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I did a bit of an idiotic thing on the bike this morning which right royally p!ssed me off, simply because I'm angry at myself for being so stupid.
I filtered left around a huge plant-type vehicle waiting to turn right at some lights and tucked myself in behind some car waiting at the other lights to go straight on (see rudimentary diagram here). As the right-turn lights turned green first, the big truck thing turned right and its path swept out to the left, pushing the back-end of my bike and the front shunted into the back of the car in front waiting at the lights. This is just after I've just spent over £400 on repairs...
The lights changed and so the driver of the car in front and I pulled over by the side of the road. I'd managed to scrape some paint off the back of his nice silver Audi so I just apologised profusely. Normally one shouldn't admit to anything in these situations, but whosever fault it was it certainly wasn't his.
As for my bike, I've noticed that the front fairing has come loose and cracked on one side. I just hope the back wheel is okay because it's brand new. I guess I'm going to have to book it straight back in at the shop. I think they're making a living off me at the moment...
almost straight out of camera (only a little color adjustment and cropping) - took this on a 770 km trip back home with my cam fixed to the dash with the gorillapod and triggered with the remote from the co-driver's seat. I like the wall-like effect those trees made with that long-time exposure.
No, I didn't use flash on this one :)) (In fact, my GF, who was driving, got really p*ssed when accidentially the flash triggered off, once).
Scrap wood, broken windshield scraper, ball joint, transmission gear, and some other junk.
Will it work? Testing later.
Again, he's having a bit of trouble here. I think she was just p*ssed off that we didn't know her bridle from her butt.
El alcalde de Palos y la directora de la sSede Iberoamericana se reunieron para seguir manteniendo una estrecha colaboración
She was irked that we'd left her alone for a few days so she made a big show of sulking when we got home.
Ok, I've seen the 356 project break better people than I, but sod it, its time to have a go.
Last night I spent a few quality hours in one of Liverpool's fine pubs in the company of some lovely Flickr folks. We quaffed beers and pushed ideas around and it was warm and cordial and productive.
Later on in the evening as a few of us sat around doing a bit of additional socialising I whipped out my little digi point-and-click to take a few candids. Its a good camera in low light so I knew it wouldn't flash and give me away. I carried on chatting as I slipped the camera into my lap and surreptitiously snapped away. Alas, when I got home I discovered that (a) I'd had one more Erdinger than I should have and was a bit p*ssed, and (b) I'd had the camera pointing the wrong way.
Consequently today I have 5 shots of my crotch and a hangover :-/
Made in the attic. Has five rooms. We slept there.
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Afogados da Ingazeira é um município localizado na microrregião de Pajeú, estado de Pernambuco, sendo o segundo principal centro comercial do Vale do Pajeú. Ssede de diversos órgãos públicos e possui instituições de nível superior e abrigando a Diocese de Afogados da Ingazeira, única diocese de sua microrregião...
O município está inserido numa unidade geoambiental denominada "Depressão Sertaneja". Seu relevo é suave-ondulado. A vegetação é composta por caatinga hiperxerófila. Está localizado na bacia do Rio Pajeú., e a 386 km de distância da capital, Recife.
Oh dear - thanks to the bloke in the silver Skoda Octavia who tried to change lanes into me yesterday (after I had let him turn right in front of me, so he must have known I was there) Millie got so scared she had a little accident. Either that or I am anthropomorphising too much and I have burst a brake line on my car by braking too hard.
It is very unnerving to drive a car with a brake pedal that goes to the floor.
Update:It was just one pipe that had come unclipped and had rainwater draining on it. It has rusted where the clip should have been. And the garage kindly diagnosed the starting problems not as glowplugs but a split fuel line, so replaced that and the brake pipe for £80. Much better than I could have hoped for.
Update Except the starting problems weren't fixed, and getting the glow plugs changed didn't fix it either.Turns out it was the TDC sensor, which was only £30.
