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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 [...]

By S.H. Iyer
Advocate

JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND RIGHTS OF THE URBAN POOR IN INDIAN CITIES

A poor homeless person was sleeping in the premises of a court. The Marshal came and scolded him. He was asked to go away. The man who was woken up from his slumber said ‘I am prepared to leave [...]

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 [...]

APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICE AKSHAY MEHTA (Retd.) IN NANAVATI INQUIRY COMMISSION - CAN A PERSON BE THE JUDGE IN HIS OWN CAUSE?
-By S.H. Iyer
Advocate
Jan Sangharsh Manch, Ahmedabad

The cardinal principle of administration of justice that – a person can not be the judge in his own cause, is put to test before the Enquiry Commission headed by [...]

NEW SOCIALIST MOVEMENT

Pauperizing the rural masses

Contract and Corporate Farming – Globalisation of Agriculture in India

(Exposing 743 million people in rural India to the exploitation by multi-national agro-industries.)

National Agricultural Policy (NAP) of Govt. of India announced in 2000 envisaged that “Private sector participation in Agriculture shall be promoted through Contract Farming and Land-leasing arrangements (Corporate [...]