South Asia Citizens Web

We are shocked and outraged by the continuing attempt of the highly vindictive Modi government and the Gujarat police to somehow implicate activists Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, along with three victim-survivors of the state-sponsored Gujarat carnage in 2002 on patently trumped-up charges.

We, the undersigned express our deep shock at the rejection of the anticipatory bail application of Teesta Setalvad and four others in what is being called the Gulberg Embezzlement Case, by the City sessions court of Ahmedabad. From its beginning, the so-called embezzlement has been the concoction of elements instigated by the state government of Gujarat, including the Gujarat Crime Branch. In January 2014, an FIR was registered against the five accused for defrauding the members of the Gulberg Society of funds meant for the building of the Gulberg Memorial commemorating the state sponsored carnage.

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]