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Economic Times August 5, 2005
The Haryana police was blooded in the 1970s as part of a strategy to attract investment; employer attitudes and industrial relations practices must change if democracy is to prevail, says Praful Bidwai. The sheer brutality of the violence unleashed by the Haryana police against the agitating workers of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter Limited (HMSL) has shocked the Indian public’s conscience in ways few other recent events have, barring perhaps the self-immolation (…)

Little Terrorist - A short film by Ashvin Kumar produced by Alipur Films and Ritika Productions; May 14, 2004

"moral police of cultural vigilantes" target art, literature and films in India

(Delivered as ’Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture and then published in ’April-June 1995’ Issue of Social Scientist’)
Professor Patnaik, friends of the SAHMAT organisation, ladies and gentlemen.
I deem it an honour indeed that I should be asked to speak at this function which is part of observance of Safdar Hashmi’s martyrdom-anniversary. It was thought by the organisation that the theme should be one worthy of the occasion. And so I was asked to speak on Mahatma Gandhi and the National (…)

Paper presented at the Fourth Sustainable Development Conference, Organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, May 24-26, 2000.
Published in December 2000 by Research Unit
– Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER)
– ST-001, Sector X, Sub-Sector V, Gulshan-e-Maymar, Karachi 75340 – Pakistan