For a video Tremendousness is working on with T**. Yes, I worked a grocery list in.
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With my very best wishes for Christmas - to all my Fab friends and Flickr contacts. Have a cool yule - and Minnie the cat sends her love too...
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Report of ABVP team visited Nandigram .
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A nine member team of ABVP team lead by West Bengal State President Rabi Ranjan Sen, an ex-student of JNU .
visited the scene of the 14lh March 2007 carnage at Nandigram on Saturday 17th March along with a NDA parliamentary .
Friends, delegation. After lc-:~ving Tamluk town, lmes of flags of the CPI(M) 1n some areas signified areas which are under the control of tr,e red sides of the road people had lined liP and were wavmg at and shoutmg slogans welcoming the NDA delegat1on, only at one place whiLh was party while places wh1cll were not under the1r control flew TMC and BJP flags. The tension was evident on the road after Tamluk as 0 -, both .
under CPI(M) control, the red party a h1t 01 ~h12 Jaw and her teeth were broken. She said that after the 'recap:t.:re' by l so·1 Gagha r>1ondol ( 18) had h1s throat slit and was similarly dumped. We met a young boy of class nine named lJtpal Giri who told us tnar hi-; b ·other SN~oan Gin was cnt1callv mJureu and adr11tted to SSKM Hospttal tn Kolkata. They dtd not know whether he would surv1 CF·i(i·~: eacr farr.11y m the area were be1ng asked to pdy the party a pena1ty' of Rs 5,000/-, Rs 3,000/-or Rs2000/-for opposing ther .
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'JEN!nd,nq en tr.e fam11y's abtl1ty ar'ld rnagn1tude ot o;,ros1t1on to the CPI(M). .
~oldinq our hands, Ashtami Pradhan and some of the other women said that they were very poor and not able top ar d blouses and disrobed by the pursuing 'policemen'. All of them seemed set in their resolve to continue their oppositi and demanded the hanging of Chief Minister Bud·:1hadeb Bhattacharjee and Haldia Development Authority (HDA) Chairma. .
ti".~ 'oenalty'. They also described how during the assault many young women while trying to flee were caught by their sar, and local CPI(M) MP Lakshman Seth who they held as responsible for the carnage. .: ~-5::> o: tne v1cnms were m th1s Hosp1tal and ,,'illY others had been removed to Tamluk Sadar Hosp1tal (the d1strict HQ) and sc Among the pat1ents adm1tted we spoke to a young woman Lata Mondol from Gokulnagar vtllage w"'o corroborated an account w .
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!tad '"Icard from some VIllagers l1ned up outs1de the nosp1tal, that a KG school in Gokulnagar v1llage had been attacked by the po1 ':,sp tal in Kolkata. An InJured woman, Tapas1 Manna had been hit by a bullet m her chest. .
them had be~r'l struck by bullets. Even lymg on her hospital bed 1n a severely inJured state, Lata t-1ondol expressed her desire to see force. She said that though no f1nng had taken place 1nside the school, when the children rushed outside they were fired upon and mar.,. u' .
Anothe.-young woman patient m Nandigram Hosp1tal, Kabita Das Adh1kari from Gokulnagar village said that all six members of t' fam1ly 1ncluding her husband were m1ss1ng (presumably among the dead whose bodies were surreptitiously disposed off). She was s.~un all the family members m15s1ng (or k1lled} she had no one to take her home. She sa1d that she had an elder brother-m-law who d1d not l1 I<e to, arr.ong others, two pat1ents who had been raped during the operat1on, fals1fy1nq .
. the statement of Left Front MPs who had stdtt:d 1n Parl1ament that no rape had taken place 1n the operation. Kajal Majhi frr In Tamluk Hospit;:,l where the more severely InJured patients had been removed and where Governor Gopal Krishna Gandht ,, vi .
