Jan Sangharsh Manch, an NGO Sinha founded with his wife Nirjari, has been instrumental in fighting the cases of riot victims. Sinha also participated in the Nanavati-Shah Commission inquiring into the riots. Since then, he has doggedly fought for reopening probes in the fake encounter cases, including that of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. What has kept you [...]
The Ishrat Jahan encounter is the third shootout by Gujarat police that has turned out to be fake – the first two were of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his accomplice Tulsiram Prajapati, while a fourth encounter of Sadiq Jamal Mehtar is under investigation by CBI. All of them were declared terrorists and killed by the same [...]
Dear Narendrabhai Why do you have to undertake this “Sadbhavna Mission” by observing three days “upvaas”?? No other Chief Minister of the 26 States in India has to do such a “prayaschit” to earn sadbhavna! Have you finally realized after about a decade that all the so called “developmental” publicity cannot earn you the faith, [...]
It has been claimed that more than one crore missed phone calls were made to Anna Hazare in support of the Janlokpal bill. Unfortunately, none of the callers could ask him whether scamsters like Ketan Parekh, Telgi or the late Harshad Mehta could have been booked under the law that Anna says will root out [...]
What is so unusual for a communist to be red? It is after all the color that history has assigned for the advanced vanguard party of the proletariat. So why is Buddhadev shy of his red face?? He absented himself from the politburo meeting of CPM at Delhi and a senior leader had to be [...]
Empower the people in fight against corruption by amending prevention of corruption act Exploiting the vast anger of the people against the corrupt political leadership, the second freedom struggle of India was conceived, planned and executed within five days. On 9th April, 2011, the TV channels gave us the Breaking News that India had won [...]
EVER since the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat, physicist-turned-lawyer Mukul Sinha and his physicist wife, Nirjhari Sinha, have been spearheading a movement against the injustices meted out to victims of the communal riots. As founders of the civil rights organisation Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), they have been documenting crucial and explosive evidence on the riots and [...]
TEHELKA NOW has the most damning piece of evidence against the man at the centre of all the controversy in Gujarat: Minister of State (MoS) for Home Amit Shah. The evidence implicates him and police officers who worked at his behest to cover up the fake encounter that killed Tulsiram Prajapati on December 28, 2006. [...]
Around ten thousand workers and their family members marched through the streets of Ahmedabad on 22nd April, 2010 defying the threat of the Government to invoke ESMA against the striking transport workers of the Ahmadabad Municipal Corporation. The strikers were demanding the implementation of the sixth pay commission’s recommendations which were adopted by the Government [...]
Narendra Modi’s appearance before the inquiry has dominated headlines across India. Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the state of Gujarat and one of the most controversial figures in Indian politics, has faced investigators to defend his actions during communal riots and massacres in his state eight years ago. Modi, a rising star in the [...]
