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  • The Auction - a film by Zakir Hossain

    10 January 2008

    It’s a dramatisation about a British bengali girl who goes to Bangladesh on holiday and is auctioned and forced into marriage by her father and uncle ... .

  • Kashmir: Will The Pain Never End?

    10 January 2008

    Most Indians believe today that Kashmir is no longer a problem.
    In the imagery of our Press, the back of militancy (a beast) is
    broken, Pakistan (an unnatural excrescence) is cut to size, and the
    US (the only bully in town) is with us. This view celebrates political
    realism of a particularly cynical variety, but then that is not new:
    even otherwise sensitive Indians have generally had a cynical way
    of looking at Kashmir: that it is a game of power that abides no
    principles. The only difference is that Indian cynicism on Kashmir
    has now found a matching international ambience. But most Indians
    would not find it funny let alone true to be told that we have the Al
    Qaeda to thank for this.
    This cynicism makes the task of the Indian State that much more
    easy in Kashmir, for the vigilant public opinion that it has to contend
    with – or so we fondly think - in other matters is absent here, excepting
    Kashmiri public opinion, which the very cooperative Indian media –
    the exceptions are very few - will not take beyond the Banihal pass.
    This convenience for India’s establishment has many victims,
    from abstract things like justice to concrete things such as human
    lives. But its direct victims are the people of Kashmir - their liberty,
    their lives and their dignity.

  • India: The State Has No Religion

    by HRLN, 7 January 2008
    This poster throws light on the secular fabric of the Constitution of India. Besides shattering myths about minority communities it educates us on the Freedom Of Religion as guaranteed under Article 25 of the Constitution, various Acts such as The Places Of Worship (Special Provisions) Act Of 1991, relevant sections of the Indian Penal code and the word of the Constitution among other things for religious and educational institutions and on offences against religion. It is a useful resource  (...)

  • Professor Patnaik and the Aftermath of Nandigram

    by Dilip Simeon, 18 December 2007
    18 December 2007

  • The Left: Rethink or Perish

    by Praful Bidwai, 9 December 2007

    The Indian Left has in a single year managed to do through its own actions what all its opponents could not accomplish over eight long decades: namely, damage its credibility as a force which speaks for the underprivileged, the excluded and the wretched of the Indian earth, and which upholds the values and practices of inclusive democracy. This is starkly evident in the two major states where it rules: West Bengal, and to a lesser extent, Kerala.

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