Author: amitbasole

Evolving Reports from Jan Jagran Yatra News from the Jan Jagran Yatra will be regularly given here. Hora: A play on Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Struggle Jan Jagaran Yatra reaches Delhi on 17th Day in a mass protest demonstration 31/1/2014 Sixteen days across cities, towns, villages of Haryana and through Gurgaon and Delhi, marching with our […]

By Shankar Guha Niyogi Editor’s Note: This month we are again reproducing an article from the Shankar Guha Niyogi – CMM Archive at Sanhati. In this publication, published a year after the assassination of Shankar Guha Niyogi on September 28th, 1991 in the CMSS office in Bhilai, the Jan Vikas Andolan calls for a ‘Niyogi […]

By Alok Bhattacharya The ‘broom’ is out, out in the centre stage. Recent political news in the country is splashed with the phenomenon of corruption and the ‘broom’ that has emerged as the election symbol to shoulder the onus of driving corruption out of the country. In a distant simile, people familiar with the cartoons […]

By Tathagata Sengupta Director Subrat Kumar Sahu, in the context of his earlier movie DAMaged, had said, “In order to understand how modern tools of development clinically destroy self-reliant communities and yet succeed in influencing the entire nation to celebrate the outcome as ‘progress’, come to Kalahandi, in the state of Orissa in India!”. With […]

  The issue of Death Penalty has entered a critical stage in India. There are around 450 convicts currently on death row in the country. While executions had been more or less on hold for the past two decades, last year saw certain important developments taking place relating to the issue of death penalty. Execution […]

By Krantikari Naujawan Sabha “Fastrack has always stood for being a fun, quirky and youthful brand. Our intention was never to project women in any demeaning manner whatsoever or objectify them, Fastrack has the highest respect and regard for women. We acknowledge that the current campaign has hurt the sentiments of some sections of the […]

Dear members of the expert committee on transgender issues set up by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, We would like to first of all thank the MSJE for taking up the issue of trans people in the country. We would also like to appreciate the steps taken by the ministry to address the […]

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS Press Release 23 January 2014 Racism, moral policing and authoritarianism- not the common man’s tools! In the drama of the last four days, the culpability of the Delhi Government and its Law Minister regarding the incident on January 15th 2014, against four Nigerian and Ugandan women in particular stands exposed. […]

Meeting organised by FAMA to remember Abhee Dutta Majumdar 25th January, 4 PM, Bharat Sabha Hall, B B Ganguly Street, Kolkata

STOP CRIMINALIZING COMMUNITY CONSERVATION EFFORTS!   WITHDRAW CRIMINAL CASES AGAINST GRAM SABHA MEMBERS   STOP ILLEGAL TREE FELLING IN COMMUNITY PROTECTED WILD LIFE CORRIDOR   STOP DESTROYING FORESTS IN NORTH BENGAL   STOP VIOLATING COMMUNITY RIGHTS OVER FORESTS Press Release by Uttar Banga Ban-Jan Shromojivi Manch January20, 2014 Hundreds of Gramsabha members of North Khairbari […]