Hardial Bains
Miscellaneous Political Analysis
Arundhati Roy
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Siddharth Varadarajan
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Punjabi Language
Pakistan
Indo-Pak relations
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Protecting the environment
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The politics of Water
Ghadar Movement
150th Anniversary of the 1st Indian War of Independence (Articles written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels)
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Britain and Europe
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Greece
Russia
Nepal and Burma
South East Asia
Canada
USA
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South America
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Trade Unions
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Indian state's war on people and human rights
- Tehelka, Jhatka and now Tamasha (Satya Sagar)
- Former Tehelka journalist speaks out
- 1984 and the Spectre of Narendra Modi (Ravinder Kaur)
- The Terrible Cost of an Inhuman Counter-Insurgency
- Repeal The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958
Petition by North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC)
- Yet another doctored riot (Harsh Mander)
- For a moratorium on death sentence (V. Venkatesan)
- It is multiorgan failure of society, state (Mohammad Ali)
- In Memory of the Unknown Citizen (Shuddhabrata Sengupta)
- Justified Anger Of The People Cannot Be Put Down By Force! (Raghavan Srinivasan)
- Attack On Dalits Of Dharmapuri: A Fact Finding Report (Dr Anand Teltumbde)
- Government Inaction on Irom Sharmila's Fast Is An Affront To Democracy
- Qateel Siddiqi Killed In Judicial Custody
- Targeting Innocents: State And Human Rights Of Minorities (Ram Puniyani)
- Resist The Silent Emergency!
Call For Action On June 26th, 2012
- Terrorism In India: Between Facts And Fiction (Imran Khan)
- Miscarriage Of Justice (Vidya Bhushan Rawat)
- Open Letter To P Chidambaram By Concerned Citizens
- The many twists and turns of 27 Feb 2002 (Vidya Subrabmaniam)
- In absolving Modi, SIT mixes up Godhra and post-Godhra perpetrators (Vidya Subrabmaniam)
- Withdraw False Charges Against Kabir Kala Manch
- West Bengal: Increasing Political Prisoners (Ranjit Sur)
- Pathribal Fake Encounter Case Judgement: Indictment Sans Justice (Abdul Majid Zargar)
- Why Balwant Singh Rajoana shouldn't be hanged -Yug Mohit Chaudhry
- Coming Downhill From Kashipur (Deba Ranjan)
- Rights Of The Indian People In Danger - Appeal for support by Peoples' Solidarity Concerns (Bangalore)
- PUDR Denounces State Suppression Of Democratic Organizations In The Name Of Maoism
- Police firing in Gopalgarh: Unanswered Questions
- Call The Pathologist: The torture of Soni Sori is worse than what the Raj ever inflicted (Neelabh Mishra)
- Statement Against the Torture and Politically Motivated Arrest of Soni Sori
- Torture in India 2011
14,231 Persons Died In police And Judicial Custody in India From 2001 To 2010 - Asian Centre for Human Rights
- Public Hearing On Atrocities On Adivasis And Dalits In Western Rajasthan(Bhanwar Megwanshi)
- Mass Graves in Kashmir - Press Statement by PUCL and PUDR
- Kishanji: Not Just Another ‘Martyr’ (Saroj Giri)
- Orissa: Brutalities Cannot Be Forgotten (Deba Ranjan)
- Prisoner of Conscience Kopa Kunjam Should Be Freed Immediately and Unconditionally
- West Bengal: Encounter Deaths or Cold Blooded Murders? (Ranjit Sur)
- Do We Have Democratic Rights? (Gladson Dungdung)
- Salwa Judum-SPO Judgement Hurts. Why? (Sadanand Patwardhan)
- Supreme Court Order on Salwa Judum (July 11)
- Full text of Supreme Court Order - Part 1 Part 2
- Repeal AFSPA, Free Sharmila - A Call for Nationwide Protest by National Alliance of People’s Movements and National Fish workers’ Federation
- Fact Finding Report On Police Brutalities In Odisha
- Letter To World Health Organisation On Binayak Sen on World TB Day by Health professionals and organisations
