The beneficiaries of the land reforms in West Bengal get pushed out of their land under the new regime. MOGHAI MUNDA is dead. No one is there to mourn him but his distraught parents and his young wife who seems to have lost her power of speech. But it is a significant death, even if it is ignored by the ubiquitous media and, therefore, by the world at large. Like the...
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Shift to market by Venkitesh Ramakrishnan and Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashastha
The changing stances of the Planning Commission reflect the influence of the political climate. THE short note on the history of the Planning Commission on its website concludes thus: “For the first eight Plans the emphasis was on a growing public sector with massive investments in basic and heavy industries, but since the launch of the Ninth Plan in 1997, the emphasis on the public sector has become less pronounced and...
More »Chhattisgarh police search human rights activist's residence in Jaipur by Sunny Sebastian
Chhattisgarh police raided the residence of Jaipur-based human rights activist Kavita Srivastava early on Monday morning in search of a fugitive woman Maoist from that State. Ms. Srivastava, general secretary of PUCL Rajasthan, was not present at the house on Kisan Marg in Shanti Niketan Colony when men in uniform and plainclothes came looking for one Sumit Sodi. The police team, comprising commandos from Chhattisgarh and personnel of Special Task Force of...
More »‘There was only one old woman left in the village. The others were all hiding in the hills’ by V Shoba
A tiny road flanked by lush turmeric and maize fields veers off the state highway from Dharmapuri to Harur in Tamil Nadu towards Vachathi, a tribal village that has hungered for justice for nearly two decades after an irreparable tragedy destroyed its peace. Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills...
More »‘Dalits, tribal people being denied their due'
-The Hindu Speakers at a meeting convened by the Left Parties here on Saturday on SC, ST Sub-Plans said that the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in the State were still being subjected to social and government discrimination. Respecting them properly was the prerequisite to the effective implementation of the SC, ST Sub-Plans effectively, they felt. The speakers suggested booking of criminal cases against the officials who fail to spend or divert the...
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