Kajol Majhi, who is the mother of four children, said that she was chased by the 'policemen' into a go-al ghar (C0'-'1 Kalicharanpur and Gauri Pradhan from Gokulnagar, both rape victims, were lying in the Hospital in a severely injured a traumatised condition. Gauri Pradhan, lying curled up on the bed with a vacant look in her eyes and a gamchha parti.. .
takt"'n care of by 3 f,1mily who had found her 111 the cow shed and carried her indoors. The next day (Thursday) she had bee<"~ Jomitte .
covering her face to hide her feeling of shame, was barely in a condition to talk. .
shed) where she was raped and lost consciousness. When she regained consc1ousness it was late at n1ght and she found h·:!rsclt Ot.:' .
Midnapore district administration was all set to lodge a formal case of rape, five days after the incident! .
Among the severely InJured pat,l'nts v11th bullet tnjunes 1n Tamluk Hospttal we spoke to Shankha Gor from Solli.1chura who t'·"' vJhcther they were rec.1l poltce or CPI(MJ actiVI drL·ssed hke that. InCI,jentally, the day after our VISit and press statement diJO'Jt ~t1e N Hospital. When as><cd by us Nhether 1t was the poliCe who had raped her she satd that they were dressed in police uniform but w<Js not sur"' fr~)rn ::,onachura hdd bullet ,n1unes on her leg and sltl~ S<Jtd that her husband who was critically InJured had been ddmtlted to S'SKI'-1 rl...,,..,., dclcgat1on and the ABVP team talk1ng to the rapl.! vict1ms, The Telegraph (18/03/ 07) carried a news report stacang th~t trH' been s11ot 10 hiS nead. Shyamal1 Manna of Garhcl1akraber1a had been h1t by d bullet in her leg. In ller eyew1tness ac~ount of tnc mttd Shyamdll Manna stated that a lot of school children had been shot at point blank range and thrown into the nver. A~ubha Khanra .
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I refuse to play nice and I will get over things when I bloody feel ready too!!! Don't dare to tell me otherwise!!!
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5 minute life drawing from Art Macabre's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the RA - disclaimer was a bit p*ssed by this point
it p*ssed it down again earlier. Where's the bloody summer? - another jump reflection i'm afraid (well actually i'm not because its fun doing them!) =P
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Wheth~r in Maharashtra or Delhi or elsewhere. Congress-led g.ovemments aid the communal agenda by actively~romotmg communal stereotyping and minority witch-hunting. In fact. the UPA Gov~rnment has persistently agnored all the available evidences against the RSS-BJP outfits who had been caught red-handed with .
explosives (be it in Nanded, Tenkashi, or Kanpur] or where Sangh Parivar activists were caught red...handed masqueradipg as 'SIMI' activists. Instead of thwarting t11e Sangh Parivar's heinous ploy to use terror attacks as fodder fo_r their communal pogroms anq campaigns. the UPA Government has.indulged in the sam~ kind of stereotyping,.
Witch-hunting and encounter killings, all of which feed into the BJP's fasctst agenda. Such double standards must be defeated. The real beneficiaries ar.d perpetrators of terror from Gujarat, Kandhamal, Mangalore to Delhi, must be identified and punish~d. .
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The intensified assault on lives and livelihoods and democratic rights .
The UPA Government has continued with its-economic policies that have resulted in a wholesale assault on the lives and livelihoods of the poor. The much-claimed 'human face' of the UPA which the CPI(M] h~lped showcase time and ~~....:... ; : : ov;:-ssed with every passing day in the last four years as the UPA passed the Patent Act with the CPI-CPI[M]'s support, as the NREGA crumbled due to total mismanagement and misappropriation of even miniscule funds .
allotted, as the UPA refused to repeal the AFSPA act .
even after massive protests and the unanimous ~-recommendation of the Jeevan Reddy Commission. We see an intensified offensive on people's rights, the worst example of which is the SEZ Act which is a license for corporate land grab, and creates ·'foreign zones on Indian soif where Indian laws do not apply, where corporate houses contFOI local governance, and where workers' rights are I freely violated. Kalinganagar, Gurgaon, Dadri, Raigad, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Singur, Nandigram, and now Chengara ...in state after state, tribals and poor peasants want to know: why are corporate houses getting huge sops when subsidies are being withdrawn from starving peasants? Meanwhile. suicides continue unabated in Vidarbha as other .
agrarian regions also emerge as starvation death zones in the country. .
