South Asia Citizens Web

As we know in most of the cases already tried in the Fast Track Courts in Kandhamal the accused persons have been acquitted. This is nothing but a great failure of the criminal justice system which has miserably failed to give justice to the victims of the communal violence. At this juncture there is an urgent need of critical analysis of the factors responsible for the failure.

The aluminium industry occupies a vital position in the military-industrial complex. Among India’s most significant people’s movements are those resisting new mining/metals projects in Orissa and neighbouring states, and the dams that feed them. In places, violent repression of these movements threatens a state of civil war.

The case of the Sri Ram Sene leader Pramod Muthalik, who is facing some 40 criminal cases in Karnataka, epitomises the Indian state’s pussyfooting in dealing with Hindu religious extremists, while that of the Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy typifies the same state’s trampling down on dissenters upholding the cause of the poorer classes.

A 2007 documentary on hardships and the effect of globalization on tea garden workers in India.

While Hindutva as a form of aggressive and militant nationalism is focused on the capture of state power in India, it is less clear what its aims are as a transnational movement, beyond appeals to the U.S. Indian diaspora to support its various projects in India. Why then, should U.S. citizens and residents be concerned about the infiltration of Hindu nationalist ideas in U.S. schools?