Operation Green Hunt, Maoist Hunt Begins In Eastern States!Investors richer by Rs 34L cr in a year!Govt borrowing likely to be smooth: RBI
- Jharkhand, West Bengal launch major hunt for Maoists
- A major drive has been launched against Maoist guerrillas in five districts of West Bengal and Jharkhand, and Orissa will soon join the campaign, a senior officer said on Thursday ...
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- Jharkhand, WB launch major hunt for Maoists
- Ranchi: A major drive has been launched against Maoist guerrillas in five districts of West Bengal and Jharkhand, and Orissa will soon join the campaign, a senior officer said ...
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- Jharkhand, Bengal launch hunt for Maoists
- RANCHI, 11 MARCH: The government has launched a major offensive against Maoist guerrillas in five districts of West Bengal and Jharkhand, and Orissa will soon join the campaign, a ...
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- Protests against proposed Green Hunt operation
- Ranchi, March 10: A group of people protested here Wednesday against the proposed Green Hunt anti-Maoist operation, alleging it would lead to human rights violations. The group ...
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- Politics over Red terror
- Violence is a quotidian evil. Be it the Maoists or the Constitutional amendment on Women's representation, it is the same thing; the measure of tolerance, a virtue exercised at ...
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- Interpreting the colour green
- March 10 : Ecologists like me are called "greens". We work to protect the green mantle of the earth — forests and biodiversity, soil and water. Nature's green capital is ...
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- Maoist witch hunt
- In the face of rising Maoist violence and brutality in the backward eastern states of India, the natural question is what would be the best way to contain the Maoists. The home ...
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- 09-03-2010
- Praful Bidwai:
- The government must at once stop the military operation against its own citizens in the tribal heartland and open unconditional talks with the Maoists. THE much-dramatised public ...
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- 09-03-2010
- Centre, Maoists set for showdown
- The Centre and Maoists seem to be heading for another round of confrontation as the peace offer from both sides has petered out and none of them is observing an informal ceasefire ...
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- 08-03-2010
- Jharkhand to launch Operation Green Hunt: Soren
- Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren on Monday said his government will launch the inter-state Operation Green Hunt against Maoist guerrillas. "We will have to launch the ...
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- 08-03-2010
We can blow up Writers' Building: Kishanji
"We have the explosives and skill to blow Writers' Buildings and CPM's Alimuddin Street headquarters to smithereens. If the Centre can deploy forces, we will get our comrades from Chhattisgarh. We are also redeploying our forces (in anticipation of Green Hunt). If police have leads on our strengths and weaknesses, we are also identifying targets where we can hurt them most," the CPI(Maoist) leader said.
In the same breath, he said his offer of talks was still open. When told that writer Arundhati Roy has refused to act as mediator, Kishanji said: "We proposed her name because she is aware of tribal problems and the exploitation of tribals by the state. It is her choice. We are ready to sit for talks on our own."
He refused to say whether he is prepared to go to Writers' or Delhi when called for talks. "Why should we have to go to the palace for talks all the time, like men used to do during the monarchy? The present situation is worse than a monarchy," Kishanji said.
He came down heavily on governor M K Narayanan for "highlighting Maoist killings only". "Why are we being singled out? If killings is the issue then CPM should be banned first. As many as 30,000 opposition activists were killed during the 30-year Left rule. Why is governor referring to only 169 killed by Maoists. Congress has published a document saying 8,000 of their men have been killed during Left rule," he said.
Lalgarh is Naxalbari-II: Maoist leader Kishanji
K. Srinivas Reddy "It will now inspire revolutionary forces all over the country"Blockades took place like an "upsurge", Maoists sceptical of Trinamool's continued support to Singur movement HYDERABAD… more →
Indian VanguardIntellectuals & civil society up in amrs over Green Hunt
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The government has a gross borrowing target of Rs 4.57 trillion in 2010-11 as against Rs 4.51 trillion in the current fiscal. Out of this, the net borrowing for the next fiscal is estimated to be around Rs 3.45 trillion.
Gokarn said the economic recovery is becoming stable and broad-based. This, coupled with comfortable global liquidity conditions, will help the central bank manage the government borrowings smoothly.
"We do expect credit demand to accelerate because the recovery is clearly starting to show some stability and is becoming broad-based. We have to match this against the overall growth in deposits, which is one source of funding for borrowing requirements," Gokarn said.
