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1. Ride into the sun, 2. Geneva lake in spring, 3. Thinking About Holidays..., 4. Untitled, 5. Untitled, 6. Untitled, 7. Untitled, 8. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.â€,
9. By the lake, 10. The light of Life, 11. Frost, 12. Winter, 13. Untitled, 14. From Fihalhohi Island , Maldives, 15. Torrent de Pareis, Mallorca, 16. Santorini impressions,
17. Grauseewli Lake, 18. "Sustenbrüggli" or just a summer day in Swiss Alps, 19. Mediterranean Sunset, 20. Head in the clouds...., 21. Fuerteventura landscape, 22. Santorini Sunset, 23. Santorini - Details, 24. Spring....,
25. Cinque Terre - Manarola village, 26. Freedom, 27. Untitled, 28. The Creek, 29. Swiss Alps, 30. Morning, 31. Eugenisee, 32. Zurich by night,
33. Vierwaldstättersee- Lake Luzern in autumn, 34. Sunset, 35. Red roses from my garden, 36. Fields of Gold, 37. There are landscapes that captures your soul forever, 38. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing ..., 39. The Great Aletsch Glacier, 40. “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itselfâ€,
41. Tenerife Landscape, 42. Blausee, 43. Field of Dreams, 44. Sunset, 45. Balos Lagoon, 46. April day, 47. Walensee, 48. “And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.â€,
49. Venice, 50. Louvre, 51. Untitled, 52. Louvre, 53. In the middle of the day, 54. Silvaplana, 55. Life is journey..., 56. Baden on holy night,
57. Chamonix Mont Blanc, 58. Morning, 59. Sunflowers, 60. Lava Landscape, 61. Red mountain, 62. About Love, 63. This magic moment ..., 64. On Top of The World,
65. Good evening from Switzerland, 66. Taking a little break, 67. Life goes on...., 68. Autumn in Alps, 69. Landscape, 70. Schloss Kasteln, 71. In the middle of the day ..., 72. Red Flowers Cover
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For Hit1di Version All India Students' Association (A:ISA) .
See Ot·~rleaf Join Public Meeting Massive Protest Demo. The Question Of Palestine -Implications OfThe Emerging India-US-Israel Axis Against~ Ariel Sharon's India visitSpeaker·s .
India Gate-Shhjahan ~ Achin Vanaik, Noted Political Commentator Road Crossing Prof. S.D. Munl, SIS, JNU 9.9.03 (Tuesday;.
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4-9-03 (Tonight), 9.30PM 11 AM.
£ SutleJ Mess, .
Oppose The Saffron Pact With Sharon ! ~ Killer Sharon Go Back ! .
Stand By India's Principled Support For The Cause Of Palestine 1 .
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On theanniversary ofthe 9/11 attackon the WTC towers, the BJP government hasrolled out the red carpetforthe Israeli.PM-Adel .
Sharon. Themessage the BJP wishes to send is nakedly clear -"Israel, the US' closefriend, is now India'sally in the 'fightagSiriSt .
terror' tAccording to BJP, "both India and Israel are nations whose people are inhabiting their "spiritual/scriptural h~: and .
are victims ofterrorism atthe handsofIslamic intruders within their nations." We, the democraticpeopleofIndiacan neither accept .
mmunallydistorted vision ofour country nor the alliance with Ariel Sharon who istheleaderofone·ofthe most radst .
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Thestate of Israel asa "homeland"forthe Jewscameintobeingwith thebackingofBritish colonial IX7Net .
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In 1941. the·UN811ottecfA'tOi'81tiarifiilfc5f'Palestine to Israel, and .
through continuous war, incursions. and occupation which arecontinuing t111 date. lnsJ)fte .
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to end the existence of Israel. Their struggle Is only for Palestine's right to co-exist as a sovereign nation based on the .
principles of secularism and democracy along with Israel and for basic human rights and equality for Palestinian .
citizens. From the Palestenian perspective, accepting the idea oftwo states has been an enormous conce:;sion, one that involves .
giving up almost 80% ofthe historical Palestinian homeland.{The West Bank and Gaza Strip which constitute only 22% ofthe .
historical Palestine is underdiscuss1on for the future Palestine state.) Yet. Palestinians today are routinely driven offtheir lands into .
refugee camps, their homes are demolished, they are subjected to dtfferent laws. dtfferent coloured 10 cards and lrcense plates. and ev~n different roads marked "Non-Jewish"! Are these humiliations not a replication ofthe racrsm ofNazi Germany, where .
Jewswere forced to display the "Yellow StarofDavid" ?~ In 1993, the US mediated Oslo Accords promised the formation ofa sovereign Palestinian state. Instead, the result was more .
sophisticated occupation and apartheid. Nowthe Bush sponsored "Road Mapto Peace"once again promises Palestinian statehood .
!! But far from being committed to Palestintan soveretgnty this ts nothing but a move by the US to set itselfup as ..bringerofpeace to .
~ the region" after its occupation of Iraq..
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Palestlnlans daily suffergenocideand terror at the hands ofthe Israeliregime-yet Israel projects itselfas the 'victim' of terror.The .
truth is that for decades, the broad mass ofthe Palestinians have conducted their brave liberation struggle, armed with nothing but .
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stones and rifles in the face of the Israeli tanks and F-16 fighterjets. Suicide bombings by desperate Palestinian youths. which .
target Innocent Israeli civilians, are highly condemnable. But these acts of despair are all that Israel has to justify the state-.
sponsored terror, which its state-of-the art US backed military daily inflicts on unarmed Palestinians. .
1.9 Take as look atAriel Sharon's own history of conducting genocides. As a commander of the notorious Israeli Army Unit .
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101,Sharon cold-bloodedly killed scores ofPalestinian civilian men, women and children rendered thousands ofthem homeless .
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and shot dead Palestinian freedom fighters. In 1982, Sharon conspired with the despised Phalange militia in the gory massacreof thousands ofPalestinian civilians in the refugee camps ofSabra and Shatila. Even the Israelis and Americans who support the Palestinian cause are not spared . In March 2003, for instance, the 23-year old .
American woman Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer and 22-yearold BritisherThomas Hundall was .
shot dead by an Israeli soldierwhen they shielded Palestinian homes from demolition . .
Hitler's massacre of Jews was a crime against humanity; are Sharon's massacre and killings any less of:n 1nhuman crime? .
It_is an Irony ofhistory that the leaderofthe state founded to "compensate" for the horrors ofthe Nazi regime, is notonly replicating .
H1tler's racist agenda, but coming to India to join hands with the Saffron Hillers. But the people of India must speakout to say_ .
Ariel Sharon Go Back I You Have Blood on Your Hands 1 .
Indians Will Never Support Your Killer Regime 1 .
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Sd. lnteshar Ahmad, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU.
Sd. Radhlka Menon, President, AISA, JNU .
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Public Meeting Massive Protest Demo.. e Question Of Palestine -Implications OfThe Emerging India-US-Israel Axis Against Ariel Sharon's India visit Speakers India Gate-~hjaban Achin Vanaik, Noted Political Commentator Road Crossing .
9.9.03 (Tuesday).
Prof. S.D. Munl, SIS, JNU 4-9-03 (Tonight), 9.30PM 11AM.
Sutlej Me_ss, Oppose The Saffron Pact With Sharon ! .
Killer Sharon Go Back ! .
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Stand By India's Principled Support For The Cause Of Palestine 1 Ontheanniversary ofthe 9/11 attack on the WTC towers,the BJPgovernment has rolled outthered carpetforlhe Sharon.Themessagethe BJP wishes to send is nakedly clear -"Israel, the US' closefriend, is now India'sally in .
arevictims ofterrorism atthe hands ofIslamicintruders within their nations." We, thedemocratic peopleofIndiacanterror'1 According to BJP, "both India and Israel are nations whose people are inhabiting their .
distorted vision ofourcountry northe alliance with Ariel Sharon whoistheleaderofone ofthe dsteRcatoday. Thestate of Israela$ a "homeland fortheJewscame intobeingwith the backing ofBritish colonial powas· 1 of1911followed bytheBritish Mandateof1922. Winston GtlYr~ill. bofd!Yjustified.1 .
illneto Israel~ Arvt·in ..
througtfcontinuouswar, incursions. and occupation which arecontinuingtm .
to end the existence ofIsrael. Their struggle Is only for Palestine's right to co-exist as a sovereign nation based on the .
principles of secularism and democracy along with Israel and for basic human rights and equality for Palestinian .
citizens. From the Palestenian perspective, accepting the idea oftwo states has been an enormous conce.::;sion, one thatinvolves .
giving up almost 80% ofthe historical Palestinian homeland.(The West Bank and Gaza Strip which constitute only 22% ofthe .
historical Palestine is underdiscussion for the future Palestine state.) Yet, Palestinians today are routinely driven offtheir lands into .
refugee camps, their homes are demolished. they are subjected to different laws. different coloured 10 cards and licenseplates. .
and ev~ndifferent roads marked "Non-Jewish" !Are these humiliations not a replication ofthe racism ofNazi Germany, where .
Jewswere forced to display the "YellowStar of David" ? .
In 1993, the US mediated Oslo Accords promised the formation ofa sovereign Palestinian state. Instead, the result was more .
.
sophisticated occupation and apartheid. Now the Bush sponsored "Road Mapto Peace" once again promises Palestinian statehood. .
But far from being committed to Palestinian sovereignty this is nothing buta move by the US to set itselfupas ¥bringer ofpeace to .
the region" afterits occupation ofIraq. .
Palestinians daily suffer genocideand terror at the hands ofthe Israeli regime-yet Israel projects itselfas the 'victim' ofterror. The .
truth is that for decades, the broad mass ofthe Palestinians have conducted their brave liberation struggle, armed with nothing but .
stones and rifles in the face ofthe Israeli tanks and F-16 fighter jets. Suicide bombings by desperate Palestinian youths. which .
target Innocent Israeli civilians, are highly condemnable. But these acts of despair are all that Israel has to justify the state-.
sponsored terror, which its state-of-the art US backed military daily inflicts on unarmed Palestinians. .
Take a look atAriel Sharon's own history of conducting genocides. As a commander of the notorious Israeli Army Unit .
101 ,Sharon cold-bloodedly killed scores ofPalestinian civilian men, women and children rendered thousands ofthem homeless and shot dead Palestinian freedom fighters. In 1982, Sharon conspired with the despised Phalange militia in the gory massacre of thousands ofPalestinian civilians in the refugee camps ofSabra and Shatila. Even the Israelis and Americans who support the Palestinian cause are notspared . In March 2003, for instance, the 23-year old .
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American woman Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer and 22-yearold BritlsherThomas Hundall was .
shot dead by an Israeli soldier when they shielded Palestinian homes from demolition . .
Hitler's massacre of Jews was a crime against humanity; are Sharon's massacre and killings any less of=:n inhuman crime? .
Itis an Irony ofhistory that the leaderofthe state founded to "compensate" for the horrors ofthe Naziregime, is notonlyreplicating .
Hitler's racistagenda, but coming to India to join hands with the Saffron Hitlers. But the people ofIndia must speak out to say-Ariel Sharon Go Back 1You Have Blood on Your Hands I Indians Will Never Support Your Killer Regime I Sd. lnteshar Ahmad,Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU .
