War And War

War And War

Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time - Eighty NINE

Palash Biswas




War and Peace

(a poem by Paash)

We who have not fought
are not your good sons,oh life
though we always tried
we tried to shrink the scope of war
for just a meal and a worn out quilt
we kept on weaving something like peace
in the strings of pridelessness
we kept regarding the years as age
years that kept stabbing our bodies
when each moment kept thundering
like a fierce opponent
hiding in a chest
we kept on avoiding the war

wishing to avoid the war
we bilittled ouselves
retired father just became useless old man for us
and ever-worried wife appeared like a witch
there were always signs of bankruptcy
we dared not to look into the eyes
of innocent daughters
we remained fearful of converting
the hiding places into bunkers

fear,at times grew on us like slavery
fear at times adorned our heads in guise of turbans
fear at times bloomed in minds as aestheics
fear at times grabbed our souls as gentleness
fear at times tickled out of lips like a gossip
we who have not fouht, oh life
are your utterly deceptive sons

our wish to avoid war
has thrown us flat on the ground
the peace for which we kept crowling
kept tickling the taste buds of wolves...
peace is nowhere
its all about the howling of the jackals inside us
peace is just fantasy of life
while sitting in morose defensive posture..
there is nothing called peace
its all about hiding in a roadside ditch
upon spotting an underground comrade
peace is nowhere
its all about the fear of thundering war cries
and finding music from our howls
there is no peace anywhere else

wasted crops for want of irrigation
trembling villages under the burden of bank loans
and stretched out arms for peace,
is the meanest joke of our era

peace is the wound caused by broken bangle
peace is the wild laughter
behind the doors of infamous mansions
peace is the hapless cry
of the insulted wise beards
peace is nothing else
peace is the rifle of the sentry
guarding the border between happiness and sorrows
peace is the the chopped arm
of the poets accepting royal honours
peace is the shine of the white attire of ministers
peace is nothing else...
or peace is Gandhi`s loin cloth
which can be ued to hang a billion people
asking for peace means
fighting a war at meanest level
peace is no where

we are just lonely without war
we get drained off while running away from ourselves
just limited without war
we get finished within arm`s length
without war,we are not friends
we only survive on pseudo emotions

war will provide
toys to our children
war will bring
beautiful embroidery designs for our sisters
war will descend as
milk in our wives` breasts
war will become
spectacles for the ageing mother
war will blossom as
flower on the graves of our forefathers

time has since long been
like an untamed horse
which has dragged us far away from life
nothing but war will control this horse
only war will control this horse

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The original:

Yudh tay Shaanti

(Paash di ik kavita)

assiN jinhaaN nay yudh nahiN keeta
teray saoo putt nahin haaN zindgi
unjh assiN hamesha saoo ban`na lochday rahay
assiN do rotiyaaN tay maaRi jehi rajayi badlay
yudh day akaar nu sungoRna chaheya
assiN be-ankhi diyaN tandaaN vich
aman varga kujh unday rahay
assin barchhi day waang haddaN vich khubhay saalaaN nu
umar kehNday rahay
jad har ghaRi kisay biffray shareeq vaaNg
sir tay gaRhakdi rahi
assiN sandooq vich luk luk kay yudh nu taalday rahay

yudh toN bachnay di laalsa `ch bahut nikkay ho gaye assiN
kaday haMbhay hoye peo nu ann khaanay buRhay da naaN ditta
kaday fiqraaN grassi teeNweeN nu chuRail da saaya keha
sadaa dishadday tay nilaami day drish tarday rahay
tay assiN subaq jehiyaaN dhiyaaN diyaaN akhaaN `ch akhaaN paonoN darray
yudh saaday siraaN tay akaash waanG chhaaya reha
assiN dharti `ch puttay bhoreyaN nu
morcheyaN `ch badalnoN Jhakday rahay

