[GreenYouth] Turmoil in Iran: An Analysis from the Left

2010-01-10 Thread Sukla Sen
[Quote State television prominently broadcast the threats of a leading conservative cleric, Haeri Shirazi, who declared that protesters should be killed on the spot rather than jailed. When they are arrested, it is bad; when they are captured, it is bad, he said. Do not make victims out of them.

[GreenYouth] Tribal Ruchika's of Dantewada

2010-01-10 Thread Sukla Sen

[GreenYouth] Fwd: [foil] Nuclear Weapon and Power

2010-01-10 Thread Sukla Sen
linkage does not mean one *inevitably* leads to the other. Sukla 2010/1/11 S wrote: On 11 Jan 2010 at 0:02, Sukla Sen wrote: Apology To The Earth For Nuclear Bombs And War *By Mary Hamer, M.D It is possible that Hamer is less concerned with nuclear power than is Sukla since her headline

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Ins posting on Godhra violence

2010-01-10 Thread Sukla Sen
, for ready reference. Sukla From: Prasad Chacko prasa...@hotmail.com Date: 2010/1/11 Subject: RE: Ins posting on Godhra violence To: Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com, ammu_...@yahoo.co.uk Dear Sukla and Ammu, Yes, these are all Muslim women. We had not specified it deliberately, as we wanted

[GreenYouth] Rights activists fight for Dantewada tribals: Press Conference by the Committee for Release of Dr. Binayak Sen on Jan. 13

2010-01-13 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mumbai/Rights-activists-fight-for-Dantewada-tribals/Article1-497210.aspx http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mumbai/Rights-activists-fight-for-Dantewada-tribals/Article1-497210.aspx First Published: 00:40 IST(14/1/2010) Last Updated: 00:41

[GreenYouth] More reactors at existing N-plants?

2010-01-14 Thread Sukla Sen
[Quote A total of 50 new reactors across the country are currently in advanced stages of construction. Unquote Does the reporter know what she is talking of? The proposed shrinking of of exclusion zone needs be stoutly fought back. Maybe even legally.]

[GreenYouth] Haripur Struggle against Nuclear Power Plant: An Update

2010-01-14 Thread Sukla Sen
*PRESS RELEASE* *14 JANUARY 2010*** * * *Ministry flouts all procedures in giving environmental clearance to Haripur Nuclear Power plant – resistance will be intensified *** * * New Delhi - *The Union Environment ministry has given the clearance for the proposed nuclear plant at Haripur in

[GreenYouth] Private companies face mining ban in tribal areas?

2010-01-14 Thread Sukla Sen
[This news story looks to be a part of the lobbying by private mining interests. It's a sort of alarm bell ringing to scare people into action to kill the yet unborn. But then Schedule V and VI areas, I'd guess, already have a plethora of safeguards. But the point is who safeguard the safeguards?

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates

2010-01-14 Thread Sukla Sen
I/III. http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/2-political/3477-un-warns-nepal-peace-process-close-to-standstill-due-to-tensions-and-mistrust.html UN warns, Nepal peace process close to standstill due to tensions and mistrustThursday, 14 January 2010 10:10 The United Nations has

Re: [GreenYouth] Re: Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler ?

2010-01-14 Thread Sukla Sen
That's just shit. I just can't dig up anything more appropriate. Hitler, in any case, is unparallel in modern human history. He put, racist (purity of Aryan blood etc.) and even otherwise, hatred and violence on a pedestal and then executed on a mind-boggling scale. And Gandhi, one can very well

[GreenYouth] SURVIVORS OF COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN KANDHAMAL UNDER THE TRHEAT OF EVACUATION FOR THIRD TIME

2010-01-14 Thread Sukla Sen
*From: KP Sasi kpsas...@gmail.com* * * *SURVIVORS OF COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN KANDHAMAL UNDER THE TRHEAT OF EVACUATION FOR THIRD TIME * Around 100 survivors of communal violence, who have been staying in an abandoned NAC market complex at G. Udaygiri of Kandhamal district after the forcible closure

Re: [GreenYouth] Re: Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler ?

2010-01-15 Thread Sukla Sen
against communal violence; he resisted anti-Pak jingoism. Those are important legacies for us: legacies that 'Gandhigiri' proponents in popular media tend to suppress and bury. 2010/1/15 Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com That's just shit. I just can't dig up anything more appropriate

Re: [GreenYouth] Re: Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler ?

