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by Radhika Menon, Counter Currents, 23 May 2008
In Uttrakhand today, what does it require for you to be locked up in jail, in solitary confinement with an armed constabulary [...]

Sanhati, 7 May 2008
14 May 2008 will mark one year of imprisonment for Dr Binayak Sen, the well-known public health and civil rights activist, arrested on false charges of ‘assisting’ the Maoist insurgency in Chattisgarh.
In a nation where increasingly the medical profession is becoming synonymous with unbridled commercial greed Dr Sen dedicated his entire professional [...]

First published in Himal Southasian, republished in Sanhati, 3 May 2008
The state’s Adivasis are being treated like marionettes, as political, corporate and state-security interests seek to gain access to their land.
by Shubhranshu Choudhary
In early 2005, on a visit to Chhattisgarh, people kept telling me, “Tata is coming, something strange is going to happen.” It [...]