Memorandum on demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram

MEMORANDUM GIVEN TO DANTEWADA SP RAHUL SHARMA AND THE COLLETCOR OF DANTEWADA ON DEMOLITION OF VANVASI CHETNA ASHRAM ON MAY 17 2009 BY FACTFINDING TEAM

The Vanvasi Chetna Ashram (VCA) was implementing various government schemes in the area including Mitanin health programme , watershed development, water and sanitation programme in villages and Salwa judum camps and [...]

Salwa Judum, repressive laws

Govt acquired land with gun on farmers’ head: Sen

Kartyk Venkatraman
Indian Express

Noted human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen has said most of the land in Chhattisgarh was acquired at gun-point for big industrial houses. In the packed confines of the historic Students’ Hall in College Square, Sen, released recently on bail from the Raipur Central Jail after two years, made his first public appearance [...]

Public Health, Salwa Judum

‘Naxalism Is Against The Natural Flow Of Life’

From Tehelka Cover Story “Binayak & The Tragedy Beyond”
Activist Himanshu Kumar could not be swayed by the State’s wrath. SHOMA CHAUDHURY speaks to this Gandhian

Unbent Himanshu kumar, daughters Alisha and Haripriya, wife Veena and father Prakash kumar

You have two daughters. Does that not make [...]

Public Health, Salwa Judum, articles

Death On The Margins

Tehelka Cover Story “Binayak & The Tragedy Beyond”
Far from the national gaze, the establishment practises a dangerous malevolence when confronted with its anti-people policies, reports SHOMA CHAUDHURY from Raipur and Dantewada. Photographs by SHAILENDRA PANDEY

Old threshold 2.30pm and Binayak Sen finally closes the door of his home to the [...]

Salwa Judum, repressive laws

Q&A: ‘There is no way out but struggle’

Q&A: Dr Binayak Sen, a doctor and an activist
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi May 31, 2009, 0:20 IST
Business Standard

A military solution to Naxalism is neither possible nor desirable, Dr Binayak Sen, a doctor and an activist, tells SREELATHA MENON, after his release from two years of detention.
You were teaching in New Delhi and could have [...]

Salwa Judum, articles