New Socialist Movement

JAN SANGHARSH MANCH
104, Maharanapratap Complex, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad- 380006.
Dated: 14.11.2008
 
To,
The Director General of Police,
State of Gujarat,
Police Bhavan, Gandhinagar.
 
Subject:              The Proposed meeting of the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, proposed to                                           be held on 16.11.2008.
Sir,
              Our organization has come to learn from a pamphlet circulated in Ahmedabad by Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS)  that HJS has [...]

AN OPEN LETTER TO RATAN TATA
(Mukul Sinha)
 
This is one letter I thought I must write. It is not often that people like Ratan Tatas’ write open letters and that to on their perception of the developmental model of the country. Curiously though, he addresses the letter to the ‘citizens of West Bengal’ rather than the [...]

Paragraph 229
Untold stories
(Mukul Sinha)
 
 

The eloquence of the Paragraph 229 of the report of the Justice Nanavati Commission on the Godhra incident lies not in what it said but in what it did not say. Ironically, in a hurry to absolve the Chief Minister, other ministers and even the delinquent police officers from the lapses committed [...]

 
 
 
Paragraph 229
(Mukul Sinha)
 
 
(1)              229 may be a number that Narendra Modi would like to wear on his shirt sleeves as a lucky talisman. Of the 230 paragraphs that the Commission of Inquiry Chaired by Justice G.T.Nanavati devoted to the unraveling the “conspiracy to set the S/6 coach on fire”, the paragraph 229 absolved the Chief [...]

OMISSIONS AND COMMISSIONS
(Mukul Sinha)
The spectre of “Terrorism” seems to have finally captured the sensibility   of the entire nation. All spaces, be that in the print media or the electronic media, be it in a public place or in a private drawing room, are fully occupied by this spectre; a sterile nation incapable of focussing on [...]

Anti-Terror Laws
 
Would GUJCOC inhibit the Growth of Terrorism?
(Mukul Sinha)
 
Opening Remark: The word terrorism in the modern times is really a gift from the American establishment after the 9/11 attack in NY that led to collapse of the world trade building. Be that as it may, without entering into the realities of these events, we restrict [...]

NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM
Report, Proceedings and Resolutions

1st September, 2007
VENUE: Town hall, Ashram road ,Ahmedabad

Inaugural Session.
(Presided by Shri A.P.Ravani, Retd Chief Justice Rajasthan High Court)
After registration of the delegates, the conference began with the screening of the film `Come see America’ by Sashi, highlighting [...]

ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS IN ORISSA
( Advocate Shri S.H.Iyer)

This history of violent attacks on Christians in Orissa is not new. Ever since the legislature of Orissa enacted Orissa Freedom of Religion Act in the year 1967, the onslaught on Christians by the upper caste Hindus got momentum steadily and was at peak in December 2007 [...]

Minorities in India - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
By Mukul Sinha

Today: The serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008 and the pictures of the dismembered bodies of scores of victims, brought back the spectre of the riots of 2002. Would there be another communal conflagration like in 2002? The authorities did [...]

LONG LIVE STALIN

Just when the French were celebrating the 200th anniversary of their revolution, a very similar bourgeois revolution was fast changing the face of Eastern Europe and striking at the shores of the Soviet Union. The slogans were also the same. Freedom, democracy and market economy!

Perestroika and Glasnost might as well be [...]