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From Jericho Beach, Vancouver
The indefinite cancellation of the Celebration of Light is a real bummer. Hopefully, they can get funding and bring it back in future years.
National Day of Protest in Melbourne against indefinite detention of asylum seekers.
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... or not. The Trinity Leeds city-centre shopping development, now on ice for the indefinite future.
Metro's "indefinite delay" on the Red Line this morning forced me to get out at Judiciary Square. No big deal, except I was barely going to be on time as it was.
"Hey," I thought, "at least I can get Dunkin Donuts coffee."
Would have been a great plan, if my wallet weren't sitting at home on my table. My bag contains two copies of The New Yorker, an entire edition of the Post, the most recent Wired and a camera, but it doesn't have enough change to buy me a cup of the best coffee in the world.
By the time I got to 13th Street I'd found a few bucks for life-giving nectar from Caribou.
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Programme: Virtual Reality: Are You There? Is It Real?
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Opera creata dall'artista Mario E. D'ippolito Medarts (Creativo ). Pittura, 30 cm x 1 cm, OLIO A RILIEVO SU TAVOLA (PITT, ASTRATTO, TAVOLA TRATTATA, Numero Archivio 673, creata il 2004. . Il dipinto è fornito sul retro dell'Autentica Ufficiale composta da foto che ritrae il sottoscritto Autore con l'opera tra le mani, come descritto e visionabile nelle mie NEWS. Grazie per l'attenzione - mario COLLEZIONE PRIVATA LIVORNO. Archiviata in gigArte.com il 25/07/2009 20:44 con il codice GA21843. Visualizza le informazioni complete sull'opera all'indirizzo www.gigarte.com/GA21843. Altre opere dell'artista su www.gigarte.com/medarts.
Franklin Parker Preserve, Chatsworth, NJ. Originally identified as some sort of woodgrain, then as a possible Mullein Apamea (Apamea verbascoides), then as a possible Black-dashed Apamea (A. nigrior). I don't know. Apamea sp. it is.
To: Inner Drill Sergeant
From: Erin
RE: Indefinite Suspension
Please be advised that, effective immediately, your services will no longer be needed. I appreciate your long-standing commitment to yelling, bullying, berating, and shaming, and am pleased to inform you that you are now entitled to an honourable discharge from the war you created with me and my body.
While you were - at times - very effective in motivating me to overcome pain and achieve certain goals, at this point in time a shift in roles is needed. We are entering into a time of peace, and are focusing on voices that are nurturing, compassionate, gentle, and affirming. During this time of transition, I have connected with a community of over 80 positive and encouraging voices from around the world who will drown out your solitary negative voice and help me strengthen my inner voice of self-love and compassion. They are louder than you. We are stronger than you.
Best wishes to you in your twilight years,
Erin
Photograph of Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand, formerly Professor G D Agrawal, during his indefinite hunger strike to save Ganges published in tehelka on 05, October 2013.
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The Korematsu Institute has filed an amicus brief against the NDAA
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1~'11 NO TO INDEFINITE UNIVERSin STRIKE!.
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Bovcon the lndefinhe Hunger Strike bv the Reactionarv Pro-lvnudoh AISA-SFI Clique! OpposeLvnadoh! Uphold the JNUSU Constitution! .
Ever since the supreme court put a conditional stay on the ..l!·.t.~vU detrimental to the democratic space which the students of this elections in 2008 on the grounds of non-adherence to the Lyngdoh campus have painstakingly built over four decades of struggle. This Committee Recommendations, the representatives of the revisionist become very clear from the declared objectives of the ongoing 'Left' on campus-AI SA and SFI-have been hoodwmking the AISA-SFIIed hunger strike. to pressurise the administration (1) to students through their deceitful and opportunistic brand of politics. It set up aGrievance Redressal Cell (2) and to notify the JNUSU .
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Defeat the anempts hv the lapdogs of Lvngdoh to deceive the students in the name of mass deputation! .