The turnaround, to a large extent, is attributed to buying by foreign funds which pumped in nearly $21.3 billion into the stock market through direct secondary market buying, IPOs, QIPs and other routes. Domestic institutions, however, have taken out funds from the market, worth about Rs 5,400 crore. The latest Budget, presented on February 26 this year, has provided further impetus to long-term FIIs to buy in the Indian market, institutional dealers said.
The extreme pessimism a year earlier made way for hope when Manmohan Singh swept to power, about two-and-half months after the early March low last year. For the first time ever, on May 18, 2009, markets were closed for the day after just two minutes of trading as sensex hit the second upper circuit to end with a gain of 2,100 points.
With Pranab Mukherjee back at the helm in North Block, markets rose further on hopes of better management of economy by a group of highly qualified minds that included Montek Singh, C Rangarajan and D Subba Rao. Since Mukherjee's Budget in July 2009, sensex has gained 21.4%. In between, it had also scaled a new year high of 17,790 on January 6 this year. Since the March 2009 lows, 29 of the 30 sensex stocks have also given positive returns. Tata Motors tops the chart with a rise about 450% from its multi-year low of Rs 139 on March 12 last year.
The 'work monitor' survey shows the extent to which employees are thinking of changing their jobs in the short-term compared with other countries in the world.
"India's mobility index is 140-- the highest in the world-- followed by Mexico, China and Turkey. This index shows that Indians are most open about shifting their jobs in the next six months," the survey said.
The lowest employee mobility is seen in Luxembourg, Italy and Hungary.
"We hope the report contributes to enhance understanding of employee sentiments for organisations in India. In addition, this survey over a period of time will guide employers to direct their efforts to align workforce and raise engagement levels to optimise profitability," Ma Foi Randstad managing director K Pandiarajan said.
The survey revealed that 80 per cent of the employees in India are open for a different job.
Moreover, employees in the salary bracket of Rs 5-10 lakh are the least mobile in India, while in the US the professionals in junior to mid career (USD 45,000-50,000 salary brackets) levels are the most mobile.
No plan to kill Buddha in 2008: Deepak
"If we had the intention to kill Bhattacharjee we could have killed him. We could have used a directional mine to snap the high tension line to fall on his convoy," top Maoist leader Venkateshwar Reddy alias Telugu Dipak, who was arrested on March 2 by the state CID, had told interrogators.
A landmine exploded on the convoy of Chief Minister and two union ministers Paswan and Jitin Prasada at Salboni in West Midnapore district on November 2, 2008.
"We wanted to police to make a mistake and crack down on the tribals, which they did. We were successful in capitalising on it to create a base for ourselves. The attack on the chief minister's convoy was a milestone in the Maoist movement in West Bengal."
The CID officer, who interrogated the Maoist leader, said that the Lalgarh movement by tribals which started with the blast became an issue nationwide and compelled the the central government to rethink about Maoists.
Dipak, who is an explosive expert, had also confessed that he had learnt to make landmines from a faction of LTTE in Tamil Nadu. Between 1987 and 1995, Dipak was sent to Tamil Nadu by the Maoist top brass for political grooming, the officer said. He stayed in Tamil Nadu for two years and came in touch with the LTTE group which was active in that region at that time and learnt the nitty-gritties of making landmines, he said.
Later Dipak developed the lethal directional landmine. A close aide of Maoist Politburo member Kishanji alias Koteswar Rao, Dipak is a member of the State Military Commission, West Bengal chapter, and in-charge of the armed operations in Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand.
IPL 3 seeks to rediscover season 1 magic
Forced to shift tent to South Africa due to security fears last year, the Indian Premier League returns to the country promising a heady mix of cricket and entertainment with last season laggards Kolkata Knight Riders taking on defending champions Deccan Chargers in the tournament opener here tomorrow.
The opening ceremony preceding the first match at the D Y Patil Stadium will see top international performers Lionel Ritchie, UB40 and Bjorn Agan, besides Bollywood star Deepika Padukone, give a rocking start to the 45-day event.
A spectacular fireworks display is to follow after which the debris from the field would be cleared to set the stage for the opening clash between the no. 1 and no. 8 teams of the second edition.
Day two of the IPL will see two legends of the game crossing swords with each other at the famous Brabourne Stadium in South Mumbai. The Sachin Tendulkar-led Mumbai Indians would kick off their campaign to make up for indifferent displays in the first two seasons against 2008 winners Rajasthan Royals captained by Australian Shane Warne.
