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091031-A-6312K-006 FORT BRAGG, NCó Actors from the play ìWomen Shoptalk While Real Men Wait,î a dramatic story about real life situations with an emphasis on abuse, perform a scene during the Fayetteville, N.C. debut at the Seabrook Auditorium on the Fayetteville State University campus Oct. 31, 2009. ìItís a heavy play, but thereís a lot of humor in it to soften the blows,î said Letra Davis, an actress in the play. ìWe hope that people take away that there is life after abuse. It does not have to grip you and keep you for the rest of your life.î (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jessica M. Kuhn)
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J&K police Bill has AFSPA ring.
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Muzamil Jaleel Posted online: Sun Feb 24 2013, 02:24 hrs.
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Srinagar : While Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Senior J&K High Court lawyer Riyaz Khawar accused the govern-.
Omar Abdullah frequently speaks out against the ment of trying to make a police state. "They are taking away mag-.
Armed Forces Special Powers Act in force in the state, isterial powers and giving it to the police," Khawar said. "So even.
as per a Bill drafted by his own government, the state police could if the AFSPA is repealed, they would have already brought it back.
get powers quite similar to the controversial legislation. via this police Act.".
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The 76-page `Jammu and Kashmir Police Bill, 2013', made Minister of State for Home Sajad Kichloo claimed that "most of the.
public recently, allows the state to declare any area disturbed, features in the draft Bill are based on a model Bill prepared by a.
proposing setting up "Special Security Zones" where "admin- committee of eminent experts constituted by the government of.
istrative and development measures" are integrated with police India and on the directions of the Supreme Court". They would.
response for "problems of public order and security". consider the suggestions received on it, he added..
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Negating the role of civil administration like a district magistrate Some of the proposals:.
in affairs of law and order, the Bill proposes that police be able.
to set up and arm controversial militia of civilians -- as Any person cleaning a furniture or vehicle, slaughtering an animal,.
"village defence committees" -- and recruit special police cleaning a carcass or grooming an animal in a public place would.
officers outside the existing police structure. It also plans a invite punishment. So would those trespassing into a government.
stringent confidentiality clause that could override the ex- building or land, and those driving, dragging or pushing any non-.
isting Right to Information Act in the state. motorised vehicle at any time between half an hour after sunset.
and one hourbefore sunrise. Knowingly defecating or urinating in.
The Bill was posted on the home department's website on a public place with a view to cause "annoyance", breaking any.
February 15, while Kashmir was under curfew following Afzal queue in any public place and other similar "violations of public.
Guru's hanging, with a notification inviting suggestions for the order" are also frowned upon. Such "offences" would invite im-.
next two weeks. prisonment up to six months or fine up to Rs 2,000..
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Under the draft legislation, a police officer would be consid- The director general of police would draw upan "Internal Security.
ered "always on duty" and the government as well as the Scheme" for the entire state and formulate an SOP. Under it, even.
complaints authority deputed to hear cases against him/ lawful activity by a group or organisation that has the "potential.
her would have legal immunity regarding decisions taken of disturbing law and order" would need prior police permission..
by them "in good faith or intended to be done in pursuance.
of the provisions" of the Bill. In fact, the good faith clause -- The state governmentmay declare any area a Special Security Zone.
also the main basis of immunity under the AFSPA -- in the (SSZ), when such area is "widely and intolerably beset with vio-.
draft legislation is vague, doesn't spell out whether the po- lence or insurgency or destruction of public property on account.
lice force itself falls under "government" and is thus open to of communal or terrorist or anti-national activities". These SSZs.
wider interpretation. would have a "suitable administrative structure, which shall inte-.
grate administrative and developmental measures in the area with.
Thereis alsoa six-month deadlineon entertaininga complaint made the police response to deal with problems of public order and.
against a police official from the "occurrenceof the incident". security"..
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While the civil administration sees the Bill as a bid to encroach Any inflow of funds as well as "production, sale, storage, posses-.
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on its powers, activists see it as an attempt to exert control. "The sion or entry of any devices or equipment" into SSZs be banned if.
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draft police Bill essentially reads as a blueprint on how to exer- these are "reasonably considered a threat to internal security or.
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cise control on the populace," said noted human rights lawyer public order in any manner"..
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Parvez Imroz. "Within these (Special Security) zones, the at- There mustbe a `State Security Commission (SSC)' with theCM as.
tempt is to allow the police and its functionaries, the SPOs, its chairman, the home minister or minister of state for home as.
absolute and unaccountable power. It allows for a different its vice-chairman, a retired high court judge as its member, and the.