The loyal lapdogs of Lyngdoh SFI-AISA are unitedly up in arms once again. They are now asking students to come for a .
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mass 'deputation' to ensure the formation of the Grievance Redressal Cell -the most dangerous provision of LCR that will give .
the administration enormous punitive powers to render an union into a puppet. And as these pro-Lyngdoh agents are struggling .
to invite Lyngdoh by hook or by crook, they are now implicating the Joint Struggle Committee (JSC) in their own abject surrender. .
Last evening, the campus saw a call for Mass Deputation in the form of the notice from JSC. The JSC is a collective body .
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consisting of various organizations with the sole mandate of fighting Lyngdoh legally and politically. Neither can JSC be .
1m: aiated in the surrender to what its mandate tells it to fight against, nor can any notice be issued in its name without .
a consensus amongst all the constituent organizations. Without any consultation let alone consensus, such opportunistic .
use of JSC as a platform is nothing but criminal violation of democratic spirit and ethos which JSC strives to uphold in its fight .
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against Lyngdoh. .
Indulging in their characteristic politics of lies and deceit, these two bankrupt so called left organizations are tossing .
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away every form of progressive and democratic functioning. To meet their own as well as YFE's political agenda of bringing .
Lyngdoh to this campus, they are meticulously destroying the painstakingly built tradition of JNU's student movement. And since .
they are not willing to take organizational responsibility for this sell out, they wish to take refuge behind the JSC. But whon1 .
exactly are they trying to fool? Such undermining of democratic norms and ethos on the part of forces that have already accepted .
Lyngdoh in their own practice is not at all surprising. However, we would like to warn these stooges of Lyngdoh against any .
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misappropriation of the platform of JSC. .
The Grievance Redressal Cell if formed will be permanent punitive body in the university giving the administration .
immense powers to control and curtail JNUSU in each and every step -before, during and after the elections. They now .
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want the students to believe the fable they have themselves conjured up -that an election which even to commence is .
completely at the mercy of the administration will eventually give us a JNUSU that would fight the administration for the genuine .
grievances of the students! In the name of mass deputation what these pro-Lyngdoh forces are doing is plain deception! .
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We must expose this game plan of the bootlickers of Lyngdoh SFI-AISA. DSU calls upon the student community to oppose all such moves by these sold out forces and carry on the struggle against Lyngdoh..
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Committee democratically elected by the students through school been carried out by the reactionary right-wing forces in the campus GBMS to notify and conduct the elections, and this has been the wh1ch were diametrically agamst the interests of the students and practice ever since JNUSU came into existence decades ago. This the democratic ethos of the campus. YFE's hunger strike against mechanism established by the JNUSU Constitution has ensured the 27% OBC reservation in 2006 is one such instance. The student neutrality of the EC and safeguarded the autonomy and community of the campus never endorsed such 'struggles' because independence of the elected union. To demand the administration to of the reactionary nature of these 'struggle' and their anti-student .
notify elections and to oversee its conduct through the GRC is content, which were aimed at strengthening the hands of the nothing but to give up the democratic exercise of students' un1on administration. In fact, the progressive and democratic sections of election, to forego the autonomy and independence of the student the campus have actively opposed such demands and ensured that community and to wilfully throw the JNUSU Constitution into the such reactionary agitations fail to meet their desired goal. dustbin. And this is precisely what AISA-SFI is doing through this The real content of the ongoing indefinite hunger strike by 'agitation', and thereby fulfilling their role as the sold-out agents of .
Lyngdoh, Gopal Subhramanlam Kapil Sibal and the administration.
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we were stuck indefinitely in the middle of the night at the Mandalay Train Station. That might sound romantic (Mandalay evoking all sorts of magical mystical notions) but it wasn't. Nobody gave any explanations of why the train hadn't come or any predictions of when it might. Freaking Buddhist countries, nobody seems to care, they just accept it with equanimity and set up to sleep on the platform. We, however, were going a little bit crazy. This is us at the peak of our crazy-ness holding the water we bought that looked like car coolant.
