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Operation Green hunt wouldn’t level democracy, but probably bludgeon one set of actors - the tribals - into oblivion, into history, forever. Their land left to grieve over the loss.

The distance between the portrayal of the courtroom in popular Indian cinema and the reality of the courtroom is almost unbridgeable. As a corollary, judges are rarely portrayed in negative roles as against the plethora of “evil” politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and policemen. This is probably a reflection of the larger denial in public spaces of role and context of the judiciary in the Indian polity – displaying ostrich-like behavior – where we believe that what we do not see does not exist.

GM food poses a new and serious threat to biodiversity, human health and local economy. It is based on outdated science that does not take cognizance of the complexity of the DNA, proteins, RNA system within a given cytoplasm and clings to the dogma of one-gene-one-protein (while, in human body for example, there are hardly 40000 genes, there are over a lakh different proteins).

Full text of the 1029-page report of the Liberhan Commission, which was tabled in India’s Parliament on Nov. 24, 2009. The Liberhan Commission probed the demolition of the Babri Mosque on December 6, 1992 by the the Hindu right wing organisations.

We, the undersigned people’s organisations, social movements, trade
unions and concerned citizens, submit this memorandum to the Government to draw your attention to the several urgent and so far unaddressed concerns about the climate crisis and the Indian Government’s response to them, especially in light of the upcoming 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Copenhagen from 7-18 December 2009.