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In Kerala, as part of its newfound mission to facilitate corporate land grab, the CPI(M) is undertaking brutal .
and violent attacks upon dalits and adivasis in their struggle for rights over. resources and against .
displacement by corporate projects. The struggle that has unfolded in Chengara is now being adjudged as the .
biggest-ever dalit uprising in the history of Kerala as it involves over 7,500 landless-families. The land that these families have been fighting for, for more than one year now. had been leased to the Harrison Malayalam Plantaticil bythe government of Kerala. However, the lease expired way back in 1985. and no rents have been paid to the Kerala government since then. But the ruling CPM-Ied Left Front Government (LDF) instead of aiding a just cause .
abets organised violence orchestrated by the plantation company which has no legal right over _the land. This only I brings back memories of the horrific events scripted by the CPI(M] in Singur and Nandigram. Last November also saw the horrific cadre-police terror by CPI[M] in Nandigram where organized party cadres rampaged through villages, .
killing, looting and raping innocent people. The Chief Minister of Bengal justified this entire horrific operation against the people of Nandigram with the statement 'they have been paid back in the same coin." CPI[M]'s multifold agenda against the poor is further exposed by their open espousal of multinational retail giants Hke Walmart and Metro Cash in Bengal, promotion of "Smart city" in Kerala and displacing people for nuclear power plants in Haripur, Bengal. JNUSU consistently opposed all these acts of assault and violence in the name of 'developmenr. .
It has ~ow been fifty years since the President of India gave his assent to. the Armed Forces Special Powers Act In .
the North-East and Kashmir-, where AFSPA prevails, the simplest human acts -of gathering in groups, .
forming organisations, or shouting slqgans in protest, are illegal, and can justify being shot dead. Today. as .
the 111edia worldwide is filled with reports invoking the condemnable attack on the WTC on 9/11/2001 so as to build a consensus on America's 'war on terror', we need to remember that there is another 9/11 .unspoken in our midst So long as,the AFSPA continues, the Indian state can continue to get away with murder, which is why AFSPA must be repealed in its entirety. .
JNUSU in the face of the Burning Questions of Our Time .
The ongoing people's movements and their brutal repression by the state, as well as the assault of anti-people policies demand a powerful support and solidarity by JNUSU. In keeping with JNUSU's sustained efforts~ the past few years when JNUSU visited Manipur University in solidarity with lrom Sharmila against the draconian AFSPA., stood in solidarity with the Narmada Bachao Andolan against the displacement of lives and livelihoods~ and v-r.th people struggling against SEZs throughout the land, JNUSU has striven to align the JNU student communjy with the .
experience of peqple's struggles in different parts of the country. This year, as well, JNUSU has stood in solidarity . .
with the democratic struggles and peoples' movements across the country. JNUSU stood in solidarity from .
Delhi-to Kolkata with the fighting peopl.e in Nandigram and participated with them in protest action, ~USU-.
led teams participated in the struggle with protesting students of Kashmir University against army excesses .
in the campos and undertook an exposure trip to Vidarbha where thousands of farmers reeling under-debt are .
committing suicides. Recently in the wake of. massive floods in Bihar, JNUSU mobilized funds and medicines .
and led a team that visited the-flood-affected areas of Madhepura, Supol, Araria, and Purnea and distributed relef .
materials to the affected people. JNUSU pointed to the fact that this tragedy is a man-made one, and that mmediate .
relief-be proviped to p~ople in the affected a·reas as well as that the state ensure that-comprehensive nleasures are .
adopted for river management and flood control. .JNUSU. living up to its long-standing commrtment against imperialist .
and racist war and occupation, mobilised large number of students against the visit of Richard Boacher {US .
