In June 1989, the novelist Ma Jian was among the million freedom protesters who gathered in Tiananmen Square. The brutal response shocked the world and crushed the Democracy Movement. But, he says, its spirit and aspirations live on Ma Jian The Guardian, Sunday 1… Continue Reading →
A farce of connecting the reactors to the grid was played out in Koodankulam this week to make the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh‘s meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Russia less embarrassing. But the reactor tripped within hours, highlighting… Continue Reading →
Tripti Nath , Indian journalists traveling abroad as part of media delegations with the President, Vice President and Prime Minister are notorious for their unseemly behaviour. Haggling endlessly with shopkeepers, getting into drunken brawls, complaining about food or making a… Continue Reading →
Despite growing opposition, capital punishment remains entrenched in the country’s justice system. ZI HENG LIMMAY More Suspects listen to their verdicts at a court in Kunming, Yunnan province, November 6, 2012. (Reuters)Zhang Jing has only seen her husband four times… Continue Reading →
| Aditya Chakrabortty Tian Yu worked more than 12 hours a day, six days a week. She had to skip meals to do overtime. Then she threw herself from a fourth-floor window Aditya ChakraborttyMonday 5 August 2013, The Guardian Tian Yu… Continue Reading →
Bill Weinberg A counterintuitive juxtaposition of news stories. First, in ostensibly democratic India, the country’s newest and largest nuclear power plant has just gone on line—despite years of angry protests by local peasants in Tamil Nadu state. The first unit… Continue Reading →
This is capitalism gone mad By Tim Stanley World China‘s come a long way from its Cultural Revolution days… There’s a brand new, ultra-creepy fad in China: adults drinking human breast milk – fresh from the source. According to the South China… Continue Reading →
Posted: 28/06/2013 , huffingtonpost It’s a loose comparison, but sometimes I think that people who get executed these days are like those killed right at the end of a war. Another day, another month … and they might survived. I say… Continue Reading →
MODERN India is, in many ways, a success. Its claim to be the world’s largest democracy is not hollow. Its media is vibrant and free; Indians buy more newspapers every day than any other nation. Since independence in 1947, life expectancy… Continue Reading →
Vol – XLVIII No. 23, June 08, 2013 | A K Shiva Kumar , EPW A report on the 2013 deliberation of the Kolkata Group at its 10th workshop which focused on healthcare, the status of women and social justice in India. A… Continue Reading →
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