Monitoring World Left/liberal/communists

01-01-2005, 01:06 AM

Hauma Hamiddha,

Thanks for the feed back.

Krishna

01-01-2005, 07:58 PM

QUOTE(k.ram @ Dec 31 2004, 06:00 PM) <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sunder @ Dec 30 2004, 10:05 PM)
Ram ji, would you happen to know if Pratham is also affiliated with the left wing commies?


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Interesting information on NOVIB - one of the foundations behind Pratham.

http://www.eurodad.org/members/default.aspx?id=156

Novib
Novib was set up in 1956 as the Netherlands Organisation for International Development Cooperation. As well as managing development projects in 100 countries in the South, Novib lobbies governments, the European Union and the United Nations, and has an important educational role in the Netherlands, organising exhibitions and debates and producing educational material. They are involved in activities all across the policy spectrum, from health to conflict prevention, to the environment, to the freedom of the press.
www.novib.nl

Oikos
Oikos is the Ecumenical Institute for Church and Development Cooperation. They are not a funding organisation, but instead support, through research, lobbying, education and campaigning, activities in the Netherlands that contribute to just and sustainable development. Their main focus is on globalisation, climate change and sustainable development, international finance, debt relief, sustainable tourism and migration.
www.stichtingoikos.nl
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And here, it gets more interesting.

NOVIB NOVIB is one of the largest private funding agencies in the Netherlands. Although NOVIB does fund media projects, media or media and peace building are not specific themes in the organisationâs activities. NOVIB does not execute projects on its one but it provides funds to partner organisation. Due to the organisationâs internal organisation it is difficult to provide a comprehensive list of projects on the specific subject of media and conflict prevention. NOVIB submitted some information of three projects in the field of media support. However this information was too limited, to determine how these projects contribute to peace building, or to compose clear project descriptions with.

http://www.impacs.org/pdfs/readermediaco...ention.pdf

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G.Subramaniam · 01-03-2005, 06:47 AM

A list of commie anti-hindu charities from the Ra Ravishankar post

A partial list of non-sectarian, grassroots groups involved in relief
operations:

1. AID - Association for India's Development
http://www.aidindia.org/CMS/

2. American India Foundation
http://www.aifoundation.org/

3. Asha For Education
http://www.ashanet.org/

4. India Literacy Project
http://www.ilpnet.org/news/Tsunami/index.html

5. India Relief and Education Fund
http://iref.homestead.com/

6. Indians for Collective Action
http://www.icaonline.org/

7. Pratham
http://www.prathamusa.org/

8. Singh Foundation
http://singhfoundation.org

9. Vibha
http://www.vibha.org/emergencyrelief/

01-03-2005, 06:10 PM

EVENT : INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL. (2ND WEEK OF JANUARY 05)

We've been offered some amazing documentaries, far to many for one night so we are organising a week long event. Submissions most welcome, fictional or documentary. We'd also like to include some live cultural stuff like dance so please get in touch if you know of something appropriate.

Movements in Motion: An Indian Film Festival
A week of documentary films and discussions
food, music, dance performances
http://rampart.omxtra.net/modules/news/
Phone 07050 618445 email rampart@mutualaid.org
from 10 - 15 January 2004
at the rampART Creative Centre and Social Space, East London

1. Adivasi (Indigenous peoples) resistance/life - 10 January 2005, Monday
(Doors open 7.30 p.m. for 8 pm screening)
- The bee, the bear, the kuruba -This film provides
insights into the Kurubas' way of life, situating itself with the kurubas
(a tribe) in South Karnataka. An understanding of how 'development' projects create conflicts amongst Adivasis.

- Suits and Savages - An exploration of the World
Bank/Global Environment Facility funded ecodevelopment project carried out in the same region in Karnataka. A closer look at what the Bank thought it was doing and the resistance it met from the Kurubas.

- 5 years on - An update on the situation shown in the previous film.

2. Casteism - 11 January 2005, Tuesday (Doors open 7.30 p.m. for 8 pm screening)
- Lesser Humans - A look into India's caste system through the lives of manual scavengers in Gujarat.

- The die is caste - How violence rooted in caste conflict has led to the emergence of Maoist and Marxist-Leninist groups in the state of Bihar.

3. Women fight back - 12 January 2005, Wednesday (Doors open 7.30
p.m. for 8 pm screening) - Burnt Not Defeated - Attacks on women using acids like sulhuric and hydrochloric acid mean only one thing for those who do survive - debilitating effects, physical and mental. Faced with increasing acid attacks by husbands, neighbours, employers, colleaugues on one hand and indifferent and apathetic Government structures on the other, women in Karnataka decide to fight back.

