PRAGOTI

Pragoti Editorial team member Srinivasan Ramani responds to the incident in which activists affiliated to the Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist) have vandalized a media house.

Attack on "everyday India"

The tragic deaths of victims of the terror attack at Mumbai's busiest railway station gets scarce coverage by an elite-driven media.

Fight against terrorism is one for the long haul, even as the perennially terror affected Mumbai citizens say, “Enough is Enough”.

Pragoti's Srinivasan Ramani concludes that terrorism cannot be fought without resisting the following -imperialism, curtailing of civil liberties, targeting of minorities and regional chauvinism.

Pragoti's Srinivasan Ramani writes on the terror incidents in Mumbai and the instant reactions to the same from the chattering and political classes.

The operation of subterranean racial feelings among many Americans is feared to be one of the reasons that could work against Obama, despite the resonance of his message with most Americans, who are slowly feeling the brunt of the extended financial crisis that has afflicted their economy. Srinivasan Ramani writes in The Post.

P.Sainath, journalist working for The Hindu, writes about the Race factor and how it could still prove the undoing of current favourite Barack Obama's election to the highest executive post.

Pragoti editorial team member, Srinivasan Ramani, points out that the Maoist act of the murder of Laxmananda Saraswati, for omissions/ commissions and sins of terrorising the Christian populations, has brought upon merely more misery on the very same Christian tribal population for whose "cause", the Maoists had acted upon.

Pragoti editorial team's Srinivasan Ramani contributes to our feature of film reviews with a review of Aakrosh, Govind Nihalani's debut film.

State inaction against communal elements has exacerbated an already polarised region in Orissa, Srinivasan Ramani writes. Cartoon, Courtesy The Hindu.

Just as the trust vote in India saw dramatic intrigue featuring some dubious moves that ultimately mattered in the result (the government won the vote), the presidential election in post-monarchy Nepal came about with a thrilling climax. There was equal intrigue, deceit and backstabbing, sudden friends and instant enemies made in the presidential elections story, which saw the Maoists outsmarted, just as the leftists in India were unable to stop the nuclear deal’s operationalisation.

In perhaps the darkest day in Indian parliamentary “democracy”, the UPA government used the maxim, “if not by hook, we will win by crook” to win a trust vote that was necessitated owing to the withdrawal of left support to the government.