Standard Operating Procedure within these zones, without DGP, the chief secretary and the home secretaryas ex-officio mem-.
specifying the limits to these powers." bers (Activists have pointed out that there are no members from.
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Imroz also questioned the expansion of the role of SPOs and vil- the Opposition in the proposed commission)..
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lage defencecommittees. "The government isseeking to formalise.
practices that haveresulted in structural police violence in Jammu.
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WReistihstJT&hKi'ssDOrwancoHnoimaneBgirlolw! Dn oAFwSnPA! ! aisaandKashmir,"hesaid..
A Police Complaints Authority, at the state and district levels, be.
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Written path of man. 2000
On this world progress is half the effort of man and is half the gift of nature. Because everything we discovered on science was there before we discovered. We were able to discover fire, because there existed something called fire. We are not creating, we are only discovering and in the case of invention also we are only discovering the existing possibilities of the given raw materials. The possibility that how much a computer could develop in future is written or the idea exists now also. But we do not know that and we have to discover. We can discover a fuel for running vehicles in future, if there exist a fuel like that. This is the same in the case of medicines also. We cannot say that we will invent a fuel or medicine. We can only hope for it.
There will be no need for a mind if there are no needs for human being as mind is made to run the human body by fulfilling the need. Any way improving the power of brain to enjoy life may be considered as a better way for development on the coming centuries knowing the secret of brain.
Our subjects are changing on every small intervals of time. But our basic needs remain the same for all these centuries. Our behavior towards fellow human beings has not changed .He has found better way for fulfilling his needs with the help of science. But he is struggling. Does real development means fulfilling his needs without struggle. Will there be a time when we are free from all our wanting and needs. Will that mean development? Can we imagine a human brain on a body which has the quality of making foods like plants thus being free from one of his basic needs, Which is somehow free from death (genes determine aging) and who is using his knowledge on the chemical reactions in brain to manipulate good feeling in mind as human beings are struggling not for fulfilling his needs but for fulfilling his emotions
What is the nature of development (given raw materials and mind) or what is the motive for the development.How much he has civilized.What is the future of the civilization or for what extent of mind development can satisfy him?How needs increase with population.Physics is the science of society.Biology is the science of individual.Biology is the most creative science of all.brain is the most creative area if science.Knowledge is the combination of meaning which makes the sense of meaning of reality. Actually we are not the master of mind.our work and fortune is the master of mind.To be precise work decides our mental satisfaction.
Influence of development on mind.2004
On the brain there is a vision as what ideas is coming it has the importance. It is true there is a motivation.True.There is clear value for those ideas on our mind. If also the idea is very insensible and foolishness.When it comes to the mind it tends to be perfect and without fault and it assumesthe greatest importanceon our mind compared to anything else.And another thing is that two minds visualize the same situation very differently from each other.One may see it absurd and one may of ultimate interest.
We are driven by wishes than by pleasures.Our life is determined by wishes than by pleasures.Everything is made like that.Science will try to cross ethics because science is written like that.So that it never crosses.
You know why there is sun.Because earth needs energy.You know why there is energy.Because so that there is physics.Like you know why there is cause.So that there is reason.There will be lakhs and lakhs of questions if we want to ask but of course the answer will be absurd. You know why Arvindswamys nose was 1centimetre shorter.because that would have made him ugly.But the thing is that nobody knows what beauty is or what the formula for beauty is.Like that we can ask a hundred of meaningless questions.Why is there matter exists.Why is there energy exist.Thereis no answer for this because the question is same like what is beauty. Nobody knows the formula for making universe.It is like this or there is a universe like this.That is all.ie we cannot find logic to make universe.That is the end of metaphysics.
The human mind is made to make stories.The stories will go on happening on this world.short stories, Large stories,Legends,Love stories and the related feelings on the mind.Why is there sadness on the world? Why shouldn’t the world always be happy?Why can’t the human brain produce always happiness?
This is all like asking why is ArvindSwamy handsome.Why is Arvindswamy handsome with two ears,why does his nose or the shape of his nose make him beautiful?Weonly know science,Situations and feeling associated with it.We are not creating anything.we can ask 100 questions.we don’t have answers.
Hardworking is done by our brain under some situations.The brain will show us different feelings like excitement,motivation, jealousyetc. and it will do all the work and at last it will show us something called pleasure.
