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Invitation –The Magic Tricks of Petrol Price Hike-June 2

  Invitation Seminar: The Magic Tricks of Petrol Price Hike The government has raised the price of petrol once again, this time  by a whopping Rs. 7.50 per litre. This is the sixteenth time petrol prices have been raised in… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra amends RTI rules without public consultation

The hushed amendment, which restricts the length of applications to 150 words, has left civil society miffed Shonali Ghosal New Delhi A notification dated 16 January, restricts both the number of subject matter and words in an application such that… Continue Reading →

Countrywide Day Long Solidarity Hunger Strike and other protest actions in Solidarity with People of Kudankulam

The state government of Tamil Nadu has finally succumbed to pressure by the Central government and decided to commission the operation of the two Russian built nuclear reactors in Koodankulam, in south Tamil Nadu. In protest against this government decision,… Continue Reading →

A democracy that sleeps

Suprateek Chatterjee, Hindustan Times, March 03, 2012 Exactly two months after alleged Maoist Arun Ferreira was granted bail, post a widely criticised four-year-long incarceration, comes playwright Ramu Ramanthan’s politically-charged play Comrade Kumbhakarna. The Hindi play, inspired by the 2007 arrests… Continue Reading →

FTII’s only entry withdraws from Vedanta’s Creating happiness

 Kracktivism works, After my first open letter  Shyam Benegal withdrew  from the jury of the Creating Happiness film competition  on Feb 23 , and Gul Panag whow as also on Jury  had pulled out on Feb 12th, leaving just Mr Piyush Pandey on… Continue Reading →

Girish Sant – an Obituary

(January 23, 1966 to February 2, 2012) Girish Sant was born in Thane in 1966. He was an alumnus of IIT, Bombay. Girish did his B.Tech. in Chemical Engingeering in 1986. While doing B.Tech. Girish became interested in energy issues… Continue Reading →

Documentary on Kashmir secretly screened at Presidency

  Ananya Dutta, 9th FEb 2012, The  Hindu In a dark anteroom of the Presidency University canteen here, a handful of students huddled around a screen on Wednesday watching Jashn-e-Azadi, Sanjay Kak‘s 2007 documentary on Kashmir that was not allowed… Continue Reading →

Sexier still: Osho bosses move on from free sex to free land

By Abhay Vaidya 7th feb, 2012,Pune: Even 22 years after his death, spiritual mystic Osho, or Bhagwan Rajneesh, continues to spark controversy. This time, the issue is not sex, which always shadowed his name, but something even sexier: the fate… Continue Reading →

Censorship at Symbiosis: See no Kashmir, hear no Kashmir, speak no Kashmir

By Shivam Vij For the past four years, a handful of Kashmiri Pandits and right-wing activists have shut down numerous screenings of Sanjay Kak’s Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom (2007). The most recent cancellation by Symbiosis College of Arts and… Continue Reading →

Satara: Dalit woman stripped, beaten

Exactly a month ago, her son left their village home saying he had found a job in Pune. After that she never heard from him. The only thing this 45-year-old Dalit woman heard was taunts and blame from villagers who… Continue Reading →

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