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A fact finding team constituted by Janhastakshep, Campaign against Fascist Designs and People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) went to look into the issues being raised in context to alleged an encounter at Batla House, Jamia Nagar on September 19, 2008

The Far Right, which pits the poor against the poor and the tribesman against the tribesman in its quest for power, is a foe of the Indian people as a whole

Dear Friends
The Government of India is negotiating a far reaching Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union. Since June 2007, when the talks began, the GoI has kept the Indian Parliament, state legislatures and key constituencies such as trade unions and agriculture groups in the dark.
This letter is to bring to your urgent attention the statement “IMMEDIATELY HALT EU-INDIA FTA NEGOTIATIONS” issued during a strategy meeting, on the EU India FTA, organised by trade unions, (…)

The News, September 26, 2008
The amazing quantity and the virulence of the writing over the death of fashion designer Sheikh Amer Hassan makes an average reader wonder what is at stake here. Why are some members of the fashion industry, and some journalists supporting them, so bent on vilifying his name in his death, calling him a pretender, and not really part of the club, and moreover, a "pervert" in reference to his sexuality.
If these detractors (for example, article by Muniba Kamal (…)

SAHMAT 8, Vithalbhai Patel House, Rafi Marg,New Delhi-110001 Telephone- 23711276/ 23351424 e-mail: sahmat @ vsnl.com
25.9.2008
We applaud the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, Professor Mushirul Hasan and the entire academic community of the university for their calmness and courage in what is proving to be a testing and traumatic time.
We fully endorse the decision by the Vice Chancellor, to provide the university students who have been swept up in the terrorism dragnet, (…)