South Asia Citizens Web

You did not have to be baba’s favourite to like him. I have never seen a man so deeply revered by the masses. On one occasion, my taxi driver having noticed, that I was visiting ‘Mukul Sinha’ requested if he could meet him. Baba promptly stepped out on hearing the request, my driver took his hands and kissed them. He had tears in his eyes, “Saheb, this state needs more messiahs like you” he spoke in Gujarati. The IIT graduate who hailed from Bilaspur left his home state decades ago and had touched a chord with the common Gujarati.

A fact-finding team organized by the Centre for Policy Analysis, Delhi visited the affected villages and the main camp in Baska where the people directly affected by the violence reside, on 10 and 11 May 2014. The members of the team included Seema Mustafa, Anand Sahay and Satish Jacob, all senior journalists, Anuradha Chenoy, senior academic and political activist, and Harsh Mander, social worker and writer.

Neel Mukherjee’s very ambitious and very successful novel is set in Calcutta and the ricefields on the edge of the jungle in the west of West Bengal.

There is much to celebrate in the life of Rashid Rehman Khan and thus much reason to mourn his passing. But there is an even greater reason to feel sorry for the millions of the Pakistani people who consider themselves alive.

Indian Express Newspapers Workers Union has been sitting on an indefinite hunger strike from May 12, in front of the IE Building demanding implementation of the recommendations of the Majithia Wage Board.