South Asia Citizens Wire - 10 May 2011 [Corrected]

Harsh Kapoor aiindex at gmail.com
Tue May 10 13:08:52 CDT 2011


South Asia Citizens Wire - 10 May 2011
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Bangladesh: selected labour rights stories from New Age in May 2011
India and Pakistan’s hope after Osama
Pakistan: Fishermen’s trade union activists murdered by the land mafia
India vs. China: Quality of Life (Amartya Sen in NYRB, May 12, 2011)
Nationalistic fury is good for the government, terrible for Sri Lanka
India: Unending fear and violence in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
India: The Hindu right is spreading its poison via its schools network
India - Gujarat: CJP welcomes supreme court order handing over the
investigation and appraisal of the evidence to the amicus curaie
Pakistan - India: Caging hawks post-Osama
India: Revoke the illegal clearance to the POSCO project
India: Madhu Limaye on What is the RSS?
India: Clearance to POSCO will do irreversible social and environmental damage
India: Fear Over Delhi University: Freedom and Education Besieged
Indian Godmen and the sacred complex

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Bangladesh: selected labour rights stories from New Age in May 2011
cases pending in labour courts ; hellish conditions of re-rolling
mills; Inspection of Factories; Minimum wages
http://www.sacw.net/article2065.html

India and Pakistan’s hope after Osama
Bin Laden’s demise may mark a turning point in the relationship
between India and Pakistan
http://www.sacw.net/article2064.html

Pakistan: Fishermen’s trade union activists murdered by the land mafia
The land mafia is jeopardising precious Mangrove forests on Karachi’s
coast. Influential locals enjoyed the support of the land mafia and
government functionaries occupied a wide area of beaches for
commercial purposes. The land mafia group headed by Haji Younis, his
son Zulfiqar Younis along (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2062.html

Quality of Life: India vs. China (Amartya Sen in NYRB, May 12, 2011)
Comparing India with China according to such standards can be more
useful for policy discussions in India than confining the comparison
to GNP growth rates only. Those who are fearful that India’s growth
performance would suffer if it paid more attention to “social
objectives” such as education (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2060.html

Nationalistic fury is good for the government, terrible for Sri Lanka
IN RECENT years the default mode for Sri Lankan diplomats has been a
posture of affronted national dignity beneath a mask of outraged,
sanctimonious innocence. Though perceived foreign slights may enhance
the government’s standing at home, it is there that the concealment of
the truth about the (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2059.html

Unending fear and violence in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
Caught between the Maoists, the security forces and the civilian
vigilante groups, the communities of Dantewada have for all purposes
been abandoned by the State developmental machinery…
http://www.sacw.net/article2058.html

India: The Hindu right is spreading its poison via its schools network
It is well known that the Sangh parivar has been trying to establish
itself in the tribal areas for a long while. But, the pace at which it
is growing has become phenomenal. Sangh’s main propaganda and
‘service’ vehicle – the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) – offers some
startling figures in terms of (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2057.html

Gujarat: CJP welcomes supreme court order handing over the
investigation and appraisal of the evidence to the amicus curaie
The Citizens Justice and Peace (CJP), co-petitioner in SLP
1088/2008—Zakia Ahsan Jafri and CJP v/s state of Gujarat—welcomes the
order of the Supreme Court handing over the investigation and
appraisal of the evidence in this crucial criminal investigation to
the amicus curaie, Shri Raju (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2056.html

Caging hawks post-Osama
Who let the Hawks out in India? The American SEALS, of course. They
took wing after the Hollywood-like finish with which the American
Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) forces rubbed out Osama bin Laden. This
spectacular event also converted some of our defence experts into
scriptwriters. What Indian hawks (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2054.html

Revoke the illegal clearance to the POSCO project
The ‘final forest clearance’ by the MoEF to the controversial POSCO
project in Orissa on 2 May 2011, is a shocking assault on Indian
democracy. It makes it clear that all talk of ‘inclusive democracy’
and ‘inclusive development’ by the government is a sham, to be
abandoned whenever politically (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2053.html

Madhu Limaye: What is the RSS?
The late Indian parliamentarian Madhu Limaye on ’RSS’ the key
organisation of the Hindu far right in India
http://www.sacw.net/article2051.html

India: Clearance to POSCO will do irreversible social and environmental damage
In a travesty of the well-honed science of environmental decision
making, the single largest steel-power-port-township and potentially
mega mining project ever conceived in the history of India, and also
the largest industrial project conceived in recent decades world wide,
has now got the push (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2050.html

Fear Over Delhi University: Freedom and Education Besieged
2049
The Delhi University (DU), with its 70+ constituent colleges, 400,000
students and 8000+ teachers, is in the throes of an unprecedented
crisis. The DU Administration, after having adamantly refused
meaningful dialogue with teachers and students regarding its
unilateral drive to hurriedly and (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2049.html

Indian Godmen and the sacred complex
Our sacred complex in India demands a scrutiny much like the military
industrial complex in USA. The sacred complex constitutes the fourth
estate far more powerful than the media or the NGOs.
http://www.sacw.net/article2046.html

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