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YES WE ARE TALKING ABOUT KASHMIR

In December 2006, responding to what he said were ‘legitimate’ grievances of the people of Manipur, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared that the Act would be amended to ensure it was ‘humane’ on the basis of the Jeevan Reddy Commission’s report, which is believed to have recommended the Act’s repeal. The Act has been employed [...]

Eight former CJIs corrupt, says ex-law minister Shanti Bhushan

Dares SC To Send Him To Jail For Contempt Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN | The Times of India, September 17, 2010 New Delhi: Former law minister Shanti Bhushan on Thursday created a sensation in the Supreme Court when he moved an application accusing eight former chief justices of India of “corruption”, and dared it to [...]

God didnt create universe: Stephen Hawking

To know more about Stephen Hawking Click Here. London: God didnt create the universe it was actually a result of the inevitable laws of physics,British physicist Prof Stephen Hawking has concluded. In his latest book,The Grand Design,Hawking said: Because there is a law such as gravity,the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.Spontaneous creation [...]

50% Decrease in Child Mortality Rate

“Guerrilla fighters have the practice of drinking boiled water only. They are used to that. They have advised the villagers to do the same. After the tribals of Jangalmahal have started boiling their drinking water, the mortality rate of children in the past one year has gone down by 50%. Not any political agenda–but a [...]

EXCLUSIVE letter from BAPI MAHATO, the prime accused in the Jnaneshwari Express tragedy

BY PARTHA DASGUPTA, www.tehelka.com ‘We were angry. We wanted to do damage. Someone in the crowd said, leave it to us…’ n a tell-all letter, he lays out what happened on the night of the sabotage. THE COLLISION of the Jnaneshwari Express with a goods train just after midnight on 28 May near Jhargram killed [...]

‘Indian independence’… another grand deception???

By Prabir Ghosh This is the 64th year of Indian “independence”. At this juncture, an appraisal of the term “independence” from a range of viewpoints won’t be out of place at all. When we say “nation”, it doesn’t point to merely an area festooned and ornamented with mountains, waterways and oceans. Rather, it indicates the [...]

Here is current issue of Aamra Yuktibadi – August 2010

‘আমরা যুক্তিবাদী’ পত্রিকার আগষ্ট ২০১০ সংখ্যাটি প্রকাশ করা হল। আমরা যুক্তিবাদী – আগষ্ট ২০১০ সংখ্যাটি ডাউনলোড করার জন্য এখানে ক্লিক করুন- পূর্ববর্তী সংখ্যাগুলো পাবেন এখানে।

People of Kashmir Want Freedom

Courtesy: News published at ‘Icore Ekdin’, 7 August 2010

We stand by the people of Kashmir

Kashmir was a sovereign state at the time when India was under the British rule. On 27th October, 1947, the then Indian Government headed by Late Jawaharlal Nehuru, propelled its military to Kashmir, with the one and only aim to capture that self-governing nation. Thereafter, the Security Council of the United Nations had repeatedly suggested [...]

SALWA JUDUM at West Bengal

রাজ্যে সালবা জুডুম Click here to read the news in Bengali. Courtesy: Icore Ekdin

Development Works by PCAPA

স্বেচ্ছাশ্রম বিলিয়ে উন্নয়ন ও সেবা Click here to read the news in Bengali. Courtesy: Icore Ekdin

“My son was killed by police while he was asleep… I won’t accept the body” fumes the aggrieved father of Sidhu Soren

Click here to read the news in Bengali. ——————— Abhijit Chakraborty from Karkata, Ramgarh. Anandabazar Patrika, 28 July, 2010 The “fight” of his son is all over. The fight, however, isn’t over as yet. Bhuto Baskey (more than 60 years old) alias Jamadar Baskey, the father of Sidhu Soren, is determined to take up bow [...]

Prabir Ghosh’s name among the All Time Greatest Bengali literary figures

Check WIKIPEDIA – Prabir Ghosh’s name among the All Time Greatest Bengali literary figures. List includes ancient to modern- from Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Kazi Nazrul Islam to Samaresh Majumdar, Prabir Ghosh etc.  

Prabir Ghosh on Star News regarding Octopus PAUL

Courtesy:  Star News, AFP (photo)

Mentally challenged boy labelled Maoist

Cops ‘rebel’ is an epilepsy patient TNN, Jun 19, 2010, 05.47am IST KOLKATA: Police are convinced that 20-year-old Rameshwar Murmu of Duli village near Salboni is a hard-core Maoist. But the youth’s medical documents, copies of which are with TOI, tell a different story. An electroencephalogram (EEG) test that he underwent on June 6, 2006, [...]