Ramkuwar,Mangat,Vinod Patwa and I were discharged from the hospital last evening. The Ketone/Acetone levels in our blood had gone down from positive to negative during the 24 hours in the ICU, total three days of our stay in the hospital and after application of 10-14 bottles of glucose per person. But the weakness persists and will vanish gradually in the days to come, we guess. Vinod and Ramkuwar needed more medical attention than Mangat and me.

Oustees of SSP in the Streets of Indore for Justice

PRIME MINISTERIAL PARANOIA AND PRESS FREEDOM

Mannika Chopra

At nearly six feet, Alex Perry comes across as an unlikely victim. Physically strapping, normally dressed in colour-coordinated khakis and Ray Ban shades, Perry, the bureau chief of Time magazine, fits the role of the cool dude rather than persecuted scribe.

THE UNION CABINET in all its wisdom has chosen to rescind a 47-year-old decision to keep the Indian print media in Indian hands. It is of some significance that the decision has come within months of a Parliamentary Committee rejecting (with an admittedly narrow majority) the proposal for foreign investment in newspapers and magazines.

Title: Junu ke Badhte Qadam (Evil Stalks the Land)

Secular Perspective, June 16-30,2002

They take pride in having Abdul Kalam as the president. Only BJP
supporters believe this "masterstroke" will atone for their sins.

Mothers from opposite sides of Sri Lanka's 19-year
ethnic war held a joint protest on Wednesday demanding the return of
their missing sons.

A group of Hindu priests and Muslim leaders demanded a ban on a hardline Hindu group that has been spearheading a campaign to build a temple over the ruins of a razed mosque in their town.

The Left Party publishes Frontlines and Oposicion Socialista newspapers and upload web page. Organizes in the US and internationally

Latest cartoon by LaPeace

The article surveys different currents within men's movements and masculinity studies in India, citing parallel developments in the USA.

Let the Congress and the Left attempt a partnership in the States and
at the Centre and form a front that would exert a gravitational pull
on the regional parties.

Each in his own way, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani have
justified the worst fears of what lay in store for the nation were
the BJP to win power and belied the hopes of those who thought that,
under their leadership, the BJP would "moderate", that is loosen, if
not cut, its umbilical cord with the RSS and become a national party.

We invite you for the release of two reports concerning the recent
communal carnage at Gujarat by Justice Hosbet Suresh (Retd.).

FILMMAKER PATWARDHAN'S "WAR AND PEACE"

This is to inform you that members of Medico Friend Circle, PUCL Vadodara
and Shanti Abhiyan would like to release their investigative reports on the
Gujarat pogrom, share their expereinces, concerns and voice the demands.

Is Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam an eminent scientist with an exceptional
record and worthy vision, a secularist of integrity, who personifies
India's "composite culture", behind whom the entire nation should
unite?

Chitrakoot to Ayodhaya padyatra came to an end
yesterday on June 21. Below is a piece by padyatris
themselves, with a little additions from our side.

We are scholars of South Asia and human rights advocates in the U. K.
who are deeply perturbed by the genocidal violence unleashed against
Muslim citizens in the Indian state of Gujarat.