’s Unheard Voices. He is in the very first chapter, “After Bhopal”. Sunil was one of the survivors of Bhopal Gas Tragedy and was largely active fighting for justice for the victims. Barely eleven years old when the gas leak occurred in december 1984, Sunil lost his parents [...]

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In the beginning, there was darkness. Then after a sustained campaign by activist for around 10 years, the UPA government gave us the right to information (RTI). Right to information is one of the most progressive laws that has been enacted in past 58 years. The aspects of the act was revolutionary, as it attempted [...]

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Peoplesmarch published a email interview they had with CPI(Maoist) Central Committee spokesperson on the events of Nepal and their reaction towards it. In this 13 page interview, Com. Azad puts to rest all expectations of letting up violence in the aftermath of February 2006. He says that Com. Prachanda’s call to them to participate in [...]

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The attack on errabore camp on 17th July has raised quiet a few questions. In our group, chhattisgarh-net, we discussed about it and reached a conclusion that mere condemnation of the incident is not enough. We have decided to petition all the state and national leaders to stop the forced settlements of adivasis in [...]

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This monday, on 17th july late evening, around 600 maoists attacked the Errabore relief camp. Apparently first a batch of 100 armed maoists attacked the crpf camp nearby and engaged the armed policemen in a bullet battle, and then 500, most of them armed with machettes, axe and knives, rained down on the relief camp [...]

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Tragedy of the Tribal’s of Bastar.
By
J.P.Rao

The people of Bastar are resisting the atrocities of Maoists voluntarily.
Government of Chhattisghar.

I would not like to leave my village and its forest, neither I would like to join Salva Judum. The police burnt houses in my village and hung us upside down from the trees. [...]

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Last week we saw the tussle between anbumani ramadoss, the son-of-a-politician health minister of India and Dr. P Venugopal, one of the best heart surgeons of India. Dr. Venugopal had conducted the first heart transplant in India in 1994, is famous for his research in stem cells, and currently the director of AIIMS. Ramadoss in [...]

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