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Rabindra Purashkar and decided to distribute the award money of Rs 50,000 between the families of Nandigram victims. The alleged genocide in Nandigram led many others to give up the membership of state-run agencies. Mr Sashi Anand also declared his resignation from the membership post of the West Bengal Film Development Corporation today. Similarly, Mr Nabinananda Sen also stepped down from Nandan Advisory Committee. Meanwhile, Students of Presidency College and Jadavpur University joined in a road blockade in front of Metro Cinema and then proceeded towards Mahajati Sadan. .
Source: www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&it... 0&parent_id=22 .
Internet Edition of Gulf Times 18th March .
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Published: Sunday, 18 March, 2007, 08:49 AM Doha Time .
KOLKATA: Returning the highest literary awards bestowed on them by the West Bengal government, eminent Left historian couple Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar yesterday said Nandigram was more shocking than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre because it happened in a Left-ruled state. Jallianwala massacre happened in colonial India but what happened in Nandigram is shocking since it happened in a Left-ruled government in independent India, said Sumit and Tanika Sarkar in a telephonic interview said from New Delhi. Jallianwala Bagh was the outcome of one single mans action (General Dyer ordered the firing on hundreds of people on April 13, 1919) but here the entire CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) machinery and the government were involved in the killings, they said. What happened in Gujarat in 2002 did not amaze us as much because it was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government but in a Left-ruled state this is astounding, Tanika Sarkar said. The couple returned their Rabindra Puraskars -the highest honorary literary award given in West Bengal -to register their protest over the killings of 14 people in police firing at Nandigram and decided to donate the award money to the Nandigram Relief Fund. I received Rs50,000 in 2004 and Sumit received Rs25,000 in 1998. We are giving away the money to Nandigram Relief Fund, she said. We are shattered. All this has happened and there is not a word of shame or apology from the CPI-M central committee or state committee, she said. Sumit Sarkar, former professor of history at Delhi University, is a prominent Indian social historian who in his Writing Social History sought to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial domination. Tanika Sarkars work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right. What happened inside Nandigram that day (March 14) no one knows, said the Sarkar couple who were distressed since the controversy in Singur over takeover of farmland for industry broke out. As a lifelong Leftist, I was deeply shocked by recent events in the countryside of West Bengal. On Dec 31, a group of us went to Singur, spent the whole day there, visited four out of five most affected villages and three things became very clear, because of which the West Bengal governments version cannot be accepted, said Sumit Sarkar. .
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Gardens commemorating the massacre of 1000+ peaceful demonstrators by the british in 1919
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Resist the PM's Efforts To Give Colonialism a 'Human Face' !On the 58'h Anniversary of Independence,.
Will the PM Apologise For His Insult to Indian Freedom Struggle ?I'British Rule was an act of enterprise, adventure, creativity'Delhi in May 2005 -PM Manmohan Singh at the District Collector's Conference in'We did not entirely deny the British claim to .
'-Manmohan Singh at Oxford Univ. good governance'; we only asserted our natural claim to self-governance'..
The PM has tried to cover up the shame ofthe Congress-sponsored carnage against Sikhs in 1984 by apologising to the nation;but in his speech from the Red Fort. will he apologise for the way in which Indian police and Army are recreating colonial horrors.
by beating up workers in Gurgaon, shooting and arresting farmers in Rajasthan and Punjab, and the Raj legacy of unemployment.
and starvation are once again stalking India? Bhagat Singh had warned that colonial structures of exploitation wouldcontinue if Indian nationalism and freedom failed to have a revolutionary basis. Today, even the Supreme Court haashown its 'Black Saheb' nature by defending WTO·dictated policies of privatlsation of education, under which deprived.
sections of Indians w111 have no place, but NRis will enjoy reservation!.
.. To turn infamies into feats. accumulation is detached from despoliation, opulence has nothing to do with plunder.Broken memory leads us to believe that wealth is Innocent ofpoverty. -Eduardo Galeano.
How is the Indian Prime Minister able to turn the infamy of two centuries of colonial exploitation and brutal domination Into a feat.
of 'adventure and enterprise'? How is he able to argue that British wealth and status as a developed nation today is innocent ofIndia'.
s poverty? The editorials in the mainstream corporate media defended the PM's praise of the Raj; according to them, thePM'.
s views are 'balanced', while the ·extreme' ·uttra-Left" (CPIML) and the "ultra-Right" (BJP) are the only ones to have criticised.
that speech Is this true? .
Does the Sangh Have Any Right to Criticise the PM's Pro-Raj Views?.
No one has pointed out that the founding fathers of the Sangh had expressed approval of British Rule even at the height ofthefreedom struggle; Golwalkar had chastised the freedom fighters of being 'reactionary' (reacting blindly against the British)!.
Back then, the RSS had recommended that nationalism should not be anti-colonial or anti-British in content, but in fact shouldcome from the inherent impulse of Hindus for a Hindu Rashtra, a nation of their own..
Did the British Provide 'Good Governance'?.
Manmohan Singh gave British colonialism a certificate of 'good governance', saying the British were responsible for introducing·Fair Play', 'Rule of Law', Indian bureaucracy, police, Universities and laboratories and even the.
whether this is based on fact. .
'Free Press'. Let's examine.
'Fair play' and the 'Rule of Law'? Were the British and Indians equal in the eyes of this law? How can the institutionalised.
racism embedded in the colonial structures of 'governance' be called 'fair play'?! The ICS: Recall that even in the ICS about which Mr. Singh waxes lyrical, the demand for exams to be held in India wasdenied for half a century and Indians were barred from holding the topmost posts. .
Free Press: As for the falrytale of a 'Free Press' and freedom of expression -has Mr. Singh forgotten the draconian.
Rowlalt Act. introduced to muzzle dissent? Has he forgotten the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre unleashed in coldblood on people who resisted the Rowlett Act? Recall that the immediate context In which Bhagat Singh flung his bomb in.
the Assembly was the Industrial Disputes Bill, brought in to ban workers' strikes. And the Universities and laboratories?.
Universities and Labs: It is incredible that Manmohan Singh should thank the British for these-when the fact is that mostUniversities of the time were set up through nationalist initiative and funding!.
True, Mr. Singh has quoted Angus Maddison to justify Indian 'grievance' against colonialism, pointing out that India's pooreconomic status in colonial times. What Mr. Singh doesn't mention is that the British consolidated their wealth and strength by.
inflicting this poverty through ruthless loot and repression..
What the PM Forgot to Thank the British For.
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But there are many gifts for which Mr. Singh forgot to thank the British. Foremost among them are the deep communal wounds.
on our polity, inflicted by the policy of Divide and Rule, thanks to which our nation continues to bleed. Mr. Singh may thank theBritish for English: will he also thank them for their role in the calculated and painful amputation of Urdu from Hindi, which.
distorted our precious linguistic legacy? .
!he British introduced the barest minimum elements of modernity as were required to rule and to plunder effectively. Existing.
1ndustry was brutally destroyed. Concerned only with extracting back-breaking n..e~nue, they gave institutions like the zamindaria new lease of life and bru tally crushed anti-feudal uprisings of the peasantry -the result is the mass of dallt agrarian poorremained shackled by structures of feudal oppression. .
Challenge WTO-Dictated Policies of UPA Of Privatisation of Education and Unemployment!Join March to Parliament on 11 August Demanding Right.to Education, Employment and Democracy In Campuses'sdl-Awadhesh Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Sandeep Singh,, Jt. Secy., AISA,JNU .
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