- When Women Unite - In 1992, women in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh revolt against government supply of liquor to their villages.
The resistance spreads like wildfire. In four months, 800 village shops
have been stormed and shut by angry women. In 12 months, the movement has spread across the state of Andhra Pradhesh. Three years later, the government is compelled to declare state-wide prohibition. It is an account of actual incidents put together through the testimonies of activists, government officials, liquor dons and the women in 22 villages of Nellore district recreating the emotional ! intensity and the tensions of the struggle.

4. The myth of India - 13 January 2005, Wednesday (Doors open 7.30
p.m. for 8 pm screening) - Beyond the construction of India as a once-was colonized country, we hope to show that India as it exists today is infact brutally colonial itself.

- Naga Story, the other side of silence - The Nagas are a 3-million-strong indigenous people who occupy the North-East
frontier of the Indian subcontinent. The Naga political struggle is one of
the oldest nationality movements in South Asia, continuing till present times. The film provides an introduction to the history of the Naga struggle, and documents the human rights abuses suffered by the people in more than 50 years of the existence of Independent India.

- Development at Gun Point - Attempts to 'develop' the nation has inevitably meant displacement of adivasis from their lands and a consequent loss of their identity, livelihoods. Adivasis in Kashipur, Orissa, faced with forced evictions and violence from the state
and the multinational companies, unite to offer fierce resistance. An
ongoing struggle, the adivasis have successfully refused the company
officials and the police forces entry to their lands for the past decade.

The bauxite mining and alumina refinery projec! t remains at the initial survey stage.

5. Urban India - 14 January, Friday
(Doors open 7.30 p.m. for 8 pm screening)
- The tales of Night fairies - Five sexworkers - four women and one man - along with the filmmaker/narrator embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the Night Fairies explores the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sexwork. The simultaneously expansive and labyrinthine
city of Calcutta forms the backdrop for the personal and musical journeys of storytelling.

The film screening and discussion will be followed by Kathak dance
performances by Jasmine and group. Indian classical / rap and fusion
music follows.

6. Anti - Nuclear/Militarisation - 15 January, Saturday
(Doors open - 11.30 a.m. for 12 p.m. screening)

- War and Peace - India gets another nuke
bomb and celebrations and explosions of patriotism and nationalist fervour sweep the country. The film is a detail of the militarism wave with implications for India and Pakistan as well as a look at Japan and US - two countries with a shared nuke history.

- Buddha Weeps in Jadugada - India's only uranium mining site is located in Jadugada, an adivasi area in Jharkhand. Buddha weeps in Jadugada attempts a description of the price being paid by the people there to sustain India's nuclear dreams and in turn their attempts to take on the Uranium Corporation India Limited and the entire
Indian nuclear establishment.

7. Fundamentalism - 15 January, Saturday

- In the name of God - IN THE NAME OF GOD focuses on
the campaign waged by the militant Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP - Hindu
fundamentalist group) to destroy a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya said to have been built by Babar, the first Mughal Emperor of India. The VHP claim the mosque was built at the birthsite of the Hindu god Ram after Babar razed an existing Ram temple. They are determined to build a new temple to Ram on the same site. This controversial issue has led to a series of religious riots and finally culminated in the mosque's destruction

in December of 1992. The resulting religious violence immediately spread throughout India and Pakistan leaving more than 5,000 dead, and causing thousands of Indian Muslims to flee their homes. Filmed prior to the mosque's demolition, this film examines the mo! tivations which would ultimately lead to the drastic actions of the Hindu militants, as well as the efforts of secular Indians - many of whom are Hindus - to combat the religious intolerance and hatred that has seized India in the name of God.

- Gujarat, A Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra- Set in the
fundamentalist violence unleashed in Gujarat from February 2002 on, this film documents the lives of people in about 14 villages in Anand District, Gujarat, in which the homes and businesses of the Muslims were burnt down, looted, and destroyed. In some of the villages such as Dharmaj, Siswa, Mogri, the Muslims who had been living there for decades have not been allowed to come back. Through interviews with VHP (Hindu fundamentalist group) leaders as well as with ordinary people in Gujarat, the film examines the reasons why Gujarat was a fertile ground for fascism.

- Passengers - Months after the carnage, people still
struggle to find their lives again.

Indian classical / rap and fusion music performances follow film screenings and discussions.

