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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 (…)

KOZHIKODE: With Lok Sabha elections round the corner, the CPM seems to have escaped major political damage when a trial court on Wednesday absolved one of its key leaders from thesensational murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T P Chandrasekharan, a killing that had revived the spectre of the CPM's taste for violent political vendetta.
Special additional sessions judge R Narayana Pisharady acquitted the CPM's Kozhikode district secretariat member P Mohanan while (…)

The Aam Aadmi Party’s maverick ways, especially its 36-hour-long Rail Bhavan dharna led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself, have drawn unprecedented flak from its political opponents, the middle class, and the media ... AAP’s supporters however see the dharna as an audacious means of citizen mobilisation ..

This book is about the failure of Wavell, and thereby ultimately the whole of British policy, to keep India united in the wake of the Second World War. “Wavell thought of India as a single geographic unit and, therefore, wished to maintain its unity. This led him not only to denounce but even attempt to derail the demand for Pakistan.