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~aintain th~ feudal bondage. The government scheme for providing homestead land does not get implemented. Wherever 1t. has. been Implemented it has only reproduced the casteist segregation and denial of dignity to the dalits. In such a s~tuat.lon. the agricultural labourers have to depend for homestead land on the land of the zamindar resulting into a s1tuat1on of bonded labour. Along with this, in Punjab where agriculture is highly mechanised, the rural poor get very few days of work in agriculture-related jobs. Demand for job cards unde~ MNR.EGA thus have been another important part of the struggle of the agricultural labourers. The struggle of the rural poor tn PunJab under the leadership of the CPI(ML) has been continuing in Mansa, Bhatinda and Sangrur districts of Punjab. The ~tr_uggle has faced an all out crackdown by the state government in the form of mass arrest, false FIRs and evactaon of labourers from Panchayati land. .
In the decades of the 1990s and the 200~s, gl_oba~iz~tio~ was peddled by l~dia's ruling class as a panacea not only for India's poverty but for the socaal drscrammata~n and ugly caste1sm that stubbornly dogged Indian society even decades after Independence. But for thadallts and the oppressed castes, what has two decades of globalization meant? It is true that this period has seenincreased aspirations and political assertion of the op d .
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and backward castes. But globalization's promi~e of ;,gnl acant1Y ancrease socal mobility and equality in the marketplace has proved to be a hollow rhetonc. on the one hand1 the present phase is marked by more 'nd more horrific brutalities on Dalits {JhaJ·J·ar G h .
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Khairlanj or Mirchpur to cite a few glarmg mstances an' ra ' castelst. a e campaJgn and violence even in urban university campuses by ABVP-YFE style for~~s r~present'lg a hea~y mrx o~ feudai-Brahminical-corporate vices. On the other hand, the ~in~s of privat_isation and m1n1maltst state nder_ the eco~omtc re~orms" have already shaken the very foundations of constitUtional promises and safeguards of resrvatlons. Dahts contmue to be poorly represent d . .
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private sector which is becoming the dominant sector. e corporate c ass has vociferously resisted .
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suggestion to introduce reservations in the pr~va e se or ~0 .s ~n pravate educational institutions. With commercialization resulting in steeply increased fees 1n educatnal lnstltuttons, the drop-out rate of SC/ST students f schools and colleges has gone up. The slew of education bills ~ted by the Manmohan Singh govt-the Foreign Univer~~tm.
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Private Univ or Innovation Univ-have explicitly rejected any pro\iion of reservation. y, Also it is the dalits and adivasis once again who constitutele vast majority of those displaced from their land livelihood and means of survival thanks to corporate lanqrabJ ' The beneficiaries of globalisation and its advocates have argue i~elessly for scaling back or withdrawing reservations in the name of ushering in market-friendly 'meritocr~cy' · ~ut see ~r hypoc~isy. and double-speak. The same corporate class that opposes existing reservations and res1sts pr~vat: ser res~rvat_1on "1s all too keen to demand numerous tax-relief and benefits from the govt in the name of ensunng a lEI playtng fteld for themselves or want land and natural .
resources 'reserved' in the name of SEZs! .
In today's India, it is therefore important to emphasisEf. Ambedkar's egalitarian and socialist economic vision _ which many who take his name deliberately seek toade. For Ambedkar, his social and economic vision were wedded to each other, and emancip~tion of the o_~ssed _c~stes_ was linked to land reforms and their economic emancipation from bondage. In t1mes of globall;>n, lnd1a s dallts and working poor have been under an unrelenting assault on their wages, work and rights, with tr:vork places increasingly looking like what Ambedkar warned would be the 'dictatorship of the private emplo where the capitalist enjoys freedom to violate labour laws and even minimum wage laws with impunity! In sucn era when our ruling class is busy to implement corporate dictates against the poor, dalits and adi~asis JS reassert what Ambedkar visualised for a republic: .
