Widows of debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers
Dilapidated huts on one side and cotton fields on the other line the potholed road to Pada, a hamlet in...
Pratirodh Bureau
Vidarbha: Insatiable and Corrupt
It is telling when thousands of crores of rupees are spent on irrigation projects and yet the irrigation potential of...
King the Con
The irony about Arvind Kejriwal is that his propaganda adrenaline and ‘I am the only Prophet’ aphrodisiac are driven by...
A Litmus Test for Cash Transfer of Subsidies
(The government recently announced direct cash transfer scheme for subsidies terming it as a game changer for the UPA. However,...
जब डीजीपी ही सांप्रदायिक हो तो दंगे तो होंगे ही
रिहाई मंच द्वारा विधानसभा धरना स्थल लखनऊ में आतंकवाद के नाम पर कैद निर्दोषों को छोड़ने और सांप्रदायिक दंगों की...
Israel Bombs Gaza: Media Fails to Report the Truth
Noam Chomsky and others underline this stark contrast between the plight of Palestinian civilians(barely noticed in the media) and the...
Vidarbha: The Epicentre of Suicides
Advertisements promising massive crop yield dot the entire landscape of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra. Surprisingly private companies are spending gigantic...
Land bill follows principle of eminent domain
NAPM has written an open letter to the agriculture minister Sharad Pawar regarding the current draft of land acquisition bill....
केवल महिलाएं ही क्यों एसिड अटैक की शिकार
चेहरे पर एक दाग लग जाता है तो उसे हम जल्दी से जल्दी साफ करने को दौड़ते हैं और तब...
Great Power Shift; A New Red Star over China
Rarely does world politics grab so much attention. Riding invisible “ demographic coalition “ of underprivileged Americans, Barrack Obama’s re-election...
An Ad-Hoc University
(Akhil Katyal shares his views on the life of Ad-Hoc teachers in Delhi University under siege of the recent reforms.)...
More Child Soldiers Than Ever Before
Today, the world is struggling to resolve an increasing number of civil wars and the changing nature of armed violence....
Time for reconciliation!
Indian Air Force (IAF) chief of staff NAK Browne, speaking just before the IAF’s 80th anniversary, made the rather astounding...
Activists demand release of Dayamani Barla
Condemning the arrest of woman tribal-activist and journalist Dayamani Barla in Jharkhand, rights activists have demanded that the "false cases"...
Haryana rape cases: A detailed report
Over 15 cases of rape and gangrape have been reported in Haryana since September. Members of AISA and AIPWA in...
जल सत्याग्रह के तीन गांवों की कहानीः अंतिम कड़ी
(नर्मदा नदी, परियोजनाएं और बांध, बाढ़ और डूब, विस्थापन और मुआवज़े, संसाधन और विकास, राजनीति और अपराध... ऐसे कितने ही...
Blundering on land and Aadhaar
The fanfare with which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi launched a service delivery scheme in Rajasthan...
जल सत्याग्रह के तीन गांवों की कहानीः चौथी कड़ी
(नर्मदा नदी, परियोजनाएं और बांध, बाढ़ और डूब, विस्थापन और मुआवज़े, संसाधन और विकास, राजनीति और अपराध... ऐसे कितने ही...
जल सत्याग्रह के तीन गांवों की कहानीः तीसरी कड़ी
(नर्मदा नदी, परियोजनाएं और बांध, बाढ़ और डूब, विस्थापन और मुआवज़े, संसाधन और विकास, राजनीति और अपराध... ऐसे कितने ही...
जल सत्याग्रह के तीन गांवों की कहानीः दूसरी कड़ी
(नर्मदा नदी, परियोजनाएं और बांध, बाढ़ और डूब, विस्थापन और मुआवज़े, संसाधन और विकास, राजनीति और अपराध... ऐसे कितने ही...
जल सत्याग्रह के तीन गांवों की कहानीः पहली किस्त
बचपन में सुदर्शन की लिखी एक कहानी पढ़ी थी ‘हार की जीत’. घटनाओं के विवरण छोड़ दें तो बाकी सब...
Koodankulam: A Diary of Repressions
Recently, a fact finding team visited Koodankulam where locals have been at the vanguard of a protracted struggle against the...
Media ignoring hard facts about Fasih Mahmood
Fasih Mahmood, suspected to have been involved in a conspiracy to set off bomb blasts in Bangalore and Delhi, was...
Communal Violence and Rights of Minorities
It is true that nations are imagined and re-imagined all the time. India is no exception to this universal rule...
Actvists demand Sharad Pawar’s resignation
Social activist and National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM) leader Medha Patkar along with other activists demanded resignation of Union...