- Not To Question Why (Ramachandra Guha)
- A Critique Of Binayak Sen’s Judgment
- Dr Binayak Sen’s Conviction And Life Sentence Mock Justice - Amnesty International Press Release
- A Miscarriage Of Justice - Statement by PUCL
Background – from the archives May 2008
- Wikileaks discloses Indian government condoned ‘rampant use of torture’ in Jammu and Kashmir and the North East: PUDR statement
- The Bloody Streets Of Kashmir Have Spoken by Prakash Kona
- From the Killing Fields of Kashmir to the Finishing Line (By Gautam Navlakha)
- The Ayodhya Verdict: A Blow To the Spirit Of Modern India
- ASI is the handmaiden of Hindutva
- Video - conference on the Indian state's War on People (organised by the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights)
- Condemn illegal detention of democratic rights activists in Punjab
Press Statement by People’s Union For Democratic Rights
- Democratic Front against Operation Green Hunt, Punjab holds Massive Convention at Jalandhar
- The Operation NGO Hunt In Jharkhand (Gladson Dungdung)
- Fact Sheet on Operation Green Hunt (Campaign Against war on People)
- Release Anthony Shing Immediately and Unconditionally!
- Look Who’s Talking To Whom: FBI And Delhi Police Special Cell - Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association statement
- The Right To Think
Even more fundamental than the right of free expression is the right to think. (Noam Chomsky - Lecture at the Istanbul Conference on Freedom of Speech)
- “Media Subdues The Public. It’s So In India, Certainly” Outlook Interview with Noam Chomsky
- Faking An Encounter, Killing the Peace Process
Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey
- Condemn attempt to justify the murder Of Hem Chandra Pandey (PUDR Press release)
- Cold blooded murders by the state in fake encounters - murder of Chemkuri Azad Rajkumar, a leading member of CPI(Maoist) by Andhra police after his arrest (statement by CPI(Maoist)
- A Last Note To A Neo-Colonialist Reply to B.G. Verghese’s article in Outlook written by Chemkuri Azad Rajkumar, the CPI (Maoist) spokesperson before his murder.
- Death By An Inch... Lies By The Mile
Azad's post- mortem reveals cold-blooded murder
- Press Release on increasing denial of civil rights on 35th Anniversary of Emergency (New Delhi)
- The Trophies Of Operation Green HuntWhen rape is routine and there’s a paucity of condemning voices
- Statement against Government of India’s planned military offensive in adivasi-populated regions
- 1984: Who are the Guilty? The report of a joint inquiry into the causes and impact of the riots in Delhi from 31 October to 10 November 1984 which blew the lid off the role Congress leaders played in the anti-Sikh massacres...(more)
- Citizens' panel warns of civil war in Chhattisgarh
- Protester begins tenth year of hunger strike over Indian Army Act
- International Day of Action to Free Binayak Sen and Demand Repeal of Black Laws
- AIPSG condemns the use of massacre and war as tools of politics and diplomacy in South Asia
- Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Punjab on International Human Rights Day
- PUNJAB POLICE: Fabricating Terrorism through Illegal Detention and Torture ENSAAF Report released (download complete report)
- All India Conference on Rights charts course for defence and realisation of rights of all Indians
- Should capital punishment be scrapped
- Press Statement by Association of Families of the Disappeared in Punjab
- 20 years after the November 84 massacre of people of the Sikh faith
- The Massacre of November 1984 Shall Never be Forgotten! and State Terror Unleashed on the People's Movement in Nauhar, Rajasthan
- Previous commisssions and committees of enquiry into the Delhi massacres
- Nanavati Commission Report
- Police terror at Nauagarhi, P.S. Mufassil, Distt Munger since 17th August 2004 - report of Bihar PUCL
- Repeal Armed Forces Act: official panel
- Unite against the communal violence and fascist terror! Form People's Defence Committees to fight communal violence!
