South Asia Citizens Web

The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) welcomes the statement of the Central Government’s Experts Group (EG) convener, Dr. A.E. Muthunayagam, that expresses the group’s willingness to hold discussions with the scientific team of the PMANE.

The story recurs, again and again. State granaries are full, the economy is resurgent and many of the world’s wealthiest people are Indians. Yet grain rots, while one in every two Indian children is unable to access enough food for her body and brain to develop to her full potential. It rots
while millions are compelled to subsist for long periods without sufficient food, cutting back on their food intakes, sometimes reduced to eating one meal a day; or to beg for food; or to eat tubers, grasses and mango kernels that fill their stomachs but provide no nutrition; or sometimes just to drink the starch water left over after cooking rice, which their neighbours give them in tight-fisted charity.

The unraveling of the Ishrat Jahan case last week came close on the heels of the convictions for the Sardarpura massacre, the first of the eight post-Godhra riot cases being monitored by the Supreme Court. Narendra Modi’s legal troubles are not only for the carnage that took place on his watch in 2002 but also for the series of mysterious killings of those who had allegedly sought to take revenge on him or fallen out with him in the wake of the riots.

See video and pictures of direct action at the Chhatissgarh sadan in New Delhi on 1st December 2011. Feminist groups of Delhi had gathered there hoping to meet and speak with the Chief minister of Chattisgarh, about sexual assault by police against Soni Sori a tribal school teacher from Chattisgarh, but he refused to meet them. The assembly of feminists at the gates of Chattisgarh was then forcibly dislodged by the police. Later press conference was held where demands by the feminist and human rights activists were made public via the media.

We want a nuclear-free Tamil Nadu, nuclear-free India, and nuclear-free world. And we start with Koodankulam.