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Bobby Kunhu

Smaller States, Larger Democracies

The discourse around the formation of Telengana state has been largely by opinions that try to quantify or assess what would be qualitatively good or bad for Telengana and its people specifically and for the Andhra Pradesh state generally. I really fail to understand this debate if one recognizes the [...]

Damodar Prasad

Civil Society, Victim Industry and Keralam

“Chithralekha is a symbol and sign of the marginalization that Dalits face in modern Kerala”, notes the solidarity mission in its report after visiting Payyanur to ascertain the facts about the hoodlums stigmatizing and victimizing Chitralekha. It is salutary that some of the civil society activists and groups in Keralam after some [...]

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 [...]

Sumesh Mangalassery

Corporate Social Responsibility as a marketing ploy: Tata and rights of people

For the villagers of Kovalam fishing village(near Chennai), the night of April 13th, 2006 (the eve of the Tamil New Year) is still a nightmare. Police entered the village, beat their women, threatened their men, and arrested many. Later, the villagers were astounded to know that the complaint had been filed by the [...]