The Food Safety Law 2005 p is a dismantling of the PFA. It is in effect the legalizing of adulteration of India's entire food system with toxic chemicals and industrial processing

I an a terrorist too, because I am a citizen, and University teacher, of a State (Sapin, in my case)whose economic system systematically destroys, more and more everyday, the basis for Human survival all around this beautiful planet called The Earth

Campaign Against Censorship protest at Calcutta film festival:12 films of 'Vikalp' package withdrawn by film-makers

Must we in our hypernationalism take a man who has already suffered enough and reduce him to fish bait? Can we—and our media—stop judging S.A.R. Geelani

The latest revelation by the Hindi weekly
Outlook, Delhi, of duplicity and connivance in
the matter of Babri Mosque's demolition on the
part of Atal Behari Vajpayee, the prime
poetaster, will not be the last in the series of
his and his cohort's perfidies and perjuries,
were the press voluntarily not to feign paralysis
or selective somnolence.

If you are a Muslim and Bengali is the language you speak, the Delhi police needs no further proof that you are an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant to be summarily deported

Public Statement

AI Index: ASA 20/012/2005 (Public)
News Service No: 040
18 February 2005

India: Concerns for Syed Geelani

King Gyandendra of Nepal has issued a ban on independent news broadcasts and has threatened to punish newspapers for reports that run counter to the official monarchist line. Given that any person in Nepal publishing reports critical of "the spirit of the royal proclamation" is subject to punishment and/or imprisonment, contributors to this blog will publish their reports from Nepal anonymously.

Reclaim our spaces - reclaim our airwaves. Blindsighted governmental control of the apectrum, once used to keep the screws on colonial subjects, is today practised to facilitate revenues by any means. An account of a demonstration that the spectrum has enormous, yet unexplored, practical applications for the public weal.

United Kingdom G8 Protest

United Kingdom G8 Protest

Five Tibetan Monks Jailed in Western China

WSF 2005: Call from social movements for mobilisations against the war, neoliberalism, exploitation and exclusion

by Assembly of the Social Movements
February 16th, 2005

meeting on Mumbai slum demolitions

Based on extensive travel and dialogue with the affected people and the community leaders in the coastal villages of Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu, the SACCER Trust has decided to carry out the following set of ctivities for tsunami relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Prof. V. S. Sreedhar, Professor of English at Vijaya
College (Bangalore) and a leading member of Karnataka
Komu Souharda Vedike as well as the Citizens'
Initiative for Peace (CIP), was attacked today morning
by ABVP members in his college premises.

This is for those that want to use the power of their intention to affect some positive change on the planet.

This article is by Barry Pittard, a former lecturer in English for two years at the college of Sathya Sai Baba in Whitefield, via Bangalore, South India. It gives but one evidence of behind-the-scenes machination of the powerful and influential Sathya Sai Baba cover-up machine.

THE latest Patent ordinance has already raised strong protests from the people for favouring global pharmaceutical MNCs. What has gone relatively unnoticed is its attack on the software industry, where computer programmes (read software) can now be patented.

Why this sudden shortage of funds, especially since 1991 when the new economic policies were introduced? It was because the new policies resolved, among others, that firstly, the government would not subsidize anything for the people, everything would have to be procured at market prices