2010-01-15 Thread Sukla Sen
of complicity, through explicit nonviolence, in other domains. That is the link between a nonviolent salesman in Dadar and the soldier-rapist in dantewada. The violence of pacifism would annihilate this link, and failing that, term it ‘shit’. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Sukla Sen sukla

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Center 'bans' industries in 43 industrial areas,

2010-01-16 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kamayani kama...@gmail.com Date: 2010/1/17 Subject: Re: Center 'bans' industries in 43 industrial areas, To: free-binayaksen free-binayak...@googlegroups.com The Office Memorandum on which this Notification is based was issued on 13.1.10, can be seen

[GreenYouth] Mayhem in Dantewada, C'garh: Two Snippets of the Same Ongoing Huge Criminal Act

2010-01-17 Thread Sukla Sen
[On October 1st, last year, in the Gompad village in the Dantewada district 9 persons including a teen-aged girl are reportedly killed by the state security forces together with the Salwa Judum brigade, the private vigilante group propped up be the state. What follows here provides us a peek into

[GreenYouth] In Memory of Jyoti Babu!

2010-01-17 Thread Sukla Sen
lived long enough to see the beginning of the dramatic decline of the party that he had nurtured for far too long. Sukla Sen http://www.hindustantimes.com/Nation-mourns-Jyoti-Basu-s-death/H1-Article1-498569.aspx http://www.hindustantimes.com/Nation-mourns-Jyoti-Basu-s-death/H1-Article1-498569

[GreenYouth] Secretive Environmental Clearance for Haripur Nuclear Reactor?

2010-01-18 Thread Sukla Sen
There appears to be some confusion over the fact of environmental clearance having already been granted. The press release reproduced below lists out various requirements. In case it has in fact been granted then it'd be open to credible challenge before the law courts of the land. But some

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency! From Yes, We Can! to No, It's Too difficult!?

2010-01-19 Thread Sukla Sen
[The conservative America is reasserting itself making Obama Presidency more and more incongruous. That's pretty disturbing. No doubt, the loony and lonely Left, like Rush Limbaugh, will go gaga over it. The'll conflate the Scott Brown effect with Obama project, unlike Rush Limbaugh.]

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: Foreign Policy Initiatives ans Performance

2010-01-20 Thread Sukla Sen
[With stunning reversal of fortune in the Massachusetts Senate election, it looks that the conservative America is slowly but surely reasserting itself. Obama Presidency is facing the real threat of turning more and more incongruous. That's disturbing. Of course the loony and lonely Left will go

[GreenYouth] Re: [india-unity] a message from australia: Muslims out of Australia!

2010-01-20 Thread Sukla Sen
Forgery and hoax is an integral part of Hindutva and in fact fascist cultures in general. Nothing new. Interestingly, as we see below, Hindutva and Islamist responses closely mirror each other. And it of course goes without saying that This culture has been developed over two centuries of

[GreenYouth] Re: [india-unity] A Letter to President Obama..

2010-01-20 Thread Sukla Sen
Quote You have a choice now, Mr. President. With your help, 2010 could usher in a host of substantive policy changes: better health care access for millions of Americans, a strategic path to peace in Iraq and Afghanistan and a resounding series of Democratic victories in the midterm elections.

[GreenYouth] Fragments from a Visitor's Note from the Heart of Darkness

2010-01-20 Thread Sukla Sen
http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2041/ Dantewada, Dec 14th to 17th 2009: Three days in the cauldron, on the eve of the *Padyatra* http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2041/ *January 11, 2010* By Amit Basole, Sanhati. Photos by Rudra Rakshit Saran. *Hum aah bhee bhartay hain to ho jaatay hain badnaam Voh

[GreenYouth] Maoist Leader(?) Apprehended

2010-01-20 Thread Sukla Sen
[Truth is the first casualty in a war. Every sensible one knows. Here are two contesting versions: One, he had resigned from the CPI(Maoist) three years back. The other one, he was still very much active. On the face of it, both are equally plausible. But the point is unless one is actively

Re: [ecological-democracy] Re: [NoNuclear] [GreenYouth] Nuclear power losing in importance world-wide

2010-01-21 Thread Sukla Sen
factories by deploying nuclear power at large scale . --- On *Wed, 20/1/10, Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com* wrote: From: Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com Subject: [GreenYouth] Nuclear power losing in importance world-wide To: ecological-democracy ecological-democr...@lists.riseup.net, nonuclear

[GreenYouth] Anti-Maoist Crosscountry Operation and Shibu Soren Government in Jharkhand

2010-01-21 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/soren-govt-calls-off-antinaxal-ops-has-cops-livid/569998/ Soren govt calls off anti-Naxal ops, has cops livid Manoj Prasad Posted online: Thursday , Jan 21, 2010 at 0832 hrs Ranchi : At a time when states are teaming up to crack down on Naxalites, the

[GreenYouth] Delhi HC appoints Ashok Agarwal as Chairperson of a Committee to make recommendations for the enforcement and implementation of the Right to Education Act.

