The publication of a collection of English translations of the writings of Jotirao Phule, the nineteenth century social radical, by LeftWord publications marks, hopefully, a transition in the attitude of the left towards the struggle against Brahmanism.

The siege is from within. A way of life has been seized upon as a means to political power and a religion held hostage.

was stunned. I was called at half past one in the morning to address a gathering of some 7,000 men, women and children. My address was preceded by a dance performance by the Suresh Lele group, where I saw Sabrina dancing madly away, along with her other team mates.

The door has been opened for the entry of genetically modified plant varieties in India. The battle against GM varieties has begun too.

Today India faces the classic situation of a pre-fascist upheaval. What used to be the political centre has collapsed, with the Congress reduced to a parliamentary minority and all the rest so splintered as to be assimilated as small ineffectual groupings into support for the fascist project.

On 9th June in 1900, BIRSA MUNDA was reported dead under judicial custody pending trial in Ranchi prison, because of constant vomiting of blood. He was shouting at the jail authorities what have they given him to eat. He was warning that Bhagwan can not die, let the British know this. Let us remember him on this day.

The victims of the carnage in Gujarat, to this date, survive in
sub-human conditions. Women and children, as always in such
circumstances, are the worst affected.

Today in Global Observer  http://globalobserver.blogspot.com you will find articles about the mission in Bosnia, the European Union enlargement, the conditions of the prisoners in Guantanamo and a UN report on arab world.

Beginning a series of articles, D. Narasimha Reddy explains why the most critical environmental issue of the 21st century is likely to be Water.

By Vandana Shiva
Frontline
June 22, 2002

Another World is Possible!
Another Asia is Possible!
Let's Build It !

1) Violence In Vadodara
by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) - Vadodara and Vadodara Shanti
Abhiyan
June 26, 2002

More Severe Rains to Come: 8000 Families to be Affected This Year

Today is July 1st. We enter our eighth day under Israeli military curfew (house arrest). We were rudely awaken at 7:20am by someone pressing and holding the doorbell of our home.

pictures from geno, praha, seattle, london, berlin, hannover, wiesenau, gothenburg, etc. pp.

Spiritual India lives forever, regardless of social and political events. Jai Bharat!!

The most cruel hoax history has ever perpetrated. Once upon a time in ancient Khazaria the entire kingdom converted to Judaism by decree from the king.

Stop police represion!

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person, who relates himself to the world lovingly...who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive. -Eric Fromm, The Sane Society

The evident persecution of the portal tehelka.com
after it embarrassed the government with secret videotapes of corruption in
military deals has triggered fears that the government is seeking to harass
critical media.