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PRESS RELEASE – We Remember, We Resist! Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day #Kunanposhpora

Support Group for Justice for Kunan Poshpora Survivors We Remember, We Resist! Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day Press Release 23 February 2014 In the last 66 years of Indian rule, women of Jammu and Kashmir have been subjected to structural and… Continue Reading →

Exposing the Christian Right’s New Strategy for Reversing Progress on Gay Rights

AlterNet / By CJ Werleman   The GOP has introduced bills to grant zealots the right to the segregate their businesses against LGBT Americans. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Cheryl Casey February 21, 2014  | With LGBT rights activists winning court victories in state after state, the… Continue Reading →

Read Compelling Stories of Shameful Treatment of Fukushima Victims

Greenpeace | February 22, 2014 By Brian Blomme When most of us think of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster we think about leaks of contaminated water, criminal gangs hiring ill-trained workers to work on cleaning up radioactive materials on the site, ice-dams to stop water flowing, or… Continue Reading →

#India – Suicide and Malnutrition among weavers in Varanasi #healthcare

BENARASI DEATH NET Sunday, 23 February 2014 | Biswajeet Banerjee | in Sunday Pioneer A cluster of villages engaged in weaving the exquisite Benarasi sarees is in the midst of a serious health crisis. More than 1 lakh people from this… Continue Reading →

#Sundayreading – Nationalising losses – pushing through of private infrastructure projects

, Jayati Ghosh PAUL NORONHAA view of the lakeside apartments of the Lavasa Hill City project. Even after many legal violations in the project came to light, banks approved Rs.600 crore more for work on its second phase. The pushing… Continue Reading →

#India – What about Aam Aurat ? #AAP #Womenrights

V. SUDERSHANKumar Vishwas, AAP leader. Feb 17, 2014 at 01:52 IST. Jayati Ghosh   The support for the AAP has given way to wariness following evidence of patriarchal attitudes to women among the party’s leaders. IN Indian politics, a month… Continue Reading →

Haryana – Report on recent workers strikes at Asti and Baxter factories, Manesar

Representational image February 21, 2014  by Nayan A day after Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, doled out grounds for further cheer for Auto Company bosses in the interim budget, all the workers at auto parts electronics factory, Asti Electronics India… Continue Reading →

After Farmers Commit Suicide, Debts Fall on Families in India

By ELLEN BARRYFEB. 22, 2014, NYT   VIEW SLIDE SHOW|11 Photos India’s small farmers, once the country’s economic backbone and most reliable vote bank, are increasingly being left behind. With global competition and rising costs cutting into their lean profits, their… Continue Reading →

Why is the media silent about the new book on Mata Amritanandamayi?

by G Pramod Kumar Feb 21, 2014 , Firstpost Image: Amritapuri.org Kerala’s biggest spiritual discovery – the hugging saint Mata Amritanandamayi – and her establishment could have been at the centre of a messy controversy, if the state’s media had… Continue Reading →

#Sundayreading – Evolution of the Mumbai underground: gunrunning to realty

Presley Thomas , Hindustan Times February 23, 2014  In January this year, police officers monitoring a murder case stumbled upon a gangster’s phone conversation. He was sorting out a family dispute over a multi-crore property in the central suburbs. His intervention… Continue Reading →

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