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"FQLDED HANDS, BENT KNEES" COMRADES CLAIM-'HALF VICTORY' COMMU-KIDS ARE BACK ON JOB "GROWING MANGOES ON CACTUS TREES" Dear Friends, .
Ct.l'tains have drawn & the JNU's Commu dlaaa is finally over. The 'historic struggle' in the form of their one-millionth and something 'indefinite' hunger strike by comrades is wound up. It has sure been a 'historic' event because for the first time, the communists of JNU got a scare oftheir lifetime when they were thoroughly exposed and isolated within the student community of JNU. The poor response, almost that of contemptuous apathy" that 'greeted' the fasting comrades, made them "read the writing never ever more than 3~0students were seen near the hunger sbike venue. Even at 1he time of protest demonstration, the on the wan. Contrary to the boastful claims of the communist brigade of having majority of students coming out in their support, response of the student community was lukewarm, at best Of course, the left propaganda machine had wot1ced overtime to .
magnify" this support by using Manuwadi media. But Ah! ff truth could be hidden.....! No surprise that the comrades ultimately .
collapsed and surrendered. .
In their cunningly crafted post-compromise pamphlet, the let-shit brigade has again tried to win students' sympathy by .
including anything & evetything in their so taUed charter of demands. Whenever the comrades find themselves in trouble, .
immediately the 'charter of demands' hogwastt ~ propped up to divert students' attention from the real issue and ~in~ .
sympathy. Who doesn't know that this so caRed charter of demands is a 6-7 years old piece of paper which has, tiU date, been .
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or when the comrades are in some aisis situation. But, these comrades are or were never interested in soMng the real problems .
"printed"-"reprinte<f' & "re-reprinteOi1Sider' the punishment, .
SJIX)()Se(ly made by the Vece Chancellor_ The siaeaple fact remains that the comrades wete simply waitit1Q for an oppo1lunity to .
escape from the situation, which the admn, happily provided. .
THE FARCE OF "FAST" .
India abounds with many such self-styled leaders adopting such "bback maiing tadics to get lhcit ooreasonable decnands (or The drama of Indefinite fa& or 'fast irio death' is n'ot something unheard in the Indian political context The history of .
whims) accepted ftoru the govt. Thafs why Babasaheb Ambedkar always opposed such fooish and oodemoaatic II tealIS to get .
their demands accepted. The comedy of.all such 'fasts unto death' is ~ttiU date not even a single "taste(' has died ~use_of .
' his misadventure since they fully know that the authorities shall definitely save them from death. Thafs why they continue wellt .
their drama unabatedly and unashamedly. .
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the hungry stomachs of the fasting comradeS couldn't resist the irresWile smel of Chid<en Biryani and Paneer Paranthas .
emar.ating from ~earby Mamu's dhc=:Ja. ~1~, .
reduce the smeU quotient" of his popular dishes or else -be readv to go the Nescafe way. Mamu-Better watch out! .
(unwittingly] rendered to stop this drama). You never know ifthe JNU comrades go for another strike next month to force Mamu to .
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THE RFAI GII.JIE THAT WAS.......! .
As far as the ·inside· information, ttvough its reliable S<Uces, received by BSF goes, the 'brave' comrades pleaded before the admiisbation for saving them from this prediCament Hence, in consultation wide the senior convades Ike Yectuy/ Karat etc, a verbal "mercy petition" was sent to the JNU authorities for some face saving formula for these 'bogus brave hearts. A .