"Key industries shall be owned and run by the State ... msura shall be a monopoly ofthe State and that the State shall compel every adult citizen to take out a life insurance polictJmensurate with his wages as may be prescribed by the Legislature... agriculture shall be a State industry. n He alsd.OCated th~ state acquiring all agricultural/and, dividing it into farms of standard size, and letting out the farms for cuton to restdents of the village as tenants, to be cultivated .
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we see time and again how there are attempts t~ di~ Dr. Ambedkar from his radical ideas. Unfortunately, along with ruling class Congress and BJP, even part1es '1 swear by Ambedkar's vision, remain committed to the policies of liberalization and globalization -their recentPort for FDI in the retail sector is another shameful betrayal by them of the Indian poor. .
As we remember Ambedkar in the month of his ~irth _anr3ry, AI~A invites _you for a public meeting "Remembering Ambedkar-Feudal Fetters and Caste Oppress/On m fber~l ttmes: Vo1ces of Struggle", tonight at 9.30 pm in Mahi Mandavi Mess. Activists from Ramgarh (UP) ?unjab who are leading anti-land grab struggles and struggles for homestead land, braving brutal feudal iC~ and administrative crackdown will address today's meeting_ including Bhagwant Singh Samao (AIALA actf3dJng t~e struggle of DalitAgrarian Labourers for homestead .
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land in Mansa, Punjab), Prakashi, Harpal, Bhuvnes,hm S1ngh and Tejveer from Ramgarh, Dadri. Noted Social Historian Prof. Sadri Narayan of GB Pant lnstituthabad) and literary critic Dr. Ashutosh Kumar (Department of Hindi, DU) will also address the meeting. We appeae student community to participate in large numbers in the .
public meeting. Akbar, President, AISA, JNU Sandeep Saurav, Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU .
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I've never had much success with my photos of fireworks, but I was quite pleased with this one. I got set up with my kit - camera, tripod, remote control etc, to take some shots at a local fireworks display, All I got was wet through! As I was getting out of the car, a neighbour was letting a few off for the kids next door, so I took this one handheld stood at my back door. It turned out to be my best shot of the night! I went in cold, wet and p*ssed off ;-) Then I went to the pub. All's well again now :-)
This supposed to be a troll, but it looks more like a p*ssed off gnome to me.
In the Children's Garden area of the Huntsville Botanical Garden
Huntsville, AL
Potentially, this mental Nissan Murano concept will cost about £40K. I think that's why Michelle looks so p*ssed-off in the background...
Experiment with long exposure and rolling the camera in London Bridge's very own Barrowboy and Banker.
5 minute life drawing from Art Macabre's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the RA disclaimer was a bit p*ssed by this point
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'reasonable restriction'! .
The Constitution itself allows the State to impose reasonable restrictions on the fundamental rights. It also ox pia Uted the concrete cond ilions under which "uch re·trlctio ns ca" be imposed . The Conslitution states that "nothing in sub-clause (a) and (c) of clause [1) shall affect the ol'cration of any existing law, or prevent the Stute from making any Iaw, in so far as st1 ch Iaws im pnsc reas01' able restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub-ela usc in the mte rests oI the soverc iI'·" ty ,md in tcgrity of India, the security of the State, friendly rclalions " ith ro reign Statcs, pub!:. <rMr, dentcnt to an offen·c." lienee 1 .
is vivid ly clear that such fundamental .
rights can be restricted on I)' when it conseq ue nlly aHeel< the soven·w,n ty and integrity of 'India, the security .
of the State, friendly relations with ro reign State<, pub!;, order, d ec·ncy or morality etc. and never was it .
argued that the political activities of the student<' insido the campu. resulted in such serious consequences .
any "·here in the country. Hence it is clear that the Court was arrivi ng at illogic conclusions by taking note .
