The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council will send the Working Group's Draft Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011 to the Union Home and Law Ministries within a week to solicit their comments, especially on its “legal dimensions,” NAC sources told The Hindu on Thursday. Once the Centre responds to the draft, the Working Group will revise the Bill and bring it back to the...
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Endosulfan: CPI demands committee
The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Wednesday demanded a nationwide ban on pesticide endosulfan and the setting up of a committee to asses the damage caused by it and pay compensation to the victims. “It is absolutely unacceptable that despite several scientific studies — undertaken both by Central and State agencies — finding that endosulfan is a deadly chemical, it is still sold and used in our country,” the party...
More »Civil society members by André Béteille
Who is a civil society member? This question, which has intrigued me for more than 20 years, came up again with the organization of the demonstrations in support of the lok pal bill in Delhi and other metropolitan cities. When I asked a friend who had been with the demonstrators at Jantar Mantar about the social composition of the gathering, he said that they were common people from every walk...
More »Left activists seek ban on Endosulfan
Activists of the student and youth wings of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M), on Monday, staged a protest here to demand a ban on Endosulfan across the country. The activists of the Students Federation of India (SFI) and the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) also burnt Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in effigy at Jantar Mantar. The demonstration coincided with ‘Anti-Endosulfan Day' being observed in Kerala where Chief Minister V.S....
More »Half-baked idea by Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Expectations of changes resulting from a movement bereft of a clear political and ideological thrust would be far-fetched. FROM the vacuum left by mainstream politics to the confusions of ideology and practice emerging out of half-baked socio-political engagement – the political trajectory of Anna Hazare's “anti-corruption” satyagraha movement demanding early introduction of the Lokpal Bill in Parliament can well be summed up thus. The wide support that the movement received from...
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