01-04-2005, 04:37 PM

CPM finds parallel between tsunami and BJP

New Delhi, Jan. 3: Linking natural disasters to perceived sin appears no longer the preserve of the religious right. Even, CPM, sworn ememies of religious bigots and bigotry, has said in an editorial in its latest issue of People's Democracy that the tsunami is the 'culmination of a legacy of hate and destruction' that was overcome politically this year.

The clumsy, convoluted text: "The tsunami striking us in the last days of 2004 must be seen not as an ominous signal for the future, but as the culmination of a legacy of hate and destruction that we, the Indian people, unitedly and finally overcame in the political sphere in 2004."

What does the tsunami have to do with the electoral defeat of the BJP-led NDA? When contacted, CPM general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet reacted with a long pause. "I will go through the piece tomorrow and then comment," he said.

The paragraph appears in the editorial of the issue of People's Democracy published last Saturday. The article, entitled "2005: Meet Challenges Steadfastly," grieves the death of the thousands washed away by the killer waves on December 26 and pledges support for the government in relief and rehabilitation.

Said Sitaram Yechury, senior politburo member and the party leader closely associated with the publication, "It is a statement against what the BJP is saying. The BJP-run government in Goa is advertising that theirs is a national calamity free state. Just because it is a BJP-ruled state. We are countering that with this sentence."

He added, "We mean that contrary to what the BJP is saying the tsunami is no ominous signal. This year has also witnessed the political defeat of the BJP."

Even CPM's Rajya Sabha leader, Nilotpal Basu tried to argue that the sentence has to be read in a 'figurative sence.'

"The intention is to convey to our readers that the people experiences a tsunami of hatred for five years under the NDA regime." But coming in the wake of saffron obscurantists trying to link tsunamis with the 'sin' of arresting the Kanchi Shankaracharya, the CPM will find it extremely difficult.

01-11-2005, 07:33 AM

thru email about yahoo group
QUOTEMAOIST_GUNS. (MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM) The list is open to people who are at the very least anti-imperialist and want to learn more on issues at stake. MAOIST GUNS will give regular updates from various sources on the People`s War`s being waged in NEPAL, PERU, INDIA, TURKEY, PHILLIPINES as well as other struggles including Armed Struggles being waged by Maoist forces and people's Wars being prepared in IRAN, BANGLADESH, SRI LANKA, BHUTAN etc in the service of the WORLD REVOLUTION to liberate humanity from the dog-eat-dog system of Capitalism/imperialsm. MAOIST GUNS will also post statements from Maoist parties around the Globe when they arrive and members are encouraged to search for statements and articles in relation to these. MAOIST GUNS understands that the World is divided into Oppressed and Oppressor Nations and that Africa, Asia and Latin America are the Storm centres of the WORLD REVOLUTION. World revolution can only succeed if the proletariat of capitalist countries supports struggles for liberation of colonial semi-colonial peoples and prepares for People's War / Revolution themselves. 

Why Pakistan or Burma is missing this list?

01-13-2005, 02:12 AM

Truly 'secular' chaps these Naxals:
Naxalites turn against religious conversions
QUOTESo far, Naxalities only targeted the VHP and RSS
activists, accusing them of converting the tribals to Hinduism.
Recently, armed Naxalities had attacked Ganesha ustav mandapas in
Narainpur. A few days later, they reached an ashram and thrashed the
sadhus there.

01-13-2005, 07:26 AM

A third front finally!

QUOTEThe ideal combination is that of human rights activists. One which is in the making is the People's Political Front (PPF). The decision was born out of people's movements to engage with electoral politics. The leading lights are Medha Patkar, Aruna Roy, Thomas Kochery, Sandip Patil, Nikhil Dey and Arundati Roy. They are evolving an "alternative political force" leading to the formation of a party.

01-20-2005, 12:47 PM

Nepal Maoists abduct children

QUOTEMaoist rebels abducted 350 students from different schools in central Nepal, but 50 children escaped and returned to their homes, said a state run daily Wednesday.

The rebels abducted 200 students from a school in Ramechhap district and another 150 from two different schools in Kavre district, said The Rising Nepal.

Fifty of them managed to escape from custody, while the others were taken to remote areas where attempts were made to indoctrinate them with the Maoist philosophy, the daily said.

01-21-2005, 10:14 PM

From Marxâs kitchen - Eugen Loebl

Talks about revolution and this interesting person Eugen Loebl and his attempts to reconcile marxist stuff with hindu thought. Interesting read.

