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book chapter in: Pradip Basu (ed.) Discourses on Naxalite Movement (1967 - 2009) Insights into Radical Left Politics (Published by Setu Prakashani, Calcutta) 2010.

The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act passed in the Parliament in 2010, under its Section 17, provides for ‘right of recourse’ whereby the operator can demand liability from the supplier. Now promulgated rules go to seriously undermine this provision and specify that the ’right of recourse’ .
The Government of India, as it appears, bowing to the dictates of foreign and domestic corporate lobbies, has grievously undermined the Liability Act.
The CNDP demands that the rules are immediately put in tandem with the original Act so that the ’right to recourse’ is available to the operator vis-a-vis the supplier for any equipment/material during its entire lifetime.

TIME was when seekers of India-Pakistan peace looked to the intellectual prowess of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his associates in Pakistan for help. The magical Pakistanis would join hands with their similarly battle-scarred comrades in India to bring the estranged countries together. Disillusioned with the excessive romance of that stymied revolution and browbeaten by their respective systems, some among the early intellectuals began drifting rightwards. Desperation was writ large in their quest for peace.

The organisations signed onto this letter are writing to you to urge you to reconsider your plans to export uranium to India.

Many Indian nuclear disarmament organisations are strongly opposed to India’s being able to import Australian uranium, as this will inevitably contribute to a nuclear arms race in the Indian subcontinent.

This AIDWA Convention against Communal Conflict Expresses deep concern about the number of incidents in several States where citizens of India belonging to the minority Muslim community have been targets of violence, primarily by forces of the State. It expresses its strong solidarity with the families of the victims, and especially, the mothers, sisters, wives who bear the heavy burden of loss of their innocent loved ones.