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Prison diaries of a suspected Naxal
Sreelatha Menon
EAR TO THE GROUND
Business Standard, August 10, 2008
Ajay TG, arrested on suspicion of being a Naxalite, plans a film on those who are jailed for no reason at all.
What does a film-maker do in jail? When it is Ajay TG, the jail becomes his muse, prompting to him stories about a man spending his [...]
Book Review: Threat to State Security : Incarceration of a Public Health Practitioner
Saturday 2 August 2008, by K B Saxena
Book Review
Indian Doctor in Jail: The Story of Binayak Sen—A Report to the Nation by Doctors in Defence of Dr Binayak Sen
Publishers: Doctors in Defence of Dr Binayak Sen, Promila & CoPublishers in association with Bibliophile South Asia, New Delhi and Chicago; pages 112; price : Rs 250.
Democracies [...]
Trail of violence: rights activists at risk
Opinion – Leader Page Articles
The Hindu
Mukul Sharma
Rights activists face a series of obstacles to their work. Rights violations also have wider repercussions. They create a climate of fear.
The Karnataka convener of the National Alliance for People’s Movement, A.D. Babu, was killed recently. He was on his way, along with two colleagues, to a NAPM [...]
Sreelatha Menon: A homecoming in Bastar
Business Standard, July 20, 2008
EAR TO THE GROUND
Sreelatha Menon
The collector of Dantewada has agreed to give 10 quintals of paddy seed to restart farming in Nendra. Nendra is a village in Konta block in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh which has been lying deserted for the last three years after multiple attacks by the government-backed anti-Naxal [...]
Letting the law take its course : Gautam Sen
Goutam Sen writes in his blog Gyanoprapha
Would you say that the law is respected in a country where
the police routinely abuse the powers that they have been given, in flagrant violation of the law?
the Supreme Court’s rulings regarding the treatment of undertrials are routinely ignored by the police and the executive?
torture is so common, despite [...]