"safe passage was devised to find a way out for them so that commu-kids can be honorably saved. Meanwhile, the publicity managers of /ef-shits brigade were trying to create public opinion by writing big-big articles in newspapers & magazines spreading .
blatant lies about the whole affair (Move over Mr Goebbel-The manuwadi Marxists have taken over now). Even the day, the .
drama ended, a large section of the Manuwadi media declared that the JNU Admn. has 'st.n"endered' and -v.ilhdcawn the .
can be cut into half like cutting a full pant into Bermuda shorts). The fact rema1ns that the rustication order has not been revoked rustication orde,.-. The comrades, on their part, brought out their own 'victory' _statement by claiming 'half ~--=bY (as if '\rictory' .
tiD date. But one thing is clear that 1he lefshits stand fully exposed, bringing out misleading posters and pamphlets based on .
falsehood and incorrect facts. But then, thafs what comrades are best known for. As far as BSF is concerned, we .-eon with ow .
~/18th July, when we shall come out with our next .
campaign to expose them. Please wait . PARDAPHASH ofthe JNU Comrades.. Date: 17-47-2007.
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jnusu join Solidarity Public Meeting indefinite hunger strike day.
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onwards to Ensuring Social Inclusion and De-.
mocratising Higher Education Lenin (President JNUSU), Shakeel (Gen Secy.
JNUSU), Anubhuti (Councilor, SSS), Sarfaraz.
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30 Oct AC Prof. Kamal M. Chenoy, SIS, JNU (Councilor, SLL&CS), Anirban, Ashutosh,.
Meeting Bibek, Devika, Kanhaiya, Kingshuk,Nilma-.
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speakers.
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Dr. D.K.Lobiyal, SC&SS, JNU.
Sushil, Kopal (Day 2), Sachin(Day 2), Sharat.
Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, Editor, Milli Gazzette (Day1), Surendra (Day1).
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Dr. Ajay Karnati, SLL&CS, JNU Geeta(Councilor, SLL&CS), Abhinay, Abhishek,.
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26 Oct Tonight Dr. Anwar Alam, SLL&CS, JNU Akanksha, Akaash, Aman, Amutha, Arvind Kumar,.
Avinash, Fatima, Fayaz, Gaurav, Jagdish, Jyoti.
9.30pm Dr. Parnal Chirmuley, SLL&CS, JNU Kapoor, Kundan Raj, Lalit, Marina, Mayur, Nainy,.
Nagmani, Niloy Krittika, Prakash, Puhabi, Rahila,.
Ad Block Dr. Ramchandra, SLL&CS, JNU Sanjay Prajapati, Shyamla, Simran, Subin, Nikhil,.
Sundarsha,Vikas, Vikash.
Dr. G. Ajay, SSS, JNU.
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The upcoming AC meeting of 30 Oct 2012 is crucial in several ways: several important issues which will define the future.
of JNU are to be decided in this AC meeting. We live in times when the student community is facing multiple assaults in the.
form of fee hikes, commercialization and privatization of campus spaces and facilities and user charges even for basic facilities..
We live in times when the very idea of an inclusive, democratic campus is under attack - when powers-that-be are scuttling.
democratic spaces of dissent..
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It is in these times that JNUSU is waging an important struggle for social inclusion and greater democratization of higher.
education. Today, the fourth day of JNUSU's indefinite hunger strike will begin, and we remain committed to carry forward.
our struggle against the 30% weightage of viva marks, against the undemocratic Menon committee recommendations, for.
enhancement of MCM and time period of the non-net UGC fellowship, against the delinking of the BA/MA programme in SL,.
for minority deprivation points, strengthening EOO and defending the autonomy of GSCASH. What is at stake is a vision of.
a university that opens its doors to students from all marginalized and deprived social backgrounds. We raise these demands.
with a dream of a truly inclusive and affordable educational institution..
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The high weightage of viva marks in JNU's entrance has remained a major structural obstacle to ensuring social justice..
Today, extensive analysis has proved beyond doubt that the 30% weightage leaves a huge space for subjective discretion and.
discrimination. We now know from 5-year data of all centres and schools in JNU that on an average, SC/ST/OBC/PH students.
systematically and routinely perform much worse in the viva exam - even if they perform at par in the written exam, their poor.
performance in the viva voce overrides their performance in the written exam. Today, despite TWO Supreme Court verdicts.
stating that weightage of viva marks cannot be more than 15%, JNU continues with this blatant illegality. While it has.
become impossible for anyone to deny the discrimination in the viva voce, the facts are too telling. However, we are still.
seeing massive reluctance from some sections to give up the huge discretionary space and powers that the 30% viva.
weightage provides..
