South Asia Citizens Web

Our sacred complex in India demands a scrutiny much like the military industrial complex in USA. The sacred complex constitutes the fourth estate far more powerful than the media or the NGOs.

It would seem that international law is nonexistent. That alone can explain the barbaric bombing of civilian targets in Libya. I hold no brief for what many correctly describe Gaddafi as a tyrannical ruler. I have full sympathy for the opposition and admiration for their struggle to get rid of Gaddafi.
But I protest strongly at the unilateral action of Nato air strike UNO has not sanctioned it.

Anna Hazare’s agitation is not a triumph of democracy. It is a triumph of demagoguery. There is no quarrel whatsoever with the need to expose and punish corruption as practised by those who hold public office and wield political influence.

Some social scientists argue that the contemporary labour movements are in severe crisis. This crisis includes declining militancy, falling union densities, shrinking wages and benefits, and declining overall working conditions. Some common sources of these crucial problems in the era of globalisation are hyper mobility of capital creating a race to the bottom among nations; decline of state sovereignty, especially in the third world, undermining traditional associational bargaining power and welfare of the workers; and the new work organisation and technology, representing flexibilisation, creating a vast number of part-time, and/or contingent workers.

We are shocked at the government’s sheer insensitivity in announcing on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe that it is going ahead with the Jaitapur nuclear power project.