2010-01-21 Thread Sukla Sen
[The order issued by the Delhi HC, in response to a petition concerning the rights of the physically disabled children, is of course a positive development. There is another PIL broadly covering the same /similar grounds filed by Shantha Sinha and MC Mehta under consideration by the Supreme

[GreenYouth] Re: Please give suggestions for UID - India's Unique Identity Project

2010-01-22 Thread Sukla Sen
are provided, publicly displayed and discussed in a structured manner, there must not be any move towards implementing this project and any sizable funds from the national exchequer be spent on it.* * * Sukla Sen EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai 2010/1/21 i...@karmayog.org The process to assign

[GreenYouth] Protest to the President of India against New Uranium Mining and Nuclear Power Plants: The Last Call!

2010-01-22 Thread Sukla Sen
Friends! Please visit http://www.petitiononline.com/Nonukes/petition.html to sign up by 27th. And also spread the words. The petition with signatures would be handed over to the President on Jan. 30th, the Martyrs Day. Sukla Sen http://www.petitiononline.com/Nonukes/petition.html

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Lokayat condemns lathi charge and arrests of peaceful protestors in Madban, Ratnagiri

2010-01-22 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: neeraj jain neeraj...@gmail.com Date: 2010/1/22 Subject: Fwd: Lokayat condemns lathi charge and arrests of peaceful protestors in Madban, Ratnagiri -- Forwarded message -- From: neeraj jain neeraj...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 22,

[GreenYouth] Anti-Maoist Operation: The Farce of Policing

2010-01-22 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Cops-in-the-soup-over-Maoist-arrest/articleshow/5486176.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Cops-in-the-soup-over-Maoist-arrest/articleshow/5486176.cms Cops in the soup over Maoist arrestTNN, 22 January 2010, 06:50am IST

[GreenYouth] Ministry of Mines Invites Inputs from the Public towards Preparation of its Draft Sustainability Development Framework

2010-01-23 Thread Sukla Sen
The Ministry of Mines of the Government of India has through a notification dtd. December 23rd 2009 has invited inputs from concerned members of public towards preparation of its draft Sustainability Development Framework. To be sent to fidel.me...@erm.com and anil@nic.in or pps...@nic.in.

[GreenYouth] Some Hard Facts Substantiating the Commonsense Idea that Deprivation and Neglect Breeds Maoist Insurgency

2010-01-23 Thread Sukla Sen
The caption of the news analysis below is pretty much out of step with its actual content. Even the Prime Minister in his much talked of last September 4 speech to the assembled Chief Ministers acknowledged the fact of utter deprivation of the bulk of adivasis for far too long. Maoist violence and

[GreenYouth] Re: [indiathinkersnet] Bullying In the Name of Defending 'Left': Sacaria Heckled, Mamhandled in Payyanur for Questioning Moral Policing at a Book Release Literary Seminar

2010-01-24 Thread Sukla Sen
One may find the following relevant in the present context. Sukla http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/2-political/3691-ycl-cadres-raid-hotels-in-narayangadh.html

[GreenYouth] Re: Please give suggestions for UID - India's Unique Identity Project

2010-01-24 Thread Sukla Sen
karmayog.org i...@karmayog.org * [My understanding in brackets vinay **www.karmayog.org/uid*http://www.karmayog.org/uid * ]* ** *From:* Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com * * Dear Vinay, Thanks for the initiative. This is a project that, however, needs be outright opposed

[GreenYouth] Re: Please give suggestions for UID - India's Unique Identity Project

2010-01-25 Thread Sukla Sen
for that. reg. newborns, pl read the Draft Approach paper -- they have tried to explain it there. - Original Message - *From:* Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com *To:* karmayog.org i...@karmayog.org *Cc:* india-un...@yahoogroups.com ; greenyouthgreenyouth@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Monday

Re: [GreenYouth] PLS ENDORSE: Statement condemning TN Police for quashing free speech, arrest of rights' activist Piyush Sethia

2010-01-26 Thread Sukla Sen
I endorse. Sukla Sen EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai Here is a rough translation of the flyer to be distributed. Grossly, almost grotesquely, exaggerated. Neither Salwa Judum is sponsored by the Union Government, in fact Chidambaram is on record publicly disapproving it, nor anybody

[GreenYouth] Re: FW: Indian hand in Nepal’s Royal Palace Massacre: Prachanda (?)

