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		<title>A Tribute to Narahari Kaviraj (1917-2011): Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/31/a-tribute-to-narahari-kaviraj-sankar-ray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY Narahari Kaviraj, eminent Marxist historian and an ideoligue of CPI, breathed his last in the wee hours of Wednesday, the 28th of December 2011. He was born on 17 February 1917 and was the last disciple of Bhupendranath Dutta,the youngest brother of Swami Vivekananda, whom Lenin had once requested, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=11047&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Openness is Unfreedom (alternatively, when data is unfreedom) – Part II</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/12/04/when-openness-is-unfreedom-alternatively-when-data-is-unfreedom-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zainab1979</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second post in the series that I began in October. I want to thank Rasagy Sharma for prompting me to put down the second post in this series. This evening, Rasagy raised a question on twitter about whether the effort of a developer to make the database of the Indian railways downloadable is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10717&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobpublic vs. Counterpublic in Kerala</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/11/22/mobpublic-vs-counterpublic-in-kerala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[with inputs from Baiju John] Recent events in Kerala convince me that we need to think more closely about the ways in which our political public life is being slowly overwhelmed by something that is profoundly anti-public but somehow manages to resemble it &#8212; I&#8217;m tempted to call it the Mobpublic. I&#8217;m of course not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10512&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on the killing of Niyamat Ansari and “apology” by the CPI (Maoist)</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/11/13/statement-on-the-killing-of-niyamat-ansari-and-%e2%80%9capology%e2%80%9d-by-the-cpi-maoist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summarized version of statement by concerned academicians, students and activists. For full text of the statement visit http://www.petitions.in/petition/statement-on-the-killing-of-niyamat-ansari-and-apology-by-the-cpi-maoist/1492 and http://www.pragoti.in/node/4567 . In a statement of apparent ‘self-criticism’, dated September 1 2011, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has offered an apology for the posters threatening Aruna Roy, Jean Dreze, Gokul Vasant and Nandlal Singh and members [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=10371&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Prizes and Silencing of Adivasi Voice: Nandini Sundar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/10/21/the-politics-of-prizes-and-silencing-of-adivasi-voice-nandini-sundar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by NANDINI SUNDAR &#160; Last weekend, I attended a wonderful rally by the Adivasi Mahasabha in Raipur – some 10-15 busloads of people came from Dantewada and Bastar alone, while large numbers came from other parts of Chhattisgarh and even other states like Maharashtra, Orissa and West Bengal. The procession was flagged off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9926&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Red River: Solidarity Meeting with Maruti-Suzuki Workers</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/10/18/a-big-red-river-solidarity-meeting-with-maruti-suzuki-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/10/18/a-big-red-river-solidarity-meeting-with-maruti-suzuki-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(this video, courtesy, Pratyush, Correspondence Delhi) A big red river streamed out of the gates of Kamla Nehru Park in Gurgaon last evening (17th October, 2011). Several thousands of workers (according to one estimate &#8211; one hundred thousand workers), from many factories in the Gurgaon-Manesar belt had occupied the park from 4:00 pm onwards to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9870&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline of Communist Mass Base in Bihar: Jagannath Sarkar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/25/the-decline-of-communist-mass-base-in-bihar-jagannath-sarkar/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/09/25/the-decline-of-communist-mass-base-in-bihar-jagannath-sarkar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kafila.org/?p=9612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[JAGANNATH SARKAR, who passed away in April, was among those who led the spectacular rise of CPI in Bihar in the 1960s and 1970s. He was among a handful of Bihar CPI leaders who envisioned the crisis in CPI in the mid-1970s. Today is his first birthday after he passed away - he was born [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9612&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Development&#8217;s Waiting Room, Out of Democracy: The Continuing Agony of the DHRM</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/16/out-of-developments-waiting-room-out-of-democracy-the-continuing-agony-of-the-dhrm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[with inputs from Baiju John] Faced with the never-ending agony to which the members of the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) in Kerala seem to be subject to, it appears that that the more familiar ways of marginalizing of dalit people in Malayalee people do not work anymore. The past few days have seen horrendous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9490&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CPI(M)&#8217;s Rectification Campaign and a Bit of History: Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/09/05/cpims-rectification-campaign-and-a-bit-of-history-sankar-ray/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/09/05/cpims-rectification-campaign-and-a-bit-of-history-sankar-ray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY The Rectification campaign (RC) in CPI(M) is in practice a PR exercise, vying with top corporate communicators. Take the judgment of killings on 27 July 2000 at Suchpur under Nanoor PS of Birbhum district of West Bengal. Forty-four members and sympathisers, including district committee member Ramprasad Ghosh and zonal committee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9286&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hazare, Khwahishein Aisi: Desiring a new politics, after Anna Hazare and beyond