Article Title: Rariglanda jerseyensis, a new ericalean fossil flower from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey
Author: Camila Martínez, Thereis Y.S. Choo, Daniella Allevato, Kevin C. Nixon, William L. Crepet, Robert S. Harbert, Charles P. Daghlian
Citation: Botany, 2016, 94(9): 747-758, doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2016-0062
Source: dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2016-0062
Caption: Fig. 4. Rariglanda jerseyensis gen. et sp. nov. CUPC 1579. (a–e) Screenshots from the micro-CT-scan video (left; Supplementary data, video S1) and drawings of the reconstruction of its floral characters (right). The calyx is in black with a white border; the corolla is in white; the androecium is in gray; and the gynoecium is in gray with a white border. Scale bar = 0.5 mm. Screenshots are organized from base to apex of the flower bud. (a) Basal section of the flower bud; (b–d) basal to middle sections; (e) apical section; (f) simplified floral diagram; and (g) simplified reconstruction. www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/cjb
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Intention/ The goal was to show dof in using appropriate f stop to convey the importance of the subject.
Reference to the reading/Freeman indicated thereis a useful analogy for framing. I extended this image to maximize frame usage. Suggestion…I chose a mm to exercise the vastness of the scene.
Outcome/ The image met my vision with appropriate aperture as a good choice.
Edits/ The image was colored balanced Hue -10, Saturation +13, Lightness -10 with Darker Color Adjustment.
Gatley Carrs - my first few test shots with my new Nikon D80 - wow what a piece of kit - thereis no going back now to my manual compact!!
Thereis a Chinese phrase to describe those who hardly work in the kitchen ......hands like legs. Courtesy of Ai Ling's sponsorship.
Questa non l'ho scritta io 22 anni fà e soprattutto non c'è niente da ridere. - «Today we are 16. After 20 years at 36 we return here e we will laugh of what we done at 16» This one is not written by me, 22 years ago, e thereis nothing to laugh about.
DREAMING MY DREAMS
[The Cranberries]
All the things you said to me today
Changed my perspective in every way
These things count to mean
so much to meInto my faith you
And your baby
It s out there
If you want me
I'll be there
It's out thereI'll be dreaming my dreams
With you
And there's no other places
That I'd lay down my face
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you
It's out there
If you want me,I'll be here
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you
And there's no other places that I'd
lay down my face
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you
Various animals within Godstone`s first class animal facilities.Shot with Canon EF 24-70mm L series lens @ ISO 1600 and f/2.8 also 1/320 TV.Thereis a focal length of 54.0mm.Slight movement in some images due to low light animals moving and shallow DOF.Do Not Use Without Express Permission From Peter Wheeler.
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Demand Withdrawal of the 'Restraint' order on JNiJ Forum! .
Stand in Defense of the Democratic Rights and Freedom of Expression .
The campus has witnessed an increasing tendency on the part of the .
administration to disregard and undermine the democratic aspirations of the .
largest constituent of the campus community: the students. Taking advantage of the .
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impositionof Lyngdoh and lack of anelected union, students are kept out of all decision-.
making bodies of the university, andwe are increasingly denied of a space to voice our .
opinion on issues that directly affect. The day today problems of the students -be it lack .
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construction. The demands for full and proper implementation of reservation in student's admissionand teacher's appointment, or a reduction .
of adequate hostel accommodation, round-the-clock healthcare facilities, etc. are being .
sidestepped while crores of rupees are being spent for 'beautification' and useless .
following World Bank's directives to "generate funds" it is in aspree to attract foreign funds for our research programmes. MoUs are being .
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in the weightage of MPhil viva marks are yet to be fulfilled. The administration claims lack of funds to address student's basic needs, while .
signed by the university with private corporations to conduct market-oriented research, and agreements are made with American and .
These policies are aimed towards making JNU a 'World Class' university, a euphemism for converting the campus into a knowledge-.
European universities for ueducational exchange" resulting from Indian ruling class's closer alignment with US imperialism as its agent. .
park where education and research fulfils the needs of the nee-liberal economy while ignoring socially-responsible study and research. .
Indeed,the administration is averse to a democratic culture and a model of pedagogy which keeps the people and the society at its centre. .
Such an education would encourage criticality and challenge the exploitative social relations existing in the society today, including the highly .
th~ c;tudents' movement played a decisive role. This is what makes JNU a unique university-it has always been known for criticality, dissent .
hierarchical andfeudal relations which the administration imposes on the students. In fact, if thereis still some space in JNU today for a .
people-oriented research, it is primarily due to the progr.essive political culture and activism of generations of students and teachers, where .
a111~rotest. The administration knows well that the students' movement of this campus and its political culture of dissent is the biggest hurdI .
towards fulfilling tts 'wortd-class' dreams of privatisation. It is this political culture that the administration·-and the Indian state behind rt-.
wants to destroy. The policy of the administration is very clear: those students and organisations that toe the line of the administration, whether ABVP, NSUI, SFI or YFE, will be patronised.while those who genuinely stand on its way will be persecuted. .
