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After the massacre in Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, expressing indignation, as so many are doing, is not enough.

12 Killed in Attack on French Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo. Well known cartoonists from around the world respond by drawing cartoons expressing solidarity with Charlie Hebo. Wonderful report in the Washington Post.

This is a 52-min documentary on the assassination, A Death For Peace - Mahatma Gandhi and The Impossible Quest (2005), by Arnaud Mandagaran. A student of philosophy at Nanterre during the ’May 68’ revolt in France, Arnaud (b.1949) travelled across South Asia in the early 1970s.

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS (PUDR)
Press Statement
Condemning Undemocratic Extension of AFSPA
6th Jan 2015
PUDR strongly condemns the extension of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in Assam, on January 2, 2015 under Section 3 of the Act by the Government of India. Coming in the wake of the recent massacre of adivasis by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) on December 23, 2014 in Kokrajhar, Sonitpur and Chirang districts of Assam, this (…)

Let me share some memories from years of conversations with Maamujan. They describe what seems like an improbable era he belonged to ... As an Indian communist, he had a preference for the middle of the road P.C. Joshi against an implacably radical B.T. Ranadive.