02-14-2005, 12:13 AM

INDIA: AS SEEN BY MAOISTS--PART I
INDIA & CHINA: AS SEEN BY MAOISTS--PART II 
by B.Raman

arindam · 02-14-2005, 01:20 PM

The Geelani shooting is turning out interesting information - I've posted some on BRF's internal security thread. From the data, it seems that there could well be a Haksar hand in the "shooting"...

02-14-2005, 07:25 PM

Sandeep Pandey of ASHA is awfully quite with this latest Geelani episode.

02-14-2005, 08:50 PM

QUOTEDoes Geelani have something to hide?
Pinoeer
Staff Reporter/ New Delhi

On the second day of being declared "fit" by doctors at AIIMS, Geelani, refused to render a statement to the police. His statement is vital to investigations as he is the victim and the witness to Tuesday's shooting outside his lawyer's house.

However the police are planning to dispatch Geelani's computer to Central Forensic Lab, Ahmedabad, stated Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ranjit Narayanan. The police had recovered the computer from Geelani's residence. The police are also monitoring the cellphone records of Geelani.

According to official sources, Geelani received certain calls from Pakistan, which are particularly under the scanner. What has roused suspicion in the minds of the investigating team are also certain cash deposits into Geelani's bank accounts in the year 2004.

At AIIMS, where the Delhi University lecturer is recuperating after sustaining three bullet wounds, a Delhi Police team visited Geelani to record his statement. However they had to return disappointed as Geelani deferred his statement till Monday.

A senior police official, on condition of anonymity stated, "Geelani, being the vital link to the incident, his statement is important and such delaying tactics on his part has hampered the pace of investigations."

The police are suspicious that owing to the recent recoveries effected during investigations, Geelani does not want to make a statement without first consulting Ms Nandita Haksar, his lawyer.

The Delhi Police on Saturday recovered a blood-stained sweater belonging to Geelani from his residence in Zakhir Nagar. Interestingly, the sweater, had five bullet punches while only three made their way into Geelani's body- two in his stomach, and a third on his shoulder. But its examination by the police have revealed that there was no blackening at the entry spots which suggests that the shots were fired from a distance.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Police are also interrogating a senior Zakhir Hussain college teacher who was reportedly a close associate of Geelani, who was an Arabic lecturer in the college. Even a student from the same college is being questioned by the police in this regard.

The police are likely to get the report from a two-member Committee constiting of Dr Jagdish Chander and Dr Anil Aggarwal on the nature of the bullet injury by Monday. The bullet leads in Geelani's body cannot be extricated as they could cause damage. This has further disabled the efforts by Dr RS Dangi, Ballistic Expert from CFSL, Central Bureau of Investigation, whose help has been sought by the police in examing the source of bullet and the weapon employed.

02-14-2005, 08:56 PM

QUOTENow Haksar says she didn't hear any gunshots 

Pramod Kumar Singh/ New Delhi

The hands of the Delhi Police are full. The case of the murderous attack on SAR Geelani turned on its head on Friday when in a sudden volte-face, his briefing lawyer and friend Nandita Haksar, retracted from her earlier statement that she had heard the gunshots followed by a frantic banging on her door.
Whodunit?

During her two hour long questioning by the sleuths of the Crime Branch on Thursday evening, she appeared to be dodgy. She refused to give any straight answer and spoke along pre-determined lines. When specifically asked about the gunshots, which she had claimed she had heard in her earlier statements, she refused lock, stock and barrel that she heard gunshots on Tuesady night, while she was expecting Geelani at her Vasant Enclave residence.

Even her husband, Sebastian Hongray, an activist of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), Issac-Muviah group appeared to be incoherent despite the fact that he was very much present in the house when the incident took place. Police are also investigating Sebastians's movements, since he is said to be quite a regular at a Munirka-based Church, where many persons from the North Eastern states frequent every Sunday. Sebastian was also behind the recent seminar on Naga problems in a JNU campus where the theme was predominantly anti-India, sources added.

Geealni's wife, Arifa and brother Bismillah too parroted the pre-determined theory that Geelani was attacked by Delhi Police. Despite repeated queries, in the presence of Haksar and her husband, they refused to disclose whether Geelani had spoken to them about any threat, recently.

Meanwhile, fearing a second attack on Geelani's life, the Delhi Police have tightened the security cordon around him. There are strong indications that the elements who attacked Geelani on Tuesday night while he was going to meet his lawyer friend Nandita Haksar, could try to eliminate Geelani again, to remove any doubts about their involvement, while he recovers in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

In a letter written to the AIIMS adminstration, Delhi Police have asked them to ensure that Geelani is treated and attended by the staff and doctors of AIIMS only. No stranger should be allowed near him and he should not be administered any fluid or medicines brought by unidentified persons.

