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Greed, carelessness, and callous disregard for human life sum up the causes of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster - Request for Assistance for Bhopal Survivors’ Petition

The women’s movement, the environmental cause, the struggle for justice has lost a voice that never flinched from standing up for victims of exploitation, injustice and violence. Trupti Shah (54) left us on May 26, 2016 in Vadodara after a valiant battle against lung cancer.

History textbooks have often been at the centre of controversies, having had to carry the incredible burden of inculcating patriotism in students. . . . The recent textbook revisions by the State Institute of Education Research and Training, Rajasthan, are the latest in a series of attempted ideological captures orchestrated by the powers that be. With one of the many such captures since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power two years ago.

Global Empire: India. Past and Present (Part 1) Telesur TV, May 24, 2016 & (Part 2) on 31 May 2016 ’India The World Today’ In part one of Tariq Ali and professor Jairus Banaji’s discussion, they look at the recent student dispute at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and what it has revealed about the BJP government. They discuss how the world’s largest democracy has struggled with authoritarianism and even fascism in the past, the relationship between caste and capitalism in India, and how the country’s judiciary is being compromised by the politicians.

Letters sent to the Hime Minister of India and to Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh by Com. S. Sudhakar Reddy (General Secretary of the Communist Party of India) on the issue of intimidation of people who were part of a fact-finding team on Chhattisgarh