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Literature and media
The economy, poverty and corruption
- Devinder Sharma
- The Great Indian Gene Bazaar (Devinder Sharma)
- A Hungry Nation Exports Food (Devinder Sharma)
- India's Shameful Paradox Of Plenty (Devinder Sharma)
- Allowing Retail FDI In India: Lies, Lies And Damn Lies (Devinder Sharma)
- Hunger For More or More For Hunger? (Devinder Sharma )
- Politics Around Farmer Suicides. To Whose Benefit? (Devinder Sharma)
- Obama’s Visit: US Merchants Eyeing Indian Agriculture (Devinder Sharma)
- Onion Crisis Was Stage Managed (Devinder Sharma)
- Special Economic Zones - The Creation of New Maharajas(by Devinder Sharma)
- Punjab's Agriculture Is Full Of Misery (Devinder sharma)
- Stop Perpetuating ‘Forced Labour’
-Demand to Government of India and State Governments
- Who owns India’s natural resources - Community or Government? (S.R.Hiremath)
- Monsanto Takes Over Agriculture Of Semi-Arid Rajasthan
- The Second Green Revolution: A Blue-Print to Control India’s Agriculture
- Vedanta
Not Only Niyamgiri: Stop Resource-Grab Everywhere!
Whose Development Is It, Anyway? - by Kobad Ghandy
- Tales of eviction in Bengal
- The life and death of a mad Bhopali
- Report on the Brutal State Violence Against Farmers in Dadri, U.P.
- Book review: The Spy Princess by Shrabani Basu
- Text of UPA's Common Minimum Programme
- A citizens' audit of education
- National Convention of Nomads and Adivasis
- Does this money grow on trees? – Public Funding of Private Pockets (by Himanshu Upadhyaya)
- Cartels fleece India in defence deals
- The Mania for "Mega Mergers" Is the Drive for Domination and War
- Naidu, but with another name!
- What Is Meant by the Knowledge-Based Economy
- Maharashtra; Tale of two villages (Jaideep Hardikar)
- Lives strangulated by needle and thread
- The unbearable lightness of seeing (Mumbai's demolitions of tens of thousands of the homes of slum-dwellers)
- Importing a farming crisis
India is unilaterally opening its doors to imports of wheat. A step that will result in serious consequences.
- Transplanting failure
- Creative solutions, sarkari -style
- A thin Indian line
The first step towards eradicating poverty is to understand just how many of us are poor, and what that means.
- Counting people, discounting their worth
- Village for Sale: Agrarian Crisis Taking Grotesque Turn (by N Talwar)
Indian news agencies report that, six entire villages in Punjab have been put up for sale.
- Look to helpline, land in jail
Those turning to the Government 'helpline' in Mahbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh, learn the hard way what happens when the little farmer of the countryside runs into the large apparatus of the state.
- Kin of indebted farmers finally get to speak at
People's Tribunal on suicides in Punjab
- Where India 'shining' meets great depression
- Covering the Republic of Hunger
- Global leadership, empty stomachs
- The plight of cotton farmers in Maharashtra
- Fields of conflict over US cotton (James Westhead)
- Falling farm incomes, growing inequities
- Farm Subsidies: The Report Card by Devinder Sharma
- Get Over The GDP-FDI obsession (Prashant Bhushan)
- Farm subsidies - Ahluwalia echoes World Bank's line
- Why their kids are dying (Deaths of tribal children in Maharashtra by T Jahnavi)
- Crippling delivery to the disabled The conditions of people with disabilities in India by Himanshu Upadhyaya
Education
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Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan
- The illegality, illegitimacy and immorality of U.S. drone strikes (Larry Everest)
- Madiba Is Gone; The Struggle Continues
- Biography of Nelson Mandela
- The British Government Must Cease all Interference
in Syria and End its Disinformation
- President Al-Assad Interview with teleSUR TV: “US Policy Has Been Based on Lies Since the Beginning”
- Convenient Myths And Liberal Imperialism (John Pilger)
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush, Blair Should Face Trial At The Hague
- Egypt told to give military leaders 'safe exit' by western governments (Jack Shenker)
- Libya: The Defence of the Indefensible – Assassination and State Terrorism
- In Libya, Britain has slid into every interventionist fallacy (Simon Jenkins)
- US, UK Plot Libya War Escalation by Bill Van Auken
- The Link Between War And Big Finance By Kevin Zeese
- Arab League Now Distances Itself from the Airstrikes by Sandra Smith
- Empire's New "Democratic" Plan For The Middle East By Behzad Majdian
- Behind the Arab Revolt is a word we dare not speak (by John Pilger)
- Libya is united in popular revolution – please don't intervene ....the blood of Libya's dead will be wasted if the west curses uprising with intervention
- No Intervention in Libya! Anglo-US Imperialism Out of North Africa and the Middle East!
