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Cabinet Protects Foreign Nuclear Suppliers

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True to his credentials as an obsessively US-friendly Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh presided over his Cabinet on August 20 and approved the final draft of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010, with substantial modifications and additions to allow the US nuclear reactor suppliers a liability-free regime for their Indian sales and operations. In doing this, the Cabinet ignored the saner recommendations of national experts, given through their depositions before the Parliamentary Committee on Science & Technology, to help formulate an India-centric liability legislation. 

On the US Decision of Withdrawing Combat Troops from Iraq

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 The war which was started on fictitious evidence of Iraq possessing Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) destroyed the life of ordinary Iraqi. Even going by the official figures in last seven years of American occupation some 70,000 Iraqis are killed. The secular fabric of Iraqi society was purposely smashed which resulted into ethnic conflicts and presently it is the hurdle for peace and tranquillity.
 
 
 
 
 

Minority Development in West Bengal: A Left Perspective

In recent times there has been series of discussions regarding the socio economic conditions of the Indian minorities and their development and it is a welcome shift

 

The Paradox of Thrift and the US Economy

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 A short note on the concept of Paradox of Thrift and its misunderstandings in the context of the US economy. This is a slightly technical piece, but I thought it was still worth putting down as a blog entry. (Teaser Image courtesy, Salon.com)

The Sacred Cow

The concept of ''infrastructure'' itself, has a class dimension.

Images and Politics in Peepli Live

"Peepli Live can be accused of the same crime that it accuses the media of – just scratching the surface of all issues it could in an hour and a half without really trying to push the envelope of discourse on any front, neither the role of media, nor agrarian crisis or indeed the crisis of Indian politics itself", says Tejal Kanitkar in a review of the movie in this post.

Illegal Mining and The Politics of Corporate Neo-liberalism

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As the Government of India cancels the environmental clearances to the Vedanta project in the Niyamgiri hills, the role of corporate politics in the country is becoming the focus of the debate.

 

16 August 2010- A Tribute to Narayan Surve

A poetic tribute to the revolutionary Marathi poet Narayan Surve by Pallavi Chavan. The poem, originally composed in Marathi, has also been translated in English by the poet. Both the versions are included in the post below.

A note on the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster - Part 2

[ Editor's note:  This is the second article in an in-depth 3 part series (Part 1, Part 3) on the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster by the noted activist N.D. Jayaprakash. The author is the Joint Secretary of the Delhi Science Forum and Co-Convenor of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti. ]

A note on the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster - Part 1





[ Editor's note:  Pragoti is pleased to publish an in-depth 3 part series (Part 2, Part 3) on the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster by the noted activist N.D. Jayaprakash. The author is the Joint Secretary of the Delhi Science Forum and Co-Convenor of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti, a survivor's organization. ]