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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GLOBALIZATION- AN OVERVIEW
Can we conjure a singular image (tasveer) that would tell us what Globalization is all about? I kept nudging my imagination to create that one image but couldn’t quite succeed. That was the time, when one image appeared across all TV channels. The broken and weeping face of Manjula ,the wife of Suryanarayan, [...]