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Naxalites incited Nandigram and Singur flare-up, Buddha tells P

KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has submitted a report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in which he has squarely blamed the Naxalites for inciting farmers not merely in N… more »

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Under Development: Singur — 1 comment

Shivam Vij wrote 2 weeks ago: If you are in Kolkata between 27 June and 2 July, you may do well to visit the Seagull Arts and Med … more »

Tags: capitalism, countryside, everyday life, excavation, Images, Left watch, Media & Politics, Movements, CPI(M)

Prasanta Chakravarty - Of Demos, Innovation and Affect — 6 comments

Nivedita Menon wrote 4 weeks ago: Carrying forward the debate around Partha Chatterjee’s article in EPW. by PRASANTA CHAKRAVARTY In … more »

Tags: capitalism, Debates, Politics, Theory, Partha Chatterjee, political society

Nandigram Timeline (22 August 2005 -- 17 June 2008)

Asis Kumar Das wrote 1 month ago: Note: for PDF, download from http://www.scribd.com/doc/3604739/Nandigram-Timeline-22-August-2005-1 … more »

Tags: Movement Timeline, Chemical Hub, Land movement, movement, Special Economic Zone, west bengal

Pranab has word of advice for West Bengal CM — 11 comments

barunroy wrote 1 month ago: Kolkata, June 14 (PTI) External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asked West Bengal Chief Mini … more »

Tags: News, Kolkata, west bengal chief minister, external affairs minister pranab mukherjee, buddhadev bhattacharjee, merchants' chamber of commerce, Singur

Democracy and Economic Transformation - Partha Chatterjee — 6 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 1 month ago: [Political theorist Partha Chatterjee's work has been the reference point for many contemporary theo … more »

Tags: bad ideas, capitalism, Debates, Politics, Theory, Partha Chatterjee, passive revolution, peasant cultures, political society

'Left and Right are joined at the hip of violence' — 8 comments

churumuri wrote 1 month ago: Martha C. Nussbaum, the distinguished professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, has … more »

Tags: Issues and Ideas, churumuri, Taslima Nasreen, Martha C Nussbaum, dissent magazine, west bengal, Singur, Rizwanur Rehman

Bengal orders minority survey — 2 comments

barunroy wrote 1 month ago: Calcutta, May 28: The erosion in the CPM’s minority vote share, laid bare by the rural poll result … more »

Tags: In Newspapers Today, abdus sattar, bengal government, CPM, east midnapore, malda, murshidabad, muslims, south 24 parganas

Stalemate in Darjeeling

barunroy wrote 1 month ago: The two sides agreed to disagree at Thursday’s meeting between the Chief Minister and a delegation … more »

Tags: In Newspapers Today, gjmm, Siliguri, sixth schedule, darjeeling gorkha hill council, Lok Sabha, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Chief Minister, Kolkata

I Have To Write - III

Arjun Sen wrote 1 month ago: Trilogies are treacherous - this one is certainly one - I have no idea whether I can link this one w … more »

Tags: communism, Politics, Socialism, Add new tag

Fight Against the Terror in Nandigram, Build Your Own Independent & United Struggle

housingstruggles wrote 2 months ago: by the Sramik Sangram Committee, translated and published in Sanhati 18 May 2008, republished by Hyd … more »

Tags: Repression, Résistance, land, India, autonomy

I Have To Write - II — 1 comment

Arjun Sen wrote 2 months ago: As far as writing is concerned I am going through some kind of depression  - I just can’t get … more »

Tags: communism, Equality, Freedom, Politics, rizwanur murder, Rizwanur Rehman

I Have To Write!

Arjun Sen wrote 2 months ago: When you write it is difficult not to get immersed in yourself and your thoughts and become conceite … more »

Tags: collective ownership, Equality, Politics

Nandigram: Two new articles from Sanhati

housingstruggles wrote 2 months ago: Sanhati 1. Nandigram on the eve of the Panchayet Elections - A MASUM report 2. They insist your show … more »

Tags: Repression, Bengal, sanhati, CPI(M), masum, sinha, India

The Commies Are At It Again! — 1 comment

Quirky Indian wrote 2 months ago: It is amazing how the communists in India, despite the worst transgressions, manage to maintain a sq … more »

Tags: India, Politics, News, Thoughts, Human Rights

Free Swings-II

Sudarshan Suresh wrote 2 months ago: A Brilliant decision by the Bengal Governor but since I am not used to this level of thought by the … more »

Tags: Gopalakrishna Gandhi, Power Cut, west bengal, knight rider, tributes.com, monster.com

Naked run for life in Nandigram - Woman says she was stripped, chased and beaten in front of cops

barunroy wrote 2 months ago: Nandigram, May 5: A woman ran naked half a kilometre in Nandigram after she was stripped and thrashe … more »

Tags: In Newspapers Today, bhoomi uchchhed pratirodh committee, CPM, guwahati, keyakhali village

CPRM foregoes food for Gorkhaland, villagers for electricity

barunroy wrote 2 months ago: DARJEELING, April 24: The Communist Party Revolutionary Marxists launched a hunger strike in the Dar … more »

Tags: In Newspapers Today, bijanbari, bindiya dukpa, chattrey subba, communist party revolutionary marxists, cprm, Darjeeling, democratic revolutionary women's front, gnlf

Nandigram: My Name is Radharani Ari and This is How My Consciousness Was Raised.

housingstruggles wrote 2 months ago: This first-person report first appeared in the Doinik Statesman, Kolkata, 20 April 2008 and was tran … more »

Tags: Repression, Accumulation by dispossession, predatory urbanism, rape

Bengal bandh ‘blessed’ by EC

barunroy wrote 3 months ago: Calcutta, April 17: In Bengal, even the Election Commission gives right of way to bandhs. The state … more »

Tags: In Newspapers Today, trinamul congress, Bengal, Calcutta, CPM, Panchayat, Mamata Banerjee, election commission, bangla bandh