[GreenYouth] More on Arundhati Roy and Her Sleepwalk in the Red Corridor

2010-03-29 Thread Sukla Sen
[The response below refers to the article, 'Moonwalking with the Comrades' by Anirban Gupta Nigam, at the same website.] http://kafila.org/2010/03/23/moonwalking-with-the-comrades/#comments http://kafila.org/2010/03/23/moonwalking-with-the-comrades/#commentsMarch 25, 2010 at 4:50 AM Dear

[GreenYouth] More on Arundhati Roy and Her Sleepwalk in the Red Corridor

2010-03-29 Thread Sukla Sen
[The response below refers to the article, 'Moonwalking with the Comrades' by Anirban Gupta Nigam, at the same website.] http://kafila.org/2010/03/23/moonwalking-with-the-comrades/#comments http://kafila.org/2010/03/23/moonwalking-with-the-comrades/#commentsMarch 25, 2010 at 4:50 AM Dear

[GreenYouth] Eric Ruder reviews 'Green Zone' a new film that revolves around how the U.S. government lied to sell the public on the invasion of Iraq.

2010-03-29 Thread Venugopalan K M
*..Green Zone*, directed by Paul Greengrass who also made *Bloody Sunday*and *United 93*, transports us back in time to the heady days when the neoconservatives still had their swagger and Bush was putting the finishing touches on his Mission Accomplished speech... ..It doesn't take long for

[GreenYouth] Fwd: AlterNet: Are Americans Too Broken by Corporate Power to Resist?

2010-03-29 Thread Venugopalan K M
*..JB:** So, our feelings of powerlessness are rooted in modern life, exacerbated by present political realities. I'd like to point out another factor, which is what Paul Rogat Loeb refers to as our 'historic amnesia.' Historian and social activist Howard Zinn spent decades trying to offset that

[GreenYouth] Lalgarh Updates: Rumours on Kishenji

2010-03-29 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100329/jsp/frontpage/story_12276090.jsp http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100329/jsp/frontpage/story_12276090.jsp Kishan bullet buzz - Statement, intercepts suggest injuryOUR BUREAU *March 28:* A purported Maoist statement and a string of telephone intercepts

[GreenYouth] The Media's newfound love for reservations

2010-03-29 Thread Bobby Kunhu
http://thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4429mod=1pg=1sectionId=19valid=true The Media's newfound love for reservations This is the same media and middle class who have always been hell-bent against all reservations, who have listed reservation as among one of the most despicable evils. So

[GreenYouth] In Defence Of The Bitch… By Trevor Se lvam [Excerpts of article published in Countercurrents]

2010-03-29 Thread Venugopalan K M
http://www.countercurrents.org/selvam280310.htm ..They mirror the incredible mental descent and cultural depravity of a post-Bollywood, web-savvy class, cut off from historical precedent, unaware of India’s socio-economic past, unaware of rational, sensible discourse and debate, ignorant about