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On 31st October 2010 while working at a loader and unloader machine in ENO final assembly section [Nokia’s plat at Sriperumbadur in Tamilnadu], a worker named Ambika met with an accident and later died in the night. She was 22 years old, a permanent employee and had been working at the factory for past 4-4.5 years.
From talking to the workers it seemed quite apparent that this accident was waiting to happen due to the negligence of the management and the intense production pressure on workers. If not a sweatshops, these factories are not any better. A worker jokingly mentioned, ‘our factory is the biggest producer of Nokia mobiles and our pay are the lowest’. (There is 45 times difference between the pay of Indian Nokia workers and what Nokia pays globally)

This paper explores the issue of political violence and Muslim vulnerability in Gujarat under the explanatory rubric of the ‘Special Political Zone,’ an informal analogue to a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), the latter being a site exempt from prevailing regulations, purportedly to enhance economic growth. The political ability to endow specific sites with exceptional legal status for economic outcomes implies the ‘Special Political Zone,’ a site where select laws of the land are voided to ensure specific political outcomes, for example the staging of violence to dramatize the restructuring of the relationship between majority and minority. This paper offers a limited examination of this hypothesis taking Ahmedabad as a privileged site where much of the violence in Gujarat in 2002 was concentrated.

A public statement by concerned citizens to protest against the attempt in India to revive the archaic concept of "sedition" as a tool to censor dissenting points of view.

You do not have to like or agree with Geelani or Arundhati Roy to defend their right to speech. They are threatened with criminal proceedings for sedition (section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code).

When Gandhi was charged with sedition, he told the trial judge that this was the “ prince among the political sections of the Indian Penal Code… to suppress the liberty of citizens”.

In their resolution of February 4, 1948, the Government of India declared their determination to root out the forces of hatred and violence that are at work in our country and imperil the freedom of the Nation and darken her fair name. in pursuane of this policy the Government of India have decided to declare unlawful the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the Chief Commissioner’s provinces. Similar action is also being taken in the Governor’s provinces.