2010-01-26 Thread Sukla Sen
It's for those who're making these charge to substantiate and elaborate. It does not prima facie look too compelling though, even if such charges are being made not for the first time now. And in terms of actual outcome, King Gyanendra was perceptibly less warm to India than his slain predecessor

Re: [GreenYouth] Petition Final Signatures_12.30 A.M, Jan 26: for Press Release and other purposes_word doc also attached

2010-01-26 Thread Sukla Sen
Had endorsed. Sukla Sen EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai 2010/1/27 chandrika C S cschandr...@gmail.com Dear Jenny Please add my name Regards Chandrika On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:07 AM, devika Jayakumari devu...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Jenny I'm at cds, not csds! Warmly

[GreenYouth] Howard Zinn Passes Away

2010-01-27 Thread Sukla Sen
Howard Zinn passed away admittedly at a mature age leaving behind a highly productive career in terms of academic output permeated with profound intellectual courage to challenge the received wisdom emanating from stirring activist spirit. He will ever remain a model for activism combined with

[GreenYouth] The Mythical Red Corridor!

2010-01-28 Thread Sukla Sen
The map below clearly busts the myth of the Red Corridor. True, the map, apparently based on the report submitted, about two years back in April 2008, by the committee appointed by the Planning Commission in 2006 and headed by D Bandopadhyay, is slightly outdated; it does not include West

[GreenYouth] Nauseous Violence Begets Even More Nauseous Violence!

2010-01-28 Thread Sukla Sen
[ Beheading and mutilating a captive is revolting and nauseous. No doubt about that. But it tends to get legitimised in an environ marked by brutal violence. That's precisely why when the state unleashes brutal and gory violence in the name of fighting it, and that too on non-combatants, it is

[GreenYouth] Bt Brinjal: A Briefing Paper

2010-01-28 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.csa-india.org/downloads/GE/bt_brinjal_briefing_paper.pdf Briefing Paper on Bt Brinjal What is Bt Brinjal? Bt Brinjal is a transgenic brinjal created out of inserting a gene [Cry 1Ac] from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into Brinjal. The insertion of the gene into the

[GreenYouth] Delhi Platform on the Himalayan Glaciers Controversy

2010-01-29 Thread Sukla Sen
*DELHI** PLATFORM* * * *Statement on the Himalayan Glaciers controversy* 29 January 2010 A huge controversy has been generated in recent days over the much quoted lines in the IPCC’s 2007 report: “Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any part of the world and, if the

[GreenYouth] GM Crops: Some Significant Experimental Findings on Three Varieties of GM Maize

2010-01-30 Thread Sukla Sen
The following is an excerpt, the Conclusions, from a research paper titled, A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health. It is authored by three academics/researchers from universities / research institutes in France, viz. Committee of Research and Information on

[GreenYouth] CPI (Marxist) Reports on CPI(Maoist) Violence in Lalgarh: Disturbing Pictures

2010-01-30 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=515702104 http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=515702104 Maoist Guns VS 8yr olds...http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=233251276982 *Friday, 18 December 2009 at 17:42 * They shot even when a 8yr old stood resolute in front of their guns...the BRAVE

[GreenYouth] Kobad Ghandy: An Update(?) by the IE

2010-01-30 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ghandy-confirms-nepal-link-tells-cops-made-4-trips-met-top-maoist-leaders/573620/0 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ghandy-confirms-nepal-link-tells-cops-made-4-trips-met-top-maoist-leaders/573620/0Ghandy confirms Nepal link, made 4 trips, met top Maoist leaders

[GreenYouth] The Compelling Link between the Highest Grosser Hollywood Film Avatar and Ongoing Oppression of Adivasis in India's Heartland

2010-01-31 Thread Sukla Sen
http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/28/of-avatar-and-adivasis/ http://himalmag.com/blogs/blog/2010/01/28/of-avatar-and-adivasis/ Of Avatar and Adivasis *How James Cameron’s Avatar relates to the exploitation of Indigenous People of the world and India* *By Guest Blogger Rohini Hensman* ** *

[GreenYouth] Fwd: IPL controversy can still be resolved

2010-01-31 Thread Sukla Sen
Desai Mumbai Mazher Hussain Hyderabad Kamla Bhasin Delhi Seema MustaphaNew Delhi Sukla Sen Mumbai Meena MenonMumbai

[GreenYouth] Re: [arkitectindia] A Year of Lalgarh

2010-02-01 Thread Sukla Sen
Quote How long can they defend the area from the might of the state? “I know an action (sic) is perhaps impending,” said Koteswar Rao, or Kishnaji, the second in command of the Indian Maoists, in an exclusive interview to the *Hindustan Times*. “But let them try once. It will be the last time

[GreenYouth] Two (or just One?) Stories from the Ground Zero (i.e. South Bastar in Chhattisgarh) from Javed Iqbal

2010-02-02 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II http://moonchasing.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/out-of-sight-out-of-mind/ http://moonchasing.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/out-of-sight-out-of-mind/Out of Sight, Out of Mindhttp://moonchasing.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/out-of-sight-out-of-mind/February 1, 2010 Gotti Koya from Chhattisgarh often travel

[GreenYouth] The Myth of Red Corridor as persistently propagated by the Media

2010-02-02 Thread Sukla Sen
In the news report by the BBC, the sub-caption, Red Corridor - a myth to cause paranoia primarily dished out by the state and its over-obliging apologists in the media, is, it is quite apparent, not exactly in tune with the text that follows, even less so with what the Minister has actually said.

