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 [...]
Press Release 17th April, Ahmedabad The “Radio-active Nuclear deal” takes toll of the Right and the Left While the NSM welcomed the wisdom of the Indian Voters to keep out the NDA combination out of the central power, NSM was of the opinion that the Big business of India has now got [...]
Girish Patel, the name that has become synonymous with the human rights struggle in Gujarat, has urged activists and people of the state not to approach courts during any movement to safeguard the rights of the downtrodden. Patel said the entire movement on such issues dies down following the court order, which generally falls in [...]
Seven years after hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat were murdered in some of India’s most vicious religious violence since partition, the families of those who died are a step closer to justice after the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of fast-track tribunals. Among the people to be investigated will be the state’s controversial chief [...]
Sitting in a cab or the more convenient three-wheelers called autorickshaws, while your driver negotiates the madness of India’s roads, you would be forgiven to think you are in your own city. For all Indian cities look the same. But it would be a mistake to dismiss Ahmadabad just like any other Indian city. This [...]
A minister in India’s Gujarat state, Mayaben Kodnani, accused over the anti-Muslim riots of 2002, has surrendered to police and resigned her posts. Ms Kodnani is alleged to have led a mob of rioters in Ahmedabad’s Naroda Patiya area. She denies the charge. Nearly 60 Muslims were killed in this Muslim-dominated area with more than [...]
Dated: 16.3.2009 Press Release Unity of the Left and Democratic force: The only alternative for the oppressed people of Gujarat. The 15th loksabha election to be held in April/May 2009 appears to be turning into a fight between the “national parties” like INC and BJP on one hand and the regional parties on [...]
On this historical day of the United Rally of the workers-adivasis-minorites THE LEFT AND DEMOCRATIC FORCES DECLARE THEIR RESOLVE TO UNITE ALL THE EXPLOITED AND OPPRESSED CLASSES! EXPOSE THE CONSPIRACY OF THE RULING CLASSES! SMASH THE SYSTEM OF OPRESSION!! The Last two decades have been the most treacherous and [...]
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 [...]
