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...
Pratirodh Bureau
Groups slam Sunilam, Dayamani incarceration
The founder president of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Dr Sunilam, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a 14-year-old case of...
Fake raid to trap Narayan Sanyal?
Newspapers in Jharkhand have gone agog with the police version of the raid in Hazaribagh Central Jail on October 9,...
राजनीति की ‘ममता’ की छाती सूख गई है
उसका नाम सुमन देवी है. अधेड़ महिला. आशियाने के नाम पर बोरियों, टाटों और प्लास्टिक, फ्लैक्स के कुछ बैनरों का...
साहित्य और पत्रकारिता की दूरी बढ़ी है: मंगलेश डबराल
गांधी शांति प्रतिष्ठान के सभागार में कवि, चित्रकार और दूरदर्शन के मशहूर प्रोड्यूसर कुबेर दत्त की याद में जन संस्कृति...
Gram Sabhas forced to pass illegal resolution
A press release by Saal Ghati Bachao Sangharsh Morcha and Himalaya Niti Abhiyan: The villagers protesting against the land...
Truth behind UID related schemes
Biometric data based 12 digit Unique Identification (UID)-Aadhaar Number linked welfare schemes is being bulldozed with 2014 elections in mind...
Journalist Syed Kazmi gets bail
The Supreme Court today granted bail to Syed Mohammad Kazmi. The urdu journalist is an accused in the bomb attack...
False fears over the food security bill
Fears have been expressed about the financial affordability of the food security bill. These fears are misplaced. In its...
A proposal to simplify food security bill
Eminent development economists from across the World have written to prime minister Manmohan Singh proposing significant changes in the proposed...
Food Bill denying coverage to 33%
Right to Food Campaign is alarmed over the media reports which say that government is considering a plan as per...
Hunger Must Go
The recent Cabinet nod to the National Food Security Bill triggered a flurry of criticism in the mainstream media, focusing...
Insurance does not cover the womb’s woes
In a recent study involving 3,855 low-income women (two-third rural agricultural workers and one-third urban labourers) in Gujarat, we found...
दोषी पुलिसकर्मियों पर हो कार्रवाई
आतंक विरोधी क़ानूनों का बड़े पैमाने पर एक ख़ास समुदाय के ख़िलाफ़ दुरुपयोग हो रहा है और इसे रोकने के...
दिल्ली पुलिस स्पेशल सेल का खोखला सच
दिल्ली पुलिस की प्रतिष्ठित स्पेशल सेल, इन दिनों एक बार फिर काफी चर्चा में है. लेकिन इस चर्चा से स्पेशल...
Activists demand subsidised cereals for all
Activists of ‘Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan\\\' working for food security, on Saturday appealed the Central and Rajasthan governments to provide...
Protest continues against Hul power project
A press release by Saal Ghati Bachao Sangharsh Morcha and Himalaya Niti Abhiyan: Villagers at Chamba held a day long...
When We Send Them Back
(Last week, the Tamil Nadu government deported 3 Japanese tourists who were part of the anti-nuclear movement in their country....
बाबू तोरे राज में इज्जत लूट गई हमार
मैं एक सामंती समाज में रहता हूं, जहां हर पल पुरुषवादी अहम अपने को तुष्ट करता रहता है. हाल के...
Selling Us Soap, Shampoo and Ads, Not News
The evolution of India\\\'s booming news industry has been a process of gradual degradation of editorial ethics and propriety. Journalism...
US Presidential race: Business as Usual
(This article is based on author\\\'s interaction with David Barsamian during his lecture at India International Centre-Annexe, Delhi on 04.12.08...
Nuking protests degrades democracy
Even the most zealous supporters of nuclear power generation should logically concede three things to their opponents. First, after the...
Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95
The Marxist historian and intellectual Eric Hobsbawm has died at the age of 95. Hobsbawm, a lifelong Marxist whose...
Koodankulam: CPI (ML) Gen Secy arrested
Press statement by CPI (ML) on arrest of party general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya and other leaders to prevent them from...
Who is in whose land Mr. Thackeray?
India is facing lot of communal-ethnic strife where the place of origin and religion of people is the marker due...