JNUis standing at a crucial crossroad at present. The imposition of Lyngdoh, the policies of the gover.1ment for higher education and the .
administration's authoritarian approach in aggressively attacking the student community poses agrave threat to everything that JNU stands for. Guided by the recommendations of Birta-Ambani ' Report and National Knowledge Commission Report on higher education, the present form of opposing privatisation, Operation Green Hunt, casteism, communal-fascism and so on. Grounds are prepared in this way for .
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Vice Chancellor and his prime henchman the Chief Proctor are out to stamp out any genuine students' resistance: whether it comes in the .
ideological baggage while the Prohibition of Unfair Practices in Technical and Medical Educational Institutions and Universities Bill, 2010 .
implementing major policy decisions to open up the higher education sector to private capital-both domestic and foreign. The Foreign .
Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010 allows the entry of foreign institutes with an empire of political and .
SEZs where workers have no rights to exercise their hard earned rights protected by the courts. The Universities for Innovation Bill 2010-an .
facilitates these foreign and domestic private educational institutions by keeping them outside the purview of Indian judicial scrutiny like the .
euphemism to loot the public exchequer to fill the private coffers-will let the use of public fundingfor private entrepreneurs to run universities .
with no government regulation. Under this legislation a University like ours can well be handed over to aprivate entrepreneur while the .
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government continue with the funding. The Educational Tribunals Bill 2010 denies rights of the students, teachers, and employees to seek .
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justice from apex courts in educational matters. The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational Institutions Bill 2010 .
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rr<~ ..~ates certain educational institutions to take accreditation compulsorily while exempting certain others at the whims and fancies of the .
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central government. National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) Bill 2010 empower a new institution with the same .
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name and replaces the UGC with total control over universities by completely eroding autonomy of universities like JNU. When these six Bills .
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become legislations the aim of the Indian ruling classes to let the market have a free hand in the field of education will be complete. its grand plans for selling-out higher education. The administration is so threatened by the students that it has started carrying out The administration and its political masters in the government know that a radicai students' assertion in JNU is an impediment to students and their organisations in the campus. The 'restraining' of JNU Forum against War on People-another way of banning it-is only unprecedented acts of repression that completelyviolates the accepted norms and principles of JNU. That is why the selective targeting of .
crush our basic rights, even the right to protest and oppose the repressive government or administrative policies. The witch-hunt of students in an indication of the coming future. The administration, run by tyrants like SK Sopory and HK Bohidar will not stop short of any measure to .
the name of proctorial enquiry, closing downtheJNUSU office, blackmailing ~he protesting students totender apologies, etc. are all part of a .
larger attempt to dissuade students' politics andthereby depoliticise the campus, so that the lords of the pink palace can turn the campus into .
their fjQfdom and convert the students into their serfs. As perfect feudal lords, the VC andtheChief Proctor also maintains a bunch of ABVP .
/ ' lumpens who targets all political dissidents in the campus-be it Muslims, Dalits, OBCs, Kashmiris, or students who uphold revolutionaryI.
'2 religious sentiments'. The administrationpromptlyshow-caused AIBSF, while taking no actionon the sanghi-lumpens who indulged in .
targeted violence and rampant communal tirade. So the assault is on the entire student community, therefore the struggle must also be a politics. As the latest of its crimes, ABVPgoonsattackedAIBSF members, tore down posters, and createdsome noise against 'hurting of .
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organisation, the way will be pavedfor the silencing of the entire student community, which will thenbein noposition to .
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liSA's Anti-left Rhetoric On The Nuclear Deal: .
Parreting the Slander ot Right Reaction and comorate Media .
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Friends, 18-07-08 Today, the country is faced with the question as to whether, we allow the Manmohan Singh Government to operationalise the Nuclear Deal and surrender our national interests or we stand rock solid against this deal and force the government out of office through a trust vote in the Parliament. It is the Left Parties' consistent position against the Indo-US Nuclear Deal and the consequent withdrawal of support from the UPAGovernment that it has been forced to seek a confidence vote in the Pa~iament. We appeal to all patriotic students of the campus to unite against the Deal and the UPAGovernment. .
When the country is faced with the challenge of fighting against US imperialism and its cohorts in our country, the AISA shredding all pretensions of being a left organization has attacked the Left in the most shameless manner in their pamphlet yesterday. In all thetime and energy that theyhave spent against the Left in the pamphlet, the basic position of AI SA on this critical political debate has been deliberately avoided. We would challenge the AISA to clearly state what its line is on the trust vote that is going to take place in Parliament on 22d July. Do they stand in favour of the Government in the trust vote or do they stand against the UPA Government and the Nuclear Deal urging upon all democratic sections to vote against the Deal and the Government? AISA must come clear on this issue, instead of trying to beat around the bush and rideon the anti-CPI(M) and anti-Left rhetoric mounted by the most reactionary sections of the ruling class, corporate media and vested interests. .
