Eighty years of Globalization
The financial crisis of 2007–2009, began in July 2007 when a loss of confidence by investors in the value of securitized mortgages in the United States resulted in crisis of liquidity (free-flow of money/capital). The perceived credit risk in the general economy rose alarmingly in July 2007, reaching a peak on October [...]
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 [...]
Prof. Bandukwala wants Muslims to stay away from politics; Dr. Manzoor Alam of All India Milli Council (AIMC) wants Muslims to give top priority to politics in the present political scenario when success in all walks of life depended on political influence of the community.
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Ahmedabad: Divergent views were expressed [...]
The Double Helix of Violence
(Mukul Sinha)
8.12.2008
THE FIRST HELIX
The arrest of Pragya Singh Thakur by the Mumbai ATS Chief Hemant Karkare for the 29thSeptember,2008 Malegaon bomb blast had cracked the very foundation of the propaganda regarding “islamic terrorism” that the Hindu rightist forces were building up for the past two [...]
INDIA IN A CENTRIFUGE
(The Secular Nation in Danger)
(Mukul Sinha)
INDIA perhaps is now going through the most severe socio-political crisis in the post Independence period. Never before has the moral and intellectual content of the Nation dipped so low. Never before has the Nation been so deeply inflicted by corruption, communalism and terrorism, tearing apart the [...]
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 [...]
Defeat Communal fascism and Globalization
Speech of Amrish Patel, Gen. Secretary, New Socialist Movement
In the Convention against Communal Fascism and Globalization
At Kolkata on 26th September 2005.
I come all the way from Gujarat, the State which has now come to be known as the Laboratory of Hindutva. By calling it [...]
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, [...]
