Why Fix The Climate? Change The World Environment Day Slogan Instead!

I waited till this morning’s newspapers before writing this post. I was looking for a media story on how and why the Indian government has forced a change in the slogan for this year’s World Environment Day.
The actual slogan worked out by the United Nations Environment Programme for the World Environment Day 2008 is CO2: [...]

Notes From The Book Fair’s Underground

The well-known villains of Bangla publishing – the monopoly seekers – Ananda Bazar Patrika Group – has now come out in the open with its ugly and disgusting ways. What something that book lovers, lovers of literature, language and culture have always known, has now become known to the world. The ABP Group has bared [...]

Rich Bare Fangs, Show Real Face of Nandigram Politics

A very satisfying and also terrifying day of politics on Wednesday. The real face of Nandigram politics is now being laid bare and the rich have begun to bare their ugly fangs instead of hiding behind “civil society”. The events in Kolkata on Wednesday have now confirmed my worst fears. There is now a clear [...]

How Civilized is Civil Society?

This is a site and medium that belongs to the Bhadraloks, the upper classes and why only this site – they own the world – but we chhotoloks, the lower classes , whenever we get the opportunity to recapture any part of the world that actually belongs to us, the working classes, the real [...]

In Defense of Democracy & Thanks Occam’s Razor!!

I think it is the season for self-criticisms!
I have done it once one way (see earlier post on Nandigram: What movement? Why?) and now I have to do it again – this time the other way.
I have received a comment on my last post from Occam’s Razor which I have lifted from the comment section [...]

Rizwanur, Mamata and Mao: What Is The Connection?

The Rizwanur murder provides enough ammunition to flay the Left Front government on the issue of “state sponsored terrorism” but dear readers you must have surely noticed that our Dear Dadaist (isn’t she a touch surrealistic?) Didi, Mamata Bannerjee has chosen to maintain a “studied” silence on the matter – at least compared to her normal rabble [...]

Rizwanur murder: Todi today, goons tomorrow?

It appears that Ashok Todi and his henchmen have begun to monitor this site. There have been three hits today from Ashok Todi and the Lux website. If the comments here were mere rantings and nothing else – far from the truth – then I guess this monitoring would not have been necessary. That’s a good [...]

World: A Ticking Time Bomb

The post India: A Ticking Time Bomb seems to have attracted quite a few visitors mainly because of the hint there that India is probably heading towards an armed revolution. Most readers think that I believe India is heading towards some kind of a violent uprising, perhaps led by the Maoists. If you ask me, [...]