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of the dubious allegations of thc un dem ocra lic f)fces and vested in1' ·rests that the organizational activitics .
devastate the academic atmosphere of the campuses. Fn rt her more. whtcvcr restrictions imposed on the .
fundamental rights can be done only by the State. The l·.erala Hight ·ourl in its eagemess to restrict student .
politics in the campuses in effect had given the powers .,f the State, the power to impose such reasonable .
re.,trictions to the college authorities and private ntanat',''mcnts and hence lifted the college authorities and .
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private management to that of the State under the consl itutional definition of the term .
Many of the private managements und e r the pr<'lext of pwserving w:adcmic atmosphere in fact used the .
court verdict to bulldoze all the voices of protest. The v.·n:lict of the l{igh Court, which allowed the .
affiliated colleges to decide the mod<' of c lecrion, is an ,·xtcns1on of its vnd ict in lhe Sojan Francis case. .
1rrespective of the autonomy of lhe Un ivers!l ies to deer lc 1he modo· of election on the basis of the rules .
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framed, the Court opined that " the d ircc tion given to Od ies of co!legs anct u nive rsities. However, the .
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observations of the Supreme Court, and arrived at the, nnclusion th.tt the b,1n on political activities of .
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students shall amount to an infringernen l of the fundanrcntal right'" form associations, freedom of speech .
and expression enshrined in the Constitution. While st.< ling this, th· committee quotes a 1981 report of a .
UCC committee, which reiterates the ncccssi ty rf polit1 aI acti vitic·· "Political activities in the Universities .
is natural because the university is a community of thinl.ing people. nf those who are explormg the frontiers .
of knowledge and of those who cri ticizc and ev,.luale n·cr-y idea lx·l ore ,,ccepting it. Our democratic .
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tradilion, and now the constitution, cnsu res 1un lament ,rl rich ts to "11 citizens, which include freedom of .
speech and thought, and freedom of associatron Teaclwrs anti a se rion of students are not only voters,!Jul .
they can also be candidates in loca l, state or parliament.rry election,. We, therefore, see nothing wrong in .
political parties being active on the campuses of our un '·ter;ities. P~<·sentalion of and debates about .
rliffercnl ideologies and plans and perspccti,·e of national dcelop1nenl ,trc to bo welcomed and political .
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activity cl ireeled toward' this end "·ould be wholesont for the gr<n th cf tl tC-Uni versi ties. .
We, ho"-evcr, regret to say tl"l nlUch of political activir 1. "hidt we nutired and sensed on the carnpuse' 1S .
of a degcncratc nat urc, which is a blot on the concrpt1·i pnl itics. It '· the politics of "'pcd iency, .
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opportunism that is doing what we "·ould br· most ad v ·'"tageous at 1he morncnt to the d ocr and his .
partners; doing il while even knowing thaI il is tnong. rhc price of Ihe lillie B" in for the doer may be a .
disruption of educational activities ror all. One sees llti'' when cam 1oigns are mounted to preveot action .
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against those who copied in the exa minations, onnisusd universit \' runds in a variety of ways". .
Thetoric of apolitical campus was not at all acceptable tolhc Committee and hence it fairly came up with a .
w nclu.,on to strengthen the democratic space in the c>onpuses. Tlw acHve presence of constnrctivc politics nnd true democracy can effectively defend the anarchy ''"'! disharrnony in campuses. Political parties nee!JnPIJntcrvcn~n the cam us elections.The sfir~~~;t .ynt.~i~';"'"nJ!Ioc rep~~"!: ~,·hich cxp~ssed strop~ (Olo;r."; ,o[ll>il> d 'out the neld for orgIl) ·if sludenIS U 1\JOI\ C iechOI\S tO the .
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