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OPPOSE THE USE OF OUR PUBLIC SPACES FOR CORPORATE PROPAGANDA!.
their efforts to carry out pmallcl union acti,,itics in the fonn of a signature campaign on the same issues that were to be discussed in .
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In their pamphlet dated 02.04.04 and in posters put up across the campus, the AISA has once again shamelessly put forward .
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the JNUSU Council Meeting as examples of their commitment to student issues. While, the JNUSU representatives from AISA had .
pro-actively participated in their organisations' signature campaign, they have been markedly absent from class campaigns and room-.
to-room campaigns which were part of the JNUSU efforts to mobilize the student community in order to ensure a positive response .
from the Administrdtion on the Union's Charter of Demands. Why were the AISA'~ rcp..esentatives to J NUSU and other AISA .
activists comtlletely ahscnt from the room-to-room campaigns from 28.113.114 to 30.03.04, ·class campaigns on 29.03.04 apd .
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31.03.04 and mess campaiJ,rns on 3 U13.H.l. carried out by the J NUSU prior to the dcmonstrati.on on last W~dnesday which .
~orccd the Administrntion to concede most of the demands regarding the upgnuJation of Library facilities? By being .
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oomplotely absent from such mobilisational efforts wllile registering only a token presence in protest actions the AISA has exposed itselfas being interested only in one-upmanship and partisan propaganda and not iu genu.i ne student struggles. This is an affront to the ,lie anstudents who gave a mandate to AISA candidtltes in the JNUSU elections and to the student community in general. .
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Gomti Guest House and introduction of Vedic Studies in the University. While AfSA's pamphlet (dated 02.04.04) itself admits that .
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In line with AISA's glorious history of'paper' struggles, they have made hollow claims of preventing the privatization oftile .
no concrete proposal for privatizing Gomti was placed by the Administration. their claim of preventing the same with struggles no 1ys theone has see~1 is yet another e~amplc of their efforts of garnering cheap publicity. They have also sensationaliscd some· comments .
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about initiating Vedic Studies placed by a BJP MP in tl1e JNU Court meeting which were rejected by the rest of the JNU Court itself forced.
AISA has also admitted that the JNU Court does not anyway Jwvc the allthority to frame syllabi. Yet the ATSA claims that porate do without student organizations which a.re litlle more than glorified news vs clippings put up by it have been instntmental in stopping the attacks of privati.1.ation and saffronisation. JNU car. SFI hasWhat has been AISA·s role in actual struggles against privatization and saffronis(ltion? They had accused the SFI 0 n JNU? .
also aJJeged t11at the JNUSU had compromised although it was <tll together H different matter that the Tapti Boys' Wing, Malu Mandavi Hostel have been constntcted with two other hostels in ltne after that so-culled compromise. However, AfSA's fixation 01 .
·ver our 'compromise· reached unprecedented levels during the JNUSU-Ied X Pl<1n agitation 111 2001 against the attempt to mtrodu< lepsi or .
obscurantist a11d self-finaucing courses in our campus. They had gone to the extent ofconducting n mess campatgn spreading lies 0 1own paradigm of magic realism~ Jed wire.
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compromise even as their own General Secretary w<:s still on hunger strike' The fuct that courses like ·Human Consciousness am1 .
Yogic Science' do not eXJst in our uni,·ersit~ tod::Jy in ~t're of that ·compromis~· is best left to be explatned b~ the AISA within theJI eover ofprei/IOUS NSUL a righl-\\ing organi1..<1tion also e.,posed tJtetr anti-student idcolog~ in then ~csterd<J\ 's p<-lmphlet whcu thC\ labeled the .
y offered.
pot surprising as it has been the hiS10!J of this organiztltion 0f ~uppon111g pm·at1zation <iltd fee-hikes hand in glove will JNUSU"s Chancr of Dcmelnds regarding pressing issues of libra£). sports. MCM etc. as a plo~ to dhcrt the students' attention. This 1 .
tdm.inistrations in 01her universilles ;llld colleges. l But far·. ;ed to be .
The sort of outlet which Nestle IS be1ng allowed to construct n~tr Tapt1 Hostd IS a complete!) unacceptable attempt to us~ .
be public spaces of the university for corporate propaganda. The SFJ has ~lways been opposed to an) attempts to use the universit~· 1lattons to .
lnd for corporate promotion and 1he handmg over of existing public spnccs like canteens tind dh<Jbas to corpot"atc interests. With thi~ .
1sumption .
erspective SFl had earlier opposed attempts to replace Ganga Dlwba by a shopping plat.a. The prevtous SFI-AISF-led JNUSU had Cs get a .
tso initially opposed the proposal of setting up an outlet sellin!;! Nestle goods 1n CDC' mecung on the grounds of not allowing usagr ~university land for any <1Ctivity that is not affordable for the ma.JNi~ of the students This opposition by the JNUSU forced Nest!<. .
provide a commitment that its price stntcture would be in line \\'Jth t!u.: C'\ISilllg pncc stmctur~ or other cante~ns/outlcts in JNLJ .
ess. made .
])Wever, the objections rctised b) the JNUSU Hl that time agamst the use of this outlet for corpomte advertisement have evidently.
owed to misuse university spaces to carry out promotional .acthitic~ inconsistent with the JNU ctho~ and to ensure th11t 1 JNU, the .
en undermined in the actual contract unved at between the AdminU.tra11o11 and Nestle <:1bout which both the Cl)C and the JNUSU!re is !Ctrict contr(ll on the 1u·iccs chaq~cd hy it. right to run .
:re kept in the dark. We demand that this contract he made 11uhlic and it he thu.-ou~hly reviewed to en!iure tlutt Nestle is tWI .
NUSU was, rather, to We believe that such outlets arc parl of the increasing strangehold of MNCs over our econon11cs and communities will1 .
th a severe.
ng to impose u11ilater<1l btlns on the consumption of specific products being sold in spcc1fic outlets. Such a demand would be e\'eu astrous impact on the common people. The SF! is comtnittcd to a stn1gglc agmnst these tendencies and for an anti-impenalt~t .
her to give .
nomic policy regime. However. at the s<~mc time we believe that 11 would be unfruitful to look for a short-cut iu thls struggle by.
and used in our campus. Rather than looking for such short-etlls \\hal is requtrcd is " sustained den10crntic ideological ~:md anomy will inconsistent 111 a context like ours where MNC product' ranging. Cro11t soaps and toothpaste to mobile phones are being frcl'ly .
ical C<Jmpaign to populari/C consumption pnlterns conc;ic;tenl with df.lncstic industrial growth While the SFl is commjtted to such n the initialJNU!.
~..". MNCs b~ demanding the C<lllccllation of the contraC1 \\!lh <' ..'liclltl \1NC wlt1lc keeping silcut 0 11 Lltc sale of ot.hcr ~v!NC .
w1th111 the campus? Let the J\lSA justi(,· 1ts own unprmctplca st:111d before ,t(;cusing the others of ly111g uggle, we demand to know from the ultra-left organizotJOil: ;lk\: sl:~ \I<;A wh~ the~ me taklllg stdcs 1111he competition between o fool? lsn l.
\ppcal to the s1udcnt communi!\ 10 rail~ behind the course of actiCin O!t these i\;sue.s to be decided by the JNUSU Council in ils nstitutes by.
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Along \\ith this 1ssue 1nau~ utht:r prcssmg issues in the Charter oi D~,.m;mds remain to be conceded by the AdmmislrHtitlll..
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Question Of Palestine -Implications OfThe Emerging lndia-US-Isfael Axis .
Speakers .
~ Achin Vanalk, Noted Political Conunemator .
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Prof. S.D. Munl, SIS, JNU 4-g. 03 (Tonight), 9.30PM SutleJ Mess..
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~ Oppose The Saffron Pact With Sharon ! .
&l Killer Sharon Go Back ! Stand By India's Principled Support For The Cause Of Palestine 1 .
~ Ontheanniversaryofthe 9/11attack on the WTC towers, the BJPgovernmenthasrolled outthered carpetfi .
Sharon.Themessagethe BJP wishes to send·is nakedly clear-"Israel, the US'closefriend, isnow .
terror'tAccording to BJP, ..both India and Israel are nationswhosepeopleare inhabiting their"spirituallscriptuR.
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arevictins ofterrorism atthe handsofIslamicintruders within their nations." We, thedemocraticpeopleu lnditca~ .
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BJP'soommunallydistortedvision ofourcountry northe alliance with Ariel Sharonwho istheleaderofone .
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teof Israel&$ a ,omeland"fortheJewscame intobeingwith thebackingofBritish~ of1917followed bytheBritish Mandate of1922 .
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·ua 1firoughcontinuouswar, Incursions. andoccupation whicharecontinuingtil .
toend theexistence ofIsrael. Their struggle Isonly for Palestine's right to co-existas a sovereign nation based on the .
principles of secularism and democracy along with Israel and for basic human rights and equality for Palestinian .
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citizens. From the Palestenian perspective, accepting the idea oftwo states has been an enormous conce~sion, one that involves ~ .
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giving up almost 80% ofthe historical Palestinian homeland.(The West Bank and Gaza Strip which constitute only22% ofthe ¥ historical Palestine is under discussion for the future Palestine state.) Yet. Palestinians today are routinelydriven offtheir lands into .
refugee camps, the1r homes are demolished, they are subjected to different laws, different coloured 10 cards and licenseplates, .
and ev'3n different roads marked "Non-Jewish" !Are these humiliations not a replication ofthe racism ofNazi Germany, where .
~ .
Jewswere forced to display the "Yellow StarofDavid" ? .
In 1993, the US mediated Oslo Accords promised the formation ofa sovereign Palestinian state. Instead, the result was more .
~! sophisticated occupation and apartheid. Nowthe Bush sponsored "Road Map to Peace"once again promises Palestinian statehood. .
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But far from being committed to Palestinian sovereignty this is nothing buta move by the US to set itselfupas "bringerofpeace to .
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t. the region" after its occupation ofIraq..
~1\ .
Jq,Cjl~ truth is that for decades, the broad mass ofthe Palestinians have conducted their brave liberation struggle, armed with nothing but.
.
Palestinians dailysuffergenocide and terror at the hands ofthe Israeli regime-yet Israel projects itselfas the 'victim' ofterror.The .
stones and rifles in the face of the Israeli tanks and F-16 fighter jets. Suicide bombings by desperate Palestinian youths. which .
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target Innocent Israeli civilians, are highly condemnable. But these acts of despair are all that Israel has to justify the state-sponsored terror, which its state-of-the art US backed military daily Inflicts on unarmed Palestinians. .
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Take alook atAriel Sharon's own historyof conducting genocides. As a commander of the notorious Israeli Army Unit .
I<Ptll;t.
.... , .
101,Sharon cold-bloodedly killed scores ofPalestinian civilian men, women and children rendered thousands ofthem homeless .
and shot dead Palestinian freedom fighters. In 1982. Sharon conspired with the despised Phalange militia in the gory massacreof .
~~ thousands ofPalestinian civilians in the refugee camps ofSabra and Shatila. .
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Even the Israelis and Americans whosupport the Palestinian cause are notspared . In March 2003, for instance, the 23-yearold .
American woman Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozerand 22-yearold BritisherThomas Hundall was .
shot dead by an Israeli soldierwhen they shielded Palestinian homes from demolition ..