The fact that the AISA has no concrete position on the Deal and the UPAGovernment is best exemplified by the fact that the JNUSU led by AISA till date has not taken any position on this issue, leave alone mobilizing students against it. For the first time in the history of the JNU students' movement, the JNUSU is completely silent on one of the most far reaching political debates in our country, involving a fight against imperialism knocking at our door. The JNU students led by the JNUSU have a glorious tradition of being in the forefront of anti-imperialist struggles in our country. The anti-left obsession and political bankruptcy of the AISA and the JNUSU leadership have completely paralyzed the JNUSU as a weapon against the struggle against imperialism. We demand an answer as to why the JNUSU is completely silent on this issue. .
In yesterday's pamphlet the AISA has raised some questions about the Left's integrity in the opposition against the Indo-US Nuclear Deal and the UPA Government. AISA has not bothered to explain the CPI(M-L)'s position on the Deal since the people of the country do not bother what position the CPI(M-L) takes on the Nuclear Deal, since having zero representation in the Pa~iament and the absence of any ground level struggles against the Deal led by the CPI(M-L), makes their position completely irrelevant as far as the future of the Deal or the Government is concerned. As regards the Left, the AISA has deliberately turned a blind eye to the fact that the Party Congress, the politburo, Central Committee of the CPI(M), the other Left Parties, CPI, RSP, Forward Block have unanimously passed resolutions against the Deal and mobilized thousands of people against it The Left led Governments in Kerala and West Bengal have passed resolutions in the Assembly against the Deal. All these however do not matter to the AISA. What matters is certain dissenting voices, namely Com. Subhash Chakraborty (who have been already show-caused by the CPI(M) for openly questioning the party's position). As far as the issue of the Speaker is concerned the CPI(M) has taken a position that the matter should be decided by Somnath Chatterjee, keeping in mind the present political situation in the country. At the same time, the AISA, quoting the Indian Express, which is the most rabidly pro-American newspaper in the country, vilified Com. Biman Bose. Com. Bose, in London, only stated that thereis no question of allying with the BJP since theyuse religion for political ends. Arebuttal of the Indian Express report has been published in the CPI(M) daily Ganashakti. .
Today, the entire spectrum of the ruling classes, corporate houses, reactionary sections of the media are vilifying the Left because of its opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. Shamefully, every thing that the AISA has said in this campus against the Left on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal is a mere echo of the reactionary ruling class and corporate media's tirade against the Left AISA's ideological and political bankruptcy has reached a crescendo in this debate, when it is finding fellow travelers in the likes of Manmohan Singh, Mukesh Am bani, the Indian Express and the entire corporate media. If any research scholar in our University wants to know the right wing reactionary slanders against the Left, the AISA pamphlet can be taken as a major reference in that research. Whose game are you playing and whose interests are you serving comrades? .
The Left's position of the Indo-US Nudear Deal is a struggle against the game plan of the ruling establishments of our country to convert India into a subordinate ally of the US. It is indeed a matter of shame that the RSS vision of the US-India-Israel Axis against the War on Tenror is being shared and carried forward by the Manmohan Singh Government. The Left believes that the fight against communalism cannot be fought sitting on the laps of Bush and the Neo-cons who adhere to the most reactionary doctrine of the 'Clash of Civilizations' and has killed thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan while demonizing the Muslims all over the wo~d. What is needed is an uncompromising struggle against both imperialism and communalism the basis of which must be amulti-polar wo~d free of the neo-liberal economic subjugation ofthe third world. .
This vision of the Left is antithetical to what is believed by the likes of Manmohan Singh and Mukesh Ambani. Therefore, the Congress party has no qualms in arranging ameeting of the Ambanis and the PM to sort out the corporate war between two Am bani brothers. The Congress today in order to save this government is seeking the help of die hard criminals like Pappu Yadav and Sahabuddin, who is the murderer of JNUSU President from AISA Chandrashekhar. It is in this political juncture when we are witnessing that the Congress and the reactionary sections of the ruling classes are desperately trying to cling on to power to serve the interests of corporate bosses and the USA, we as students of JNU should be at the forefront of this struggle to safeguard our national sovereignty and anti-imperialist legacy for a better and multi-polar world. We appeal to all the students to join in this struggle and isolate the forces of right reaction and baseless anti-left political posturing. .
Sdl-Roshan, Secretary, SFI-JNU Sd/-Anand, President, SFI.JNU .
