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India’s Cash Transfers for the Poor Face Early Hurdles #UID #Aadhaar

      By AMOL SHARMA   DOHAKATU, India—Officials in this impoverished eastern Indian village have a message for local residents: the government wants to give you a bank account and plop money in it—now.   India is embarking on… Continue Reading →

#India- Let’s Have a National Debate on the Ambitious Nuclear Program

People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) December 12, 2012 Idinthakarai & P. O. 627 104 Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu Phone: 98656 83735; 98421 54073 [email protected] The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) calls for a national debate on the Indian… Continue Reading →

On The Death Of Bal Thackeray And The Grief Of Athavale

By Dr Anand Teltumbde 05 December, 2012 Countercurrents.org Ramdas Athawale, who had left all the dealers of Dalit interests in Maharashtra far behind when he managed to sublimate himself straight from a dingy room in the Siddharth Vihar in Wadala… Continue Reading →

Stand by your man- Bhatt vs Modi mirror of Gender relations

Stand by your man Monobina Gupta , TNN 03 December 2012, 11:12 PM IST You may expect Shweta Bhatt, the valiant wife of the police officer Sanjiv Bhatt, to break into ‘Stand by your man’, a popular 60s’ country song. The… Continue Reading →

Background of Alternative Politics in Orissa/Odisha

  ~ Prafulla Samantra & Rabi Das, Nov 2012   In the first decade in Independent India idealism, service and sacrifice had its impact on politics, which resulted in the process of nation building and strengthening the democratic institutions. The process… Continue Reading →

Rajasthan- In Kotkasim, sarpanches want ‘ DIRECT CASH TRANSFERS “scheme scrapped

Cong hopes to fill poll bank with cash schemeParty to focus on big-ticket states, including Rajasthan Diptosh Majumdar New Delhi, Dec2,2012, DNA   There is a game-plan within a game-plan. As meetings are held daily in the suddenly hyperactive Prime… Continue Reading →

Gujarat’s Dalits: Nobody’s babies even in election time

Last Updated: Saturday, November 24, 2012, 14:00, zeenews   Ahmedabad: As the poll battle intensifies in Gujarat, the tussle is on for support of the Dalit community, perceived to have moved from the Congress to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party… Continue Reading →

Mining in rat holes, and a Meghalayan policy

Photo: Shailendra Pandey Tehelka Blog, Nov 12, 2012 It is said that Meghalaya has a history of no less the 80 years of unregulated and unscientific mining of natural resources, mostly coal and limestone. Due to customary tribal laws and… Continue Reading →

I am not LEFT, I am not RIGHT… I am not HINDU, I am not MUSLIM… I am just a Journalist.

My Case: Let the Jury decide By Syed Hassan Kazim in http://kindlemag.in 2012-08-30 This time I am not going to write about any particular incident and events surrounding it. Because in a journalist’s life, there comes a time when he has to… Continue Reading →

The Gangs of Lootpur much ahead of Gangs of Wasseypur

    How corruption in coal is closely linked to political funding M Rajshekhar, ET Bureau (The rise in corruption in…) It was a roundtable on ‘campaign finance reforms in India‘, but it brought up a mathematical equation that showed… Continue Reading →

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