[GreenYouth] The Bolshevik revolution, 1917-1918: documents and materials: A very valuable document

2010-02-02 Thread Sukla Sen
The Bolshevik revolution, 1917-1918: documents and materials By James Bunyan, Harold Henry Fisher at http://books.google.com/books?id=dTGsIAAJpg=PA285lpg=PA285dq=#v=onepageq=f=false . Can someone get the entire stuff? Sukla -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are

[GreenYouth] Can the idea of India pass the Thackeray test?

2010-02-04 Thread Sukla Sen
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/siddharth-varadarajan/article99488.ece http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/siddharth-varadarajan/article99488.eceCan the idea of India pass the Thackeray test?Siddharth Varadarajan [image: DIVISIVE POLITICS: Shiv Sena activists tear a poster of

[GreenYouth] Operation Green Hunt: A Drumbeat for Action!

2010-02-04 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=The+politics+in+fighting+Maoistsartid=zF0|W0vVBS8=SectionID=RRQemgLywPI=MainSectionID=RRQemgLywPI=SectionName=XQcp6iFoWTvPHj2dDBzTNA==

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Peace Mumbai statement on IPL, Shah Rukh Khan Shiv Sena

2010-02-05 Thread Sukla Sen
appreciation of SRK for his gritty refusal to buckle down. It also demands that the state government must provide all the legitimate protection to him in this specific context. Sukla SenVarsha R Berry Nasreen ContractorAsad Bin Saif -- Peace Is Doable -- You received

[GreenYouth] Call for Protesting Union Home Minister's meet at Kolkata on Tuesday

2010-02-06 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.asianage.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=1420:maoist-rebels-back-mamatacatid=34:top-storyItemid=59 http://www.asianage.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=1420:maoist-rebels-back-mamatacatid=34:top-storyItemid=59Maoist rebels back

[GreenYouth] Slavoj Zizek’s failed encounter with Leninism: ‘The bread of justice must be baked by the peopl e’

2010-02-07 Thread Sukla Sen
http://links.org.au/node/1500 Sukla -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[GreenYouth] Bt Brinjal: An Update

2010-02-07 Thread Sukla Sen
I/III. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1002/S00149.htm *High Court Moved on Genetic Modified Crop Issue: Ministry of Environment Acting Illegally – Hemant Goswami* Committee approving GM food illegal, unconstitutional and unscientific Chandigarh : February 5, 2010 :- The Punjab and Haryana High

[GreenYouth] Winter of America's Discontent

2010-02-07 Thread Sukla Sen
Quote Unless the administration agrees to give Shelby what he wants, he intends to invoke an archaic senatorial privilege that allows him to prevent the chamber from considering any of the administration's nominees to executive branch vacancies, no matter how crucial. Without the 60 votes to force

[GreenYouth] India's Afghanistan Tangle: Bhadrakumar Analyses

2010-02-07 Thread Sukla Sen
M K Bhadrakumar, in his comprehensive and insightful analysis here, lays bare the essential dynamics of India's response to and role in Afghanistan. Despite the ceaseless clamour about getting dehyphenated from (puny) Pakistan, the Indian elite remains too obsessed with Pakistan and its foreign

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: The Sinking Heath Care Reform Bill and the Last Ditch Attempt

2010-02-08 Thread Sukla Sen
I/IV. http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0210/Ax_Obama_not_looking_for_a_symbolic_win_on_health_care.html?showall February 07, 2010 Ax: Obama not looking for a symbolic win on health

[GreenYouth] On eve of Iran anniversary, talk of compromise

2010-02-09 Thread Sukla Sen
On eve of Iran anniversary, talk of compromise Opposition protesters are ready to rally when Iran's Islamic republic celebrates its 31st birthday on Thursday. Observers say both sides may be prepared to compromise after eight months of unrest.

[GreenYouth] Bt Brinjal: An Important Update

2010-02-09 Thread Sukla Sen
Jairam Ramesh, in his earlier avatar, was known as a strong proponent of corporate led economic development. But this time, he appears to have changed his stripes, significantly, even if partly. On Tadoba Tiger Reserve (in Vidarbha) , he took a strong stand against the known position of the state

[GreenYouth] New Delhi offers to suspend mine deals?

