CHANDRAWAL, India—Satbir Sharma's wife is dead. His family lives in fear. His father's left leg is shattered, leaving him on crutches for life. Sharma's only hope lies in a new law that gives him the right to know what is happening in the investigation of his wife's death. Most of all, he wants to know what will happen to the village mayor, now in jail on murder charges. He talks quietly, under...
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Centre, Assam to ink peace pact with UPDS
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said the Centre and the Assam government would sign a peace accord with the militant outfit of the hill district Karbi Anglong — United Peoples Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) in Delhi on November 25. The UPDS was formed in 1999 in a merger of the erstwhile Karbi People's Front (KPF) and Karbi National Volunteers (KNV) . The UPDS entered into a ceasefire agreement with the...
More »“People's voices being suppressed” by Ananya Dutta
The Trinamool Congress-LED government is “suppressing freedom of expression of the people of West Bengal,” litterateur and Magsaysay awardee Mahasweta Devi said here on Monday. “The people's government has come and done something that was unimaginable in the last 64 years. The people have lost their right to assemble and express their opinion at the Metro channel,” said Mahasweta Devi, who, on earlier occasions, had come out in support of Mamata...
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-EPW With laws like the AFSPA, when will truth and justice prevail in Jammu and Kashmir? Like all Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief ministers after the dreadful years of president’s rule from 1990 to 1996, Omar Abdullah too stands discredited, especially in the wake of the 2010 uprising of the “stone pelters” which was later brutally suppressed. A widely held opinion in the Kashmir Valley is that the chief minister, whether of...
More »Maoist couple surrender: The real story by Caesar Mandal
Jagori Baske's dramatic surrender before chief minister Mamata Banerjee recently has only added to the mystery that has surrounded the dreaded Maoist for most of her life. When exactly did she surrender? Was it before the last assembly polls? Did Kolkata police play a crucial role? How were Jagori and her husband, Maoist comrade Rajaram Soren, clad in crisp battle fatigues if they were on the run for months? And what...
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