Archive for January, 2009
timeline of events in the Strange Case of Dr Binayak Sen
Here is a bulleted timeline of events in the Strange Case of Dr Binayak Sen. Nandini Sengupta prepared it based on raw materials sent by Ilina, who then updated it further.
Thanks to Nandini & Ilina for this compilation
May 6th, 2007. Piyush Guha, a businessman, is allegedly arrested in Raipur during a random search [...]
Fog of War- Vinay Satpati
Fog of war
Vinay Sitapati
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/fog-of-war/412866/
In a speech to Congress nine days after 9/11, US President George W. Bush declared “war” on terror. It seemed as innocuous a phrase then, as it is commonplace now. But re-categorising a ‘law enforcement’ problem as ‘war’ was a game-changer in two ways. First, war demands that we rally around the [...]
THE DOCTOR WHOM THE STATE FEARS
Today Mail Today Published a feature on Dr. Binayak sen Read those articles below / Download Image.
THE DOCTOR WHOM THE STATE FEARS
By Poornima Joshi
Over 18 months after his incarceration, doctor and activist Binayak Sen is still languishing in jail without any evidence against him. Here’s why he is feared by the government.
BINAYAK SEN was [...]
Democracy and violence
Ramachandra Guha
The Hindu
Vigilantism of Salwa Judum has divided and very nearly destroyed tribal society.
All sensible humans—not just Indians—agree that there is no place for violence in the settlement of political disputes. If a particular group feels victimised or discriminated against, it has all kinds of democratic means of redress open to it—the circulation of its [...]
Did police or Salva Judum kill tribals?
D. Chandra Bhaskar Rao
The Hindu
GOLLAPALLI (Chhattisgarh): Who killed the 17 tribal youths at Singaram, a forest village of Dantewada district. And were they really the naxalites?
The Chhattisgarh police claim that they were hardcore naxalites. Dantewada SP Rahul Sarma said they were all killed in a real encounter. “It is a major breakthrough achieved by my [...]