darr kaday saaday hathaaN tay wagaar ban kay ugg aya
darr kaday saaday siraa uttay pugg ban kay saj geya
darr kaday saaday manaaN andar suhaj ban kay mehkeya
darr kaday roohaN `ch sajjantayi ban geya
darr kaday bullhaaN tay chughli ban kay bur`Raya
assiN hay zindgi jinhaaN nay yudh nahiN keeta
teray barRay makkaar puttar haaN

yudh toN bachnay di laalsa nay
saanu litaaR ditta hai ghoReyaaN day suMbaaN heith
assiN jis Shaanti layi reeNghday rahay
oh shaaNti baghyaRaN day jubaRyaaN ,ch
sawaad ban kay tapakdi rahi
shaaNti kitay nahiN huNdi
rooh `ch chhupay giddRaaN da hawaaNkna hi sabh kuchh hai
shaanti godeyaN vich dhaun day kay
zindgi nu suphnay vich dekhan da yatan hai
shaanti unjh kujh nahiN hai
guptwaas saathi toN akh bachaon layi
saRak kaNdhlay naalay vich neoN jaana hi sab kujh hai
shaaNti kitay nahiN huNdi
naahreyaN di garaj toN ghabraa kay
aapni cheek choN sangeet day aNshaaN nu labhna hi sab kujh hai
hor shaaNti kitay nahiN huNdi

tel ghaatay saRdiyaN faslaaN
bank diyaN mislaaN day jaal andar farfaRaoNday pind
tay shaaNti layi failiyaaN baaNhaaN
saday yug da sabh toN kamina chutkala hai

shaaNti veeneeN `ch vung da haNjhu day jeda zakham hai
shaaNti dhoyay fatak day pichhay
machhriyaaN haveliyaaN da haasa hai
shaaNti satthaaN `ch ruldiyaaN daahRiyaaN da hauka hai
hor shaaNti kujh nahiN hai
shaanTi dukkhaaN tay sukkhaaN vichaalay bani sarhadd uttlay
saNtri di rafal hai
shaaNti eenaam laiNday kaviyaaN diyaaN baaNhaaN da tund hai
shaaNti wazeeraaN day pehnay hoyay khaddar di chamak hai
hor shaaNti kujh nahiN hai
jaaN shaaNti gaaNdhi da jaaNgiya hai
jisdiyaaN taniyaaN nu chali karoR baNday faahay laon layi
warteya ja sakda hai

shaaNti mangan da arth
yudh nu zaleelta di paddhar tay laRna hai
shaaNti kitay nahiN huNdi

yudh toN bina assiN bahut kallay haaN
aapnay hi moohray dauRday hoyay haff rahay haaN
yudh toN bina bahut seemat haaN assiN
bus hath bhar `ch mukk jaaNday haaN
yudh toN bina assiN dost nahiN haaN
jhoothay moothay jazbeyaaN da khatteya khaaNday haaN

yudh saaday bachchiaN layi
piRiyaaN wali khiddo ban kay ayega
yudh saadiyaN bhainaN layi
kadhayi day sundar namunay liyayega
yudh sadiyaN biwiyaaN day thanaaN andar
dudh ban kay utrayga
yudh budhi maaN layi
nigah di ainak banayga
yudh sadeyaN vadheyaaN diyaN qabraaN tay
phull ban kay khiRayga

waqt baRa chir
kisay bay-qabu ghoRay varga riha hai
jo saanu ghaseetda hoyeya
zindgi toN bahut door lai giya hai
kujh nahin bus yudh hi
is ghoRay di laghaam ban sakayga
bus yudh hi is ghoRay di laghaam ban sakayga.



War and Peace
Lok Raj
December 14, 2005



Translation of a poem by Paash

'Paash' (Avtar Singh Sandhu) remains one of the most commonly read Punjabi poets in East Punjab. He, along with Amarjit Chandan, Lal Singh Dil, Sant Ram Udasi and others, was representative of the new trend in Punjabi poetry which evolved during the Naxalite movement in the late sixtees and early seventies. It ushered in a significant departure from the predominently romantic trend of Amrita Pritam, Mohan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

Paash concentrated on the common man and the problems faced by him and he directly attacked the socio-political system in his poetry. Though his poetry was a product of the Naxalite movement, it has a much wider appeal, making him one of the all-time great punjabi poets.