~ Hitler's massacre of Jews was a cnme aga1nst humanity; are Sharon's massacre and killings any less ofan inhuman crime? It is an irony ofhistory that the leaderofthe state founded to "compensate"for the horrors ofthe Nazi regime, is notonlyreplicating .
Hitler's racist agenda, but coming to India to join hands with the Saffron Hitlers. But the people ofIndia must speak out to say-Ariel Sharon Go Back I You Have Blood on Your Hands I .
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I. J. Indians Will Never Support Your Killer Regime I ht Sd. lnteshar Ahmad, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU :L 1 Sd. Radhlka Menon. President, AISA, JNU .
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'>'The Muslim population of missed it, do read it in the hght lng cnn onlygrnt-nlte hatred and East...from the rest ofthe country. This will have ~t:"'IS t;"rJT.:tJ/:';1/f'~-;,_ ._~,_,, .,.~, ,,_., IAssamhasshownariseof77.42 ourcountryrequires, and he had msngate binemess and acn-/Jove che a~medforr:e. to !turf'" ;been posted there by an emi-ofthe Census figures. disastrous strategicand economic consequences" it, andthey'Will bytheirbloodand I_r:-per cent in 1991 from what it ~...What is ofconcern to us is in mony among the people. bod1esdouse thefire.....
neotly ··secular" government portraying so, Mr Shourie has incndly sennmems...",howsuch I.
was in 1971. The Hindu pOpula-propped by the Congress and the uBangladesh is a peace-loving immigrants in the state. The Mus-don has risen by nearly 41.89 drawn Bangladesh, a friendly country. It certainly docs not \\-Titing ··can onlygenerate hatred Bur the matteris not conrinedpercent in this period. The Mus-Left. And itwas no ordinaryarticle neighbouring country of India, have nnv hegcmonistic ambi-and mstigate bmemcss~. But why Lim United Front lenders declared to the Execuuve. After all, those Ilim population (as a percentage which he had begun in this way-rub it m?The poor fellow must be he must withdraw h1s .sratemenr who \\in bythe votes ofsuch '"vot-I.
it was his official report to the into th1s. We are d1smayed and tions or des1gns as he suggests even Wlthm 48 hours--r the) would ers" nnd the "support" of such.
of total population) in Assam indeed shocked that an eminent m1ght happen or \\11ltake place. more "dismayed'',.
has risen from 24.68 per cent in President ofthe country. "The un-person of Mr Shourie's stature. However. we take satisfaction "shocked", "amazed" now that bring his government down groups emer legtSlatures. There-I.
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1951 to 28.42 percenr-in 1991. abated influx of illegal migrants that neither the Government of The lndran Expres_, is publishing Saikia Withdrew h1s Statement! sult is that even the most elemen-Ifrom Bangladesh...", General who was until very recently a In August 1993 members of tary step to remedy the situation.
As perthe 1991 Census, four dis-Union cabmet minister of the India nor the people of lnd1a yet another series comaininst "ir-Parliament asked the Home Min-cannot be taken as many a law.
triers (Dhubri, Goalpara, Bar-Sinha told the President, "threat-Government ofIndja. could come share Mr Shoune·~ nightmares ., rcspons1ble and maltCJous innu· Iens to reduce the Assamese to a ~ Ister about the numbers who had comes in the way, and legislatures.
peta and Hailakandi) have be-out \."\ith preposterous 1dea~ such Notice the technique. What I endoes", and "mghrmares" from so peopled will notchange it. The I.
come Muslim-majoritydisoicts. minority in their own state. as as the 'creation of a Greater Is-had reported was not my asse~s-me on the same subject. mfiltrated from Bangladesh. ruinous Illegal Migrants (Deter-I1\vo more districts (Naogaon happenedinThpura and Sikkim.~ lamic Bangladesh·. menr. but the warnings that TV RajeS'-'var's proposal for a de Three mmtsters got to contributeandKarimganj) should havebe-'-The long-cherished design RaJcswar, the present Governor tailed study had indeed been to the answer. We are not able mination by Tribunals) Act pro-.
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come so by 1998 and one more ofGreaterEast Pakistan/Bangla-that Bangladesh is an mdepen-of Uttar Pradesh. appointed by taken up. The study was com· to ~ort of count them" they con-sequence. It tells us much about.
desh, making inroads into the pleted by officials of the 1B and fessed--even as they did every-.
dent soveretgn country. having a the very Government in which.
this fellow-a mmister m the the Home Ministry in 1992. It es· thmg theycould by convolunons Executives, about legislatures Itimated that even by then. rhe to mtmmise the problem. And and, alas, aboutcourts too.FifTH COLUMN that was the end of the marter. I.
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government had notendor-theydid in the past was ters and \\'lVes also come £ I Imental rightto own prop-men who began the1r career forward to e.xplain how they.
sed, and writteninto the 'raid' those they suspected mpolmcs \'with a few hun-~ ierty. We can nolonger afford Constitution, Indira Gan-ofevadmg taxes. Abarbaric dred rupees to their 11ame .acquired their crores worth Ito. Itis time wedemanded dhi's decision to remove the enough practice in a country became owners oflakhs and ofassets then it would be :., . Ithatourright to propertybe that fancies itselfas fair for the Finance Minister.
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1~because itcould be c1vilised, bmbabystuffcom-willing to bet that men who to go ahead with the dra-, Ime&tlyway topreventthe listoffundamental rights. pared rowhatChi-conian new measures. Oth-.
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all ment hawkers and rick· have declared themselv-es erwise. it is time he woke upth need torestore 1nere 811! otherreasons call the "weakest sections" shawallahs. the Bombay High Court, the worth onlya couple oflakhs ro the realiry that India is no I.
th n huop even ofthe society, so let us have Maharashu·a governmentwhywe need to fight for our The middle classes are so mllbe wearing watches longer an economic dicta-I.
nght tl) propertY, andthey no qualms in acknowledg-said It had every nght to that cost more than that. torship, and can never be.ing thatthe Prime Minister's smug intheir beliefthat in confiscate notjust property.
m th poo stofthe our'liberalised' new India, butvaluables and cash as Let us set up a ciuzen's I.
move to introduce n ' rva· nobodywould dare take rribuaJ before wh1ch the , All he will achieve throughI charudo well for a 'pittance' as com-1 his madcap schemes is to I.
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in private companies isfor pensation because Indians theirassets publicly scruti-widen the roads ofcorrup-menand poliocal and not compas far as I know, there has been do not have the right to nised. Let us ask them the tion. The only people who Itinely sfonate reasons. Had any onl} one case in which the property. The case is shortly mUSt be thrilled by his new I.
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Oppose The Saffron Pact With Sharon ! .
Killer Sharon Go Back ! Stand By India's Principled Support For The Cause Of Palestine 1 I .
Sharon. The message the BJP wishes to send is nakedly clear-"Israel, the US' close friend, Is now India's ally In the 'fight againOn the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the WTC towers, the BJP government has rolled out the red carpet for the Israeli PM Ariel .
terror' .. !According to BJP, "both India and Israel are nations whose people are Inhabiting their "spiritual/scriptural homeland", an .
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are victims of terrorism at the hands ofIslamic intruders within their nations." We, the democratic people ofIndia can neither accept! .
BJP's communally distorted vision of our country nor the alliance with Ariel Sharon who is the lea~erofone ofthe most raci The state of Israel as a..homeland" for the Jews came Into being with the backing ofBritish colonial powers-the Balfour DecJarat.
colonial regime in existence today. of 1917 followed by the British Mandate of 1922: Winston Churchill, boldly justified the takeover ofPalestine by Israel,as·serting that there was nothing wrong i~ the dispossession ofthe Palestinians who had lived on the land for centuries, just as there nothing wrong with the ethnic cleansing of Red Indians ofAmerica orBlack Australians by a "higher-grade race" I Israeli PM Menachem Begin called Palestinians "two legged beasts", while another PM called them "grasshoppers" who could .
crushed. It is a tragic irony ~atthis is the racist logic used to justify the existence ofa state created as a home for the victims of .
Nazi racist Holocaust. Can we Indians, who have experienced similar racist abuse and colonization, support the Israeli """"''1"\0!1"" .
·In 1947, the UN allotted more than halfofPalestine to Israel, and in the following years Israel gobbled up all the remaining torritnnll.
Palestine? (through continuous war, incursions, and occupation wtiich arecontinuing till date. lnspiteofthis, the Palestinians' aim today is nnta .
end the existenceofIsrael. TheirstruggleIsonlyf~rPalestinerightto co-existas a sovereign nation based onthAI .
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ofsecularism and democracy along with Israel andforbasic human rights and equalityfor ..PaJestenian perspective, accepting the Idea oftwo states hasbeen ar.a enonnous ~.
Palestinian homeland.(TheWest Bankand.GazaStOp which cons1 'Uf,Uf,state.) Yet, Palasti1ians ~.areJQ.Iur~~.
jected to different laws, different coloUreCfiD cardsandliCense .
these humiliations not a replication ofthe racism ofNaziGermany, wh.:arol .
fnrr.AI4 to display the"YellowStarofDavid" ? .
In 1993, the US mediated Oslo Accords promised the formation of a sovereign Palestinian state. Instead, the result was more .
sophisticated occupation and apartheid. Now the Bush sponsored "Road Map·to Peace"once again promises Palestinian statehood. .
But far from being committed to Palestinian sovereignty this is nothing but a move by the US to set itselfup as "bringer ofpeace to .
the region· after its occupation ofIraq. .
Palestinians daily suffer gef!ocide and terror at the hands ofthe Israeliregime-yet Israel projects itselfas the 'victim' ofterror. .
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truth is that for decades, the broad mass ofthe Palestinians have conducted their brave liberation struggle, armed with nothing bu .
stones and rifles in the face ofthe Israeli tanks and F-16 fighter jets. Suicide bombings by desperate Palestinian youths, whi,.hl .
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innocent Israeli civilians, are highly condemnable. But these acts of despair are all that Israel has to justify the state .
r\1\nenr..:al'f terror, which itsstate-of-theart US backed mUitary daily inflicts on unarmed Palestinians. .
Take a look atAriel Sharon's own history ofconducting genocides. As a commander of the notorious Israeli~ .
t01.Sharon cold-blooded.lykHied scores ofPalestinian civilian men, women and chDdren rendered thousands ef .
Palestinian freedomfighters. In 1982, Sharon conspired with the despised PhalangemDitla in the gory '~:~~'-+1n1-civilians In the refugee camps ofSabraand Shatila. .
IU!II~AIP.ericanswhosupportthe Palestinian cause are notspared In March2003, forinstance, the23-yel .
~J~<A$chelCon1ewas aushed to death byan lsraetllvmybulldozerand 22-year old BritisherThomas Hundanwasr when theY shielded Palestinian homes from demolition . J.ews·was a a1meagai18thumanity; are Sharon's massacreand kDIIngs any lessofan ilhumancdnae·.? thattheleaderofthe statefounded to compensate"forthe horrors ofthe Nazi regime, Is notonlyrepUcatin agenda, butcoming to India to join hands'with the Saffron Hiders. Butthe people ofIndia mustspeakoutto say-. .
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is being convened today after more than a year. In the wake of this IHA meeting, the circulated agenda.
Sir/Madam, We would like place before you our serious apprehensions regarding the agenda for the IHA Meeting that .
contains the following proposals that are aimed at increasing the fees in hostels and tampering the rules and .
democratic functioning ofthe hostels. .
campus following the proposals ofthe MHRD circular. This is an attempt to commercialize education .