corruption</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/27/hazare-khwahishein-aur-bhi-hain-hazare-there-are-things-still-left-wanting-what-is-to-the-left-of-anna-hazare-and-india-against-corruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hazare, khwahishein aisi, ke har khwahish pe dam nikle bahut nikle armaan, lekin, phir bhi kam nikle Hazare, so many desires, that every desire takes our breath away so many hopes, and yet so few (with due apologies, for liberties taken, to Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, sometime poet and native of Delhi) On the ninth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=9054&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts from Ramlila Maidan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/27/some-thoughts-from-ramlila-maidan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<title>Response to Gail Omvedt: Nirmalangshu Mukherjee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJEE First of all I strongly object to the various insinuations posted in several comments. However, with due respect to a veteran activist, I think the older generation of left activists are by and large failing to come to terms with an unfamiliar form of protest in the IT-age. For them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8913&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is right-wing about the anti-corruption movement? &#8211; Saroj Giri</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SAROJ GIRI &#160; A draft for discussion A ruling class contradiction is being played out as anti-corruption movement. It is however politically articulated as ‘a movement of the people’ with possibly a space for the left to intervene. Can the tide be turned against the right-wing upper classes? “What we are witnessing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8910&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The People</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not enough people are asking what is motivating people to go to Ramlila Maidan in such large numbers. People like Ghazala Jamil and Anish Ahluwalia are not asking this question because for them the whole thing is an elite, middle-class conspiracy that is anti-Dalit, anti-OBC, anti-Muslim, anti-justice, anti-equality, anti-peace, anti-love and anti-sex. These saviours of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8905&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Questions to Friends</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/three-questions-to-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been taking my time to reflect on the positions that have emerged in the fairly polarised debate on the on-going anti-corruption struggle in Delhi. I take very seriously the questions raised by critics on the right-wing inclinations evident in the movement&#8217;s leadershi, but I think it is both a strategic mistake and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8837&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond &#8216;Middle Class&#8217; and &#8216;Corruption&#8217;: Jeebesh Bagchi</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/beyond-middle-class-and-corruption-guest-post-by-jeebesh-bagchi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Liang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by JEEBESH BAGCHI I have been thinking that If we drop &#8220;corruption&#8221; and &#8220;middle class&#8221;  we may find some other way to understand what we sense unfolding from Ramila grounds and television studios. The term middle class has bloated so much that it now holds within it Narayan Murthy to Shekhar Gupta via Nandan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8858&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Trade Union Initiative on Anti-Corruption Struggle</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/25/new-trade-union-initiative-on-anti-corruption-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are reproducing below a statement issued by NTUI NTUI Statement On the Fight Against Corruption Workers’ life and work experiences are very different from those of the middle class and the ruling elite; so is their experience with corruption. For the middle class, corruption is a mechanism to accelerate government procedures in the public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8834&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Opportunity, A Serious Danger: A Statement</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/24/a-great-opportunity-a-serious-danger-signature-campaign-on-anti-corruption-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Statement Issued by some individuals and friends in social movements The Anna Hazare situation invites two common reactions: many dismiss it as a middle class driven &#8220;urban picnic&#8221;; and others, notably the mainstream media, describe it as just short of a revolutionary movement to establish &#8220;people&#8217;s power.&#8221; The same divide exists among progressives and those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8815&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If only there were no people, democracy would be fine&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/22/if-only-there-were-no-people-democracy-would-be-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been jointly written by Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam At Ramlila Maidan We went to Ramlila Maidan yesterday, the four of “us” considerably swelling the numbers of about a lakh and a half of people there by 6.30 pm, when we left. They were either sitting inside, milling about outside all around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8768&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, Populism and the ‘Middle Class’: The Return of &#8216;Anna Hazare&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/08/05/democracy-populism-and-the-%e2%80%98middle-class%e2%80%99-the-return-of-anna-hazare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is a considerably expanded version of an article that was published in Himal May 2011. It is being re-published, elaborated and updated, in the context of the farcical draft of the Lokpal Bill roduced by parliament and the threatened round 2 of the movement. - AN] Corruption &#8211; a Systemic Affair? Let me start with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8585&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Singur Act and the Deontological Reaction: Prasanta Chakravarty</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/06/24/the-singur-act-and-the-deontological-reaction-guest-post-by-prasanta-chakravarty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunalini Kumar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by PRASANTA CHAKRAVARTY The remarkable Singur Land Development and Rehabilitation Bill, passed in the West Bengal Assembly on June 14 became an Act on June 20. The Act scrapped the previous Left Front government’s deal with Tata Motors and has provisions to return land to unwilling farmers. Consequently, Singur land was taken over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=8262&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Left is Dying! Long Live the Left!