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The issue of the extremely poor representation of Muslim students in JNU is a well established fact (if one were to exclude.
Muslims in four centres of JNU, the proportion of Muslims is less than 8%), and JNU as an institution has to ensure that proactive.
steps are taken to address this issues through implementing deprivation points for Muslims..
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Moreover, the JNU administration has introduced the highly problematic Menon committee report in the agenda of the.
upcoming AC meeting, with several problematic clauses that have been repeatedly pointed out. JNUSU had successfully.
opposed these recommendations in March 2012, and this time around too, we have to ensure that this report does not get passed..
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After yesterday's Protest Demonstration at SL against the delinking of the BA/MA programme, the Dean of SL once again.
promised to "reopen" the debate on the issue. The student community has already developed several arguments, bolstered.
by HARD FACTS, against the delinking - and in the days to come, we will have to ensure that all the JNU administration's.
machinations against our facts do not succeed. There are several academic problems in SL, which are reflected in the high.
drop-out rates in SL, and instead of addressing these issues, the JNU administration keeps coming up with unilateral knee-jerk.
reactions!.
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In this era of skyrocketing mess bills, we have to ensure that the JNU administration keeps its promise to JNUSU and student.
community regarding enhancement of MCM and time period of the non-net UGC fellowship. The hostel crisis in JNU.
continues and the JNU administration must speeded up the construction of new hostels to address this crisis..
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Strengthening of the EOO through ensuring student representation, and defending GSCASH in the face of multiple.
assaults on its autonomy remain very important issues for the JNUSU and the student community..
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Today, as the 4th day of the indefinite hunger strike starts, JNU has organised a solidarity Public Meeting with several faculty.
members on social inclusion and democratisation of higher education - where all these issues will be discussed. We appeal.
to the student community to participate in large numbers in this meeting at the Ad Block from 9.30 pm onwards..
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V. Lenin Kumar, Shakeel Anjum , Piyush Raj,.
President, JNUSU Gen. Secy., JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
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The highly controversial issue of genetically modified (GM) crops has once more catapulted into national limelight. For the past few years, public opinion against GM has been building up, owing to a nationwide campaign. Finally earlier this month, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced an indefinite moratorium on the introduction of Bt Brinjal and its commercial production in India in the face of massive public opposition. In doing so, Ramesh overruled the recommendations of the Genetic Engineering Approvals Committee (GEAC) which sanctioned the introduction of Bt Brinjal in October last year. .
The debate that has fortunately happened on Bt Brinjal has raised several important issues: Firstly, it has proved that there is no shortcut for a careful long-drawn, scientific analysis of the possible impacts of introducing GM crops. Bt Brinjal is the first ever such GM food crop anywhere in the world with the toxin-producing Bt gene in it. Indeed, all other GM crops used widely across the world are either eaten in processed form (like Bt soya in the US) or used after industrial refining (corn or rapeseed oil). Therefore, in this case, the need for research was all the more important. Secondly, it has proved that the necessary scientific research required before clearing GM crops rarely happens (in the case of Bt Brinjal for instance, only 4-5 of the required 29 tests have been done, that too in a shoddy manner). Thirdly, the debate has also brought to the limelight serious issues of vested interests, accountability and corporate takeover of scientific research, especially in areas that could have wide-ranging ramifications for public health. In the case of Bt Brinjal for instance, almost the entire research that has been done (and on the basis of which the GEAC cleared Bt Brinjal) has been conducted by Monsanto-Mahyco -the company which is responsible for developing and promoting Bt Brinjal. Can we really "trust" this research done by the very company that stands to gain significantly from the introduction of Bt Brinjal? The clear answer to this question, going by the horrific track record of multinational corporations to lie, manipulate and suppress facts, is an emphatic no. .