2010-02-10 Thread Sukla Sen
[The State and Union governments don't have to wait for the Maoists to disclose the details of MoUs signed as regards mining and other commercial/industrial ventures in the areas concerned and carry out proper public hearing as per already laid down procedures, where things have gone beyond the

[GreenYouth] Action Alert! Anti-POSCO struggle in Orissa: Govt Planning forced entry / Violence anticipated

2010-02-10 Thread Sukla Sen
From: *Arnab Sen* arnabsen.anthropol...@gmail.com As many of you are aware, the Korean Steel giant, POSCO (Pohang Steel) is touted to be moving forward with its plans building a steel mill in Jagatsingpura in north-east Orissa. The mill, also involves mining at Keonjhar and a new port just north

[GreenYouth] We Love Mumbai / Mumbai Is Ours! Join Demo Tomorrow (Saturday) at 5 PM at Churchgate (east side)

2010-02-11 Thread Sukla Sen
Friends, In the context of recent unfortunate attempts to disturb peace in the city and trigger an environ of fear and intimidation, to foment sectarian/regional tensions and conflicts, polarise the society into inimical camps on the basis of narrow exclusionary identities; we, some concerned

[GreenYouth] Mumbai Spirit: MNIK Opens to Full House: Sena Presents a Flop Show: For Once, Congress Shows Some Spine: The Tiger Meows

2010-02-12 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com Date: 13 February 2010 11:02 Subject: Mumbai Spirit: MNIK Opens to Full House: Sena Presents a Flop Show: For Once, Congress Shows Some Spine: The Tiger Meows To: foil-l foi...@insaf.net I/II. http

[GreenYouth] Between an Expensive Rock and the Barrel of The Gun

2010-02-12 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://moonchasing.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/between-an-expensive-rock-and-the-barrel-of-the-gun/ War is Peace: Ignorance is Strength: whowouldathunkit?Villagers Rehabilitated Through Apex Court Order Beaten By Security Forces Between An Expensive Rock And The Barrel of The Gun February

[GreenYouth] We Love Mumbai! Mumbai Is Ours!

2010-02-13 Thread Sukla Sen
It’s a late Saturday afternoon. Outside the Churchagate station, on the eastside. The ceaseless flow of humans, on a normal weekday, far more sparse. Still some time for the mellow winter Sun to set. And one could sniff love in the air. Never mind the cruelties all around. The raucous cacophony of

[GreenYouth] Fwd: National Forum - Mining: Inputs invited from members in preparation of draft Sustainability Development Framework

2010-02-15 Thread Sukla Sen
From: national-forum-of-india-ow...@yahoogroups.co.in Date: 15 February 2010 15:46 Subject: National Forum - Mining: Inputs invited from members in preparation of draft Sustainability Development Framework * * *Government of India* F.no. 16/57/2005-MVI New Delhi, dated 23 rd December 2009*

[GreenYouth] International Coalition of over 250 Groups Launches Campaign Calling on Obama and World Leaders to Begin Negotiations to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Worldwide

2010-02-15 Thread Sukla Sen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2010 Contact: U.S.: Joseph Gerson , AFSC, 617-661-6130Germany: Reiner Braun Cell, 617-216-0576 49-(O)172-2317475 jger...@afsc.org hr.br...@gmx.net

[GreenYouth] Nepal Update

2010-02-15 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/2-political/4192-cmdp-declares-pressure-campaign-for-timely-constitution.html http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/2-political/4192-cmdp-declares-pressure-campaign-for-timely-constitution.htmlCMDP declares pressure campaign for

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Fw: Himalayas

2010-02-23 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Urvi Sukul Singh usukulsi...@hotmail.com Date: 23 February 2010 14:25 Subject: Fw: Himalayas To: *From:* Vinuta Gopal, Greenpeace greenpeace.in...@mailing.greenpeace.org *Sent:* Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:28 PM *To:* usukulsi...@hotmail.com

Re: [GreenYouth] Fwd: Justice for Professor Siras

2010-02-25 Thread Sukla Sen
, it seems, him having sex with a man). and no action or show cause against those who did the taping! On 25 February 2010 23:07, Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com wrote: The case can perhaps be viewed in two ways. One, as a persecution of a homosexual/gay by predominantly heterosexual order. Two

Re: [GreenYouth] Fwd: Justice for Professor Siras

2010-02-25 Thread Sukla Sen
the enquiry since it has treated the homosexuality as a crime, not the act of filming someone's private life! The UNiv is treating Prof Siras as the guilty party - not as a victim. On 25 February 2010 23:27, Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com wrote: Are those who taped have been identified

[GreenYouth] NAAM Opposes the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill (India)