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/28/old-left-is-dead-long-live-the-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Following the publication of the previous post - the statement on the future of the Left, we have received some important comments that seek to take the debate forward, alongside those predictable, invective laden rants that we know only too well by now. We need to keep the debate on the future of the Left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7962&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;End of the Left&#8217; in India? Statement by Leftists after recent election results</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/24/end-of-the-left-in-india-statement-after-recent-election-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 10:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of statement by Jairus Banaji, Sukumar Muralidharan, Dilip Simeon, Satya Sivaraman and Rohini Hensman endorsed by 224 others. In a minor replay of 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Indian media have been gloating at the defeat of the Left Front in West Bengal especially and have repeatedly suggested that this signals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7949&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Left Front did not Endure: Sharib Ali and Shazia Nigar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/22/why-the-left-front-did-not-endure-sharib-ali-and-shazia-nigar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 06:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SHARIB ALI and SHAZIA NIGAR “But it is unlikely that such a review exercise will to lead to the kind of “reformed” Left that its critics are rooting for — a Left tamed by its defeat into accepting the set of economic policies that, in the name of growth, intensify and create [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7913&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Bluster-Equity and Justice in West Bengal: Abusaleh Shariff and Tanweer Fazal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/19/beyond-the-bluster-equity-and-justice-in-west-bengal-abusaleh-shariff-and-tanweer-fazal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 03:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ABUSALEH SHARIFF AND TANWEER FAZAL One of the key issues being keenly watched in the recently concluded assembly elections in West Bengal was the direction in which the Muslim vote was going. Muslims constitute 25 per cent of West Bengal’s population. Despite such high concentration, the near absence of Muslims from public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7898&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>वाम मोर्चे की करुण विदाई: ईश्वर दोस्त</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/16/%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%ae-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%a3-%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%a6%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%88-%e0%a4%88/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ISHWAR DOST ममता की संघर्ष गाथा जीत का जश्न बन कर कोलकाता की जिस राइटर्स बिल्डिंग में प्रवेश कर रही है, उसके गलियारों में कुछ वक्त के लिए ही सही, सन्नाटा-सा तैर गया होगा। यादें उभर आई होंगी। चौंतीस साल का साथ पत्थरों तक के लिए कम नहीं होता। वे मूक दीवारें [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7885&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Where We Know Not What Befalls Us&#8230; in Bengal!</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/13/we-are-where-we-get-no-news-of-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 04:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ham wahaan hain jahaan se hamko bhee kuchch hamaaree khabar naheen aatee Roughly translated literally, this famous couplet of Ghalib&#8217;s would mean: &#8221;We are at that place from where we do not get any news about ourselves&#8221;. A somewhat surreal place to be in! It is not just that you are holed in, a place where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7728&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fragility of Oppositional Civil Social Ecology and the Impact of V S</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/03/the-fragility-of-oppositional-civil-social-ecology-and-the-impact-of-v-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that most of us Malayalees are basking in the warmth of the global ban on Endosulfan,even enjoying a brief spell of &#8216;unity&#8217; (yes, even the UDF folk have joined, if more warily), what I&#8217;m about to write will probably make me quite unpopular. Well, here goes &#8211;  I have been watching the unfolding of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7626&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory of the Unknown Worker, this May Day</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/05/01/in-memory-of-the-unknown-worker-this-may-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 10:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nations build memorials to the Unknown Soldier. A militarized imagination in which the glory  of the Nation is embodied in a nameless and faceless  figure who courts death. This  faceless Unknown Soldier must die so that the myth of the nation can live, and a mythical National Interest devastate the everyday lives of the powerless. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7588&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Lessons on Marxism and Politics</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/30/a-few-lessons-on-marxism-and-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional parties. In other words, the traditional parties in that particular organizational form, with the particular men who constitute, represent and lead them, are no longer recognized by their class (or fraction of a class) as its expression&#8221; &#8211; Antonio Gramsci, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7582&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>वामपंथ, माकपा और जनवादी क्रांति बकौल प्रभात पटनायक</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/26/%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%a5-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%aa%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%94%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%9c%e0%a4%a8%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%a6%e0%a5%80-%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This post is a response to Prabhat Patnaik's article 'Why the Left Matters' which appeared in the Indian Express on 17 March. A version has appeared in two parts in Jansatta] पांच राज्यों में विधान सभा चुनाव हो रहे हैं. इनमें से दो, बंगाल और केरल वाममोर्चा शासित प्रदेश हैं. केरल में तो भारत के [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7545&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Say &#8216;US Imperialism&#8217;, Prakash Karat? Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/26/did-you-say-us-imperialism-prakash-karat-sankar-ray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY The CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and the Left Front chairman Biman Bose deserve thanks for referring to the WikiLeaks revelation about the US enthusiasm in seeing a change of guard at the Writers’ Buildings, the seat of the Government of West Bengal. Quoting the cable no 230353 10/20/2009, Mr [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7535&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Whore of Babylon&#8217; &#8211; Or, Misogyny, Sexism, CPM Style</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/24/the-whore-of-babylon-or-misogyny-sexism-cpm-style/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/04/24/the-whore-of-babylon-or-misogyny-sexism-cpm-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has to be seen and heard to be believed! Former Arambagh CPM(M) MP Anil Biswas Basu , addressing an election rally in his home turf likened Mamata Banerjee to a &#8216;whore of Sonagachi&#8217;, who is now getting rich clients from the US to give money for her election campaign! I draw attention to this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7510&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradoxical Figure of Mamata: Monobina Gupta</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/21/the-paradoxical-figure-of-mamata-monobina-gupta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by MONOBINA GUPTA With the coming assembly elections, West Bengal seems to be poised on the edge of a historic upheaval that will, in all probability, enter the collective memory of its people, much like the momentous 1977 elections. The most palpable moment of this churning will manifest in what looks like an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7480&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why so serious?: Anuj Bhuwania</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/04/02/why-so-serious-cricket-nationalism-india-pakistan-world-cup-anuj-bhuwani/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/04/02/why-so-serious-cricket-nationalism-india-pakistan-world-cup-anuj-bhuwani/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shivam Vij</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ANUJ BHUWANIA Cellphone videos of the celebrations at India Gate after India won the semi-final against Pakistan &#160; So cricket is the opiate of the Indian masses, and India’s left-liberals (henceforth LLs) can’t deal with it. Or with popular cinema or religion, for that matter. All of which are things that these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7267&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption, CPI(M) and Neoliberalism: Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/03/10/corruption-cpim-and-neoliberalism-sankar-ray/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/03/10/corruption-cpim-and-neoliberalism-sankar-ray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY Prasenjit Bose, chief of research cell, central committee of CPI(M) deserves kudos for his article Corruption and Forbearance under Neoliberalism, published in the journal of The Centre for Policy Analysis, and reproduced in pragoti.org. However, corruption is not an exclusive phenomenon under the capitalist system. Socialist countries – I mean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=7002&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Sudipta Kaviraj&#8217;s &#8216;Marxism in Translation&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/03/02/reflections-on-sudipta-kavirajs-marxism-in-translation/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/03/02/reflections-on-sudipta-kavirajs-marxism-in-translation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is a revised version of some comments made during a discussion with Sudipta Kaviraj at the Centre for the Study of Developing Socoeties, Delhi on 21 October 2010. Kaviraj made a presentation based on a recent essay of his 'Marxism in Translation: Critical Reflections on Indian Political Thought' (published in Political Judgement: Essays [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6883&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hypocrisy beneath hammer-and-sickle sign: Sankar Ray</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/02/26/hypocrisy-beneath-hammer-and-sickle-sign-sankar-ray/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/02/26/hypocrisy-beneath-hammer-and-sickle-sign-sankar-ray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SANKAR RAY Sankar Ray is a veteran journalist based in Kolkata [This article presents the sordid tale of land acquisitions for the New Rajarhat Township and the involvement of important CPI(M) personnel in this game. One of them, the key protagonist of the story below, was mentioned by Pranab Mukherjee in parliament [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6843&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Un-Indianizing Kerala: How to defend K K Shahina</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2011/01/20/un-indianizing-kerala-how-to-defend-k-k-shahina/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2011/01/20/un-indianizing-kerala-how-to-defend-k-k-shahina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the unseasonal and tenebrous rain clouds that are hovering over Thiruvananthapuram in what should be a sunny, light-mist-adorned January, a pall of gloom, of impending danger, hangs around my everyday life in Kerala. This is not a general feeling. It is however shared by many of us who write and speak critically about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=6335&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maoist dilemmas in Nepal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/12/08/maoist-dilemmas-in-nepal/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/12/08/maoist-dilemmas-in-nepal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>prashantjha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly four years after a peace accord