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A tan solo aprox 20 kms de La Habana, está este paraíso. Se llama Santa María del Mar. De nada.
Just about 20 kms away from Havana thereís this paradise. It's called Santa María del Mar. You're welcome.
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What did not changeis Fascism! .
Condemn the brutal eviction of Nonadanga residents bv the Bengal Govt! .
Demand the immediate release of lhe students & activists Implicated under UAPA bV the fascist .
Mamata Govt lor daring to stand bv the fighting people of Nonadanga! .
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"To decide once every few years which members ofthe ruling class is to repress andcrush the people through parliament-.
this is the real essence ofbourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, .
but also in the most democratic republics." -Lenin. .
meant a reshuffling of those in theseat ofpower. Achange from the social fascismof CPM, to fascismof adifferent colour. With all the pre-.
election 'pro-people' rhetorics notwithstanding,the Mamata regime has already proved it beyond doubt that learning from their predecessors, .
Nonadanga refugee colony and the forcible eviction of its protesting residents. Today when thestate government has commissioned a they have perfected upon the blood andiron ruleof fascism. This has most vividly been demonstrated over the violent demolition of the 'Parivartan' or change in Bengal has merely signified achange in the hands yielding the reigns of fascism. Change here has only .
private firm to fence off the entire area apparently to stop "further encroachment", it reminds us of the barbedwires put up by TATA in Slngur .
with the backing of the then CPM rulers anditsgoons. Nonadanga testifies that nothing much has altered since then. Under the farce of .
so, who exactly were these people whom the state called "illegal encroachers"? The Nonadanga residents constituted primarily the .
resettled cyclone victims from Sundarbans or evicted slum dwellers from several other quarters of Kolkata,-victims of a manmade catastrophe .
"bourgeois parliamentarianism", thereis merely anew set of ruling class members who have come to repress &crush the people. .
named 'development'. While it is such colonies that provide the manual and menial labour surplus in the city, the ruling class prefers to erase .
them from the city's map, render them invisible. Suchare the dictats of 'beautification', of the land market, of the real estate mafias, the .
people model of development. Concerns regarding the rehabilitation or livelihood of those evicted are irrelevant. And protests or solidarities .
are not tolerated. Such are the exigencies.The brute force of the state was on display on the 30th of March, when after a prolonged luxuriousglass apartments and malls. Nonadanga thereby is the human cost of 'Bengal Leads', the sacrifice at the altar of the state's anti-.
for their existence, for their livelihood, they fight militantly. With the residents putting up astrong resistance, authorities had to overcome contestation with the protesting Nonadanga residents, the police finally moved in to raze down the entire refugee colony. .
many a"hurdlento initiate the drive. When the first police van reached the site around 10.30am, the settlers resolutely stood in its way to save People however are determined. They are not bound by such exigencies. They refuse to silently obey the above diktats. They fight their home, hearth and livelihood. In the midst of the confrontations, the state forces set fire to the basti fromseveral ends and in moments the entire colony was gutted in flames. Summing up this violent dispossession executed by force an on duty police officer said, "Around 200 .
shanties were razed. Except for the initial hiccup, the eviction was conducted smoothly.· And this was just the beginning. .
evictees and several organizations was brutally lathi-charged by the police injuring 5women and achild. This received severe condemnation Hereafter began the fascist repression, branding, silencing and arrest of all thoseresidents and agitators-students, doctors, rights activists who dared to stand by the Nonadanga evictees against the anti-people moves of the state. On April4lh a protest rally by the from prominent activists and intellectualsincluding Mahashweta Devi But symptomatic of the arrogance and Intolerance of her precursors CPM, Mamata ordered another crackdown, this time on a sit in demonstration on April 8th resulting in the arrest of 69 protestors. On .
consistent protest at the police headquarters62 of them were released, but the rest,those who were leading the protest, have been falsely booked under multiple non-bailable charges. Seven of the agitators including student activists, doctors anddemocratic right activists -the spot that particular day. Soon after, tt wasalleged that these seven had "Maoist links and were involved in stockpiling of arms, ammunition Debolina Chakravorty, Sidhhartha Gupta, Debjani Ghosh, Partha Sarathi Roy, Abhigyan Sarkar, Amal Chatterjee and Shamik Chakraborty .and explosives at Nonadanga" even though no such charge had been mentioned in the initial FIR. Oebolina, secretary of the Matangaini wereinitially charged of "illegal assemblyand assault on police". This is despite the fact that many of the accused were not even present on .
procession were arrested. The rabidsuppression of all dissenting voices was again at display on 12th April at Hazra Crossing where a meeting Mahila Samiti was booked under thedraconian UAPA with false allegations dating back to the CPM era. She, along with the other six .