As was the case in the first two seasons, some international stars, busy with their international commitments for their home countries, would be missing from action in the initial stages of the tournament.
Those teams would have to use the other players in their roster intelligently to pick up points and gain early momentum in the race to the top. In IPL 3, the players have the added incentive of the players' auction ahead of IPL 4 to look up to as most of them would go under the hammer for the next season that would see an additional two teams in action.
The players would be aware that a top class display in this season would increase their demand from the IPL franchises at the auction and fetch higher prices. This time around, three more centers have been added to witness IPL action Ahmedabad, Cuttack and Dharamsala while Deccan Chargers will not play their seven home matches strictly at home in Hyderabad but in Navi Mumbai, Nagpur and Cuttack.
The 2.5-minute strategic breaks would be another important factor with both the fielding and batting sides given specific overs to take them. The bowling side captain can opt to take them anytime between overs 6 and 8, while the batting team skipper has a wider time frame to decide between the 11th and 16th overs. This short period in the fast-paced game provides not only some rest for the players but also gives the teams' an opportunity to rework their strategies as per the situations. The opening clash under lights will see Adam Gilchrist, the retired Australia wicket keeper-batsman, revisit the venue that he lit up with his pyrotechnics two years ago.
Maoists leader arrested in Chattisgarh
He added that Markam was involved in various deadly attacks on police and civilians.
Explosives and Maoist literature were recovered Markam at the time of arrest.
25-year-old Markam, who hails from Bijapur in Bastar, was a deputy commander of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist.
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First phase of Operation Green Hunt begins
These CPMF commandos have initiated search operations in coordination with the local security forces in their respective areas, sources in Gadchiroli police have said. The 1,800 CPMF commandos arrived in Gadchiroli on Wednesday last and were subsequently positioned in places identified for their deployment. "The Operation Green Hunt will be quite opposite to the one carried out in Lalgarh, West Bengal. The forces will penetrate Naxaldominated areas, clear and sanitise the locations and hold the territory so that other government agencies could move in to initiate developmental work.
The operations are expected to last around two years, an ample time frame for winning the hearts and minds of local people through developmental activities," claimed police sources. A CPMF company each has been positioned at 18 bases in the core jungle areas, and they have initiated anti-Naxal search operations in coordination with special action group (SAG) and anti-Naxal special action squads (C-60) of the state security agency.
The companies of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), specially trained in jungle warfare, are also likely to move into the district in the later stages of the operation. The deployment of helicopters for transportation and rescue operations of troops is also in the offing, sources claimed.
The Naxal movement in Gadchiroli had taken root in 1980 and so far 276 civilians have been killed by Naxalites. As many as 138 cops have laid down their lives while 108 Naxals have been killed in encounters till now. In 2009 alone, 51 cops have been killed in four separate ambushes. Finally, it appears that the time has come for the security forces to launch an assault on the Maoist rebels.
Special Move Against Naxals - Operation Green Hunt And Godawari
The preparations to start operation green-hunt and operation Godawari against the naxals is being taken up on war-footing level. Under it the construction agencies engaged in naxal affected areas of Bastar have been ordered confidentially to bind-up their works and have also been instructed to bring away their staff, machines and apparatus from the sensitive areas within scheduled time frame. The police head quarters have directed the S. P.'s of all the affected districts to conduct surveys of their areas. The villagers of sensitive villages are being shifted to secured places. The shifting of 39 persons belonging to 7 families of village Kosaronda in Bhanupratappur area of Kanker district to Bhanupratappur under strict security of police can be stated as initial state towards vacating the sensitive villages.
All the five S. P.'s of Bastar, have started functioning in accordance to the directives of the PHQ given on 12th June. However, the police is observing dense secrecacy about the steps being taken to facilitate the both the special anti-naxal operations. It is believed that these operations will be operative jointly by the C. G. and Orissa states. Over 4000 BSF, CRPF, COBRA, COMMANDO BATTALION and CAF cops have reached to the sensitive areas to handle the operation and operations are expected to take place after the rainy season is over.