"generate additional resources" from within the university for financing the salary hike of the JNU The Establishment charge has been proposed to rise from Rs 400 to Rs 700 yearly, in order to .
university, it also reflects the utter reluctance of the administration to mobilize funds from outside the staffs. While this is a direct consequence of the drastic decIine in the transfer of UGC funds to the .
and implement fees bike in different forms and need to be opposed. .
The mess security charge have also been proposed to rise from Rs 800 to Rs. 1500 by making it (which is run on a no profit-no loss basis) is itselfa consequence of the sharp rise in the food prices led by approximately indexed to the present mess bill for one month. While the recent rise in the mess bills the UPA government's anti-people policies, the scholarships of the students in contrast has hardly .
the country in the name of "austerity", it merely reflects the anti-people and anti-student agenda of the .
Further, there has also been a proposal of cfnverting many hostels exclusively into double-seaters, .
while converting a few exclusively into single seaters. This has been argued by the administration as a .
increased over the same period. By putting the burden ofprice rise on the students and common people of .
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government and ofthe JNU administration. .
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1309. But at present, the number of single seaters in the mechanism for increasing the total number ofs ats from 4834 at present to 4953 and the number ofsingle-e number stipulated by the last IHA meeting. Instead of increasing the number of hostels for address ng the hostel crisis, the administration has opted for a .
as per the decision of the last IHA meeting) t seater rooms from 945 (which would be the c seaters into double seaters. Such a proposal would also .
university is 1596, which is far greater than university where the students cutting across academic convenient mechanism by converting the sing .
Also, there bas been a proposal for the priva ization ofthe mess in different hostels. Not only this is a .
tend to undermine the basic character of thi .
direct onslaught on the basic character ofthis c mpus and an attempt to undermine the workers movement, .
such attempts have also failed miserably in the past. The privatization ofthe Mahi-Mandavi mess few h.ierarchies interact with each other in different ostels. .
back had witnessed a massive upsurge ofthe student community for the poor quality offood that was .
in the mess. It was the massive and strong resistance from the student community that the contract .
.·that·a1~..d;ws~.oro.posals that would open the doors for rampant commercialization of ofMahi-Mandavi mess was changed. We express our strong disapproval ofprivatizing messes and .
accept thi$ proposal in any form. .
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In Iheir pamphlcl dated 02.04 04 ai~ns frnm 28.113.04. to 30.03.04, class campaigns on 29.03.04 and to-room campaigns which \-Yere part of the JNUSU ciTorts to mobilize I he student community in order to ensure a positive response from the Administration on the Umon's Charter of Demands. Why were the AfSA's rcp·clicntatives to JNUSU and other AlSAforced the Allministnation to concede most of the demands regnrding the upgnulation of Library facilities? By being .
31.03.04 and mess campaigns on 3l.OJ.H-'. carried out hy the JNUSU prior tu the demonstration on last Wednesday which.
completely absent from such mobilisational eCTorts while registering only a token presence in protest actions Ute AISA has exposed .
itselfas being interested only in one-upm;.mship and partisan propngandn and not in gcnui nc student struggles. This is an affront to the .
students who g,we a mandate to AISA e<~ndidarcs in the JNUSU elections nnd to the student community in general. .
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ln line with AISA's glorious history of 'paper' struggles. they have m<Jdc hollow claims ofpreventing the privatization oftbe .
Gomti Guest House <lnd introduction of Vedic Studies in the University. While AISA 's pelmphlet (dated 02.04.04) itself admits that .
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no concrete proposal for privatizing Gomtt wns placed by the Administration. their claim of preventing tJ1e same with stn1ggles no .
one has seen is yet another example of their efforts of garnering cheap publicity They have also sensationalised some comments .
about initiating Vedic Studies placed by a BJP \1P in the JNU Court meeting which were rcJCCicd by the rest of tl1e JNU Court itself. .
AJSA bas also admHted that the JNU Court docs not anyway have the authority to frame syllabi. Yet the AfSA claims that .
photocopies of news clipptngs put up by it have been instrumental in stopping the attacks of privatiz.at ion and safTronisation. JNU can .
do without snadent organizations \vluch arc litllc more than glorified news agencies!.
What lws been AISA's role in <lctual stnagglcs against pri,·atiz<llion and saffronisation? They had accused the SFI of .
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'campusism' when the SFI-AISF-Ied JNUSU in I \.109 was c<~r!)ing out n hunger strike an demand for more hostel facilities. They later.
Mandavi Hostel have been construc1ed with h~o other hostels in ltne :tf1er that so-called compromise. However, AISA 's fixation on also aUeged U1at the JNUSU had compromised although it was all together a different matter that the Tapti Boys' Wing, Mahi-.
·compromise· reached unprecedented levels during the JNUSU-Jed X Pl:ln agitation in 200 l against the attempt to introduce .
obscurantist and self-financing courses in our c<.~mpus. The~· had gone to the e~tent of conducting a mess campmgn spreading lies of.
Yogic Science' do not exist in our university toda~· in . 1.;rte of that ·compromise· is hcstleft to be explained by the AISA within their .
compromise even as their own General Secret;lJ) \Vc:s still on hunger strike' The facl that courses like 'Human Consciousness and.
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own paradigm of magic r~Jlism!.
NSUL a right-wing organi&Jtton also e.,posed tJ1eir anti-student 1dcolog.\ an their ~·eslcrday·s pamphlet when the~· labeled tbe .
JNUSU's Charter of Demands regarding pressing issues of library. sports. 0.1CM etc. as a ploy to divert the students' artention. This is .
not surprising as it has been the history of this organi:ration or ~upponing prhati;ation <ind fcc-hikes hand in glove with .
administrations iu other universities :md colleges..
The sort of outlet which Nestle is being allowed to constmct ncar Tapti Hosrel is a completely unacceptable attempt to use .
the public spaces of the university for corpor;.He propaganda. The SFI has fll\\'<l)'S been opposed to any attempts to usc tlie university .
land for corporate promotion and the handing over ofexisting public spaces like canteens and dhabas to corpo.-ate interests. With this .
perspective SFI had earlier opposed attempts lo reph1ce Ganga Dh<lb:l by a ~hopping plu:1. The previous SFI-AJSF-lcd Jl'-.'USU had .
aJso iniualJy opposed the proposal of selling np an outlet scllin~ Nestle goods tn CDC meeting on the grounds of not allowing usage .
of unaversity land for any ac!lvity that IS not affordable for the maJority of the studc:nts This opposition b) the JNUSU forced Nestle .
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were kept in the dark. We demand that this contr·act he made puhlic and it he thorou~hl)' reviewed to ensure tbat Nestle i~ not.
(here is ~trict control un the prices cha r~cd hy it. as .
toWe believe that such outlets arc part of the increasmg strangehold of MNCs over our econonucs and communities with .
allowed to misuse university spaces to carry out. promotional <~Cth·itics inconsistent with the JNU ethos and to ensure tltat .
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,dj~astrous impact on the common people. The SF! is committed to a stntggle ngainst these tendencies and for an anti-imperialist live .
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)nomic policy regime. However. at lhc snme time we believe that it wo11ld be unfnaitfnl to look for a short-cut in this struggle by .
!t;int~ to 11npose unilateral bans on the eonsump.tion of spcciik products being sold in specific outlets. Such n demand would be even w\11 .
u~re ancons1stenl in a context like ours where MNC products rang1ng frotll soaps and toothpaste to mobile phones are being freely .
~;ld !!lld used in our campus. Rather thle ot a .
W~~>{)(_;_:~j tf) the i.,IUdcnt community to rally behind the course of ncl'ion 011 these issues to be decided by the JNUSU Cowtcil in its .
AltiJlg with this 1ssue mnn~· other pressing issues in the Charter of Demands remain to be conceded by the Administration."cJ/. 1\s whoJ)oonnf;f UIHI(I:t h:u') a to nold~4A..~4.'I;~~~I t. 1~1/·SI'I Sd/-on\rac\Parimal Maya SudbaknrPresident. J N'U-SFT \, n-ru .
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to end the existenceofIsrael. Their struggle Is only for Palestine's right to co-exist as a sovereign nation basid on the .
citizens. From the Palestenian perspective. accepting the idea oftwo states has been an enormous conce:;sion, one that involves principles of secularism and democracy along with Israel and for basic human rights and equality for Palestinian giving Up almost80% of the historical Palestinian homeland.{The West Bank and Gaza Strip which constitute only 22% ofthe historical Palestine is under discussion for the future Palestine state.) Yet. Palestinians today are routinely driven offtheir lands 1nto refugee camps, their homes are demolished, they are subjected to different laws, different coloured 10 cards and l1cense plates, and ev<en different roads marked "Non-Jewish" ! Are these humiliations not a replication ofthe racism ofNazi Germany, where ll. I .
Jews were forced to display the 'Yellow Star ofDavid'' 7 In 1993, the US mediated Oslo Accords promised the formation ofa sovereign Palestinian state. Instead, the result was more .
sophisticated occupation and apartheid. Now the Bush sponsored "Road Map to Peace"once again promises Palestinian statehood. But farfrom being committed to Palestinian sovereignty this is nothing but a move by the US to set itselfupas "bringer ofpeace to .
the region" after its occupation ofIraq. Palestinians daily suffergenocide and terror at the hands ofthe Israeli regime-yet Israel projects itselfas the 'victim'ofterror. The .
stones and rifles in the face of the Israeli tanks and F-16 fighter jets. Suicide bombings by desperate Palestinian youths, which truth is that fordecades, the broad mass ofthe Palestinians have conducted their brave liberation struggle, armed with nothing but .
target Innocent Israeli civilians, are highly condemnable. But these acts of despair are all that Israel has to justify the state-Take I look at Ariel Sharon's own history ofconducting genocides. As a commander of the notorious Israeli Army Unit .
sponsored terror, which its state-of-the art US backed military daily inflicts on unarmed Palestinians. 101,Sharon cold-bloodedly killed scores ofPalestinian civilian men. women and children rendered thousands ofthem homeless .
and shot dead Palestin1an freedom fighters. In 1982. Sharon conspired with the despised Phalange militia in the gory massacre of .
thousands of Palestinian civilians in the refugee camps ofSabra and Shatila. .
American woman Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer and 22-yearold BritlsherThomas Hundallwas Even the Israelis and Americans who support the Palestinian cause are not spared . In March 2003, for instance, the23-year old .
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shot dead by an Israeli soldier when they shielded Palestinian homes from demolition . .
Hitler's massacre of Jews was a crime against humanity; are Sharon's massacre and killings any less of an inhuman crime 7 It.is a~Iron~ ofhistory that the leader ofthe state founded to "compensate" for the horrors ofthe Naziregime, is notonly replicating HtUer s ractst agenda, but coming to India to join hands with the Saffron Hitlers. But the people ofIndia mustspeak outto say-.
Ariel Sharon Go Back I You Have Blood on Your Hands I .
Indians Will Never Support Your Killer Regime I Sd. lnteshar Ahmad, Gen.Secy., AISA,JNU .
Sd. Radhlka Menon, President, AISA, JNU .
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they sacrificed themselves and liberated us not only from the British Empire butalso from the Princely .