In the maze of the claims and counter-claims over Bt Brinjal, we need to ask ourselves certain fundamental questions. What will the introduction of GM crops mean for Indian agriculture? What will it do to the livelihoods of the Indian farming community? What repercussions will it have for democratic participation in decision-making over something as basic as what one should eat? GM crops are part of a larger package of trade liberalization and corporate globalization: farm saved seeds are replaced by corporate seeds, which need fertilizers and pesticides and cannot be saved. Corporations prevent seed savings through patents and by engineering seeds with non-renewable traits. As a result, poor peasants have to buy new seeds for every planting season and what was traditionally a free resource, available by putting aside a small portion of the crop, becomes a commodity strictly under the control of a handful of MNCs. .
Moreover, the introduction of GM crops almost finishes off the production of local, non-GM varieties -a phenomenon that could be a potential death knell for the rich biodiversity in Indian farms if replicated for food crops. Let us not forget that it is precisely this biodiversity that ensures the survival of millions of poor farmers in the country. Also, the experience of Bt cotton in India, or even of GM crops grown abroad proves that claims of increased 'production' from GM crops are pure myth. In the case of Bt cotton in India, the productivity (yield per hectare) has actually fallen after the introduction of Bt cotton. Not just this, hitherto unknown insect pests have spread, causing significant economic losses for the farmers, and the pesticide usage by farmers has actually increased. Governments like the UPA, which are loathe to increase the access of the millions of poor people to food grains, find the false rhetoric of 'increased production' from GM crops a useful cover to hide their real agenda of handing over Indian agriculture on a platter to large and powerful multinational corporations. Also, the entire emphasis on 'productivity' hides a more important concern: the central problem concerning agriculture today is not the shortage of food; rather it is the flawed distribution process. .
In this context, it is important to see Jairam Ramesh's decision in perspective. For those who have been campaigning against GM crops over the past many years, it is clear that Ramesh was forced to bow down to massive public opinion against Bt Brinjal. Renowned scientists (including Dr. Pushpa Bhargava who is a nominee of the Supreme Court on the GEAC, and Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, who ironically is one of the architects of the Green Revolution) from India and abroad publicly advocated a ban on the commercial introduction of Bt Brinjal. Dr. Bhargava has gone to the extent of publicly stating several times (including a much-publicized letter to Ramesh) that the Chairman of the GEAC (Dr. Arjula Reddy) had agreed with his assessment that eight essential tests to ensure the safety of consuming Bt Brinjal had not been conducted by Mahyco (the company promoting Bt Brinjal). Dr. Bhargava has also stated that Prof Arjula Reddy had complained to him of being under tremendous pressure to clear Bt Brinjal and had received calls from the Agricultural Minister, the GEAC and industry to this affect. Such public revelations were the worst possible indictment of Bt Brinjal. Moreover, most state governments including Andhra Pradesh (where farmers have faced considerable problems after shifting to Bt cotton), Kerala, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh opposed Bt Brinjal; several NGOs and reputed independent research institutions have also worked very hard at building a nationwide campaign against GM crops in general and Bt Brinjal in particular. Obviously, and quite simply, Bt Brinjal was just too hot a potato for Jairam Ramesh to handle, given the extent of opposition. .
It is clear that the UPA and the biotechnology industry is no mood to allow another such 'disaster' to happen -and the proposed National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority (NBRA) Bill, 2009 (prepared by the Department of Biotechnology, which is a wing of the ministry of science and technology) is the UPA's solution to muzzling any possible opposition to future GM products. The proposed NBRA has provisions that can put a person in jail for a minimum of six months and impose a fine of Rs 2 lakhs for 'misleading public about organism and products (read voicing genuine criticism and concern). Holding demonstrations against a university or trying to 'obstruct' research could invite imprisonment for three months and a fine of Rs 5 lakh! Such a draconian law (obviously instituted on the behest of the powerful biotech industry) is on the lines of proposed legal provisions in the US which will effectively outlaw organic farming. Jairam Ramesh, even as he was announcing the moratorium on Bt Brinjal, apparently mentioned that this moratorium period should be used to get politics right. What he meant by this is now clear: for the UPA, this translates to creating a 'favourable' political situation where all potentially embarrassing information is neatly hidden away from the public domain! .