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Indian security forces have intensified their operations against Maoist rebels, officials say. Thousands of forces have joined those already operating in jungle areas of three eastern states where the rebels have a formidable presence. A major security offensive - Operation Green Hunt - to flush out the rebels is under way in several states. More than 6,000 people have died during the rebels' 20-year fight for communist rule in many Indian states. The rebels have a presence in about a third of India's 600-odd districts. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist insurgency as India's "greatest internal security challenge". The newly-arrived federal forces are now moving into the jungles of West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand states that may house a number of rebel hideouts. West Bengal police chief Bhupinder Singh said 6,000 new forces had arrived in the state's Purulia and West Midnapore districts, which have seen rebel violence. In neighbouring Jharkhand state, police chief Neyaz Ahmed said that federal forces along with local armed police had begun attacking rebels hideouts in the jungles. "We have seized a lot of explosives and destroyed a few rebel camps," he said. With the chance of peaceful negotiations with the government fading, the Maoist military wing chief Koteswara Rao has threatened to attack targets in cities across Bengal and Orissa. But Mr Rao said his offer of a 72-day ceasefire with government forces still stands. He has also named three "intellectuals" to mediate between the government and the rebels. The government has not reacted to the latest demand of the rebels, and called some of their demands "bizarre". | ||
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Ambani beats Mittal on world's richest list
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Posted: Mar 11, 2010 at 0920 hrs ISTNew York Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has emerged as the richest person in the world with USD 53.5 billion in assets, while Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani ranks fourth with USD 29 billion in the US magazine Forbes annual list of world's top billionaires.
Slim is followed by William Gates III (popularly known as Bill Gates) with a net worth of USD 53 billion and Warren Buffet at the third spot with assets worth USD 47 billion.
NRI billionaire Lakshmi Mittal with a net worth of USD 28.7 billion ranks fifth while Mukesh's younger brother Anil Ambani is at the 36th spot with USD 13.7 billion.
There are 1,011 billionaires in the world now, up from 793 a year ago.
Gates has held the top spot for 14 of the past 15 years in the past. "The Microsoft founder is now worth USD 53 billion, up USD 13 billion from a year ago," Forbes said.
There are just two Indians in the list of top 10 richest persons across the world.
The only woman to be on the top ten list, at number ten, is German entrepreneur Karl Albrecht, who founded the Aldi supermarkets and has a net worth of USD 23. 5 billion.
The United States has 403 billionaires - the most in the world followed by China that beat out Russia to grab the second spot.
Although China has larger number of billionaires than India, ten of Asia's top 25 are Indian while China has one.
Hong Kong and Japan each have five and China has one in Asia's top 25.
New York has more billionaires than any other city.
The youngest billionaire who has a net worth of four billion dollars is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg who created Facebook.
The list of Indian billionaires include Mukesh Ambani and L N Mittal in the top two along with Azim Premji ( USD 17 billion), Anil Ambani (USD 13.7 billion), Shashi and Ravi Ruia (USD 13 billion), Savitri Jindal (USD 12.2 billion), Kushal Pal Singh (USD 9 billion), Kumar Birla (USD 7.9 billion), Sunni Mittal (USD 7.8 billion) and Anil Agarwal (USD 6.4 billion dollars).
Following is the Forbes list of top 25 richest people in India:
[Rank/Net Worth (in $ bln)]
4 Mukesh Ambani 29.0
5 Lakshmi Mittal 28.7
28 Azim Premji 17.0
36 Anil Ambani 13.7
40 Shashi & Ravi Ruia 13
44 Savitri Jindal 12.2
74 K P Singh 9.0
86 Kumar Mangalam Birla 7.9
87 Sunil Mittal 7.8
113 Anil Agarwal 6.4
148 Adi Godrej &family 5.2
167 Gautam Adani 4.8
173 Dilip Shanghvi 4.6
201 Shiv Nadar 4.2
297 G M Rao 3.2
297 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh 3.2
316 Uday Kotak 3.0
342 Kalanithi Maran 2.9
354 Subhash Chandra 2.8
354 Micky Jagtiani 2.8
354 Indu Jain 2.8
463 Sudhir & Samir Mehta 2.1
488 Yusuf Hamid & family 2.0
488 Cyrus Poonawalla 2.0
| Operation Green Hunt still on; 50 Naxals killed | |||||
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India's Naxalite Rage
Escalating Threat, Naxalite, Security Establishment
Operation Green Hunt
Indian government paramilitary officers are gearing up for a major operation to clear and hold areas with 70 thousand troops. In follow on operations, they hope to build economic capacity and bring the people of the region on line into the global system.
Unfortunately, this Lord of the Rings strategy (a major and epic battle to end conflict), does not address the core problems that the Naxals exploit. In fact, the casualties that a military offensive will generate will actually just exacerbate the situation.
