The 10th Gujarat Assembly is finally getting dissolved.

Mukul Mangalik writes in The Hindustan times

Government creates artificial submergence by closing sluice gates; Ousts village with police repression, attempts to derail GRA process

Adivasis escape camp, demand opening of sluice gates, restoration of families and village, agricultural land

Just days after the London-based human rights group Amnesty International went public with criticism of the Indian government for failing to grant visas for its researchers to visit Gujarat, Amnesty has accused India of trying to "cover up state terrorism" and covering its tracks by "making up stories".

It is without doubt a sad day of Muslims of India,
when the outgoing President of the Republic, in his
farewell address, pleads for fair deal for the Muslims
not because they are citizens of India, but because
they are so numerous, even if they wish to go to some
other country, it is impossible for them to go.

Post-genocide, the choice before Muslims in the state
where Narendra Modi rules is simple: servility, boycott or exodus.

Sahmat, a cultural organisation that recently toured Gujarat, today
said there can be no "free and fair" polls in the state at this
juncture.

Secular Perspective, July, 16-31, 2002

The arrest of Mr Vaiko Gopalasamy and other top MDMK leaders under
the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for openly expressing support
for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) highlights a
grotesque irony:

WHEN A NEW round of negotiations under the World Trade Organisation was launched in Doha last November it was given the grand title of the Doha `Development' Agenda, the promise being that the interests of the developing countries would be the centre-piece of the talks.

On Thursday I walked through the looted and burned home of Arif
Shaikh, a relief camp organizer arrested for reasons he still does
not know.

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The Observer (London)
Sunday July 21, 2002
Observer WorldviewBurhan Wazir reports from Gujarat on an explosion of violence,
nationalism and Nazi-style politics and its result: 2,000 killed and
100,000 homeless

Taken from The Hindu

POTA is wrong in concept. Its execution is bound to be faulty, Kuldip Nayar writes in The Hindu

Ms Diane Wilson has joined demands that liabilities from pending charges on Bhopal should be transferred to Dow Chemicals, the new owner of Union Carbide Corporation.

Here I post a piece written by Lucia de Vries, a freelance journalist based in Kathmandu. This piece probably won't be published by the newspapers he works for, but here it is on the peoples' media -- Independent Media Center.

One day fasts start and end on the same day.

Latest update from the Delhi hunger-strike