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Month November 2018

India – Why the farmers want to march again

1 lakh farmers and farm labourers plan to march towards Parliament on November 30. But what do they want? By Rishi Majumder in Mumbai AddThis Sharing Buttons The Farmer’s Rights Convention organised by the All India Kisan Sabha at the Yashwantrao Chavan… Continue Reading →

Koodankulam-Govt Secretly Lays Stone for Reactors 5-6

No End to Nuclear Insanity in Koodankulam Statement by Dr. S P Udayakumar on behalf of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy(PMANE) The Indian govt is secretly laying foundation stone for reactors 5-6 at Koodankulam. As we all know, people all over… Continue Reading →

“I changed my surname so people would not know me as a Namashudra”

Manoranjan Byapari Translated by Sipra Mukherjee “If you insist that you do not know me, let me explain myself …you will feel, why, yes, I do know this person. I’ve seen this man.” With these words, Manoranjan Byapari points to… Continue Reading →

India – A new Chipko in Odisha #SundayReading

Satyasundar Barik We won’t allow anyone to cut our trees, say the women of Balarampur village For three generations now, and spanning 40 years, Chaturi Sahu, 70, has been unfailingly sending one male member from her family to patrol the… Continue Reading →

Goodbye, Alyque Padamsee #RIP

1928-2018 Alyque Padamsee, the creative mind behind some of India’s most memorable ad campaigns, passed away on Saturday. He was 90 Delshad Irani Even before I started covering the advertising and marketing industry for ET, I had heard the name Alyque… Continue Reading →

Mumbai- 40 men accuse Reiki guru Prasad Karmarkar of sexual assault #MeToo

Shivaji Park’s Guru in Gucci At the end of it, the massages were a sham. He just wanted to be touched Close to 40 men accuse Reiki guru Prasad Karmarkar of sexual assault; he has been in hiding for four… Continue Reading →

P Sainath – Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is A Bumper Crop in Insurance for Corporations

The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana will end up being a bigger scam than the Rafale deal in terms of free handouts to corporations, alleges noted journalist P Sainath, who is also the founder editor of People’s Archive of Rural India… Continue Reading →

Bhima Koregaon: 5,000-Page Chargesheet against Human rights activists

The chargesheet against the five arrested activists also claims they had “active links” to the banned CPI(M). Sukanya Shantha Mumbai: In a nearly 5,000-page chargesheet, Pune Police have accused  five human-rights activists and lawyers of inciting violence at Bhima Koregaon on… Continue Reading →

Ad agency Utopeia’s co-founder Mitali S Hough says harassment led to her resignation

 Rituparna Chatterjee Founder of a Mumbai-based ad agency has said that she had to step down after facing systemic harassment for months. Amid the ongoing #MeTooIndia movement, Mitali Srivastava Hough of Utopeia says she was targeted for speaking out about… Continue Reading →

Karl Marx: More Villified Than Understood

MOHAN GURUSWAMY | To villify you need to be foul mouthed, to understand you need knowledge and intelligence  My Facebook friend, the well known journalist Vidyadhar Date recently posted a more anguished than outraged comment about a fellow called Sanjeev Sanyal,… Continue Reading →

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