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The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) condemns the Dinamalam viewspaper for printing baseless, tasteless and crooked views as news reports. This yellow daily has no p

We, the undersigned strongly protest the arrest of Mr. Yunus Ali, the Head Teacher of KC Technical and Business Management College of Pirojpur, on 4 January, 2012. Mr. Ali was arrested or having allegedly kept a copy of writer Taslima Nasreen’s novel "Lajja" ("Shame") in the college library. This arrest is a clear breach of the right to freedom of speech and shows the presence of a broad range of communal and generally reactionary forces in our society.

“Something terrible happened fifty years ago today when India was divided. It is time to recognize it and see if it can be understood and transcended. The survivors owe it to those who perished.”

to many other curious people who are genuinely interested in pursuing Anna Hazare’s vision of probity and public morality, I recommend Mukul Sharma’s book Green and Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Environmental Politics. Sharma, a former journalist turned academic with wide-ranging interests in human rights and social change, has dug out a compelling range of source material to establish the underlying nexus between environmental campaigns and right-wing politics.

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Synopsis: Homai Vyarawalla, born in 1913 into a priestly family in Navsari, Gujarat, was the first woman photo journalist in the country. Beginning her career as a photographer with the Bombay Chronicle and later the Far Eastern Bureau of the British Information Services, she soon came to be known for her compelling photographic images taken both before and after independence. She has a rare collection of interesting picture of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Radhakrishnan and Mahatma Ghandhi. She freelanced for SPAN, life and many international publications and finally gave up photography in 1970.