prisoners have started ahunger strikein solidarity with the Nonadanga evictees that hasbeen joined by other political prisoners. While .
another rally on 9lh April was organized toprotest the arrests, police stopped them and hundreds who participated in a spontaneous attempted to resist the assault, the policesprang into action and herded them into aprison van arresting six people. This virtual emergency .
organized by APDR was violently assau~ed byTMCgoons as the police silently stood by and watched. But the moment, right activists .
andfascist authoritarianismof the state hasbeencondemned by all progressive-democratic voices. In another absolute fascist attack, all this .
wasfollowed by the assaults and arrests of Prof. Ambikesh Mahapatra Of Jadavpur University, for circulating a mere cartoon of Mamata on Facebook! All these fascist acts were justified and condoned by Mamata and her cohortswith threatsof more such actions in the future. However, the fascist face of Mamata doesn't come as a shock to us, neither does it appear sudden. Being just one more shade of the .
colours. The refusal of the promised withdrawal of joint forces from Jangal Mahal, the raising of Salwa Judum styled adivasi recruits in police, .
the roll back from the promised releaseof political prisoners, the individual targeting of intellectualsand fascist tactics of branding intimidation Nonadanga. The context is the same as it was under CPM: violent repression by the state and valiant resistance by the people..
representatives of the ruling class inthe parliament Oust like its precursor CPM,) thepro-people posturing of TMC was bound to show its real .
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Singur: It is the day after Basant Panchami whk;h is celebrated 8S Saraswati Puja in West Bengal. Tarun Sangha, a youth club of Bajebelia, a vill~ge hugging the southern fringes of the land fenced .
off for Tata's small-car project, has organised a puja with a difference. Apart from the devi's idol that .
has been taken away for immersion in the rrorning, there is a photo exhibition in an adjacent .
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enclosure-an exhibition on government 'atroc:~~Gs' in Singur. It does not take too long to go through the PXhibits: grainy newspaper photos, photographs of .
Gandhi and Lenin, some excerpts of their speeches and a few fiery slogans like 'We will give~ blood, .
but not our land' in Bengali. Outside there's a pl:acard in English: "Oh, Goddess of Learning, Buddha .
and Tata have snatched everything. Please illurninate us with a!!your blessings to fight back." .
If a TV camera were to pan on this exhibitiori and then on to the faces of slogan-shouting .
boys attracted by television, the images reaching your drawing-rooms would be one of fierce opposition to the Singur project. But that would be misleading. For, when you gr there minus the pull of TV cameras, the picture looks more sedate and nuanced. .
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flowerpot adorning the middle of the exhibL:ion, thereIs no one else. In the backgroun·i~ you ··-The angry boys are missing. Barring a klne dog stretch ~d out in the sun next ·n the .
hear an over-used tape recorder warbling Dhoom 2 numbers. You look up to see the {Jreen .
spread of a young potato crop, beyond tha . .
the factory fence, and on the blue winter f;ky a trail of white left by a streaking jet. It's an uncanny juxtaposition of the rural \Mth the mcdern, .
At the heart of the happenings in Singu:·, wh,~il has come !u be the symbol of a countrJwide.
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passionate debate on land acquisit1on for industry, are three questions. Who are the people Jeing .
dislocated by it? Who among the locals are opposed to the project?And who are in its favour? .
To take the last question first, three categoriG.; of people readily agreed to give ~heir land for the project. One, the absentee landlords, who cwn,~r. land in Singur but lived in cities like Kolkata; two, the share-croppers (bargadars) whose name~ are registered in government records; and three, cultivators who stood to lose only a part of their land. For the absentee landlords, their Singur property was giving scant returns -perhaps a s.ack .
of rice or potato a year if the bargadar felt li:te giving anything at all. A sum of Rs 20-30 lakh .
;' .:r ir~Jre, dept.·: :.diny on th~ sizE:: of their iaud, that ;·he acq~Jisition wouiu gi,Je i.iit:Jfi vvc:, a .
" windfall, a tempting opportunity to be encashed. Not surprisingly, they were the firs· to .
' queue up to give their consent. .
Registered bargadars followed soon after. F.lr them, too, a compensation of Rs 2-3 lakh \'las .
an unexpected gain. While they 'Norked on the land and earned a livelihood from it, they Jid .
not own it. They had the security of a desiHnated tract of land to work on. That would go 1 .
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Group Editor, Rashtriya SeniorAdvocate, Supreme CourtSahara (Urdu Edition) Amit SenguptaRajesh Ramachandran Former PresidentJNUSU, noted journalist' ,.
