Dear Friend,
Anitha S writes her second letter to Gauri Lankesh, posthumously. It's heart wrenching.
When everything from birth to death are Aadhaar linked in India why not a poem? Ra Sh writes World’s First Aadhaar Linked Poem
Today was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday. To celebrate it Sardar Sarovar dam was dedicated to the nation, threatening the drowning of 40,000 families in the project area.
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Dear Gauri….. A Letter To Gauri Lankesh
by Anitha S
Today as I write this, the Prime Minister is “dedicating the Sardar Sarovar Dam to the nation” – another rhetoric we are all a bit fed up and angry about. Instead of fooling ourselves that all is well and all set with a “first class ticket for a free ride in a Bullet Train”, along super Adani highways and ports, we need to sit together and put things, facts and figures, incidents and happenings, talks and whispers on board…and I miss you most again here...you were the one to see things square, face truth and injustice upfront. As we sit together in many places all over the country ( maybe all over the world), a chair will be kept for you, a chair empty and unoccupied, dear sister, for you to voice your rational, clear and honest thoughts, dreams and opinions about democracy and the right to live
Bullet Train : World’s First Aadhaar Linked Poem
by Ra Sh
There is another Bullet Train.
A 7.65 Calibre Make in India model
that passes through stations with
strange names like Kulburgi South
Pansare West and Dhabolkar Central
Its destination set in Bangalore
where it rockets through a pulsating heart.
Celebrating Murder
by Dr Walter Fernandes
I was not yet nine but I distinctly remember the day when for the first time I witnessed people celebrating the murder of a person. In Mangalore my home town, on 31st January 1948 members of the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha distributed sweets to celebrate the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi the previous day. There have been many more such incidents during the last seven decades. The latest is the celebration of the murder of the journalist and human rights activist Gauri Lankesh by some political commentators, journalists and self-styled nationalists. The main comment was that she got the death she deserved, a dog’s death.
Dedication Of Sardar Sarovar Project: Another Modi Drama
by National Alliance of People’s Movements
We believe that the drama of dedication of the Sardar Sarovar Project to the Nation on Prime Minister’s Birthday was a complete failure. This was evident not only by the fact that except for Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, no one else turned up, as was announced that all BJP ruled CMs will participate. The grand aarti with 2,000 priests from Varanasi who were to come also didn’t turn up finally. We believe this is a victory of our struggles and massive criticism raised from all over the country, decrying this cruelty on his birthday, when 40,000 families are facing submergence in 192 villages of Madhya Pradesh and also in the resettlement sites of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The Climate Catastrophe We’re All Ignoring
by Jeremy Lent
But meanwhile, multiply the damage from Harvey and Irma a hundredfold and you’ll get a feeling for the climate-related suffering taking place right now in the rest of the world. In India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, an estimated 40 million people have been affected by massive flooding, with over 1,200 deaths. More than one third of Bangladesh’s land mass has been submerged. As if that’s not enough, Africa has been suffering its own under-reported climate disasters, with hundreds of thousands affected by flooding in Nigeria, Niger, Congo, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Australian Pro-Zionist PM Turnbull’s Jewish Heritage Means He May Be Ineligible To be An MP
by Dr Gideon Polya
Australia is second only to Trump America as a supporter of Apartheid Israel. 7 non-Jewish MPs but not 6 Jewish MPs have been referred to the High Court over Section 44 of the Australian Constitution that makes politicians ineligible to be MPs if they have not renounced entitlement to or actual citizenship of a foreign country. However Australia’s pro-Zionist PM Turnbull may be ineligible to be an Australian MP if he has a Jewish grandparent and has not renounced resultant entitlement to Israeli citizenship under the Israeli Law of Return.
Protagoras (490-420 BC)
by Ish N Mishra
A brief biographical sketch
Global Politics Is Not About The Safeguard of Humanity And Peace But of Special Interest And Wars
by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja
We the People of the Globe, We the conscientious Humanity are not the focal point of global political agenda for peace, security and future-making. The contemporary global leadership is obsessed with its own pitfalls of failing accountability to the global mankind. The corporate managed global media networks view the people as numbers, digits and symbols of statistics to be used in competing popular number games operated in discussions as if the mankind is lifeless.
Memorandum From Kashmir Centre For Social and Development Studies (KCSDS) To Members of the Visiting Congress Delegation
Kashmir center for social & Development studies(KCSDS) submitted a memorandum to congress delegation headed by former Prime Minster, Sh. Manmohan Singh,visiting J&K on 16th-17th September 2017.
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