Mismanaging
Terror
If
the treatment meted out to the latest terror suspect by the
Australian government is any indication, then it is clear that we
will never be able to get to the root cause of terrorism and its many
manifestations across the world.
Why
do some people resort to these insane acts of terror? Is it that they
are born like that or is it due to political, economic and social
reasons, that such acts are undertaken? What are the reasons that
drive people to kill not only others, but also are willing to
sacrifice their own life? The answers to these questions are crucial
to unravel the web of terror that is spreading across many nations.
The
Glasgow terror suspect is the latest in a long line of people that
have been treated as guilty unless proven otherwise. A heavy price
some people have to pay on account of their religious beliefs are for
being in the right place at the wrong time. The knee jerk reactions
to terror are not going to get us any closer to finding lasting
solutions to the universal phenomenon of terrorism.
Highlights
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- Mismanaging Terror
- Monsoon Mayhem
- Revisiting Bhopal
- Relief for the Unorganised
- Politics of Sport
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TERRORISM
<Related
Articles -July 2007 issue> |
- Human
rights, national security, and terrorism,
 Ramesh
Thakur, THE
HINDU, MADRAS, 20 JUL 2007
- Aspects
of civilization, Ashok
Mitra, THE TELEGRAPH, CALCUTTA, 20 JUL 2007
- Debate
or denial: the Muslim dilemma, Hasan
Suroor, THE HINDU, MADRAS, 17
JUL 2007
- Australia's
leading newspaper criticises, action against Haneef, THE
HINDU,
MADRAS, 21 JUL 2007
- Choked
By The Margins, , OUTLOOK
MAGAZINE, 23 JUL 2007
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ARTICLES RELATED TO TERRORISM>
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IN
FOCUS
Mismanaging
Terror
If
the treatment meted out to the latest terror suspect by the
Australian government is any indication, then it is clear that we
will never be able to get to the root cause of terrorism and its many
manifestations across the globe.
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TERRORISM |
Monsoon
Mayhem
It
is estimated that 30 million people in South Asia are effected by
the worst monsoon deluge in recent memory. In China, nearly 14
million people have been effected so far this year alone. Britain has
also not been spared.
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DISASTER
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Sublatern
Assertion
The ongoing conflict in
Punjab over the Dera Sacha Sauda and the emergence of Mayawati are
signs of the manifestation of the subaltern assertion.
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SUBLATERN
CONCERNS |
UPDATES
Revisiting Bhopal
The proposed clean-up and news that the
government is looking for an out of court settlement on the Dow
Chemicals has activists up in arns.
Marriage
and Motherhood
There
is need to protect women's access to legal and safe abortions
whenever they decide to have them - whatever the reason for their
decision.
Undoing the Environment
The Ministry of Environment and Forests
(MoEF) is trying to undo all possibility of environmental justice in
the country.
Relief for the
Unorganised
Over 36.9 crore workers in the
unorganised sector in India, who constitute about 93 per cent of the
workforce in the country, are set to benefit.
Threat
of Displacement
More and more people are coming under
the threat of displacement, even as those already threatened continue
to resist and defend their lands and territories.
Right
to Forests
There are mixed responses to the
recently released draft rules to opertionalise the Scheduled Tribes
and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights)
Act.
Guaranteeing
Employment
"Our money, our accounts"; - full
pay for full works and work for every hand and payment for
every hand� is the new slogan.
Water
Woes
The growing water crisis
has served to underline the low priority accorded over the past six
decades to an issue of fundamental importance.
The Right to
Know
Recent events suggest that all is not
going well for the Right to InformatioAct, one of the best pieces of
legislation seen in post independent India.
Special War Zones
Indian policymakers rush headlong
towards the discredited model of China's Special Economic Zones,
even as people-power movements pose a challenge.
Dealing with Naxalism
Recent trend of
recruiting local people. poorly-paid and semi-literate to fight
Naxalites is leading to new forms of abuse.
The
Road Ahead
Be it an alternate
newspaper run by Dalit and adivasi women are novel methods of running
the mid day meal, the alternatives that are emerging in myriad,
simple and small ways.
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DISASTER
GENDER
& SOCIETY
ENVIRONMENT
LABOUR
DISPLACEMENT
FOREST
AND TRIBALS
EMPLOYMENT
GUARANTEE
POLITICS
OF WATER
RIGHT
TO INFORMATION
SPECIAL
ECONOMIC ZONES
NAXALITES
ALTERNATIVES
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LAST
PAGE
Politics of Sport
A hierarchical, divided society that insistently sustains and nurtures
inequality cannot aspire to sporting glory.
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SOCIETY
& CHANGE
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