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Sri Lankan army is reluctant to recover from its victory hangover, not realising that the resulting anxiety among its people threatens the relief that came at the end of the civil war

As I write this we have been preparing to demonstrate against the shocking, though predictable conduct of the Shiv Sena Members of Parliament at the Maharashtra Sadan force feeding a staffer who happened to be Muslim and who also happened to be on the month long Ramzan fast in New Delhi. It is to the credit of an otherwise compliant and complacent media that this issue was given the attention it rightly deserves in a secular democratic republic.
The point is that the Shiv Sena and the sangh parivar, now in power and control in New Delhi actually believe that India is no more secular and democratic, but actually there dream inverse state of Pakistan – a Hindu Rashtra. Listen to what BJP member Ramesh Bhiduri said yesterday in Parliament when the matter was being debate “Go to Pakistan, this is Hindustan.”

A reuters photo feature on mineworkers in Pakistani Punjab.

PROTEST: GLOBAL RESISTANCE against Vedanta Resources and the corrupt transnational state-corporate nexus
31st July 2014 (Thurs) @ 2.30PM-4PM,
Venue: Ministry of Environment and Forests, Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi (Nearest Metro: Jorbagh)
NO MORE BLOOD, NO MORE LOOT, NO MORE ECO-CIDE!
VEDANTA, WE WILL FIGHT YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE AND WHEREVER YOU GO!
Contacts: Devangana 08130414606, Aapurv 9910550736, Nikita 9582076891
This protest on 31st July in Delhi (…)

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