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The Morning Leader, October 22, 2008 As the importance of peace, reconciliation and national unity in Sri Lanka grows in salience and Tamil Nadu as well as New Delhi agitate on the one hand and voice their serious concerns on the other in respect of these overarching issues, representatives of the ruling regime seem more determined than ever to go on the offensive in more ways than one.
This columnist, amongst others, has addressed the remarks of the Army Commander on the history and (…)

24 October, 2008
We, the citizens of Maharashtra protest against the planned and instigated violence against north Indians in Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan. Neither Mr. Raj Thackrey nor the MNS have actually done any good to the ordinary Maharashtrian Bahujans on whose behalf he is advocating. The major issues of the State and its toilling masses like that of the agrarian crisis, land and homelessness, displacement due to SEZ and other development based projects or mill workers in Mumbai have (…)

by Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action (LABIA)
Issue No. 12 "Censorship"
This has been a year of Prides and Queer Azadi! These marches clearly mark a blow to the silence that state and society have imposed on all of us. With great energy and enthusiasm the marches were planned in different cities. With full regalia we were on the roads, shouting slogans, dancing, smiling, crying with happiness! Yet, how many of us decided, after much torment, not to go to the pride parade in Delhi, Calcutta (…)

Friends
Herewith I am forwarding an appeal by PUHR fo your kind consideration. It would help if you could join the campaign to find out Mr Vinod Yadav at your own level. I had the opportunity of being with Mr Vinod and his other comrades recently when they had organised a public meeting in Azamgarh to oppose the ’stigmatisation’ and ’criminalistation’ of the minority community . The police disrupted the meeting on some flimsy pretext.
It need be noted that Mr Vinod is elder brother of (…)

Kashmir Times, 26 October 2008
A simple logic tells us what is undemocratic cannot be justified in the name of pursuit of an exercise that is touted to be democratic. If road to democratic processes is to be littered by undemocratic and repressive means, then going by the Aristotelian principle of Law of Excluded Middle, what is deemed democratic may also be not democratic. So how does the democratic process of electioneering get strengthened by series of repressive measures in Kashmir in (…)