The battle offreedom was fought by the entire nation, especially revolutionary students and youth,.
states and pave the way to establish a democratic republic whose vision and mission can be inferred from the preamble of our Constitution : WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDI~ having solemnly resolved to constitute Indiainto a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and tosecureto all .
its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY, ofthought, expression, belief, faith and .
worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY .
assuringthe dignityoftheindividual andtheunityand integrityofthe Nation;.
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r\ Did we really achieve this even after 65 years ofthe Independence? The democracy defines itselfas .
by the people, ofthe people and for the people but in India it is running-by theFew people, oftheFew .
people andfortheFew people. Ifwe look from the political point ofview then one can clearly see the .
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roots ofnepotism which has occupied almost entire nation. It is not merely the story ofNehru-Gandhifamily but it has spread itself in the form of Abdullah family in north; to Karunanidhiies in south;Sukhbindar Badal, Anurag Thakur;Dipendar Hooda, Ajay Chautala, jayant Chaudhary, Akhilesh Yadav, .
Sangma family in east and Thakre -Pawar family in west (ex: Rahul, Priyanka, Umar Abdullah,.
jyotiraditya Schindhiya, Sachin Pilot,etc.) . If we observe closely we can easily identify that every .
Varon Gandh, Uddhav Thakre, Raj Thakre, Supriya Sule, }aganmohan Reddy, Agatha Sangma, Kanimojhi,.
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constituency has becomethe reserved place for 3 or4 families and hasgiven the birthto dynasty orNeo-democracy. democratic feudal state . The election commission ofIndia has been failed to implement participatory.
It has been very clear before the majority of Indian masses that U.P.A., N.D.A and other national-.
regional parties have been influenced all the three pillars of democracy (Judiciary, Executive and .
legislature) with the help of organized influential economic wizards which created uproars in our .
common life by pre conceived notion. Itis a bittertruth that our99o/o population don't have any political .
representation. Indian financial system, government and tax polices are being used against us. Had .
Vivekanand, Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedakar, BhagatSingh ChandrasekharAzad, Asfaq, Subhas chandra bose, .
Pritilata wadekar,jayprakash Narayan,ArunaAsafAli etc. struggled for this India?.
The time has comewhenwe, the studentsofIndia must unite togetherwith a common consensus .
to comeforward withfull vigorand zeal to demandfor theirdirect participation in parliamentaryaffairs .
in the name of political reform so that students can directly participate in different fields like-finance, .
education . health , foreign affairs and environmental issues etc. .
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unemployment . corruption, inflation, environment hazards, poverty. malnutrition foeticde etc. We .
we could eradicate.
could also make this republic secure for future generation which we couldn't get without entering .
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Loksabhaand Rajyasabha whicharebeingundertaken byveryfewfamilies. Ourdemandis: .
\11, We, the students of India, are seeking a role hi democracy through direct participation in .
governance in the fortn of 25°/o reserved seats in legislature ( Equally among Girls and Boys .
Students) so that we could pave the way to established a democratic republic and direct it .
towardsprosperity,universalbrotherhoodandhappiness..
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14.5.14 Normalising the Corporate-Communal Idiom: .
Can the Mainstream Media Any Longer Claim to Call Itselfa 'Pillarof Democracy'?· .
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continues to be the most unique feature Modi's No-Holds:Barred Communal Hate-Mongering .
ofthe Elections 2014. On economic and human rights Issues, On 4 May, Modi ln his Asansol speech said, "Those (from .
big corporate media have always sided with the corpor~~e Bangladesh) who observe Durgashtami, they are a part of our .
ideology and blacked-out people's voices. However; for ruling Hlndustan and they will stay here. But we will deport those class mainstream political parties and views, it maintained, who are Infiltrators." In a tweet on 4 May, Modi said, "Those who were children of Bharat Mata, those who observe so ~r, a degree of 'pluralitY and 'balance'. What Is new Ourgashtaml they are my brothers. We must treat them like .
this time Is media's open propaganda for one political children of India." .
personality, throwing to winds all pretensions ~fpolitfcal .
Don1t these words constitute dangerous hate-speech where Modi .
'plurality' that media In 'llberar capitalist 'democracy' .
t;Jef/nes ~Hindustan' and 'children of mother lndlcr in .terms of .
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Hindu religious customs-whether someone is to be treated as an· Indian or an Illegal 'infiltrator', Is to be based on whether they.
The government controlled media In earlier years, Indeed, .
'observe Durgashtaml' or not/ Aren't these words thoroughly .
lacked autonomy and often appeared as the propaga.nda .
unconstitutional because they imply that those ofnon-Hindufaith.
machine of the ruUng party. But Is the privatised media .
are not *part ofour Hlnduston', not *childten ofBharat Mota"'?.
'autonomous' either? Should 'Autonom~ mean onJy .
Isn't Modi making It clear that he INTENDS TO ACTas though .
'freedom from government control' and not 'freedom .
lndla~(Hindustan) Is the 'Hindusthan' or 'Hindu Rashtra' ofthe .
from corporate control'? Privatisation and huge Sangh'sfanaticdreams? Yet the media left him unquestioned · proliferation of big media channels did not bring in either and EC remained silent ~ 'plurality' of opinions or 'autonomy'. The fact that big ''----------------------.
corporates have chosen Modi as their political hero, inevitably got reflected in the political'news' and political'views' of all the media channels they have come to control. So multiplicity of channels did not mean plurality of even political views, but repetition of the same with ever increasing frequency. No wonder, some ofthe most offensive communal hate speeches by Modi and his men were ignored and eventually 'normalised' by the media. In-this context, we reproduce below, a powerful critique ofthe election-time mainstream media bynotedhistorialtand author Mukul Kesavan. .
The Tinderbox Project: The BJP and the Mainstreaming of Majoritarianism .
Mukul Kesavan .
The most interesting-and insidious-aspect of this election is the mainstreaming of the sangh parivar's principal belief: that .
India is a Hindu nation. The ideologues of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have consistently maintained that India as a nation ought to be defined .
by the culture and preferences of its Hindu majority and that minorities ought to defer to this idea of India as a Hindu nation state. The definitive statement on Hindu hegemony came from the second sarsanghchalak or supreme chief of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar: " .the non-Hindu people in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and revere Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but the glorification of the Hindu Nation .." If they don't, they " .. may stay in the country wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferentJal .treatment, not even citizens' rights.n Golwalkar's unambiguously Hindu supremacist position used to embarrass the Bharatiya Janata P~rty (not because of what he had said, but on account of the starkness with which he said it) and was often explained away by gesturing at Its context -the politics of the 1930s when India was a colonized country, threatened by Muslim separatism. The implication was that the BJP had evolved ideologically and no longer wanted Muslims to be treated as helots in republican India. .
However, after the electoral defeat of 2009, as the party regr~uped around its most polari~ing leader, Narendra Modi, it became less shy about Its Hindu supremacist project. One straw in the wind was the BJP's admission of Subramanian .
Swamy, the sole proprietor of what remained of the Janata Party, into its ranks, In 2011, Swamy wrote an article in a newspaper (DNA 16 July, 2011) that updated Golwalkar for the 21st century. This was his prescription: "Implement the uniform civil code, make learning of Sanskrit and singing of Vande Mataram mandatory, and declare India a Hindu Rashtra in which non-Hindus can vote only if they proudly acknowledge that their ancestors were Hindus. Rename lndfa Hindustan as a nation of Hindus and those whose ancestors were Hindus.n .
Swamy joined the BJP soon afterwards in 2013 and he has been one of the BJP's most visible spokesmen through this election season, a regular in news television's panel discussions and a trenchant champion of Narendra Modi's Gujarat Model. That a man who advocates the disenfranchisement of all Muslims who don't acknowledge that they are basically lapsed Hindus should be treated as a respectable party spokesperson on prime time news tells you something about both the New Model BJP and the biases of the news industry. .
Try to imagine a Muslim advocating the assimilation of Kashmir into an Islamic caliphate, becoming a regular on .
'Left, Right & Centre' or 'The lqewshour' -or 6The Buck Stops Here' and vou begin to grasp the extent to which P.T.. .
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l"-Aq Qy~_rview_Qf_th~_JNU.S.ll Propo.saL The "Progressive Admi5sion Policy" of the .
Jawaharlal 0Jehru llniversity Students' Union QNUSU) is a revealing document on tw(' counts. First. it exposes L~c gross inadequacies of the present ad.rni" . .;ion policy. Secondly, it reveal~ the 'insensitive ~uperficiahty' of the JN USU in confronting them. .
lbc objcctivt' of the JNUSU here seems to be more political than cn1ancipa:tory. The 'draft paper for this Pro.grc-ssive Admission PoHey' was fully prepared by ()ctobcr 7 t 1998 but was not been published and di"tributcd until March 29, 1999 ·with barely five days Jdt. for the UGB~1. Ckarly a dcbat(.' on this at that early stage would have been more productive. i\1any more candidates from th{· deprived sections could have benefited from it. .
Ihm.'-J:h}_-_w:ait.§ixlong_Tpont.b~h£for~m&king th£ dQQJJllrntp.l!hlic? .
lronically, the post-198 3 'Dark A.g reflected a dclinitive dep1ivation of .
intellect, commitment and creativity in dealing Vvith very real issues. ~The term ·deprivation points' is itselfa mi~nomc-r and rdler~s the ar-c..itudc of it:. .
framers: clear1)' they think that these so-called deprivation points arc favouritistic concc~ion~ bestowed by them on the down-trod.dcn; and not a matter of right to correct gross historical and socio-economic injustices perpetrat ed and systematised over the centuries. W c suggest the term 'enforcement/ empowerment points'. But we must do away with 'depli\·ation points' once and for all. Aftcrall, this tcnn bas done 1norc harm than go-od to the daljts. .
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JNU being an institute of international repute, our's should not be a policy to sacrifice merit. Afterall JNU was nc-,tcr meant to be a replication of lndia; it should represent 'what tndia ought to be'. )1\U is a normative vision; it stand-; for whatcvc.r is best about our great nation. .
But along vvith this, we need to highlight the most important role that an educational .
institute should play in the all-ronnd developm ent of society, 1.c .. onpowcnntnt of th~ .
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sections who arc at a di~dvantagc in our sodcty. .
An cllccth·c a(L-nission polic; should therefore be such that (a) it corrcC1.> socio-economic injustices, (b) mends regionalimbalances and (c) cnpnwcrs nomen ..,r·h11c (d) t.-'nsuring that the meritorious character o{ our university is not compromised in anx ·wd y or .
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Ow-aim to propo~c exactly such a policy that treads· 'the Middk Path', bctwcer. the merit-compromising proposals oft he Left and the anti -rcprcscntati\,nal outlook of the Right. This document can serve as a brief lr1troduction to .our p·opo~cd Admi~sion Policy. The extended proposal will appear in the form of a smaU hook1ct , after taking into conliidcration the .
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DEMAND REPEAL OF ARMED FORCES (SPECIAL) POWERS ACT, AFSPA .
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\Vhy is it that nearly 40 n1illion people in North East and Kashmir live under army r ule? .
\Vhy is it that in son1e parts, this army rule has continued unabated for nearly 60 years? .
H~w can a country which boasts itselfas the largest de1nocracy justify anny rule and .
continue to suppress its citizens? .