The debate over Bt Brinjal has obviously raised several fundamental questions. It is important for us to remember that Bt Brinjal was produced as part of a US-sponsored programme a Public Private Partnership of various institutions with MNCs like Monsanto and Mahyco. It was a direct effect of the Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture, signed alongside the Nuke Deal. The repercussions are now out in the open: it is now clear that we need an informed discussion not just on Bt Brinjal, but on every GM crop that the government (backed by corporations) wants to promote. We need far greater accountability from the scientific community as well as from the seed and biotech industry. We need to institute legislations that provide for punitive action and compensation in case of adverse impacts from GM crops; rather than legislations like the NBRA like seek to gag protesting voices. .
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AGENDA FOR JNUSU 2003-04 The ABVP also opposes the politlcization of Indian .
programme we have started to arrange tricycles,History Congress by historians like lrfan Habib, Romila scholarships, and other accessories to the physicallyThe Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is working for the Thapar, Mridula MukherJee and others. These politically challenged and needystudents. Most recently, theABVPmotivated histonan should realize that there is no teeth in.
last 55 years in the educational field with the goal ofcomplete on four day indefinite hunger strike successfully against the.
their argument after the recent verdict of the Supreme Court.
National Reconstruction by channelising students' power eviction order served to a Mahi-Mandavi resident..
in relation to the so called saffronization of NCERT sytlabus..
under the banner of Cultural Nationalism. The Parishad has We further demand that the curriculum should be more During the course of the year 2000-2001, the ABVP led.
always taken the lead in fighting divisive and disruptive forces lndianised and updated. JNUSU fulfilled the long standing demand of a Railwayand safeguarding national interests irrespective of the .
Reservation Counter on the campus, ATM facility in the SBIpoHtjcal party in power. We have undertaken the task of Our vision of a nationalist and culturally informed .
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deansing the education system of the colonial legacy and education system, which has now received legal backing, is computers to be used by students of each centre. pu~asserting our national identity. We dream of a confident and fundamentally different from the Communist understanding of 4000 books for the Central Library, started a Students'rejuvenated Bharat, free from social inequalities and want of what should constitute an ideal education system. The Wetfare Fund, resolved to a great extend the hostel a isisonof material needs and economic opportunities. Vidyarthi arm-chair intellectuals of the Left and their patrons in the the campus by expedrting the building and anotment ofMahi-Parishad stands for a social transformation which nurtures Congress have been equally responsible forthe continuation Mandavi, and starting of wori( on two more hostels in IIMII.
the diversity of our natjonal life by reiterating our common of an education system which aims at producing youth who campus, etc.dvilisational experience. are Indian by blood but English by tastes and habits. WesternThe JNUSU election 2003-04 is taking place in the terminology and modes of knowledge still enjoy a complete The politics of the Students Federation of India hinoes backdrop of a emerging confident and resurgent nation. The hegemony and indigenous forms of knowledge are frowned around lies, rumour-mongering and divisive politics basad economic indicators are strong and lhe_GDP growth rate is upon. It is in this context that we welcome the nationalist and upon region, religion, caste and creed. They have tried toculturally informed education policyenvisaged by the present whip up paranoia over theirdisinformation campaign in outer.
expected to be dose to 07% owing ~o good monsoon, brilliantexport and industrial revival and commendable fiscal government. Such an initiative alone will help us in to conceal their utter failure to articulate or pursue any .
management. The leadership provided to developing developing our indigenous system of knowledge and constructive agenda for the campus. On the contrary, Vldyadhi .
nations and undeveloped countries by India in Cancun breaking free from categories like 'rational', 'scientific', Parishad stands committed to an agenda, which seeks to.
benefrt the student community and the nation. Our foals for.
further strengthens our resolve to undermine the 'progressive' etc, which are an offshoot ofthe Enlightenment.
hegemonistic mechanisms sought to be introduced in WTO. discourse of 18th century Europe, which found its way into the coming year will be on the following issues: .
