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Massive Rally by Left Parties in Delhi Against Price Rise

Sat, 2010-03-13 13:55 — subhanil
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The Left parties held a massive rally against price rise in the capital on 12th March 2010. This rally was attended by over 1 lakh people from various parts of the country. The rally gave a call for intensifying struggles against the UPA Government's anti-people policies. The mainstream media as usual decided to give as little coverage as possible to the rally. We present here two videos of the rally from various news channels. We will soon provide more videos/reports on the rally.

Why be Afraid of Being called a ‘Feminist’?

Thu, 2010-03-11 10:48 | Prasenjit Bose
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Prasenjit Bose writes on 'Feminism' and the landmark Women's Reservation Bill, passed in the Rajya Sabha on 9th March 2010. 
“Though I am supporting the bill, I am not a feminist”: Union Railway Minister 
(Economic Times, 10th march 2010)
 

Brinda Karat's speech in the Rajya Sabha on Women's Reservation Bill

Wed, 2010-03-10 13:38 — srinir
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I really enjoyed the speech by Brinda Karat, Rajya Sabha member from the CPI(M) on the women's reservation bill. On a groundbreaking day where other legislators also spoke very well on the issue (albeit some Congress' legislators were more keen on fawning praise on the UPA's lynchpins - the PM and Sonia Gandhi). But Brinda Karat's evocative gratitude to the struggles by grassroots women's organisations was very apt. Embedded below is her speech in the Rajya Sabha (courtesy - Rajya Sabha TV). Also attached is the transcript of her speech in pdf format. 

The Economic Survey 2009-2010: A Commentary of Overall Failure

Wed, 2010-03-10 12:09 | Moinul Hassan

An article on the Economic Survey 2009-10 by Com. Moinul Hassan, Rajya Sabha member of CPI(M)

Women's Reservation Bill - Positive Change is just "this" close...

Tue, 2010-03-09 15:15 — srinir

 As I write this, 7 unruly members of parliament belonging to errant political parties - the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal in particular, have been suspended for their pathetic conduct yesterday in the Rajya Sabha. These legislators were doing their worst to prevent the Women's Reservation Bill, which now enjoys a great degree of majority support in both Houses of the Indian Parliament. This post quickly brings out some facets about the idea of quota-based representation in legislatures all across the world. 

The Congress' pusillanimity and "real" interests

Tue, 2010-03-09 01:37 — srinir
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 A blog post on the belied expectations on Women's Day today.

Papers Presented in All India Convention on Education, JNU

Fri, 2010-03-05 17:15 | SFI
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The SFI organized a two day long All India Convention on Education in JNU. In the convention, the All India leadership of SFI presented various approach papers on various aspects of education. Also, many distinguished intellectuals presented papers enumerating the anti-student policies of the government, suggesting ways for a democratization of the education sector in India. Based on these papers and discussions amongst the delegates in the Convention, a Charter of Demand was adopted, concretizing the demands for the forthcoming struggles.

Roll back of Fuel Prices - An Imperative, to arrest galloping Price Rise

Thu, 2010-03-04 10:20 | Pragoti

That food prices have broken the ceiling and have gone beyond control, is a tragedy that is affecting many sections of the Indian population today. Yet the government has only compounded the misery by increasing fuel prices as well. It is imperative that the government must roll back the hiked fuel prices and must work on a war-footing to arrest galloping inflation. A post on the issue.

‘Another victory of kisans’-Small but highly significant and meaningful

Wed, 2010-03-03 07:42 — tikender

 I used to discuss with my fellow comrades in the All India Kisan Sabha that the menace of wild animals is haunting the kisans in a considerable area and with our active intervention we have been able to get some reprieve in the sense that the government has allowed to kill wild boars and monkeys; they were not prepared to believe. A government of right reaction –how can it allow the culling of monkeys? But this is true no where in the country exists such permission. It is through the consistent efforts of the kisan sabha that the government was forced to cede to the demands and how was this argument taken up regarding monkeys being linked to the hindu mythological hero ‘Hanumana’; the kisans themselves raise a counter argument that these monkeys are not the inheritors of Hanuman but that of another character in the epic Ramayana ‘Bali’ who happened to be from the same species but was killed by Ram that too  by adopting foul methods. Hence killing of monkeys in the contemporary times is no crime. Another victory has been the permission to kill the ‘blue bulls’. Ill narrates the entire exercise!