He was put in jail and tortured in a fabricated murder case by the government, but he continued his work after his release two years later.

He was born in the village Talwandi Salem of Jalandhar district where he was shot dead 38 years later by the Khalistani terrorists.

War and War

It is War against India rural.
It is war against underclasses Indian.

It is war against Dalits and Minorities.
It is war against peasants of India.

It is war against Man.
It is war against nature.

It is globalisation and Communists of Bengal represent the ruling classes aligned with corporate, racial, Nazi, brahminical, corporate Imperialism.

It is high time to dicide the front for anyone.No one is detached as the US puts it well either You are favouring us or you happen to be against us.

Hindi poet muktibodh wrote: Taya Karo Kis Or Ho Tum.


The Communist-led government of West Bengal is using an 1894 colonial-era law to seize farmland. Many farmers have protested and demonstrations have turned into clashes with police. Tata Motors wants to manufacture the world's cheapest car. More than 14,000 farmers are being thrown off their land in Singur, just outside the West Bengal capital of Kolkata, to give way to a car plant. Many are protesting because they do not know where they will live but they are readying themselves to resist the state government and India’s largest company. Their fight is over nearly 1,000 acres of farmland, which have been fenced off; well-irrigated fields that yielded rice, mustard and potatoes located near the state’s best highway.

Indian communists are determined to press ahead with the industrialisation of West Bengal and bring foreign investment into the eastern state, despite growing protests from farmers opposed to the seizure of their land."Communists are not fools, we are realists," West Bengal's Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told Reuters in an interview in the state capital Kolkata."Earlier we fought for land, now we are fighting for industry."

Bhattacharjee heads the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist government, one whose popularity is founded on far-reaching reforms which have given land and rights to millions of peasants.Two thirds of West Bengal's 80 million people are still engaged in agriculture, but growth rates have slowed and Bhattacharjee said his party had no choice but to move people off the land and into industry -- through the private sector.

"If we don't move from here to the large-scale industrialisation of the state, the benefits we got from land reforms, we will not be able to maintain them."

But his government's efforts to do just that have run into a wall of protests -- sometimes from their own supporters.


Bhattacharjee admitted his government has taken "a wrong step" by not consulting and convincing the farmers of Nandigram before pressing ahead with the plans, and for the first time took personal responsibility for that.

"In Nandigram it was hurriedly done, and I cannot escape my own responsibility," the bespectacled 62-year-old said. "But we have learnt from our mistakes in Nandigram."

Speaking in the library of his party headquarters, surrounded by books on Lenin and Marx, Bhattacharjee said he was determined that the project should go ahead, but admitted it would take time to calm tempers and convince locals of the benefits.

"We have to make them understand," he said. "Finally good sense will prevail, but it will take some time."

"It is not going to be a 'Great Leap Forward'," he said, referring to Mao Zedong's unsuccessful attempt to hurriedly industrialise China in the late 1950s.

"It should be a very measured, planned advancement. It is not agriculture versus industry, it is agriculture to industry. It is a transitional period, but we must move forward."

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee addressed a public rally on Thursday at Haripal near Singur.At the rally, Bhattacharjee asserted that the Tata project in Singur would go ahead come what may.On Wednesday, the Calcutta High Court struck down the imposition of Section 144 in Singur as illegal.However, the Chief Minister's rally was shifted outside Singur because the government had denied Mamata the permission to hold her rally in the troubled area.
The strong message by the West Bengal CM came ahead of Mamata Banerjee's weekend rally at Singur to demand the scrapping of the Tata project.

Mamata, meanwhile, is holding a public rally at Barasat today.

Critics of the proposed SEZs say that rather than promote prosperity, the zones will in fact create economic hardship because they would be built on prime agricultural land, without adequate compensation for farmers. They say that the zones would become "islands of affluence in a sea of deprivation", only serving to exacerbate India's already wide regional imbalances.

