Author: amitbasole

Gurgaon Workers News [The following two articles on India’s energy regime and on urban unrest, are excerpted from the October 2013 issue of Gurgaon Workers News – Ed] Fight the Power: An Energy Regime in Crisis and the Struggle within and against it  Below you can find a short assessment of the various forces crunching […]

By Hiren Gohain Partha Chatterjee in his characteristic erudite and elegant prose has joined issue with Vivek Chibber (EPW, September 14,2013) on the latter’s criticism of the theoretical positions of three stalwarts of this group of historians and social scientists (the Subaltern Studies school). It is a little disingenuous of Chatterjee to claim that the […]

By Analytical Monthly Review The parliamentary elections of 2014 are now casting their shadow ahead. The nationwide elections on a five year schedule have become a festival, with the decorations manufactured by the media monopoly and the parliamentary parties. The prospects are dismal for any sign of intelligent engagement with crucial issues. Instead, we are […]

By Partho Sarathi Ray The Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (ADKIC) is till date possibly the largest project of the Government of India being proposed for what is being claimed as “industrial development” of the entire northern and eastern part of the country. Being called as the “Eastern Corridor.” The proposal is based on developing a 150-200 […]

By Partho Sarathi Ray The Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (ADKIC) is till date possibly the largest project of the Government of India being proposed for what is being claimed as “industrial development” of the entire northern and eastern part of the country. Being called as the “Eastern Corridor.” The proposal is based on developing a 150-200 […]

RIHAI MANCH (Forum for the Release of Innocent Muslims imprisoned in the name of Terrorism) पटना धमाके में आईबी की भूमिका, क्योंकि आईबी ही चला रहा हैै आईएम -रिहाई मंच पटना धमाकों में आईबी एवं आरएसएस की भूमिका की हो जांच -रिहाई मंच भाजपा, सपा, कांग्रेस से अपना टेरर एजेंडा सेट करवा रही है आईबी […]

Join the dharna to demand Punishment of guilty of 1984, November 1, 2013, 11 am, Jantar Mantar Dear friends, November 1, 2013 marks the 29th anniversary of the genocide of Sikhs organized by the Congress Party in Delhi and other places in our country. For 29 long years, women and men of conscience have fought […]

Dear Comrades, The struggle of the workers of Maruti Suzuki, Manesar is continuing despite the daunting nature of odds stacked up against them, even a year and a half after 2300 of them lost their jobs and face acute economic pressure, and 149 of them continue to languish in jail, without any one getting bail, […]

Press Realease 11th October The Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry was constituted in 2010 by the Ministry of Mines in response to the growing number of cases of illegal contracting, flouting of royalty payments and encroachment on public lands by large and small scale iron ore and manganese ore mining operations throughout the country. […]

By Guruprasad Kar [Translated by Ipsita Samanta from article, ‘Bharatiya Krishir Adhasamantatantrik charitra’ published in Aneek, 2012.] There had been 15 million farmers’ suicide for last fifteen years in India. This started from the middle of 1990’s when neo-liberal policy was aggressively implemented in India. From available data we can say the objective bases of […]