It took more than 40 years for the CPI (Maoists), the metamorphosis of CPI (ML), to prove that history does repeat but it does so as a farce. In 1967, the peasant uprising in Naxalbari had sent red jitters all over the country whereas in 2009, the red has faded out in a place [...]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR To, 5.6.2009 The Editor, Times of India, Fadia Chambers, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad. Sir, I am enclosing a response to the Edit page article “A change of Priorities” {TOI, Ahmedabad, 4.6.2009}. Please publish and oblige. Yours sincerely, Mukul Sinha [...]
You cannot get more thick-skinned than the state education department. Following a PIL, a division Bench of chief justices of Gujarat High Court KS Radhakrishnan and Akhil Kureshi had taken an assurance in 2006 from state deputy director of primary education that the latter would overlook appointment of trained teachers in all primary schools across [...]
Even as the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has nearly completed its probe in nine of the most infamous riots cases, a prominent NGO fighting for the cause of the victims has alleged that the agency has not explored the ‘conspiracy theory’ in three cases of Ahmedabad. The NGO has said the three cases [...]
Narendra Modi,theBJP’s prospective candidate for Prime Minister, has come directly under the legal scanner in a riot case for the first time. The Supreme Court today ordered a probe into allegations that the chief minister, his cabinet colleagues and senior police officers aided and abetted the infamous Gulbarg Society massacre in which former Congress MP [...]
Basis Paper for meeting on 28th Feb09. Gujarat was perhaps the chosen state by BJP and Sangh-parivar to experiment with the communal agenda and making it the launching pad for spreading “Hindutva” across the country by displacing the “secular forces” led by Congress. This choice of Gujarat became more a compulsion [...]
RESOLUTIONS PASSED IN THE GUJARAT JAN ABHIYAN MEETING HELD AT SARDAR BAUG ON 17TH MARCH, 2009 House appealed to all the left and Democratic forces to unite and establish an alternative political force in the State of Gujarat. House urged the people of Gujarat to reject the communal politics of the ruling party and [...]
STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF INDIAN WORKING CLASS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION (Draft prepared by MUKUL SINHA, PRESIDENT, GFTU) 24.1.2009 The Betrayed Vanguard: For quite sometime now, the Indian working class appears to have been inflicted with some variety of paralytic disability. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the [...]
The cop who watched people dying It can be seen from the location graph, of K.G.Erda, the PI of Meghaninagar where the massacre at Gulberg Society had happened on 28.2.2002, had mostly stayed at Gulberg Society with few policemen at his disposal. In his affidavit before Nanavati commission he has stated that around [...]
STATUTORY PREVARICATION COMMISSION OR OMMISSION? (Mukul Sinha) Prologue: Six months back, when I was asked by Lassnet to send the summary of what I would be presenting in January, 2008, I had said that the Commission of Inquiries Act, as implemented in the present days, provided a convenient machinery for prevarication. I had even [...]