The communists - who provide crucial "outside" support to Mr Singh's minority government - lay emphasis on the farmers' interests, arguing the case strongly for more compensation. Their view is shared by some senior members of the government, including Sonia Gandhi, widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and head of the Congress party. She said recently that the government must safeguard the interests of the farmers "under any circumstances".

All this puts great pressure on Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath.

Mr Nath's critics also include the Finance Minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, who has publicly stated that he fears the central government could stand to lose billions of dollars of tax revenue because of the special concessions given to firms that will operate in the SEZs.

INDIA'S SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES

181 zones approved by September 2006
Areas range from 10 to 100 hectares
Industries allowed 100% tax exemption on export profits for first five years
100% foreign direct investment allowed in industries under automatic route
Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Haryana and Gujarat states lead in proposed SEZ commitments

Mr Nath argues that new economic activity generated by the zones would more than compensate the government for revenue lost from tax-breaks.

The SEZ act was passed by parliament last year, but became controversial after the Commerce and Industry Ministry released detailed rules and guidelines.

Critics of the government said these rules should have been finalised before granting approval "in-principle" to the SEZ projects.

The first export processing zone - or free trade zone as they were earlier known - in Asia was built near the western Indian port of Kandla more than four decades ago.

But things have changed a lot since then, and the authorities say that they want to emulate the success of SEZs operating in Shenzhen and Pudong - in Hong Kong and Shanghai respectively.

Both have become huge urban agglomerations of concrete and steel, and both have generated huge amounts of cash. Each year, exports from Shenzhen alone exceed India's total exports.

Unlike China, which has developed only six large export-oriented industrial areas, the Indian government has approved the establishment of over 170 SEZs and many more are in the pipeline.

Retaliatory measures

Most of these are clustered around already-industrialised cities like Delhi and Mumbai (Bombay).

The government contends that India's democracy makes it difficult to allow one corporate group to set up a SEZ and not another. They argue that India's proven capabilities in exporting computer software and outsourcing mean that smaller SEZs are more appropriate.

But critics say that the policy would be misused for real estate development rather than for generating exports.

They argue that companies will simply relocate to SEZs to take advantage of the tax concessions being offered. This would not create new jobs, they say, but merely displace people.

Others point out that the tax subsidies being offered by the government may well be challenged in the World Trade Organisation, and could attract trade retaliatory measures from importing countries.

While state governments, including the communist-led West Bengal government in eastern India, have joined the rush to set up as many SEZs as possible, local authorities are under attack for brokering land acquisition deals that benefit real estate developers rather than farmers.


Kolkata, My kolkata

Abhishek Kiran Gupta, Senior Manager, Research, Jones Lang LaSalle, India adds “Kolkata is now on the ‘global radar’ of multi-national companies – a large skilled labour pool, a pragmatic, business-friendly and stable business environment, active promotion and incentives, combined with low operating costs and the city’s strong cultural heritage are attracting the attention of both the domestic and international business community. The city has become a favoured destination for IT/ITES activities, with a rapidly growing corporate presence.Kolkata now has most of the ingredients in place to move its economy up the value-chain – its size, skill base and heritage point to a significantly higher international profile over the long term”.

He further added “Kolkata’s real estate market is set for transformation, and property will play a pivotal role in the city’s continued renaissance. All real estate sectors have significant potential. The growing IT/ITES sector will underpin strong expansion of the office sector; Kolkata is a high priority destination for retailers attracted by its large population and rising disposable incomes; the residential market is expanding on the back of a growing IT/ITES workforce and hotel demand is being boosted by corporate business and tourism. The Kolkata real estate market is now on the radar of leading national and international developers, all keen to participate in Kolkata’s increasingly dynamic real estate market”.
According to the report, Kolkata, whose economy grew by 8% in 2005, is home to 175 IT and ITES firms which employ approximately 40,000 people. Rapid expansion and increased business activity is expected to strongly boost demand for speculative built space as well as built-to-suit offices and 4.5 million sq ft of additional supply is likely to be completed by 2007 in Salt Lake and New Town Rajarhat. The city is also a high priority destination for domestic and international retailers with over 2-3 million sq ft of organized retail under construction by 2008.