- Oceans Of Blood And Profits For The Mongers Of War (Robert Fisk)
- Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia
- Condemn the Criminal Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla!
- Support the Palestinian People!
- Desperate Attempt to Declare Palestinian Right of Return, Right to Self-Defence and Nationhood Illegal (Sandra L. Smith)
- Palestine: To Blame the Victims for This Killing Spree Defies both Morality and Sense (Seumas Milne)
- "It never happened..." (John Pilger)
- Imprisoning a Whole Nation (John Pilger)
- Palestinian Resistance Cuts the Gordian Knot (CPCM-L)
- Tony Blair and the Middle East
- Tony Blair: The Quartet's "Peace Envoy" – Discredited, Deluded, Disgraced (Felicity Arbuthnot)
- Death Verdict for Saddam Hussein and the Imperial Politics of Assassination
• Death Verdict for Saddam Hussein and the Imperial Politics of Assassination (TML)
• Letter to Iraqi People from Saddam Hussein
• Statement of Saddam Hussein's Defense Lawyers
• Victor's Justice - Paul Wolf, Lawyer on Defense Team
• Court Set Up by an Illegal Occupying Power - Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, International Committee for the Defence of President Saddam Hussein
• Saddam Hussein Trial and Death Sentence Are Illegal - Brussels Tribunal
• Proceedings and Death Verdict Against Saddam Hussein by a Puppet Court Are Illegal, Unfair, and Invalid - Prof. Jose Maria Sison, International League of Peoples' Struggle
- Five Years of Phantom Plots (by Jim Brann)
- Anti -war demonstration in England
- Condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon
- Militant Demonstrations World-Wide Condemn US-Zionist State Terror
- Defending Lebanese Sovereignty - Ali Fayyad, Senior Member, Executive Committee of Hezbollah, July 25
- Al-Jazeera Interview with
Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah
- No to Israeli War Crimes!
Demand an end the occupation of Gaza
- "Recognise the Centrality of the Palestine Question": An Interview with George Galloway
- The G8 Summit: a fraud and a circus (by John Pilger)
- The Role of the Media in the "War against Terrorism"
- News from Behind The Facade - by John Pilger
- Condemn the Lawlessness and Violation of Justice of the US and Britain
- Lord Steyn and the Rule of Law:
- War Crimes and Lawlessness on a Truly Grand Scale
- Art, Truth & Politics by Harold Pinter
- Tony Benn's interview of Saddam Hussein
- Tony Blair's Justifications for War on Iraq Do Not Wash
- ‘Enemy combatants': Age is not a determining factor
- "Words Mean What They Say": Who Is Threatening War and the Use of Force?
- American troops view Iraqis as sub-humans
- Mounting opposition to US war against Iraq
- The People's Anti-War Movement Must Keep Its Bearings
- Raise your voice against the unjust imperialist war being waged by the USA against the people of Afghanistan!
- Condemn the criminal genocidal assault on Falluja.
- Torture and the Future (by Lisa Hajjar)
- Falluja - A report by Jo Wilding
- War lords try to ‘shut up' critics - Robert Fisk
- Condemn US-British War Crimes in Iraq End the Occupation!
- Militant Demonstration against War Crimes and Torture in Iraq held in London
- Message from Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg, to the Stop the War Coalition Rally
- Yasser Arafat - Eh Din statement
Attacks against Islam
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Iran
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