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BJP’s IT Vision: The discreet charm of techno-Hindutva
In June 2007 the Indian Express reported that the Shiv Sena (SS) is planning to build a software to monitor abusive communities on the popular social networking site Orkut. One doesn’t know whether the Shiv Sainiks made use of any web technology when they singled out and slapped a criminal suit on a teenaged computer science student from Kerala for letting anonymous users post defamatory comments against Shiv Sena in a (…)

WITH the dissolution of the 11 th Lok Sabha on December 4, 1997. the Indian media, almost as a body, have launched a concerted propaganda barrage to overwhelm the public with three meticulously manufactured Impressions. One, now the only issue before the Indian electorate is the stability of the next government, no matter what policies this government might try to follow (in any case, everybody would pursue much the same policies). Two, the BJP’s politics has taken a decisive turn towards moderation, no matter how weak, contradictory and confusing the evidence of this is. Three, the inevitability of Atal Behari Vajpayee becoming the next prime minister, no matter how he conjures up the required majority.

[United Nations - Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights >http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/0A3A151662B82F2AC1257582005B0EC4?opendocument]
Statement by Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights
National Human Rights Commission New Delhi, 23 March 2009 Distinguished Members of the National Human Rights Commission and State Commissions,
Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to sincerely thank the Government of India for its kind (…)

NARMADA BACHAO ANDOLAN 62 M.G Marg, Badwani, Madhya Pradesh - 451551 Telefax: 07290-222464; E-mail: nba.medha(AT)gmail.com Maitri Niwas, Tembewadi, Behind Kakawadi, Dhadgav, Dist. Nandurbar, Maharashtra - 425414 — Telefax: 02595-220620 __4__
NBA salutes the life-long contribution of Smitu Kothari to people’s movements
Resolves to carry forward his vision for a just and pro-poor development Narmada Bachao Andolan joins other people’s movements in expressing its shock and grief at the (…)