Stimulated by the growth of the IT/ITES sector, hotel room demand in Kolkata is expected to grow at an annual 11.7% over the next five years and supply at 15.4% per year. Similarly, Kolkata’s residential demand continues to be strong, as shown by absorption patterns of recent residential demand, which are expected to grow in tandem with economic activity and investor interest.

“Emerging City Winners” is Phase IV of the Jones Lang LaSalle’s World Winning Cities Research, a multi-year programme which draws together the essence of contemporary city competitiveness. World Winning Cities Research examines trends that impact the business and economic landscape, and how these factors are coalescing to create the rising urban stars of the next decade. The research aims to identify the winners and losers among the emerging BRIC cities in India, China, Russia and Brazil.


Buddhadeb justifies prohibitory orders in Singur

Haripal (WB), Feb 15: Strongly backing the Tata Motors' car project in Singur, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee on Thursday justified the imposition of prohibitory orders there by saying they were meant to counter repeated attempts to foment unrest in the area.

"It will a disaster for West Bengal if the Tata car plant does not come up at Singur. No civilised government can tolerate violence being unleased by opposition forces there to stop the work," he told a CPI-M rally at Nalikul near Singur in Hooghly district.

The state government also thought that the holding of meetings in Singur would hinder the work on Tata's small car plant, he said.

The meeting came a day after the Calcutta High Court rapped the state government for imposing prohibitory orders in Singur to prevent protests against the plant. At the same time, it justified the acquisition of 1000 acres for the Rs 1000-crore project.

Making a strong pitch for industrialisation of the state, Bhattacharjee said, "industrialisation is a must, if we back out the people will not forgive us."

‘Prohibitory orders could be reimposed’

A day after the Calcutta High Court quashed the imposition of prohibitory orders in Singur, the site of violent protests over the acquisition of farm land for a Tata Motors' plant, the administration on Thursday said they might be promulgated there again if necessary.

Pointing out that there were no prohibitory orders in force in Singur following the expiry last night of an order issued on February four, West Bengal Home Secretary P R Roy told reporters, "if needed, Section 144 of CrPC may be promulgated by the Hooghly district administration after considering all legal aspects."

Eviction Drive

It may be a wild guess, but some people think that industrialisation and related activities on land over the past few decades has reduced the number of villages by 100,000. Official statistics say that there are about 500,000 villages (average population of 5000) in the country. Whatever the exact number, in future villages will be disappearing at a faster rate and in a much shorter span because of faster pace of urbanisation and industrialisation.A short drive away—in any direction—from a metro city like Delhi, for instance, will show that there are virtually no villages left within a radius of almost 100 km. Actually, this is true of even comparatively smaller cities. Travel to Jaipur from Delhi or towards Haryana and Punjab. New housing projects with the accompaniment of malls and commercial complexes as also factories are coming up everywhere—and this has nothing to do with SEZs.

One does not recall having heard about any clamour against the accelerated demise of villages—the main repository of agricultural land in the country--in the vicinity of large cities that has been going on for some time now.It can be argued that industries and housing projects coming up in villages may not be a bad thing for the average denizens there who in any case live at subsistence level. At least they will get jobs. On the other hand, the loss of agricultural land that it entailed would have been compensated by better yields from the fields in the wake of the green revolution.

Sadly, the green revolution is old hat. The fact is that a combination of pressure of population and large-scale industrialisation has been putting more strain on demands from the agriculture sector. The per acre yield is no longer considered sufficient and the need for producing still more high yielding seeds is beginning to be acutely felt. It may be relevant here to add that despite all the stories about ‘adequate’ buffer stocks and ‘bumper crops’, the country has been importing quantities of various agricultural products, including wheat, in recent years.