The correct way to compete with the keystone Naxal platform (the set of violent services that enable and drive the black market in affected areas) is not escalation but rather to focus on mitigation by participating and shifting the black market.
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Operation Green Hunt
February 06, 2010
WAR ON TRIBALS AND LEFTIST GUERILLAS IS BEING HIDDEN FROM VIEW
Green Hunt: the anatomy of an operation by Aman Sethi (The Hindu)
"Away from the gaze of the media and the judiciary, the adivasis of Bastar are paying a heavy price... for just being there.
"An operation is underway in Central India, but no one really knows what it is. Variously described as a media myth, a comprehensive hearts and minds strategy, and an all-out offensive by paramilitary forces and the state forces along the borders of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, Operation Green Hunt has become a shoebox of news clippings, police reports, public demonstrations and armed encounters.
"Depending on the definition, Green Hunt either began in July 2009, September 2009 or November 2009. Speaking off record, senior policemen confirmed that the intensification of 'search and comb' operations in Chhattisgarh began as early as July last year. In September 2009 the press reported on the progress of 'Operation Green Hunt': a massive 3-day joint operation in which the central CoBRA force and state police battled Naxal forces in Dantewada.
"By November, the press was regularly reporting on the planning and progress of Green Hunt, prompting Home Minister, P. Chidambaram to term the operation a 'media invention.' Since then, the security apparatus has scrupulously avoided all mention of Green Hunt. The week-long joint operation, launched on December 25 2009 in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra for instance, was termed 'Police Week.' The change in nomenclature could be prompted by a realisation that the battle between the state and the Naxals is unlikely to end anytime soon. Speaking on background, police sources confirm that the conflict shall take the form of 'a prolonged, open-ended engagement' rather than a short, fierce 'operation.'
"There is also little clarity on the extent of troop deployment, the composition of the forces and the chain of command between central paramilitary forces and the state police. Privately, sources in the security apparatus admit that part of the confusion is by design rather than by default to control the information available to Naxal commanders. At present, the only information independently confirmed by The Hindu relates to the Bastar Zone, a 40,000 square kilometre area in Chhattisgarh that lies at heart of the battle. Sources state that 7 additional battalions of central forces have been moved in the area, bringing the strength of central forces in Bastar to a total 20 battalions including troops from the CRPF, ITBP, BSF and SSB. Taken alongside the 6,000 policemen deployed in Bastar, the size of the total fighting force in the zone is about 20,000 troops."
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India is ignoring its citizens by Eric Randolph (The Guardian)
"Under the broadbrush moniker of Maoists or Naxalites, these [left-wing insurgents operating in India's poorest regions] represent one of the few forms of resistance for villagers and hill tribes against the inequities of continuing feudal structures and the encroachment of global corporations—backed by the state—who treat them as awkward impediments to mining plans.
"The Naxalites can be brutal, and the villagers under their control often find themselves unwillingly cut off from health services, education and development. But they have held on to the moral high ground thanks largely to a state response that has been unremittingly heavy-handed: special forces operations, the arming of vigilante groups, the dispossession of land, forced encampment—all accompanied by tales of extrajudicial killings, rapes and, for some godforsaken reason, the chopping off of children's fingers.
"India's civil society looks on in abhorrence at what is widely seen as a full-blown war against the poor. Even the government-appointed Council of Experts had to conclude that: 'Often any individual who speaks out against the powerful is dubbed a Naxalite and jailed or otherwise silenced. The search for Naxalite cadre leads to severe harassment and torture of its supporters and sympathisers.'
"'Those who try to report these crimes find themselves bundled away to police custody 'for their own protection.' This has been happening to Sodi Sambo, a 28-year-old woman from Gompar village in Chattisgarh who says she witnessed security forces murder nine of her neighbours in October 2009, and was herself shot in the foot in front of her two small children. She tried to file a complaint, only to find herself under armed guard in a nearby hospital with no visitors allowed and denied the right to travel to Delhi for treatment.
"With Amnesty International and the supreme court wading in, her case might just be heard. A couple of troops might even be reprimanded. In the meantime, the operations will continue. Just a fortnight ago, home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram announced another massive offensive across five states, confidently claiming it would target only insurgent leaders. Since no journalists are allowed anywhere near these war zones, we have to take his word for it."
