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A 2005 report by Nagarik Manch with extensive documentation on plant closures and demands of workers in West Bengal
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Plant Closures and Plight of Workers in Left Ruled Bengal - A Report from 2005
29 March 2006 -
Prof. Vinay Lal and Prof. Shiv Bajpai on Revisionist History in California Textbooks (audio, 20 min). Air Talk, KPCC 89.3 FM Los Angeles, Mar 1, 2006
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India: Songs Against Communalism - Act One Theater Group
by , 20 January 2006A 2 part audio tape of political songs against produced by Act One, a progressive theater group in India. The tape (in Hindustani) was put together in the early 1990s (in 1993 ?) Nearly 15 years on, these songs are still politically very relevant and have been digitised in public interest by South Asia Citizens Web (sacw.net)
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India: Outlandish and Illegal - Hindu prayers in government schools
by , 6 January 2006In may view a compulsion to sing the Saraswati Vandana would violate the fundamental rights under Article 19 (1) (a) and Article 25, not only of Muslim students but also of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain students who have a conscientious objection to idol worship. Article 25 which guarantees freedom of conscience and the right to practice religion, is in the words of the Supreme Court in Emmanuels’ case "an article of faith in the Constitution, incorporated in recognition of the principle that the real test of a true democracy is the ability of even an insignificant minority to find its identity under the country’s Constitution.
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Pakistan: Ali Amjad 1924 - 2005 [A report in Dawn)
5 January 2006KARACHI, Dec 23 [2005] : Prominent labour lawyer and veteran trade union leader Ali Amjad died here in a local hospital after a protracted illness. He was 81.
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