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Indian society will pay dearly for this artificial state-induced automobilisation—through greater road congestion, slower commuting speeds, horrendous levels of air pollution, widespread health damage, and increased fatalities and injuries from road accidents. India has one of the highest rates of deaths from road accidents, estimated at over 140,000 a year . . .

A 1997 paper on women workers in the electronics industry in the Okhla industrial area of Delhi.

On 28th Feb (2014) Ramvilas Paswan of Loktantantrik Jan Party joined the NDA alliance. Same Paswan had left the NDA twelve years ago with the beginning of Gujarat carnage, saying that with the violence in Gujarat he cannot be part of NDA. This time his son formulated the face saver when he said that Modi has received clean chit in the Gujarat carnage. Few days ago another dalit leader Udit Raj directly joined BJP, with the assurance of being given a ticket for forthcoming elections. In Maharashtra, Ramdas Athwaley of Republican Party of India had become part of NDA, and succeeded in being nominated for Rajya Sabha, Upper house of Parliament. There are many others dalits in the fold of BJP directly or in alliance with BJP to be in NDA, for pre poll alliance. Most of these leaders claim to be working on the path shown by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Ambedkar was committed to annihilation of caste and was totally opposed to the concept of Hindu nationalism, as propounded by RSS-BJP.

Posters made on the occasion of the Seminar: ’Speaking of The Hindus’ with interventions by Profs. DN Jha, Kunal Chakrabarti, Apoorvanand and with Prof. Romila Thapar as Chair; and for the 2nd A K Ramanujan Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi and a performance of ’Akhtari’: the life and music of Begum Akhtar by Danish Husain and Vidya Shah being held at Ramjas college (Delhi University) on 6th March 2014