See anti-caste: "OPERATION GREEN HUNT": CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TARGETS TRIBALS AND GUERILLAIST LEFTISTS (October 31, 2009)
January 22, 2010
October 31, 2009
"OPERATION GREEN HUNT": CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TARGETS TRIBALS AND GUERILLAIST LEFTISTS
India prepares to fight rebel Maoists (UPI)
"India is preparing for a prolonged counterinsurgency fight against Maoist rebels once discounted as a ragtag group of irrelevant ideologues, officials say.
"The Maoists, intent on overthrowing the government, are operating in 20 of India's states, and have become a strong and dangerous insurgency, The New York Times reported on its Web site Saturday.
"Indian leaders are prepared to deploy nearly 70,000 paramilitary officers for the extended counterinsurgency effort.
"The Maoists say they represent the dispossessed of Indian society. Especially hard-hit, they claim, are indigenous tribal groups burdened with the highest rates of illiteracy, poverty and infant mortality.
"The insurgents charge the government wants to push tribal groups from their lands to grab valuable natural resources, the Times says. Maoists have escalated their efforts to sabotage roads and bridges, and even have attacked an energy pipeline."
The heart of India is under attack by Arundhati Roy (The Guardian (UK), October 30, 2009):
"Right now in central India, the Maoists' guerrilla army is made up almost entirely of desperately poor tribal people living in conditions of such chronic hunger that it verges on famine of the kind we only associate with sub-Saharan Africa. They are people who, even after 60 years of India's so-called independence, have not had access to education, healthcare or legal redress. They are people who have been mercilessly exploited for decades, consistently cheated by small businessmen and moneylenders, the women raped as a matter of right by police and forest department personnel. Their journey back to a semblance of dignity is due in large part to the Maoist cadre who have lived and worked and fought by their side for decades.
"If the tribals have taken up arms, they have done so because a government which has given them nothing but violence and neglect now wants to snatch away the last thing they have—their land. Clearly, they do not believe the government when it says it only wants to 'develop' their region. Clearly, they do not believe that the roads as wide and flat as aircraft runways that are being built through their forests in Dantewada by the National Mineral Development Corporation are being built for them to walk their children to school on. They believe that if they do not fight for their land, they will be annihilated. That is why they have taken up arms.
"Even if the ideologues of the Maoist movement are fighting to eventually overthrow the Indian state, right now even they know that their ragged, malnutritioned army, the bulk of whose soldiers have never seen a train or a bus or even a small town, are fighting only for survival."
anti-caste: Marxists in India would seek to mobilize the working class to defend tribals and leftist guerillas against this threat of massive state repression. Unlike liberals and reformists, they would not call on the capitalist state to better the conditions of tribals instead of killing and displacing them; to do so is to reinforce the illusion that this state does not necessarily act in the service of the Indian bourgeoisie and the imperialists. While defending them militarily against police and paramilitary forces, Marxists would give no political support to the Maoists who, though presently under the gun, openly seek an alliance with a mythical "progressive national bourgeoisie." Despite their claims to Marxism, the Maoist guerillas have nothing to do with the working class and base themselves entirely on peasants and the landless. As Trotsky explained, these classes, unlike the industrial proletriat, lack the unity, organization, and social power to play an independent revolutionary role. The burning social questions of the region—including the liberation of tribals, who are among the most oppressed and marginalized populations on earth—will not be settled in the jungles.
