Archive for May, 2008
Appeal for Doctors to serve survivors of Jaipur blasts
Can you be “on call” for our sisters and brothers in Jaipur?
If so, please provide your name, specialisation, and location. Here is a message from our friends working in Jaipur:
Currently there is no need for any doctors to come to Jaipur as many have come from all over Rajasthan.
However in the coming weeks there will [...]
Murder of Lalit Mehta in Palamau: Aimless crime or planned intimidation?
The following letter about the murder of a social activist, Lait Mehta who blew the whistle on corruption in NREG. Like Satayendra Dubey and Manjunath, Lalit Mehta had to sacrifice his life for exposing corruption in public funds. Lalit was part of the Right to Food campaign of which Binayak also was a [...]
Bastar among India’s 10 most backward districts
IANS
Raipur, May 21 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s worst insurgency-hit tribal dominated Bastar and Dantewada districts are among the 10 most backward districts of the country, said a report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The CSE, a Delhi-based environmental organisation, in a 365-page report released Tuesday evening here, said “the iron-ore bearing districts of [...]
Respect Civil Rights : Times of India Editorial
22 May 2008, 0259 hrs IST
The Times of India Editorial
The detention of Binayak Sen, a respected doctor and civil rights activist, by the Chhattisgarh government is a blot on our democracy. The Chhattisgarh police arrested him a year ago under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005 on charges of aiding Maoists.
The police have charged [...]
Shift the terror paradigm
22 May, 2008, 0000 hrs IST, TNN
The Economic Times Editorial
The dominant discourse on terrorism in India is bogged down by details of instrumentalities. The responses the Jaipur blasts have evoked indicate that. None of those responses — whether it is the PM’s stress on the need for a new federal agency, or the Chief [...]