· 27.9.08(Ton~ght) Associate Editor, Mail Today Hard News · .·Tapti Mess Harsh Mander Adil Mehdi·9.15pm social activist Dept of English, Jamia Millia lslamia.
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JNUSU condemns in strongest terms today's bomb blast in the city which has claimed at least 5.
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innocent lives and left at least 50 people injured. Such recurrence of blasts is costing innocentlives is indeed shocking. JNUSU expresses condolences for the families of those killed in the.
blast. lnspite of all the professed alacrity on the part of the govt. the real terrorists seem to have.
a free run. We appeal to the student community to peace and harmony at all cost and not give.
ensure with impartiality that the real culprits are nabbed. .
space to any form of frenzy. JNUSU demands of the govt to desist from sensationalism andJNUSU will observe condolence for the victims oftoday's blast before beginning the Public Meeting..
Terror and Witch-Hunt Of Minorities: State, media and the Issues before Indian democracy.
embracing the u.s.President,George Bush.This warm embrace is no ordinary action: this warm embrace for Manmohanisastranglehold The newspapers today have all brandished asinglephotoon their coverpage: the image of the IndianPrime Minister,Manmohan Singh warmlyfor people of this country. On theeve of Bhagat Singh's birth anniversary, it is indeed a crude irony on all democ~cy loving people .
of this country to see their Prime Minister hugging the most cruel imperialist warlord of the present and trampling upon the dream and sacrifice of our martys who lived and died fighting the colonial rule. Manmohan Singh told Bush, ~The people of India deeply love you."completed. tnkeeping with this alliance of renewed slavery to US, both in India and in the US,the "war on terror" has now taken on an eerie similarity. ar.mohan Singh'sstatement of surrender that began in Oxford, where he declared that the British gave India 'good governance' has nowbeen.
Whv is itthat terror investigations initially claim they know the culprits butalmost always end inconclusively?.
bin Lad,en.Six years later,theBushadministration is no closer to finding Osama bin Laden,but two countries have been invaded and their people are .
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The usinitially statedthatAIQaeda was behind the attack on the twin towers on September 11, and launched the war in Afghanistan to find Osama.
still beanng the brunt of US occupation and invasion. Similarly, in India, time and again bomb blasts occur and the state and police .
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machineries declarethat they know who is behind the blasts and names like Huji, SIMI, Lashkar etc. are recycled without caring for.
investigations after the first roundof media-hyped arrests and encounters.The state machinery seems to be interested only in imprinting an .
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any consistency even interms of their own logic. But we have seen that they never manage to reach the logical conclusion of any of these.
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from occurring, so that innocentciviliansonce again are the hapless victims,left behind with asense of shock,grief and anger. .
imageofthe'terrorist'in people'sminds, but the real terrorists are never caught. Nor are state or central governments in India able to stop these blasts.
Why are Claims made, but never substantiated?The Bush administration claimed thatthe cause for launching the war inIraq was Saddam Hussein's stock of hidden nuclear arsenal that proved athreat to the world.The UN Inspectors foundno such evidence of an immhent threat,but Bush was not daunted. Now, Saddam's dictatorship has .
been replaced by apuppet regime, but nuclear mtssiles have not yet been uncovered in Iraq.Heretoo, in India, claims are made but thereis no need for substantiation. Investigating agencies hardly ever come up with anY, evidence to back .
up their claims.In the recent arrests made, if theDelht police Is right and these boys are the 'masterminds' behind the Ahmedabad andJaipur blasts too_ whatisthestatus of those who were earlier arrested by Gujarat and Rajasthan police as the 'masterminds'? Last year, Aftab, agovernment employee fromKolkata, was arrested as a'HuJI mastermind' behind UP's serial blasts.Later,it was proved that completely innocent There are many .
unanswered questions about last Friday's encounterinJamia Nagar. The indiscriminate raids inAzamgarh have not reyealed any facts to strengthen the police case.They hadclaimed that the bank accounts of the 'terrorists' would contain many hundreds of crores-that also stood to be patently false.Why are we told only one side of the story?.
Often,instead of holding the government and investigating agencies accountable,the media tends to be selective in its reportage. In timessuch as these weoften seethewholesale collusion of the media with the voice of the state as it engages in its 'war on terror. This has been crystal clear in .
the us.wheretheright-wing media has contributed hand-in-glove with the Bush administration to present the image of acountry undersiege..
InIndia, too, we have seenhow the police andmedia told lies and indulged in character assassination-and yet couldnot come up with asingle shred of proof.Themedia, like the state agencies, cannot escape its responsibility in the monumental injustice of branding and harassing an entire .
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