See also anti-caste: INDIAN GOVT COMMITTEE: "LARGE LANDOWNERS INVARIABLY BELONG TO THE UPPER CASTES" WHILE TATA AND ESSAR STAGE "THE BIGGEST GRAB OF TRIBAL LANDS SINCE COLUMBUS" (October 25, 2009)
October 25, 2009
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- LAW COLLEGE clash: untouchable students attacked on campus
- ORISSA: another mass atrocity led by Hindu right against untouchable Christians
- ORISSA: Hindu right leads mass atrocity against untouchable Christians
- TASLIMA NASRIN forced out of Calcutta
- NANDIGRAM: CPI(M) retakes rebellious village
- AGRARIAN CRISIS and peasant suicides in India
- SINGUR: CPI(M) cadres raped and killed peasant girl resisting land seizure
- TASLIMA NASRIN attacked by fundamentalist Muslim party in Hyderabad
- MAYAWATI—female, untouchable leader of capitalist party—elected chief minister of major state
- SACHAR committee report on deprivation of Indian Muslims
- NANDIGRAM massacre: state terror against poor peasants resisting land seizure
- MUKHTAR MAI: a low-caste Pakistani woman who stood up
- KHAIRLANJI massacre and mass protests in Maharashtra
- BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS' mass wildcat strikes
- RESERVATIONS (affirmative action) bill proposed
- KALINGANAGAR: repression of tribals resisting seizure of their land
- GURGAON: police repression of striking Honda workers
- TSUNAMI relief: caste discrimination
articles
- What is caste? (2009)
- Marxism vs. petty-bourgeois dalit politics (2009)
- why Marxists must fight special oppression (2009)
- notes on the history of Pakistan (2009)
- towards a materialist analysis of caste in India (2008)
- reply to n+1 in defense of the revolutionary tradition (2008)
- Maharasthra burning: mass outrage after an untouchable lynching in Khairlanji (2006)
- reply to Jared Diamond on the social function of caste (2005)
- on the police repression of striking workers in Haryana (2005)
- on the Muslim question in India (2005)
- on caste discrimination against survivors of the South Asian tsunami (2005)
- on Godhra and the Gujarat massacre (2004)
- on the Indian elections (2004)
- on some recent atrocities against untouchables (2002)
Marxists on India
- Marx on caste and the village community
- Marx and Engels on India and colonialism
- Karl Kautsky and the Second International on colonialism
- Lenin and the early Communist International on India and colonialism
- Marxists on the perspective of permanent revolution in countries of belated capitalist development
- Leon Trotsky on India and permanent revolution
- The (Trotskyist) Fourth International on India
- documents of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India
- The International Communist League on South Asia
sources hosted on anti-caste
- 1855—"About the Griefs of the Mangs and the Mahars" by Mukthabai
- 1867—Karl Marx on the Indian village community
- 1928—"What Is the Permanent Revolution?" by Leon Trotsky
- 1930—"Historic References on the Theory of 'Permanent Revolution'" by Leon Trotsky
- 1930—"The Revolution in India: Its Tasks and Dangers" by Leon Trotsky
- 1939—"India Faced with Imperialist War: An Open Letter to the Workers of India" by Leon Trotsky
- 1939—"Three Concepts of the Russian Revolution" by Leon Trotsky
- 1942—"The Classes of India and Their Political Roles: A Thesis of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India"
- 1992—"The 'Quit India' Movement 50 Years On: Stalinist Alliance with Churchill Betrayed Indian Revolution" (Workers Hammer)
- 1993—"India: Hindu Fascists Whip Up Religious Slaughter" (Workers Hammer)
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Gujarat riots ghost comes to haunt CM Narendra Modi
Gandhinagar/New Delhi: The 2002 Gujarat riots returned to haunt Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday when a Supreme Court-appointed investigation team summoned him for questioning March 21 over his alleged complicity in the anti-Muslim violence that rocked the state, particularly in the death of Congress's former MP Ehsan Jaffri.
The Congress said it would be "appropriate that he (Modi) should step down before appearing before the SIT."
According to Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief R.K. Raghavan, Modi was being summoned following a Supreme Court order of April 27 last year on a petition of Ehsan Jaffri's widow Zakia. Jaffri was killed during the rioting at Gulbarg society in Ahmedabad.
Zakia's petition related to the "wider conspiracy" surrounding the 2002 communal riots and named Narendra Modi. The petition was referred by the Supreme Court bench to the SIT with directions to look into it.
Reacting to the development, the Modi government said that the chief minister is ready to help the process of law.
Modi conspired, says petition
In her petition, Zakia says Modi, along with other ministers in his government, conspired to "allow the massacre of Muslims". She has alleged that the chief minister and his colleagues instructed policemen and bureaucrats not to respond to pleas for help from Muslims being attacked during the riots.
Raghavan said the chief minister has been summoned to ask him some questions. "A number of witnesses have been questioned, and we would want him to give his side of the story," he added.
Report by early next month
After the questioning of Modi, the SIT is expected to submit its report to the Supreme Court by the end of next month.
Zakia has named Modi and 62 others in her complaint. Over 1,000 people had perished in the state-wide communal riots that followed the Godhra train carnage on Feb 27, 2002.
The Supreme Court bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice A.K. Ganguly had directed the SIT to submit a report within three months after inquiring into Zakia's complaint. Jaffri's widow had first made the complaint against Modi in June 2006, on which the state government refused to register an FIR.
Modi must step down: Cong
The SIT summons led the Congress to demand that Modi should step down as the chief minister.
