South Asia Citizens Web

Copyright Eqbal Ahmad Foundation, 2004

[Frontline, Volume 22 - Issue 17, Aug 13 - 26, 2005 >http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2217/stories/20050826003310900.htm]
The shocking episode of anti-worker violence at the Honda motorcycle factory in Gurgaon should spur serious reflection on the sordid state of industrial relations in India and the need for a new charter of labour rights.
THE workers’ struggle at the Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India Ltd (HMSI) in Gurgaon, capped by an extraordinarily brutal attack on them by the (…)

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After Bangalore now Ahmedabad has been rocked by blasts taking a toll of 45 innocent lives and maiming a hundred others. Despite the oft unmasked state complicity, its collusion with, and its absolution of terror rained on the minorities since 1992, not one of its architects, promoters and practitioners has ever been punished let alone pilloried. This is tantamount to continuation of terror as institutional policy and official statecraft. That means, the state is determined not to (…)

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The Yamuna River is the site for spanking new stadia, sports villages, malls and multiplexes. Around 22 lakh people reside in the extended floodplains of east Delhi. Can this population withstand the new colonisation that is threatening to invade the floodplains? An interview with Dunu Roy of the Delhi-based Hazards Centre
There was a time when the Yamuna flowed by the Red Fort. Then she changed course (…)