2010-02-26 Thread Sukla Sen
As the content of the draft bill has not yet been released, there is a considerable degree of uncertainties. A major line of criticism is that equipment (i.e. reactor) suppliers are being given a blanket waiver from any liability. But then the equipments suppliers are as a rule indemnified from

[GreenYouth] Peace Talks between the GoI and Maoist Insurgents: Mediation Must

2010-02-28 Thread Sukla Sen
When a shadowy (leading) figure of an underground organisation engaged in a war against the state with the intention to overrun it offers an olive branch, whatever may be the considerations or compulsions, it is not easy to assess the authenticity or credibility of the offer. This is regardless of

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency: White House Rethinking Nuclear Posture Review

2010-03-01 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/politics/01nuke.html __,_._,___ WHITE HOUSE IS RETHINKING NUCLEAR POLICY New York Times -- March 1, 2010 By David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker Washington -- As President Obama begins making final decisions on a broad new nuclear strategy for the United States,

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Appeal for talks with broader sect ion of people’s struggles in the forest and mineral belt

2010-03-02 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sumitra Purkayastha s.purkayas...@gmail.com Date: 3 March 2010 08:44 Subject: Appeal for talks with broader section of people’s struggles in the forest and mineral belt To: *Appeal for talks with broader section of people’s struggles in the forest

[GreenYouth] Maoist Insurgency and Indian State: Credible Mediators a Must as Go-Betweens to Initiate Peace Talk

2010-03-03 Thread sukla . sen
I/III. http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/514526.aspx First Published: 23:02 IST(2/3/2010) Last Updated: 23:05 IST(2/3/2010) Chidambaram says Maoist truce offer bizarre Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the Maoist guerrillas' truce offer was somewhat bizarre because the

[GreenYouth] Buried in U.N. Stats: My Day as Media Monitor

2010-03-04 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.womensenews.org/story/our-daily-lives/100301/buried-in-un-stats-my-day-media-monitor Our Daily LivesOur Daily Lives Buried in U.N. Stats: My Day as Media Monitor By Aditi Bhaduri WeNews correspondent Monday, March 1, 2010 *The Women's Commission begins its big review session at

[GreenYouth] Telegu Deepak Nabbed and Police Version of Interrogations

2010-03-05 Thread Sukla Sen
[The first news item brings out the intrinsic incompatibility between the politics of insurgency and open mass works.] I/II. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100305/jsp/bengal/story_12180424.jsp Deepak finger on trade union pulse A STAFF REPORTER *Calcutta, March 4: *Whether in the forests of

[GreenYouth] Maoists Are Coming! Would Capture Power 40 Years Hence! Union Home Secretary Pillai Acts a Nostradamus to Drum Up Paranoia

2010-03-05 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://news.oneindia.in/2010/03/05/maoists-want-to-overthrow-indian-state-pillai.html Maoists want to overthrow Indian state: Pillai Friday, March 5, 2010,17:16 [IST] New Delhi #, Mar 5: Union Home Secretary G K Pillai on Friday, Mar 5, said that Maoists agenda was to overthrow the Indian

[GreenYouth] Budget 2010-11 and Education

2010-03-06 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/06/stories/2010030650631300.htm *Education in the Union budget* Jandhyala B.G. Tilak Saturday, Mar 06, 2010 One looks forward to the Finance Minister's budget speech with a hope that it spells some new major initiatives and schemes for development, and that it

[GreenYouth] Maoists Are Coming! The Fiendish Ploy and the Anguished Cry

2010-03-06 Thread Sukla Sen
[Quote Pillai said 908 people had been killed in Maoist violence in 2009 — the highest since 1971. “It is quite likely the violence will go up in 2010 or 2011 before the tide begins to turn.” Unquote And also: Quote The government believes it can quell the Maoist threat by 2017-18. Pillai said the

[GreenYouth] Action Alert: Pls. Visit http://www.petitiononline.com/no2cap/petition.html and Sign Up

2010-03-07 Thread Sukla Sen
Minister of India was *created by National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements and written by Nilanjana Biswas, Arati Chokshi, Saraswati Kavula, Anand Patwardhan, Prem Verma, Kabir Arora, Santanu Chacraverti, S P Udayakumar, Sukla Sen* ( sukla@gmail.com). -- Peace Is Doable -- You received

[GreenYouth] Maoist Insurgency and Indian State: Still Elusive Talks

2010-03-07 Thread Sukla Sen
[Quote Maoist military wing leader Koteshwar Rao - or Kishenji - called the BBC from an undisclosed location.He said the group would stop violence if the government invited intellectuals and rights activists like Ms Roy and B D Sharma to mediate in peace talks. Unquote The despair is showing.