India has a little over 3 million sq km of land that is considered cultivable. Less than 55 percent is actually cultivated for a variety of reasons, including lack of resources with the farmer and inadequate irrigation facilities. Going by official records, large tracts of ‘barren’ land are located mainly in Rajasthan, parts of Jammu and Kashmir (Leh in particular) and areas which receive heavy snowfall. It will appear that the rest of India has very little to offer if ‘agricultural land’ is a taboo for setting up new industries or industrial zones (by whatever name).

Even with high yielding varieties of seeds in use thus far, productivity of Indian agriculture has been low. The average crop yields in India have been well below the levels in the developed world. Land degradation in the entire South Asia region is high and so is soil erosion, which also contributes to lesser agricultural returns from the land.

As against this, the demands from a continuously rising population on agriculture produce and food are not going to ease whether or not the country sets up SEZs. It is not just population; the demand for more food is also going up with the rise in income levels in the country which now boasts of a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe. The rising prosperity of the population, undoubtedly a welcome development, is also leading to a heavier demand for housing and many other services that require land.

Admittedly, the debate over SEZs would become more meaningful if the policy makers are able to devise a well-defined strategy to raise the food output even if a fall in the number of villages cannot be stopped as the whole world is poised to see big urbanisation.

Shortage of food because of shrinking land under cultivation would ill serve the country. In other words, the debate over ‘forcible’ acquisition of land should be linked to food security.
India slams European Parliament resolution on Dalits

Brussels, Feb 3 A resolution adopted by the European Parliament (EP) on the human rights situation of the Dalits in India has come under strong fire from several sides.'It is unfortunate that the EP could come out with such a resolution which lacks balance and perspective,' Amar Sinha, an Indian embassy spokesman in Brussels, told INEP news agency.'It indicates a highly negative mindset on the past of the people who have drafted it,' he said, adding that the are port focuses only the negative aspects and has selectively used statistics to prove its hypothesis.'

In a strong-worded resolution put forward by the Development Committee, the EP resolution said that implementation of laws protecting the rights of Dalits remains 'grossly inadequate, and that atrocities, untouchability, illiteracy, inequality of opportunity, continue to blight the lives of India's Dalits.'

The EP resolution noted with concern 'the lack of substantive European Union (EU) engagement with the Indian government, notably within the EU-India summits, on the vast problem of caste-based discrimination.'

British MEP Neena Gill condemned the report saying, it 'is riddled with inaccuracies and does a clear disservice to the Human Rights cause! The value of this report is seriously drawn into question by the whole lack of scrutiny applied to it.'

Gill, chair of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) delegation in the EP, noted that of the 785 members of the EP (MEP), less than 30 took part in the vote.

'This is a highly sensitive report on a very important issue and the way it has been rushed through Parliament without consultation of either the SAARC delegation, the Sub-Committee on Human Rights, nor the Foreign Affairs Committee, is outrageous!' said Gill.

Sunil Prasad, secretary general of the Europe India Chamber of Commerce (EICC) and President of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), Belgium, also condemned the resolution.

'The EP's resolution on the protection of Dalits is somewhat ideologically misplaced and strategically misguided. It is not fair on its part to rush and pass a resolution before verifying the facts and the current situation,' Prasad told INEP.

The EP resolution urged the EU Council and the European Commission to raise the issue of 'caste-based discrimination during EU-India summits and other meetings as part of all political, human rights, civil society, development and trade dialogues and to inform the committees concerned of the progress and outcome of such dialogues.'

