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Dear contributors and friends,

 

The September issue of Hardnews is live and available on stands. Please visit www.hardnewsmedia.com for details and http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1426 for where the magazine is available.

 

The website is being updated regularly and now includes more than the print version.

 

Cover Story: No Freedom Struggle, This

 

 

The Cover Story includes:

 

The Final Solution by Amit Sengupta in Delhi

It's celebration time. They did it. Give them the credit. All we want now are the Narendra Modi masks

GROUND ZERO REDUX by Akash Bisht/Sadiq Naqvi in Delhi

You have seen it all on non-stop television. You have read it all in the papers. Now, we bring to you on-the-spot reportage from the ground. Rediscover Anna's experiments with truth. Diary of a 'wave' that swept India. Or, did it, really?

After Lab Test, the Coup! by Sanjay Kapoor in Delhi

Backed by the Sangh Parivar and corporates, riding on popular angst against scams, the Anna campaign was a sinister plot to destablise Indian democracy

Search your Soul by Ratna Raman in Delhi

For each one of them and for each one of us, this is not about Irom Sharmila or Salwa Judum, or the thousands who don't get one square meal a day

Kafkaesque No Jan in this Lok by Rahul Govind in Delhi

The Jan Lokpal Bill centralises power. It reads like a sheaf from a dystopian novel or the pages of Stalinist credo. It is so lacking in imagination that it merely scavenges on existing institutional and legal structures

Fast-Unto-Death by Chaman Lal in Port of Spain (Trinidad)

Unlike in current times, long, protracted hunger strikes by revolutionary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Jatin Das were imbued with a strikingly different ideology, vision and strength of character

 

INTERVIEWS

'Only a dictatorship can have such a law'

Justice AP Shah shares his views on the Lokpal debate

'Anna movement reflects streak of fascism' by Sadiq Naqvi in Delhi

'Vande Mataram or Bharat Mata are not merely innocent patriotic symbolisms, they are deeply identified with RSS,' says Anand Teltumbde

 'Large numbers also pulled down Babri Masjid'

Harsh Mander expresses worry over Prashant Bhushan and Swami Agnivesh standing beside Rightwing communal and anti-reservation forces

 

The magazine also includes:

 

A twist in tourism's tale by Akash Bisht in Kanha

With a new set of guidelines, MoEF seeks to involve locals in ecotourism, and rein in rampant real estate expansion that threatens tiger habitats

'Conservation shouldn't be a drag on development'

NTCA Member-Secretary Rajesh Gopal speaks exclusively to Hardnews on various facets of tiger conservation and its uneasy dialectic with development

'How do cheergirls promote the cause of cricket?' by Akash Bisht in Delhi

How is cash-rich BCCI, which hosts IPL involving huge financial stakes, a charitable outfit? So why is it getting tax exemption?

So, when's the next IPL? By Sandeep Kumar in Delhi

Driven by insatiable greed, BCCI and Indian cricket deserve every humiliating drubbing they got in England

Not Skin Deep by Kiran Nazish in Karachi

India appreciates good news coming from Pakistan. A Birkin is better than a ballistic missile

Temptations by Ratna Raman in Paris

What magic and mystery the word chocolate evokes, bringing in its wake a long string of luxurious, languorous, delicious associations

Road to Dhaka

With many new ideas on the table, the prime minister's forthcoming Bangladesh visit may help tide over a long period of mutual suspicion and lead to a win-win situation for both countries

 

 

Among many others. 

 

 

+ Columns by Amit Sengupta, Sanjay Kapoor,  Rupa Gulab and Mehru Jaffer. 

+ Exclusive articles by Le Monde Diplomatique, France

 

 Hardnews is available at: http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1426

 

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Akash Bisht

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