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said in New Delhi: "What has happened today should have actually happened many, many years ago. A chief minister of Gujarat and his government presided over the worst massacre of minorities that independent India has witnessed in the last 62 years."
"It is perhaps for the first time that a sitting chief minister has been summoned to appear before a SIT on mass murder. It would be appropriate that he should step down before appearing before the SIT."
But Tewari quickly added that "it would be too much to expect" from Modi to do so.
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Gujarat riots ghost comes to haunt CM Narendra Modi Gandhinagar/New Delhi: The 2002 Gujarat riots returned to haunt Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday when a Supreme Court-appointed investigation team summoned him for questioning March 21 over his alleged complicity in the anti-Muslim violence that rocked the state, particularly in the death of Congress's former MP Ehsan Jaffri.
- Indian missions abroad on terror radar
New Delhi: The government Thursday said that some terror groups had plans to target Indian missions abroad and underlined that it has taken up a slew of measures to strengthen security of the missions.
- Court reserves order on paternity suit against Tiwari
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its order on a paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar, who claims to be the biological son of scandal-hit former Andhra Pradesh governor N.D. Tiwari.
- FTV shows topless women, banned for 9 days
The government has banned Fashion TV for nine days after finding a program it aired offended good taste and decency by showing women partially nude.
- Sanjay Dutt finally free of terror charges
New Delhi: Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt can finally heave a sigh of relief as his acquittal from terror charges for his alleged role in the 1993 Mumbai serial terror bombing has gone unchallenged in the Supreme Court.
- CBI blames NIMS doctors for prolonging Raju's treatment
Hyderabad: CBI, probing the multi-crore financial fraud in Satyam Computers, today alleged doctors were prolonging the treatment of the company's former chairman B Ramalinga Raju only to delay the trial in the case.
- Govt must regret use of marshals in Rajya Sabha: BJP
New Delhi: BJP on Thursday sought to re-unite the opposition by apologising on behalf of seven MPs suspended for unruly behaviour and demanding that the government express regret for using marshals during passage of women's bill.
- Marriage made in heaven, solemnised in police station
Lucknow: The wedding card of this couple who eloped might read something like this -- Satish Kumar weds Maya Pasi. You are cordially invited to attend the marriage at a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district!
Wealth is like an orchard, says the world's richest man Mexico City: Mexico's Carlos Slim, named the world's richest man on Wednesday, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and snacks to his family.
- Sky gazers gear up for Messier marathon
New Delhi: Sky gazers are set for a week-long celestial treat from Saturday with the start of Messier marathon, an annual astronomy event.
Split wide open: BJP divided over Women's Reservation Bill New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday denied reports that it was divided over the women's reservation bill but the rift was evident with a section of MPs led by Yogi Adityanath said that quotas for women were "needless" and would be opposed in the Lok Sabha.
- Suspension of 7 RS members likely to be revoked
New Delhi: A solution is expected on the issue of suspension of seven Rajya Sabha members by evening.
- Fuel inflation accelerates; RBI action seen
New Delhi: Food prices moderated slightly while fuel price inflation accelerated in late February adding pressure on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to raise rates at its April policy review.
- Preity Zinta appointed UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador
New Delhi: Actress Preity Zinta was appointed UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador and plans to combine Cricket and Bollywood to raise awareness about the deadly disease.
- Food inflation slides to 17.81 pc, fuel prices rise
New Delhi: Food inflation eased a bit to 17.81 per cent during the last week of February, but may not soothe overall inflation as petrol and diesel prices have risen sharply following the hike in duty rates.
- Govt to procure multi-barrel guns for helicopters
New Delhi: The government has invited proposals for procuring multi-barrel Gatling guns which can be mounted on MI-17 and 'Dhruv' helicopters for use by security forces like the NSG and para-military commandos.
- Salman Khan appears before Mumbai special court
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan today appeared before a special court here as a prosecution witness and deposed against gangster Chhota Shakeel's henchman Anjum Fazlani.
- Centre ready for all-party meet to discuss Women's Bill
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said the Central Government is ready to call for an all-party meeting to discuss the Women's Reservation Bill. "Leaders from all political outfits will be called for the meeting," said Mukherjee.
- LS, RS adjourned as BJP, AIADMK, Left create uproar
New Delhi: Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 2pm following more uproar over the Women's Reservation Bill. The government faced a united Opposition in both the Houses as it seeks to pass the Bill.
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