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Friends. Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act is a law which gives the state just such a license: a license to kill with itnpunity, to shoot at sight-anyone'oun1ere suspicion, to occupy or destroy any buildin g. to enter any hon1e and to arrest anyone without a warrnr1t. A license that ic; available to even a non commissioned arn1.y officer of the lo\,·est rank. And to take sueh action the officer needs no pern1ission from a superior .
· and is not answerable to anyone. And it is not easy to prosecute the security forces for offences us t h e Act .
provides inununity to thf'Ju. \Vhe:rever such absolute power exists, those en1powcred turn criminal. So, .
rapes, torture. custodial deaths, enforced disappearances or fak~ encoun~ers happen and happen .
repeatedly, precisely because guilty officiais know thatthe law protects them. .
Beginning in 1958 when it was enacted, today the Act covC'rs most ofNorth East and ,Jan1mu and Kashmir. .
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Both the enachnent and its long duration have been justified on the grounds that the North East and .
Kashmir are disturbed areas and therefore need a strong law to tackle n1ilitHncy and insurgency. But .
considerfor a 1non1.ent the following: .
Should peoples· aspiration be dealt with 1nilitarily'? More importantly. should the Indian state. or for .
that matter. any denl.ocratic state. den1and subjection and loyalty atthe point ofa gun'? Occupational rule is never just or desirable. And this is precisely what AFSPA does. Today, as many as 11 lal<h securitypersonnelare deployed in North Eastand.Kashmir. .
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proof of this. Be it the Oina:m massacre in the 80s, operation Rhino in the 90s, or the Patharibal .
massacre and rape and 1nurder ofManorama in this decade, army rule is accompanied with a history .
ofheinous offences which no governn1entcanjustify. .
Besides killing and torturingordinary civilians in the name ofmilitancy, the brutality with which the .
forces treat families ofmilitants is reprehensible. This is whatthe security forces are currently doing inAssam, Manipur and Tripura. .
Butpoliticalaspirations and convictions are not determined by length ofthe gun orstrength.ofbullet. .
If anything, long term army deployment alienates people instead of convincing them. Continuous .
protests by the Kashmiri people over widespread crimes committed by the security forces and the .
lack ofany justice to the people against these criines is a fact that the rest ofthe n.ation cannot deny. .
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Protests over Manorama's rape and murder by the Maira Paibis and the long agitation in lVIanipur. .
equally, tell us that army rule is not acceptable. .
'When political solutions are sought, ifunaccon1.panied with sincerity on the part ofthe government, .
the possibility of lasting peace recedes. The decade long ceasefire between the Indian government .
and the Naga people has notn1.eant either withdrawal ofAFSPA or reduction in deployn1.ent offorces. .
As a result, the armedforces.'have entrenched the1nselves evenn10re finnly within Nagasociety. .
People have protested against this infatnous and draconian Act. People have protested titne and again. .
Irom Sharmila's heroic resistance in the forn1 of hunger fast since 2000 is very well known. But why haven't successive governments paid heed to these protests? Simply, because no government h as .
genuinely engaged with the question ofpeople's aspirations. Moreover, all govern1nents believe in the rule .
ofthe strong state. Therefore, by leaving the n·eed ofopposingAFSPA to only those who are affected by it. we willaid the pres~ntgovernmentin believingthatthere's nothingwronginusingthis draconian law. .
There isonlyone way: a unitedprotest by all against1-lFSPA-for itsu.nconditional repea I. .
Observe 19'hNovember asnation wideprotest againstconlinuation of.rl.FSP.tl. .
Opp ose military rule in Pahistan, A-!ya nmarand Bangladesh .
Support people's strngglesagainst m ililCL1')'7·egirnes .
Join protest dharna on 19th Novemb~r against AFSPA outside .
Pearey Lal Bhavan (ITO), New Delhi between 2 and 4 pm .
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Manipur Students Association, Delhi (MSAD), 1\Ianab Adhikar Sangran1 Satniti (1\L\SS), Naga People'sMovetnent .£or H un1an Rights (NPJ:\IIHR),,Peqple's Union for Den1ocratic Rights (PUDR) .
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Is it the nght of only political organisations in JNU to bring out pamphlets on issues that concern all the students? It is the totalitarian conTmunist ideology of SFI which makes it question the credibility of students who dare to stand up to its policy of character assassination through false complaints and propaganda. .
Their pa1nphlet dated 05.08.05 lied about Sajjnn Kumar's involvement in various cases ; Yesterday they carried it to another level by stating that JNUSU vice president bas filed only one GSCASH case against Bhaskar Yadav. .
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The present JNUSU vice president had filed false cases against Ajit Singh, the then joint secretary ABVP, against Amit Shanna a senior ABVP activist, against Shiv Shakti Nath Bakshi and Sandeep Mahapatra former JNUSU President in the aftermath of 1oth August Ashok Singhal incident. The fact that GSCASH screening .
comn1ittee decided to quash the cOinplaints because of their being complete figments of imagination is another matte·. SFI cannot get away on t~chnical grounds. The fact is that the JNUSU vice president filed false cases again: r im1ocent indi\·iduals to harass them unnecessarily only because they belonged to a different ideology. fn an extension of the SFI's policy of using students of a particular minority community as vote banks~ it .
has been hoodwinking the female students ofthe campus in the name of sexual harassment and patriarchal society to gai1 electoral ad\'antage O\'er its opponents. The con1munists have been singing tunes of other organizations' "atroc ties·' over fe1nale students. Not only are they "lumpens.. ,,·ho indulge in violence, they also abduct female stude1ts. rape them and indulge in all sorts of activities that makes SFI the sole protector of their rights, safety and d gnity. And all these acti,·ities are carried out in a planned way by a chosen few who do not believe in the carry out all those activities makes thetn.
con1n1unist ideology. The power that these people might have, to comparable to any terrorist organization operating in the world. And all this chaos can be controlled only when the '\'icritns' (all female students) vote SFI into power year after year. .
For the last four years in a row, SFI has been fielding .3 students from minority commwuty and 2 girls as the winning formula even if it has to hijack girls from other poiiticai ourfits in C1e campus (Shilpi Jha two years ago). ~ Tnable to find any issue in the approaching elections it has decided to invent one by maligning the character of cen 1in in4ividuals in the campus. It first lied about the Adrninistration not recognizing the Faziliyat, Alimiyat degree to the common students to portray itself as the protector of rnin01ity students and now is striving hard to portra~ itselfas the protector of the female students by engineering imaginary atrocities on them. .
.1ature of Mr. Sajjan Kumar. An attempt to.
-,·he common students of the campus know very well the gentle zn1align his image by saying that he misbehaved. with the present joint s'ecretary, who has a propensity to file false cases to harass innocent students. is laughable. Besides the Adn1inistration acting even without an enquiry into the .
said incident has pro\·ed that its spine will not resist its manipulation by a bombarding JNUSU. It's not the innocence or compliance of the individual in any activity that is to decide Administration's reaction but the amount of pressure applied by JNUSU. The hasty decision taken by the Adtninistration and SFI coming to know .
of the decision before the securit\' is a proofofthe fact It is a sorry state of affairs in the crunpus that six students from BA have to sit on indefinite hunger strike to n1ake the Administration realise its n1istake. We thank the students for their heartening support in our fight for justice. .
We request all democratic students of the campus to stand in solidarity with the striking students and against this harassntent of innocent individuals by SFI-Administration Nexus. .
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ifthe CPI(M) really considers the nuke deal to be so disastrous for the people and the country, why does .
the party continue to hold parleys with the government and allowthe latterto carry on with its suicidal anti-.
people and pro-imperialist policies! Also, why is the CPI(M) so hesitant to launch a real mass campaign .
on this issue in its biggest stronghold ofWest Bengal? In fact, CPI(M) ministers and leaders in West .
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CPI(M) watchers in the media of course love to present the whole thing as a case of an internal .
Bengal are busy stressing the need for more nuclear power and closer ties with the US! .
ideology and a 'rooted' party machinery that knows what ittakes to win elections and wield power. There divide and disconnect within the CPI(M)-a divide between the 'ideological' puritans of Delhi and the .
pragmatic leaders of Bengal, or between an 'insulated' leadership operating from the ivory towers of .
is also a view which rules out any real debate Vvithin the party and treats the whole thing as a highly .
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sophisticated and excellently choreographed division oflabour between Delhi and Kolkata and for that er.
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matterwithin the entire CPI(M) lea(iership. .
We cannot subscribe to such facile analyses and speculative conjectures. We must understand that .
communist movement on the nature and role ofthe Indian big b:)urgeoisie. Till the onset of the nee-.
there has been and continues to be a real debate-strategic and hence also tactical-within the Indian treated the Indian big bourgeoisie as being essentially anti-imperialist and progressive. Even after the liberal policies in the wake ofthe dissolution ofthe Soviet Union, sections of Indian communists always collapse of the Soviet Union and growing Indian proximity with the US-led West, the CPI(M) kept only sound ridiculously absurd. Howdoesthe CPI(M) explain and face this newjuncture? Herein lies the has pushed the CPI(M) to a cornerwhere its old storyline ofprogressive/independentforeign policy can repeating its old tale of'reactionary economic policy and progressive foreign policy'. Nowthe nuke deal .
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Over the last few years the CPI(M)'s own 'strategic partnership' with the Congress has been CPI(M)'s strategic and tactical dilemma. elevated to a new plane of growing collaboration including power-sharing, however 'partial' and 'conditional'. Meanwhile, its opposition to the Indian big bourgeoisie's reactionary economic policies policy package in Fortress Bengal, its biggest citadel of power. Now, strategic partnership demands congruence in matters ofpolicy. Ifthe US openly·insists on this with regard to its partnership with India, .
the logic of Congress-CPI(M) partnership will also demand the same 'congruence' in terms of both has also been diluted by its so-called 'compulsion' to implement and increasingly advocate the same .
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economic and foreign policies. And equally crucially, the CPI(M)'s own theory and practice that has .
evolved in the course ofits three-decades-long rule in West Bengal inexorably propels the partytowards .
a more conformistapproach towards the policies ofthe Indian state. .
It is therefore a real debate and real dilemma confronting the CPI(M) and while the so-called 'realists' .
within the CPI(M) advocate greaterconformism, we revolutionaries from outside must push for greater .
confrontation between the parties ofthe ruling classes and their ruling policies on one hand and the .
Thedirection and tasks for revolutionary communists are thus clearly cut out. We mustfirmly oppose entire Left on the other. .
the nucleardeal .The government cannot be allowed to impose such a disastrous deal on the country .
and its people. Itmust scrap the deal orquit. .
We must sharply expose the pseudo-national pretension ofthe ruling classes and their parties and squarelycombatthe anti-communist propaganda and otherdangerous diversionary gamesbeing played by them. Within the communist or Left movement in the country, we must reject the suicidal and .
sd/-Shcphalika Shekhar.Jt. Secy., AISA. JNU ideology and politics and enable more and more communists to grasp and clinch the real debate and capitulationist line thatseeks tojustify itselfas 'realism', confront everytrend ofvacillation orwavering in .
unite·along revolutionary lines. .
