South Asia Citizens Web

Daily News and Analysis, 27 March 2014
Earlier this month, the Government quietly moved to finalise a deal for the Jaitapur nuclear project. This is the latest in a sequence of executive decisions that raise serious questions of propriety. The multi-billion dollar contract for these reactors was promised to the French company, Areva, without any tender process, in 2008. The project has failed to materialise because of serious economic, legal, and environmental concerns, all of which (…)

David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism – its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consumption, and its compulsion to exploit nature to the point of extinction. These are the tensions which underpin the persistence of mass unemployment, the downward spirals of Europe and Japan, and the unstable lurches forward of China and India.

2nd A K Ramanujan Lecture was delivered by Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi at Ramjas College at Delhi University on 6 March 2014.The lecture was organised by History Society of Ramjas College. Both the full text and the audio are available now. [The audio was digitised as part of South Asia Citizens Web Archive - sacw.net]

2nd Complaint against Delhi police for holding Press Conference alleging arrests of four suspected terrorists and highlighting prominently large number of Muslim names with a view to give communal tinge to the incident to enable communal elements in the election fray, including the ruling party, to utilize the same for electorate advantage and requesting it to prohibit holding such press conferences by the police during election times.

Articles in Marathi Aruna Burte. 1) on the politics behind Nirbhik revolver 2.) Comparing two women Maya Kodnani and Jyotsna Yagnik