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THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST

We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas. http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Fwd: June issue of Hardnews Live and available on newsstands



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From: Subscription <subscription@hardnewsmedia.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Subject: June issue of Hardnews Live and available on newsstands
To: editors@hardnewsmedia.com


Dear contributors and friends,

 

The June 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: Why are we a cartoon of a democracy
A nation which can't introspect is bound to self-destruct

 

 

Cover story includes:

 

1) Cartoon of a democracy by Amit Sengupta

A nation which can't introspect is bound to self-destruct

2) Why are we becoming so intolerant? by Harish Khare

The collective willingness to ban and burn books, intimidate authors, denounce this slight to that icon's honour, is part of a creeping culture

of political exchange in which public authority is all too ready to be coercive towards those it finds politically inconvenient

3) Carnivorous Flowers of a Cruel Society by Karen Gabriel

Websites, books, newspapers, cinema halls, magazines and mouths, all have to be thoroughly sanitised and only then opened in a country

where narrow-mindedness and manual scavenging is everywhere

4) Democracy as caricature by Anand Teltumbde in Kharagpur

The cartoon episode depicts how the Ambedkar-icon is exploited to manipulate Dalit sentiments by vested interests for their selfish ends.

This icon has also shielded the misdeeds of Dalit politicians and disoriented the Dalit movement

5) Deschooling Society by Hartman de Souza in Goa

Is our political and business elite only interested in the selective factory production of the typical 'yes, sir-no, sir' types in India's schools?

6) Killed in the mind by Aakshi Magazine

Backed by the State, a vicious culture of oppressive control, pre-censorship, bans and violent assaults stalks creative filmmakers in India

7) National Epidemic by Ratna Raman

This intolerance for other people and other ideas has now assumed the dimension of a full-blown epidemic and can no longer be viewed as sporadic, lunatic-fringe activity

 

Special Package:

NorthEast: Racial discrimination

 

1) You're Not From Around Here...by Samar

Northeastern Indians living away from home are tested in an environment where bigotry often overpowers education and understanding

2) The deathly shadow of racism by Nabanipa Bhattacharjee  

With subtle and overt discrimination against people of the Northeast in the 'mainland', internal racism is back to confront us with the uncanny question:

Who and what constitutes the Indian nation? 

3) Hate runs deep by Seram Rojesh

Why are people from the Northeast so crudely branded as 'Chinkys, Ching Chong, Mo Mo, Ping Pong, Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai' in Delhi and other cities of India?

 

 

The magazine also includes: 

 

1) It's no policy paralysis, stupid! By Akash Bisht

India isn't faring as badly as is being projected by corporate houses and media hell-bent on opening up the economy for big business, come what may

2) A fraud a day…Keeps God away by Panini Anand

The fraudulent solutions of Nirmal Baba are part of a perverse pattern of miscellaneous millionaire babas mushrooming like an epidemic

3) Resurrect lost glory by Ravi Shankar Ravi in Guwahati

With great effort by the forest department, state government and locals, Manas National Park in Assam has seen a surge in the wildlife population, including tigers

4) My name is Palestine by Bhupen Singh in Istanbul (Turkey)/Saida (Lebanon)

On the road and sea. From Delhi to Jerusalem, crossing Pakistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria. The convoy, all the way, celebrating the liberation of Palestine

5) Book Review: Epic Graphic

Sailen Routray reviews A Gardener in the wasteland and Bhimayana: Experiences of untouchability

5) Book Review: Godless on Sunday

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose reviews Religion and Atheists by Alain De Botton

 

Among many others. 

 

 

 

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

+ Exclusive articles by Le Monde Diplomatique, France

 Please subscribe the all new digital edition of Hardnews for a discounted price of RS 100 for Indians and $ 10 for all others.

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

 We welcome ideas and suggestions on the magazine and portal and regular contributions. 

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Warm Greetings

Akash Bisht

Editorial Coordinator

Hardnews

 

 


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