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Indian efforts to enter into multilateral understanding with India with British colonialism. ~ .
Course restructuring in various subjects of differentdifferent nations to counter terrorism at global and local level centres, both humanities and sciences, in view d lheshould be supported and promoted at all costs. Terrorism Agenda for the JNU campus changing needs and demands of society.continues to threaten our security through monstrous Last year the SFI-AISF alliance was able to win all the » Setting up of a Central Placement. Bureau for JNU todesigns. Terrorism as an ideology should be countered at four central panel posts owing to their unholy nexus with Cater to students of all schools and centres so thatall levels. The dastardly attack on Chandrababu Naidu by NSUI-AISA. The SFI led JNUSU remained defunct for the research work is also integrated with the job marketPWG is condemnable and its points towards the fact that .
whol~ year with the major problems of students community ) Ensure students scholarship of at least Rs. 20001-perterrorist outfits backed by the communists and Islamic remaining unaddressed. The protesting residents of Mahi-month for Ph.D Scholars..
fundamentalists continues to pose threat to our nationalunity and integrity. Mandavi were fined heavily with the SFIIedJNUSU remaining ) Oppose commercialisation of education in JNU at snya mute spectator. The JNUSU office bearers only intervened cost and resist the introduction of further short-tumWe also appreciate the remarkable achievements which to brokera deal with the Admn. and extracted apology letters courses. India achieved underthe presentgovt. in the diplomaticfront from the protesting residents in lieu ofreduction ofthe amount ) Effect a merger of the School of lnfonnation Tectlfd)gyIndia has been recognized as an equal player in various of fines. Today the SFI led JNUSU is not in a position to and School of Computer and Systems Sciences, so thatinternational issues notonly by herexisting allies like Russia, claim a single achievement to its credit. the latter is not bypassed in any way..
South East Asia and others but also by other important The ABVP was the first organisation to raise its voice )> Ensure further grants for upgradation of the Library,nations like United States of America, Israel, The Middle .
against the heavy fines imposed on the Mahi-Mandavi purchase of necessary books and journals, andEast, China and the European Union. To cite in two important residents. We continuously resisted the attempts of the SFI extending the opening time of the Central Ubrary til 12example are the recognition of India as a equal partner in led JNUSU to start a Co-operative Mess in Mahi-Mandavi. It midnight all the year round and 2 AM during endthe recent G-8 Summit and the deletion of Sikkim as a was the result of such endeavours that today the Mahi-semesters..
independent country in the official Chinese maps which is Mandavi Mess facility is regularised. The ABVP has also » To ensure proper funding of the libraries concernedan acknow1edgment by the Chinese leadership that Sikkim started programme to reach out to the physically challenged different centres so that required books and jouiilsin an integral part of India. .
and socially deprived section of the society. Under such may be made available on regular basis. .
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Æble, the Danish word for apple is a neuter noun.
Indefinite singular (apple) - æble
Definite singular (the apple) - æblet
Indefinite plural (apples) - æbler
Definite plural (the apples) - æblerne
On my index card for to-day, I have the definite singular (æblet, the apple). After deciding to use a tree (from the Medieval Village set), I thought shooting vertically world work better, but then I didn't have much space for writing, which is just as well because I had to double-check my inflections and I would have had the definite plural wrong. I put ÆBLET in all caps because I can't write a good-looking æ for the life of me. Because it's out-of-focus, the capitals make it easier to read too.