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February 4, 2009
Slumdogs will always be slumdogs, and millionaires will always be millionaires. An Indian slumdog will never be a millionaire. At least not the fantastic way the movie flaunted it.
Oscar-coaxing producer Christian Colson, director Danny Boyle, and the now-famed storytellers Simon Beaufoy and Vikas Swarup together create a violent, obnoxious, and even not-so-artistically-sound celluloid big-frame that’s likely to be showered with more (…)

Uranium Mining in Megahlaya — Simmering Problem
Kazakhstan Exclusive: In the News: Indo Kazakh Uranium Deal Oh Kazakhstan… Where are you heading? Uranium Mining in Kazakhstan and the Call of the Nightingale The hazardous legacy of a Kazakh uranium mine tailing Historical abuse on the land and the people of Kazakhstan The Nevada-Semipalatinsk Anti-Nuclear Movement of Kazakhstan

New Age, 4 February 2009
Rehabilitating education on secular basis
Since implementation of education policy has always run into troubled waters it is necessary to obtain national consensus for durable result. … An elected government does have the right to formulate and implement whichever policy it deems appropriate but in the case of education there has been enough of tinkering and half-measures in the past and so it is now time to rehabilitate education on a durable basis, writes (…)

sacw.net
Kitchen, Church and Children
Shri Ram Sene Beats up Girls in a Pub
Hitler, the epitome of sectarian politics had set many a norms, practices, which underlined his agenda of Fascism. He targeted the ’outsiders’ (Jews, Communists) and suppressed the ’insiders’ (workers, women). While what is most visible of his crimes is the genocide of Jews, what was also very damaging was that he suppressed the rights of women and workers. About women, he famously went on to pontificate that (…)

sacw.net
As an independent observer of the Indian political scene and its ups and downs in the last four decades, and a journalist and an ex-Member of the Media Expert Committee of the Government of India I was simply stunned by the the frenzied debate in and out of Parliament and on the TV channels asking for the dismissal of A.R. Antulay for his observation that “there is more to it than meets the eye” in Hemant Karkare’s killing and that it should be investigated. To be frank. I (…)