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the environment and the well-being of people in general should be treated with more respect than industrial/profit-making interests. By writing this letter, we are soliciting your stance on these issues in writing. In the interest of democracy and transparency, we feel we are entitled to a response from you.

Four decades after the creation of Bangladesh, the war in 1971 remains an enigma for a majority of Pakistanis. It is now time that we boldly discuss what happened during that turbulent period in our history.

Neither the sangh parivar nor the BJP has ever betrayed any great fondness for liberal parliamentary democracy.

Panaji, Goa: One of India’s most influential artistic lives of the 20th century came to an end in Loutolim, Goa, on Sunday [11 December 2011], when Mario de Miranda died in his ancestral manor at the age of 85.

This is the inspiring story of Sr. Valsa John, an ordained nun, who worked among the Santal tribals of Jharkhand for over fifteen years—first as a school teacher and then as a human rights activist—until her brutal murder on November 15, 2011. It provides an insider’s view of the people’s resistance movement led by Sr. Valsa John against coal mining and displacement in the Amrapara block of Pakur district, Jharkhand.