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terrorist assaults, since the beginning of the year alone, have caused over 210 deaths, more than half of these being civilians. The list of the injured is equally high, while the state of insecurity among the citizens remains grave and critical. We also condemn the policy of holding terrorist forces as strategic assets to be used to gain advantage in the regional equation vis-à-vis our neighbours.
It is obvious; the government is absolutely non-serious in addressing the issue of terrorism and in establishing its own writ across the country. The ugly backlash of this policy is being borne by the citizens in the form of daily acts of terrorism, economic downturn, social discontent and murder of family relatives and friends.

The article "The Emerging Left in the Emerging World" by Jayati Ghosh presents a frank and penetrating analysis of the present and the future of the left. However, Ghosh is an eminent Indian political economist and one could have expected her to deal in somewhat greater detail with the condition of "the emerging left" in India. Perhaps her reluctance to do so is because she belongs to the left fraternity and does not wish to confront what is most dear or of most concern to her.

CBI was categorical: Encounter ‘false, stage managed’ Article by Muzamil Jaleel | The conclusion by the Army Court of Inquiry that the “evidence recorded could not establish a prima facie case against any of the accused” flies in the face of findings by the CBI, which accused five Rashtriya Rifles personnel of cold-blooded murder, and repeatedly stressed that the encounter was fake.

PRESS NOTE
22nd January 2014
Report of fact finding and assessment – Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts
by Aman Biradari - Centre for Equity Studies
The entire report can be read at the Centre for Equity Studies Website
http://centreforequitystudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Aman-Biradari+IRI-Muzaffarnagar-Fact-Finding-and-Assessment-Report.pdf
1. From December 23-25, 2013, a team of 11 persons from Aman Biradari, visited 8 camps of persons displaced by the recent (…)

Musharraf and the famous fist. Photo T. Mughal/EPA
Below, my (un-populist) take on the Musharraf treason trial, in an opinion piece published in International Business Times, London, Jan 23, 2014. N.B. The recent attack on the bus in Mastung, Balochistan, that killed some 30 Hazara Shia Muslims, including women and children returning from pilgrimage in Iran is an example of the result of Musharraf’s policies of letting the home-grown ‘jihadis’ function. Plus I forgot to mention his role in (…)