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Satya Sagar

Corporations Out of My Hair! or ‘Mairay Pochchu!’

‘Scientists discover way to convert human hair into high grade fuel’ read the innocuous looking news item tucked away in a corner of the technology pages of my daily newspaper.
At first I didn’t take it seriously and thought it was another self-promoting piece of propaganda from some corporate biotech lab somewhere. [...]

A S Ajith Kumar

Good Dalit,Bad Dalit

Quite different from the Paul George murder case the media have no complaints about the investigation regarding the murder allegedly committed by Dalit Human Rights Movement. Every one, the media, political parties and the police seem to be so cocksure. All sorts of stories have been pouring in establishing the `extremist’ nature of DHRM. Interestingly [...]

Anivar Aravind

10th year of hunger strike: Call for Action in Support of Irom sharmila

[Cross Posted in ManipurFreedom.org]
Dear Friends,
On 2 November 2009, Manipur poet and activist Irom Sharmila, will enter the 10th year of her hunger strike demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
Introduced in 1958 the AFSPA grants the Indian military special powers throughout North-East India to:

Arrest citizens and enter their property without [...]

Nilratan Shende

Blind Cities, Blind Systems

Couple of months ago, a visually challenged person, Mr. Chandrakant Sasane , 34, a post graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, met  with a tragic “accident” at Thane railway station while he was alighting from a suburban train. He fell off to the opposite track and a train arrived, all at once. He sustained multiple [...]

Anant Maringanti

Rethinking exclusion

It has become something of a commonsense among South Asian progressives that caste, religion and gender (increasingly sexuality) are the main axes along which exclusion and marginalization occurs in India. We have been so engrossed in this idea that we have largely ignored the actual processes of exclusion that have been creeping up on us [...]

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