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Is it the right of only political organiscftions in JNU to bring out pamphlets on issues that concern all the students? It is the totalitarian communist ideology of SFI which makes it question the credibility of students who .
dare to stand up to its poJ icy ofcharacter assassination through false complaints and propaganda. Their pan1phlet dated 05.08.05 lied about Sajjan Kumar's involvement in various cases; Yesterday they carried it to another level by stating that JNUSU vice president has filed only one GSCASH case against Bhaskar Yadav. Truth:The present JNUSU ,·ice president had filed false cases against Ajit Singh, the then joint secretary ABVP, against Amit Sharma a senior ABVP activist. against Shiv Shakti Nath Bakshi and Sandeep Mahapatra former .
JNUSU President in the aftermath of 1Olh August Ashok Singhal incident. The fact that GSCASH screening con1mittee decided to quash the complaints because of their being complete figments of imagination is another matte ·. SFI cannot get away on teclu1ical grounds. Tne fact is that the JNUSU vice president filed false cases again: t innocent individuals to harass them unnecessarily only because they belonged to a different ideology. .
In an extension of the SFI's policy of using students of a particular minority community as vote banks, it .
has been hoodwinking the fen1ale students of the campns in the name ofsexual harassment and patriarchal society .
to gai~~ electoral advantage o,·er its opponents. The communists have been singing tunes of other organizations' .
..atroc ties'~ over fen1ale students. Not only are they $tumpensn who indulge in violence, they also abduct female .
stude1ts, rape them and indulge in all sorts of activities that makes SFI the sole protector of their rights, safety .
and d gnity. And all these acti\'ities are carried out in a planned way by a chosen fe,\· who do not believe in the corru11unist ideology. The power that these people might have, to carry out all those activities makes them .
COmparable to any terrorist organization operating in the world. And all this chaos can be COntrolled only \Vhen the '"ictims' (all fen1ale students) vote SFI into power year after year. .
For the last four years in a row, SFI has been fie-Jdjng 3 students from n1inority community and 2 girls as . .
the winning formula even if it has to hijack girls from other political outfits in the campus (Shilpi Jha two years ago). 1 ·nable to find any issue in the approaching elections it has decided to invent one by maligning the character of cen 1in individuals in the can1pus. It first lied about the Adtninistration not recognizing the Faziliyat, Alimiyat .
degre~ to the comrnon students to portray itself as the protector ofminority students and now is striving hard to .
portra~ itselfas the protector ofthe female students by engineering imaginary atrocities on them. ·d1e coffilnon students ofthe campus know very well the gentle nature of Mr. Sajjan Kumar. An attempt to n1align his image by saying that he misbehaved with the present joint secretary, who has a propensitY to tile false cases to harass innocent students, is Iaue:hable. Besides the Administration acting even \Vithout an enquirv into the .
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said incident has proved that its spine will not resist its 1nanipulation by a bombarding JNUSU. It's not the .
innocence or compliance of the individual in any activity that is to decide Administration's reaction but the amount of pressure applied b" JNUSU. The hasty decision taken by the Administration and SFI coming to know .
ofthe decision before the security is a proof ofthe fact .
It is a sorry state of affairs in the campus that six students from BA have to sit on indefinite hunger strike to tnake the Administration realise its mistake. We thank the students for their heartening support in our fight for justice. .
We request all democratic students of the campus to stand in solidarity with the .
striking students and against this harassment of innocent individuals by SFI-.
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Our hard fought freedom brought to us a momentous occasion when our people could feel the freedom and decide their own destiny. But that moment was brought thanks to the invaluable sacrifices of our country .
men, millions ofwhich perished without their names being written in our textbooks. Many of these people .
were young, enthusiastic and discerning students of colleges and universities of that time. These were the .
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people who questioned India's passivity and subordination and later questioned every injustice. They left the comforts and made for the country anew path. Ifttieed, it can be said that they changed the direction ofwind. .
Today, their sacrifices and great role deserve a place bigger than pages oftextbooks or dusty book shelves of .
ce to truly develop, think, progress and libraries. This can be done if students of today's India get a .
contribute to the progress of the country. This is a serious responsibility, and a big dream hut one which is .
worth achieving for its own sake because a country cannot take a big leap or even a small step while its .
·led to achieve this. A majority o student students live in dormancy. Several students' organizations have .
organizations have been reduced to the vote catching machines which have injected divisive and venomous .
to be their real concerns. Money, muscle .
agenda. Student welfare and country's real progress do not and other corrupt practices are running their organizations and with these means they often bulldoze honest system in the name of either ideology or protecting sectional interests. Such organizations have made the student community averse to politics because politics of these groups s more of hooliganism than real .
politics that brings change and progress. .
'Chattra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti' is a far cry from this kind ofpolitics. The spirit ofCYSS was born out of to see movement against corruption, which.
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activism among dtsceming; thinking students who w for the first time questioned the rotten complacency of the people at the helms of affairs everywhere. It is .
alive for students are indeed the basis ofprogress ofa country. With this this spirit that w to k mfuSe energy in th resent times goal in mind and hearts of its members, CYSS seeks to light hope an .
when millions of students in COWltry still see their country through their limited small dreams. This is not .
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possible ifstudents remain confined to the short s requires spreading the willingness to step out of their confines and do their Jimited bit to connect with the .
· t or ization wants to dispel grassroot problems--of aam-aadmi ofthe country Along .
the gloom ofdirty and narrow student politics in present times by presenting itselfas an alternative model of .
in its outlook and agenda. It seeks to not student body that-emphasizes ethics and shuns n81Tow divi · .
just create dreams but create dream creators who see no limits to progress ofthe country. .
Unnati Ki Hum Neev Hain, Hawa KJZ-Ruklt Cltalein, Hum chale4Jo Desh Chale.Hum Badhen to Desh badhe. .
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When it comes to the correct implementation of OBC reservations, the more the casteist administration announces its .
innocence, the more it compromises itself. Example after example exists of how the JNU administration, while pretending .
to forma//ydimplement" 27% OBC reservation, undertakes every devious means to actuallyscuttle this policy in practise. .
This situation would have go unheeded if not for the alertness and concern of the student body. .
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In the Academic Council meeting of21 April2009, this year, once again the JNU administration pushed through its casteist .
agenda by implementing only 18% reservation with a concomitant seat increase of 30%. This administration routinely ties .
arguments of the "inadequacy of infrastructure" as an excuse for the non-fulfillment ofreserved seats.After the JNUSU called .
its bluffon the issue, the administration has been using the Supreme Court stay on JNUSU elections as an excuse to deny .
the student community any proper representation on the matter.The administration routinely fudges figures ofthe requisite .
numberofseats actually filled under the reserved quota.And what was worse is how in the Academic Council, the adminis-.
tration passed the Aditya Mukherjee and Rupamanjari Ghosh reports on reservation and admission policy without any .
discussiOJl on the issue. What this indicates is that the casteist administration is opposed not only to the proper implemen-.
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tation of reservations, but also the lengths that it is willing to go to do so. .
A correct norm of relaxation of cut-off marks for OBC candidates is the key to fulfilling of their reserved seats. .
JNUSU has been continuously pointing out that the JNU administration is statedly violating th.e MHRD directive·of20 April .
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2008 on this count. It is because the administratio_t) is continuously violating this norm that OBC seats in this campus a·re .
Reservation Act offers the following guidelines (para (X) and (XI) with respect to the relaxation and application of Cut-off.
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remaining unfulfilled. The Office Memorandum ofMHRD dated 20 April, 2008 on the modalities of Implementation ofthe OBC .
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~Each CEI is also authorized to fix cut off marks for admission/selection through admission test. etc. for the OBC .
candidates with such differential from the cut off marks for the unreserved category as each institution may deem .
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appropriate for maintaining the standards ofeducation and atthe same time ensuring thatsufficientnumberof .
OBC candidates are available in keeping with the directions/observations ofthe Hon'ble Supreme CourtofIndia .
in this regard. This authorization by the central Government to the CEis to fix the cut off marks in the,..compliance with marks. The Central Government believes that each CEI would ensure that the directions/observations of the Hon'ble.
the Apex Courts direction asking Jhe Central Government to examine the feasibility of determining such cut-off .
Court are followed.~ .
CEis which are in process of conducting admission tests may decide on the cut-off marks for the oac·category .
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well in time,so that consistent with the standards ofthe education ofthe CEI~, sufficientnumberofeligible OBC .
candidates are available for selection on the basis ofinter-se merit against the reserve seats....: .
However, the JNU administration has turned this directive on its head by misinterpreting the definition of"cut-oW itselfas a .
result ofwhich several seats in the OBC category are unfulfilled both in MAand the M.Phil. results declared so far Unless .
this mischievous anomaly is removed ensuring constitutionally mandated OBC reservation will remain a far cry in all days to .
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Across campuses, it is becoming evident that the powers-that-be are using every weapon in their arsenal to scuttle the .
implementation of reservation and socially sensitive policies in admission. This is why it is necessary to continue the .
struggle with greater urgency and take it to all levels that are required. .
Rather than engaging in petty, competitive politicking it is urgent that all the forces genuinely committed to social justice .
must focus on this central roadblock on the way of fulfilling reservations.The administration cannot continue to dilute the .
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level of social inclusion that has historically marked JNU as acampus. The anomalies with regard to OBC reservation must be addressed and the administration must be made accountable. Join Public meeting tonight on Challenges Before .
ImplementingReservations in HigherEducatio_n:Confronting theEntrenched Elitism with noted social scien-tist Yogendra Yadav, Dr. Vive,k Kumar and Dr. D.K.Lobiyal to del berate on the issue. MobeenAiamShephalika Jt. Secy., JNUS San deep Vice-President.,JNUSU President, JN USU .
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Vacations Committee(s), for the period When the University Is In vacation, of not less than five members. Not less than half of the members of the .
said Committee shall be women. .
V. 11 (ii) The Vacations Committee shall elect from within itself a Convener, who shall be a woman faculty member, and shall exercise all the powers and .
functions of the Chairperson of GSCASH outlined .
herein. .
V.11 (iii) By May 12 and December 5 each year, GSCASH shall intimate the University community by public .
notice the contact details including telephone/mobile nos. of the members of the Vacations Committee. .
V. 11 (iv) The Vacations Commitlee shall designate from within itselfa monthly Com;olaints Screening Committee, Which shall function in accordance with the .
procedures outlined in Section V/.3. .
V.11(v) In the event of an enquiry proceedings being necessitated, the Vacations Committee shall call a Special Meeting for the constitution of an Enquiry .
Committee, in accordance with the provisions of .
Section V/.4. .
V. 11 (vi) Save for reasons that the Vacations Commmee .
considers urg~nt, further action on the complaint .
shall take place after the end of a vacation, in an .
Emergency Meeting, called by the Chief Enquiry .
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Officer/Chairperson, GSCASH within three working days of the commencement of the semester. .
V.ff (vii) In case ofa need for Immediate disciplinary action, the reasons for which the Chief Enquiry Officer shall state In writing, the Convener of the Vacations .
shall call a Special Meeting to discuss, .
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take a decision on the recommendations of the Enquiry Committee, and initiate further action on the complaint, in accordance with the procedures .
outlined in Section VI .4. .
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As required by the Supreme Court Judgement, the Umversity .
authorities shall forward to the government department .
concerned, the Annual Report of GSCASH together with a .
written report on the Action Taken by them on the .
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recommendations of the GSCASH and the Appea ls .
Committee. .
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VI. FUNCTIONS OF GSCASH .
GSCASH shall be responsible for the implementation of the .
recommendations of the Working Group on Sexual .
Harassment appointed by the Vice-Chancellor on 5 September .
