Praful Bidwai

Articles

• Choking funds to suppress dissent

  1 June, by admin — Freedom of Expression, NGO s, Protest
  Perhaps no other country has as complex a maze of laws and rules – that give arbitrary powers to the state – as India. And no other state has abused them as comprehensively as India to censor free expression, curb dissent, criminalise protest, and harshly victimise people – so as to impose (...)

• No clear reason in the Kudankulam judgment

  24 May, by admin — Court Ruling, Development, Judiciary, Nuclear Energy, Politics, Radioactive waste, Social Movements, Tamil Nadu
  in a judgment giving the green light to the Kudankulam nuclear project, our Supreme Court tells citizens, without a hint of irony, that they must put up with “minor inconveniences” such as exposure to radiation, which causes cancer or genetic damage and is always harmful, because enormous (...)

• Saradha scam: a cocktail of media, business and politics

  2 May, by admin — West Bengal
  To the supporters of the Trinamool Congress led by the irascible West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the Saradha scam is an acute embarrassment which comes just before her government completes two years in office. To its opponents, it is the TMC’s richly deserved nemesis, and a political (...)

• A case for public transport

  27 April, by admin — Automobiles, Pollution, South Asia, Trasport, Urban Transport
  t’s no small irony that even as employment, and the share of the national income going to the poor, have decreased in India over the past five years, car sales have doubled. Automobile manufacturing is one of India’s fastest-growing industries, thanks to the consumerism of the upper-middle class (...)

• Violence in W Bengal

  22 April, by admin — Politics, Violence, West Bengal
  rinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee must be India’s most abrasive and volatile political personality. She goes hysterical at the slightest sign of dissidence. But she exceeded even herself with the tantrum she threw when confronted by a protest in Delhi by Communist Party of (...)

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