Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Memorandum to Indian Prime Minister on Assam Bomb Blasts

    by Barak Human Rights Protection Committee, 2 November 2008

    To
    The Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister’s Office, Room number 152, South Block, New Delhi
    Subject: Urgent Appeal Regarding Serial Blasts in Assam on 30 October, 2008
    Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh,
    Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC), a human rights organization working in Assam, categorically condemns the horrendous massacre caused by serial blasts in Assam on 30 October, which took lives of about 80 people, injured nearly 400 and burnt to ashes hundreds of (…)

  • Nano in Gujarat: Make Believe Stature of Modi

    by Ram Puniyani, 2 November 2008

    Shifting of Nano to Gujarat has been projected as a feather in Modi’s cap. With this his already rising popular rating due to the projections by a section of media and blind apologists of current pattern of development has got a big boost. Some from the world of business/vested interests have started saying that Modi is the future of India and if there are five more Modi’s the country will prosper in the real fast way! The additional point being made is that he has shown the path to deal (…)

  • Communalism: An ignored malady

    by M K A Siddiqui, 2 November 2008

    The Statesman, Festival issue 2008
    Retarded development or persistent downward mobility of a minority, particularly of ethnic character, within a participatory democratic system, and its recession in the fields of education, employment as well as its frequent subjection to acts of barbarism, reducing it to a grossly disempowered group, should normally be a matter of concern for a civilized society. The situation will demand attention of all fair minded people, not only in the interest of (…)

  • Contemporary Global Capitalism: Multi-pronged crises

    by Pritam Singh, 1 November 2008

    [Economic and Political Weekly, October 11, 2008 >http://epw.in/uploads/articles/12747.pdf]
    The grand failure of many a financial institution in the US is one of three such crises that have affected the world today; the others related to oil prices and food shortages. These in sum have broken the back of neoliberal triumphalism, and have resulted in a spatial shift in global capitalism. No wonder, it is time to address alternatives to this greed driven, unregulated and excess-motivated (…)

  • SEZ: The Indian Experience

    by Sukla Sen, 1 November 2008

    In the recent days, the issue of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) has come to occupy a highly visible slot in the national discourse, particularly since early 2007 – fairly dramatically catapulted to the national centre-stage by the blood-soaked and protracted mass resistance in, erstwhile obscure, Nandigram, in West Bengal.

    The idea, however, is not entirely novel – either globally or even nationally. Its earlier predecessors were usually termed as Export Processing Zone (EPZ), Free Trade Zone (FTZ) etc.

elsewhere on the web