AIIMS has been playing host to many unwanted elements ever since Geelani was brought in for treatment. The step has been initiated to ensure that nothing untoward happens to Geelani, a senior police official said.

In another twist to the tale, the doctors at AIIMS told the police that Geelani was still "unfit for statement" and they would have to cool their heels for another day or two before he is fit enough to record his statement. Delhi Police have also written to the AIIMS authorities that the bullets removed from the body of Geelani should be preserved and there should not be any tampering.

In a related development, Dr PC Dikshit and Dr Jagdish Chander of Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), the two doctors of the medical panel will visit the spot on Saturday to take a first hand account of the sequence of events leading up to the attack on Geelani. The two experts are likely to supervise the surgery to remove the bullets lodged in Geelani's body and will give their opinion on the nature of injuries sustained by Geelani.

It is learnt that police had asked for the panel of doctors from other hospitals since the cops were wary of Dr Anup Saraya, a gastroenterologist with AIIMS. Interestingly, Nandita Haksar had called up Dr Saraya after Geelani was fired at, rather than informing the police. The police came to know about the incident only after the duty constable informed the South West district control room, that Geelani was reportedly shot at around 9 pm on Tuesday night. The 70 odd minutes were very crucial for the purpose of the investigation and they were lost, said Commissioner of Police, Dr KK Paul.a

02-18-2005, 06:14 AM

What does the left want?

arindam · 02-19-2005, 05:02 AM

Folks,

I need to confirm a piece of information. There's a "Ananya vajpeyi" from JNU, who's been writing pro-Geelani articles in Outlook. According to my source at JNU, she's also the daughter of Ashok Vajpeyi (poet and IAS officer) - a fact, which has had significant impact on her current professional situation.

There are a couple of people who vehemently deny her linkage to Ashok Vajpeyi. My source stands by her information, though.

I do need to confirm this information - is there anyone who can confirm it, through their sources at JNU, directly or indirectly?

Please send me some email, if you need more information.

The following is the blurb that I have....

QUOTESouth Asia Studies presents work-in-progress by Visiting Scholar Ananya Vajpeyi, a historian and writer based in India. Dr. Vajpeyi is working on the state of exception to the rule of law in Contemporary South Asia, where she examines the space of the camp and the figure of the refugee in relation to violence, citizenship and human rights. Ananya Vajpeyi is a Scholar of Peace 2004-05 with WISCOMP: Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, New Delhi. From January to October 2005 she will be a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Vajpeyi received an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar (1994-96), and a Ph.D. from the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Chicago (2004)

Ananya Vajpeyi, Ph.D.
Center for the Study of Law and Governance
Jawaharlal Nehru University
JNU Main Campus
New Delhi 1l0 067 INDIA.
E: ananyavajpeyi@vsnl.com

02-19-2005, 07:06 AM

Ananya Vajpeyi is related to Roopa Vajpeyi, I think Ananya is her daughter. Roopa was Prof in Delhi University and Divorced/Separated (I am waiting for confirmation).
Roopa is founder of VOICE. Well know leftist,same A.Roy league.

added later:
Electoral roll record can shed light on relationship, but Election commision pdf failed.

arindam · 02-19-2005, 11:26 AM

QUOTE(Mudy @ Feb 19 2005, 07:06 AM) Ananya Vajpeyi is related to Roopa Vajpeyi, I think Ananya is her daughter. Roopa was Prof in Delhi University and Divorced/Separated (I am waiting for confirmation).
Roopa is founder of VOICE. Well know leftist,same A.Roy league.

added later:
Electoral roll record can shed light on relationship, but Election commision pdf failed. 
My source checked with kapil Kapoor this morning - Ananya, is Ashok Vajpeyi's daughter - what is this Manisha Verma talking about?

04-07-2005, 11:17 PM

Greenpeace opposes India shipyard QUOTEThe environmental campaign group, Greenpeace, is opposing a proposal to set up a ship-breaking yard in India.
It has warned that the proposed yard in Andhra Pradesh state will destroy a mangrove forest and deprive thousands of fishermen of their livelihood.

From the 1970s, higher costs in Europe have led to ship-breaking work moving to the developing countries like India.

Greenpeace estimates 90% of obsolete ships are broken up in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and Turkey.

The group's activists protested in the Andhra Pradesh capital, Hyderabad, against a plan to set up a ship-breaking yard on the coast of Kakinada..................

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