Archive for May, 2009
Manmohan Singh, Bofors and Binayak!!!
By Anand Teltumbde
04 May, 2009
Countercurrents.org
On May 2, Dr. Man Mohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India came out in defence of the CBI’s decision to withdraw a 12 year old Red Corner Notice to Interpol against Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofor case. On 28 April, in the midst of general election and when barely three [...]
Binayak’s Special Leave Petition admitted by Supreme Court!
New Delhi, 4 May 2009: In a very positive development the Supreme Court of India today admitted the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Dr Binayak Sen for consideration of his bail application and agreed to issue notice to the Government of Chhattisgarh to respond in two weeks time.
At the start of the hearing Justices [...]
Chhattisgarh gets notice over Binayak Sen’s bail plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Chhattisgarh government on a bail plea by rights activist Binayak Sen, held in a Raipur jail on charges of subversion and waging war against the state.
While issuing notice to the state government, a bench of Justice D.K. Jain and B.S. Reddy also asked it to [...]
Quashing the voiceless with state ruthlessness
Patricia Mukhim
North East page
The Statesman
IT is an insane system that puts behind bars a medical doctor whose heart is with the most impoverished sections of Indian society. It is two years since Dr Binayak Sen, the internationally renowned medical doctor and human rights activist has been jailed. He will complete two years on 14 May [...]
Songs of sympathy, 1
Annie Zaidi
Last night I cried in a movie
You cry, if that’s all you can do
Last week I stopped reading a book
It hurt too much to see it through
There’s bitterness there’s misery
Things going wrong in my homeland
I fret but I don’t do much more
It is not easy to take a stand
Besides, there are consequences
To building worlds [...]
