India
Indian industrialist to build $1 billion “home” amidst Mumbai’s multimillion slum-dwellers
By Parwini Zora, June 6, 2007
The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, is reportedly building a 27-storey skyscraper mansion in the heart of the country’s commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). The total cost of the project is...
India’s prime minister warns big business of threat of social unrest
By Arun Kumar and Kranti Kumara, June 6, 2007
On the third anniversary of the coming to power of the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a major speech to India’s business elite wa...
India: Art student targeted by Hindu right and Gujarat authorities
By Arun Kumar, May 28, 2007
All those who care for and defend artistic freedom and basic democratic rights should condemn the attack that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Hindu supremacist allies have mounted, with the s...
Voters in India’s most populous state spurn traditional parties
By Kranti Kumara, May 16, 2007
To the surprise and dismay of India’s political establishment and media observers, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has won 206 of the 403 seats in the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly, empowering it to...
India: Gujarat police murders covered up as terrorist “encounters”
By Kranti Kumara, May 9, 2007
The stunning admission of the government of the West Indian state of Gujarat that the state police summarily executed a Muslim man in a phony terrorist encounter, and later murdered his wife so as to ...
India’s elite touts Tata’s Corus Steel takeover as proof India a “global player”
By Poopalasingam Thillaivarothayan, SEP candidate in the Welsh Assembly Election (South Wales Central Region), April 25, 2007
Tata Steel’s recent $13.2 billion acquisition of the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Corus Steel has prompted India’s corporate and political elite to indulge in much euphoric chest-thumping abou...
In wake of Nandigram massacre
West Bengal’s Stalinist chief minister invited to Washington
By Arun Kumar and Kranti Kumara, April 21, 2007
In what constitutes a resounding vote of confidence in the pro-investor policies of West Bengal’s Left Front government, the Bush administration has invited Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the state&rs...
India’s Hindu-chauvinist BJP attempts to incite communal riots ahead of pivotal state election
By Kranti Kumara, April 18, 2007
India’s official opposition, the Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has once again attempted to incite communal strife, this time in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh where state ...
Socialist Labour League of India to hold public meeting on Nandigram peasant massacre
April 16, 2007
The Socialist Labour League of India will hold a public meeting Sunday, April 22, in Chennai, the capital of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to discuss the need for workers in India to draw the ...
India: Five years after 2002 Gujarat pogrom
While the victims languish, the perpetrators go unpunished
By K. Nesan and Kranti Kumara, April 10, 2007
Despite the passage of more than five years since the February-March 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat, not a single one of the principal perpetrators of this horrific crime has b...
In wake of West Bengal massacre: Indian workers must advance an independent socialist programme
By Nanda Wickremasinghe, March 23, 2007
Facing popular opposition across India over the police shooting of scores of peasants in Nandigram last week, West Bengal’s Left Front government, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), ...
Nandigram massacre
Leading Indian intellectuals condemn West Bengal’s Stalinist-led government
By Kranti Kumara, March 19, 2007
The March 14 massacre at Nandigram perpetrated by West Bengal’s Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government has been forthrightly condemned by some of India’s best-known h...