The House nevertheless welcomed the various provisions in the Constitution of India for the protection and promotion of the rights of Dalits.
Financial express
CPI(M) intiates dialogue with red-faced allies in West Bengal

POLITICAL BUREAU
Posted online: Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 0029 hours IST

NEW DELHI, FEB 14: Attempting to narrow down differences within the Left front on critical issues relating to the industrialisation process in West Bengal that has been exemplified by Singur and Nandigram, the CPI(M) has initiated talks with all its allies in the state on these issues.
The CPI(M)'s allies CPI, Forward Bloc and the RSP _ have been blaming the state CPI(M) leadership of taking decisions “unilaterally” on policy matters. “The Left Front had a meeting on the issue recently. In that meeting we took the decision to continue bilateral talks,” said CPI(M) central secretariat member Nilotpal Basu.
Conceding that there are differences within the Left Front, Basu said: “There are differences of opinion on these issues. (Singur and Nandigram). We believe that only through talks it could be sorted out.”


Cola ban case: SC refuses interim relief to Kerala

Thursday, 15 February , 2007, 13:38

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant any interim relief to the Kerala government, which had challenged Kerala High Court's decision to lift a ban imposed on sale of Pepsi and Coke in the state. A bench comprising Justice AR Lakshman and Justice Altmas Kabir, however, issued notices to Pepsico India Holdings Ltd and Hindustan Coca-Cola Pvt Ltd and asked them to file replies in four weeks.

Kerala government had in August 2006 notified the ban on these products following findings by NGO Centre for Science and Environment that the drinks contained pesticide residues beyond the permissible level and were not fit for human consumption.
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Ref-tribal starvation -2006-2005 very uegrnt ¨Cpress note dated-13th feb.,2007



KOLAM STARVATION DEATHS IN VIDARBHA-HIGH COURT ORDERED MAHARASHTRA TO SUBMIT STATUS REPORT ON ATR IN FORTNIGHT

Nagpur-13th feb.,2007

Divisional bench of Mumbai high court nagpur comprising of hon. Justice ambadas joshi and justice r.c. chavan has ordered maharashtra govt. to submit to report of status on their on action taken report within 15 days in matter of kolam tribal deaths and more than million malnutrition cases officially admitted by govt. today. high court to while hearing public interest litigation filed by kishor tiwari vidarbha jan andolan samiti after kolam tribal deaths due starvation rocked in the maharashtra and then high court appointed the committees over committees and received action taken reports over action reports but in fact on ground level nothing has been done.

Petitioner kishor tiwari today strongly objected govt. of mahrashtra submission and told to high court that govt. of maharashtra is not serious in this matter of saving kolam tribals in vidarbha as have acted just against their action taken report in area of health care ,food supply ,housing, child and women welfare as govt. has reduced the staff and fund on these fund more over thousand kolam tribals have been deleted from the list BPL families too.ICDS scheme has completely failed more malnutrition and child death reported in the vidarbha .high court also ordered petitioner kishor tiwari to submit the all failure of govt. to protect the kolam tribal even after the orders of hon. High court.



High court was shocked to learn from govt. reply on the final report that kolam tribals are asked to go to work 140 k.m. away from and they have not even provided basic facilities of shelter, food, education too.govt. has misused the 9% reserved fund fro tribals for the salaries of babus in the state which against constitutional provision, kishor tiwari informed the high court.

Now kolam starvation PIL has been listed in next 15 days .adv.firdoz mirza has appeared for the petitioner and adv.bharati dangare AG.P. appeared for the govt. of maharashtra. .

Pl arrange to release this press note

Thanking you yours faithfully



Kishore tiwari

Vidarbha jn andolan samiti

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Tadatoshi Akiba
Mayor of Hiroshima
28 December 2006

Concerning the Japanese Government's Response to US-India Nuclear Cooperation

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

On December 18th the United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act was established and nuclear energy related exports from the US to India are on the verge of becoming possible.

According to reports, under this law civilian nuclear reactors will be subject to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but fast breeder reactors for military use will be outside the scope of inspections. Moreover, [the law] does not require an undertaking from India to take on concrete responsibilities for control of nuclear armaments such as stopping fissile material production, or a moratorium on nuclear tests.

Cooperating on nuclear energy with India, which in the past carried out nuclear tests is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and continues to develop nuclear weapons, would represent special treatment. There is a danger that this could shake the trust in the NPT regime.