[GreenYouth] Unfolding Obama Presidency and Nuke Disarmament: An Assessment by Matthew Hoey

2010-03-07 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/matthew-hoey-responds-to-the-mello-knight-exchange Matthew Hoey responds to the Mello-Knight exchangehttp://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/matthew-hoey-responds-to-the-mello-knight-exchange Matthew Hoey is the founder of the *Military Space Transparency Project

[GreenYouth] FYI: Displaced Persons’ Conference in Rourkela: Effects of Rourkela Steel Plant on Adivasis

2010-03-07 Thread Sukla Sen
*The Conference at Kalunga, 6th 7th March 2010*Press Note * * *On Displaced Persons’ Conference, Rourkela, 6th 7th March, 2010,* *at Nava Jagriti, Kalunga* Based on German planning, one of the most advanced steel plants of the world at that time was constructed at Rourkela, Orissa, during

[GreenYouth] Equal Opportunities Commission Cleared by GoM: Tirades Unleashed!

2010-03-07 Thread Sukla Sen
[The upper house of the Indian Parliament is slated to take up today, on the centenary of Woman's Day, the historical move to amend the Indian Constitution to reserve one-third of the seats in legislatures for women, who are grossly unrepresented and still suffer from age-old burdens of

[GreenYouth] Women's Reservation Bill Triggers Civil War in Rajya Sabha: India Celebrates International Woman's Day Centenary!

2010-03-08 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/womens-bill-tabled-in-rajya-sabha-copies-torn-17381.php Women's Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha, copies torn NDTV

[GreenYouth] Kachcha Chittha Video Story 1

2013-11-06 Thread Sukla Sen
Kachcha Chittha Video Story 1 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kIp0ENLDPc Kachcha Chittha are series of investigative stories exposing the myth of Gujarat's development, governance, transparency. We are starting today Kachcha Chittha Video series which will run independent of the print stories.

[GreenYouth] Fwd: [भारत-चिँतन:21131] Re: Rajmohan Gandhi: Where does Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel belong?

2013-11-06 Thread Sukla Sen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sankara Narayanan psn.1...@gmail.com Date: 6 November 2013 17:58 Here is the full version: *Where does Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel belong?* 6 Nov, 2013, 05.40AM IST [image: The Sardar praised the RSS for defending vulnerable Hindus and Sikhs in

[GreenYouth] Sardar Patel on Nehru: We have worked as lifelong friends and colleagues

2013-11-07 Thread Sukla Sen
I/II. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/We-have-worked-as-lifelong-friends-and-colleagues-Patel-on-Nehru/articleshow/25345171.cms We have worked as lifelong friends and colleagues: Patel on NehruTNN | Nov 7, 2013, 05.54 AM IST NEW DELHI: Sardar

[GreenYouth] The family feud which is gripping India's media: Editor of ‘The Hindu’ newspaper resigns

2013-11-07 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/the-family-feud-which-is-gripping-indias-media-editor-of-the-hindu-newspaper-resigns-8925384.html The family feud which is gripping India's media: Editor of ‘The Hindu’ newspaper resigns Siddharth Varadarajan's ousting is the latest turbulent chapter

[GreenYouth] Helen Caldicott: 'Any country with a nuclear plant is a bomb factory'

2013-11-07 Thread Sukla Sen
‘Any country with a nuclear plant is a bomb factory’ http://rt.com/op-edge/authors/helen-caldicott/ Dr Helen Caldicott is one of the most articulate and passionate advocates of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises. http://on.rt.com/3nohkl Published time: November 07,

[GreenYouth] The reality of Narendra Modi’s politics

2013-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen

[GreenYouth] Who ya gonna call? Gurubusters!

2013-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.smh.com.au/world/who-ya-gonna-call-gurubusters-20131030-2whap.html Who ya gonna call? Gurubusters! DateOctober 31, 2013 - Read later Amrit Dhillon In the endless fight against superstition and fakery in India, campaigners for rationalism have to use every trick in the book to

[GreenYouth] Re: communal

2013-11-08 Thread Sukla Sen
This is just scare mongering by the Sangh Brigade. The draft bill proposes to provide additional protection to religious and linguistic minorities in a state and also to the members of the SC/ST communities. In fact Hindus too would get the special protection of the (proposed) Act where they are

[GreenYouth] Battle for Justice and Democracy Laxmanpur-Bathe -Kavita Krishnan

2013-11-10 Thread Sukla Sen
Date: 10 November 2013 Subject: Battle for Justice and Democracy : Laxmanpur-Bathe - Kavita Krishnan, EPW Battle for Justice and Democracy Laxmanpur-Bathe *-Kavita Krishnan* *The acquittal of the 26 people found guilty for the Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre of 1997 by the Patna High Court is a grave

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