1997 and the Supreme Court Judgement. GSCASH shall have .
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four functions: .
V/.1 Gender Sensitisation and Orientation .
Vl.1 (i) GSCASH will ensure the prominent publicity of the .
Policy in all Centres, Schools, Hostels, offices of administration, as well as in all public places on the campus such as the library, health centre, residential .
areas, canteens, shopping centres, etc. .
V1.1 (ii) GSCASH will organize programmes for the gender sensitisation of the University community through workshops, seminars, posters, film shows, debates, skits, etc. It may enlist the help of specialized NGOs .
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Is it the right of only political organisations in JNU to bring out pamphlets on issues that concern all thestudents? It is the totalitarian con1n1tmist ideology ofSFI which tnakes it question the credibility of students whodare to stand up to its policy of charact~r assassination through false complaints and propaganda..
Their pa1nphlet dated 05.08.05 lied about Sajjan Kumar's involvement in various cases ; Yesterday.
they carried it to another level by stating that JNUSU vice president has filed only one GSCASH case.
against Bhaskar Yadav. .
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The present Jr\USU Yice president had filed false cases against Ajit Singh, the then joint secretary ABVP,against Arnit Shan11a a senior ABVP activist. against Shiv Shakti Nath Bakshi and Sandeep Mahapatra formerJNUSU President in the aftern1ath of 1oth August Ashok Singhal incident. The fact that GSCASH screeningcon11n ittee decided to quash the con1plaints because of their being complete figments of imagination is anothern1atte ·. SFI cannot get a\\ay on technical grounds. The fact is that the JNUSU vice president filed false casesagain: t innocent indi,·iduals to harass them unnecessarily only because they belonged to a different ideology.;n an extension of the SFI's policy of using students of a particular minority community as vote banks, ithas been b.ood\vinking the fen1ale students ofthe can1pus in the name ofsexual harassment and patriarchal society.
to gai·: electoral adYantage O\·er its opponents. The communists have been singing tunes of other organizations'··atro( ties" over fen1ale students. Not only are they ·'Iumpens.. who indulge in violenc~, they also abduct female stude. ts. rape thern and indulge in all sorts of activities that makes SFI the sole protector of their rights: safetyand d gnity. And all these actiYities are carried out in a planned way by a chosen few who do not believe in theconununist ideology. The pO\\·er that these people n1ight have, to carry out all those activities makes themcornparable to any terrorist organization operating in the vvorld. And all this chaos can be controlled only \\·henthe 'yictirns' (all fen1ale students) vote SFI into po\ver year after year..
For the last four years in a row, SFI has been fielding 3 students from n1inority community and 2 girls asthe \\·i nning fonnula e\'en if it has to hijack girls fron1 other political outfits in the campus (Shilpi Jha t\.\'O yearsago). · 'nable to find any issue in the approaching elections it has decided to in\'ent one by maligning the characterofcen tin individuals in the can1pus. It first lied about the Adtninistration not recognizing the Faziliyat, Alin1iyatdegre~ to the con1n1on students to portray itself as the protector of minority students and now is striving hard topo11ra~ itselfas the protector of the female students by engineering imaginary atrocities on them. .
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he comn1on ::,tudenb of the campus know very well the gentle nature of l\1r. Sajjan Kumar. An atten1pt to.
rnalign his i1nage by saying that he mi sbehaved with the present joint secretary. \\'ho has a propensity to file falsecases to harass innocent students. is laughable. Besides the Administration acting even vvithout an enquiry into thesaid incident has pro\·ed that its spine will not resist its manipulation by a bon1barding JNUSU. It's not theinnocence or con1pliance of the individual in any activity that is to decide Adtninistration's reaction but thean1ount of pressure applied bv JNUSU. The hasty decision taken by the Adn1inistration and SFI coming to knowofthe decision before the securitv is a proofof the factIt is a sorry state of affairs in the can1pus that six students from BA have to sit on indefinite hunger striketo n1ake the Administration realise its n1istake. We thank the students for their heartening support in our fight for.
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ifthe CPI(M) really considers the nuke deal to be so disastrous for the people and the country, why does the party continue to hold parleys with the government and allow the latter to carry on with its suicidal anti-people and pro-imperialist policies! Also, why is the CPI(M) so hesitant to launch a real mass campaign on this issue in its biggest stronghold ofWest Bengal? In fact, CPI(M) ministers and leaders in West .
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Bengal are busy stressing the need for more nuclear power and closer ties with the US! .
CPI(M) watchers in the media of course love to present the whole thing as a case of an internal divide and disconnect within the CPI(M)-a divide between the 'ideological' puritans of Delhi and the pragmatic leaders of Bengal, or between an 'insulated' leadership operating from the ivory towers of ideology and a 'rooted' party machinery that knows what it takes to win elections and wield power. There is also a view which rules out any real debate Vvithin the party and treats the whole thing as a highly sophisticated and excellently choreographed division of labour betvveen Delhi and Kolkata and for that matter within the entire CPI(M) lea(iership. .
We cannot subscribe to such facile analyses and speculative conjectures. We must understand that there has been and continues to be a real debate -strategic and hence also tactical-within the Indian communist movement on the nature and role of the Indian big b~)urgeoisie. Till the onset of the nee-liberal policies in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, sections of Indian communists always treated the Indian big bourgeoisie as being essentially anti-imperialist and progressive. Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and growing Indian proximity with the US-led West, the CPI(M) kept repeating its old tale of 'reactionary economic policy and progressive foreign policy'. Nowthe nuke deal has pushed the CPI(M) to a corner where its old storyline of progressive/independent foreign policy can only sound ridiculously absurd. How does the CPI(M) explain and face this new juncture? Herein lies the CPI(M)'s strategic and tactical dilemma. .
Over the last few years the CPI(M)'s own ··strategic partnership' with the Congress has been elevated to a new plane of growing collaboration including power-sharing, however 'partial' and 'conditional'. Meanwhile, its opposition to the Indian big bourgeoisie's reactionary economic policies has also been diluted by its so-called 'compulsion' to implement and increasingly advocate the same policy package in Fortress Bengal, its biggest citadel of power. Now, strategic partnership demands congruence in matters ofpolicy. Ifthe US openly insists on this with regard to its partnership with India, the logic of Congress-CPI(M) partnership will also demand the same 'congruence' in terms of both economic and foreign policies. And equally crucially, the CPI(M)'s own theory and practice that has evolved in the coL1rse of its three-decades-long rule in West Bengal inexorably propels the party towards a more conformist approach towards the policies of the Indian state. .
It is therefore a real debate and real dilemma confronting the CPI(M) and while the so-called 'realists' within the CPI(M) advocate greater conformism, we revolutionaries from outside must push for greater confrontation between the parties of the ruling classes and their ruling policies on one hand and the entire Left on the other. .
The direction and tasks for revolutionary communists are thus clearly cut out. We mustfirmly oppose the nuclear deal .The government cannot be allowed to impose such a disastrous deal on the country and its people. It must scrap the deal or quit. .
We must sharply expose the pseudo-national pretension ofthe ruling classes and their parties and squarely combat the anti-communist propaganda and other dangerous diversionary games being played by them. Within the communist or Left movement in the country, we must reject the suicidal and capitulationist line that seeks tojustify itselfas 'realism', confront every trend of vacillation or wavering in ideology and politics and enable more and more communists to grasp and clinch the real debate and unite along revolutionary lines. .
sd/-Mobeon Alam, Vice-President, AI SA, JNU sd/-Shc'ph;Jiika Shekhar,Jt Secy., AISA, JNU .
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ifthe CPI(M) really considers the nuke deal to be so disastrous forthe people and the country, why does .
the party continue to hold parleys with the government and allowthe latterto carry on with its suicidal anti-.
people and pro-imperialist policies!Aiso, why is the CPI(M) so hesitantto launch a real mass campaign on this issue in its biggest stronghold of West Bengal? In fact, CPI(M) ministers and leade-rs in West Bengal are busy stressing the need for more nuclear power and closer ties with the US! t? .
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CPI(M) watchers in the media of course love to present the whole thing as a case of an internal tlin divide and disconnect within the CPI(M)-a divide between the 'ideological' puritans of Delhi and the tfit. as insulated' leadership operating from the ivory towers of.
pragmatic leaders of Bengal, or between an 'to.
party machinery that knows what it takes to win elections and wield power. Thereideology and a ,rooted' .
is also a view which rules out any real debate ~ithin the party and treats the whole thing as a highly .
sophisticated and excellently choreographed division of labour between Delhi and Kolkata and for that 'lt .
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matterwithin the entire CPI(M) lea(iership. ) I .
We cannot subscribe to such facile analyses and speculative conjectures. We must understand that f .
there has been and continues to be a real debate-strategic and h~nce also tactical-within the Indian .
communist movement on the nature and role of the Indian big bDurgeoisie. Till the onset ofthe nee-.
liberal policies in the wake ofthe dissolution of the Soviet Union, sections of Indian communists always treated the Indian big bourgeoisie as being essentially anti-imperialist and progressive. Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and growing Indian proximity with the US-led West, the CPI(M) kept .
repeating its old tale of 'reactionary economic policy and progressive foreign policy'. Nowthe nuke deal .
has pushed the CPI(M) to a corner where its old storyline ofprogressive/independentforeign policy can .
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only sound ridiculously absurd. Howdoes the CPI(M) explain and face this newjuncture? Herein lies the .
CPI(M)'s strategic and tactical dilemma. .· .
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Over the last few years the CPI(M)'s own 'strategic partnership' with the Congress has been .
elevated to a new plane of growing collaboration including power-sharing, however 'partial' and .
'conditional'. Meanwhile, its opposition to the Indian big bourgeoisie's reactionary economic policies .
has also been diluted by its so-called 'compulsion' to implement and increasingly advocate the same .
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policy package in Fortress Bengal, its biggest citadel of power. Now, strategic partnership demands .
congruence in matters of policy. Ifthe US openly insists on this with regard to its partnership with India. .
the logic of Congress-CPI(M) partnership will also demand the same 'congruence' in terms of both economic and foreign policies. And equally crucially, the CPI(M)'s own theory and practice that has evolved in the course ofits three-decades-long rule in West Bengal inexorably propels the party towards .
.· a more conformist approach towards the policies ofthe Indian state. .
It is therefore a real debate and real dilemma confronting the CPI(M) and while the so-called 'realists' within the CPI(M) advocate greater conformism, we revolutionaries from outside must push for greater .
confrontation between the parties of the ruling classes and their ruling policies on one hand and the .
entire Left on the other. .
The direction and tasks for revolutionary communists are thus clearly cut out. We must firmly oppose the nuclear deai.The government cannot be allowed to impose such a disastrous deal on the country .
and its people. It must scrap the deal orquit .
., We must sharply expose the pseudo-national pretension ofthe ruling classes and their parties and / squarely combatthe anti-communist propaganda and otherdangerous diversionary games being played by them. Within the communist or Left movement in the country, we must reject the suicidal and .
realism', confront every trend of vacillation orwavering in.
capitulationist line that seeks to justify itselfas 'ideology and politics and enable more and more communists to grasp and clinch the real debate and unite along revolutionary lines. sd/-Shc.ph;:tlika Shckhar.Jt Secy., AISA, JNU.
sd/-Mobeon Alam, Vice-President, AISA, JNU .
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