the end of Nepal’s civil war, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is going through a deep existential crisis. This was most starkly reflected in the separate political documents presented by chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, senior vice-chairman Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran’, and another vice-chairman and ideologue Dr Baburam Bhattarai at an extended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=5953&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nobody Can Stop The Revolution&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/11/10/nobody-can-stop-the-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/11/10/nobody-can-stop-the-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aman Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, a number of journalists received the following statement from Ganapathy; General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). In the text, Ganapathy clarifies the Maoist stance on a broad range of topics &#8211; particularly Kashmir, the Commonwealth Games, the Ayodhya Verdict, Mamta Bannerjee in Bengal, Obama and the North East. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=5508&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greed-Kerala Express, Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/11/07/greed-kerala-express-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The panchayat elections in Kerala are over and the dust has settled in the battle-field. In the past weeks, I have been repeatedly asked, why aren&#8217;t you writing something on the elections? Well, I told them, I have many failings but I do not suffer from Schadenfreude. But more importantly,what is  new, worth writing about?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=5483&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Provincial Councils and the 13th Amendment: Interview with Lal Wijenayake</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/09/25/provincial-councils-and-the-13th-amendment-interview-with-lal-wijenayake/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/09/25/provincial-councils-and-the-13th-amendment-interview-with-lal-wijenayake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahilan Kadirgamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed attorney at law, veteran Left politician and former Provincial Councillor for fifteen years, Lal Wijenayake in July 2010.  His experience is all the more important given the recent discussions and debates on the 13th Amendment and the Provincial Council system in Sri Lanka.  While this interview from two months back is very much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4891&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scorched by Blind-spots &#8211; Prabhat Babu and the CPI(M): Andaleeb Mondal</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/09/20/scorched-by-blind-spots-prabhat-babu-and-cpim/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/09/20/scorched-by-blind-spots-prabhat-babu-and-cpim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by ANDALEEB MONDAL [Recently Prabhat Patnaik published an article "Dial M for modernity" in The Telegraph, about what is right about the CPI(M). This piece is a response to that article. There are some very elliptical Bengal-specific references in the piece that have been retained as they add to the flavour. AN] The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4831&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucas Tete, Maoist violence and K Balagopal: Biswajit Roy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/09/15/lucas-tete-maoist-violence-and-k-balagopal-biswajit-roy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by BISWAJIT ROY It&#8217;s a welcome development that Arundhati Roy, G N Saibaba, Mahasweta Devi, Sujato Bhadra and others have condemned the killing of Maoists&#8217; POW and Bihar policeman Lucas Tete as reported by Bengal Post. The civil society personalities sympathetic to the Maoist cause and human rights groups in general are sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4815&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Azad Murder and the CPM: Biswajit Roy</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/09/06/the-azad-murder-and-the-cpm/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/09/06/the-azad-murder-and-the-cpm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by BISWAJIT ROY. Biswajit is a journalist based in Kolkata The recent controversy over the Maoist top gun Cherukuri Rajkumar aka Azad’s killing by AP police has blurred the usual political division between the apostles of state security and human rights groups. P Chidambaram and AP police chief churned out the usual encounter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4787&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naba Dutta of Nagarik Mancha Arrested Under False Charges</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/08/19/naba-dutta-of-nagarik-mancha-arrested-under-false-charges/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/08/19/naba-dutta-of-nagarik-mancha-arrested-under-false-charges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Well known labour and human rights activist and one of the important functionaries of Nagarik Mancha, Naba Dutta was arrested by the West Bengal police in extremely strange circumstances, after he along with his colleagues was returning from a sit-in programme at the Block Development Officer's office. The following is a press release issued by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4728&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have I Joined the Popular Front?</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/08/08/have-i-joined-the-popular-front/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/08/08/have-i-joined-the-popular-front/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks, I have been asked over and over again, not always in jest, if I had joined the Popular Front. I am not surprised. The police investigation around the violence against the college teacher at Muvattupuzha has broken all previous records in not only the violation of human and civil rights, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4690&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Incendiary Hunt Takes Off in Kerala</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/07/16/4612/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jdevika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been watching the whole drama that has been unfolding after the unspeakable and utterly condemnable act of violence at Muvattupuzha in central Kerala early this month, which has been widely interpreted as the first instance of &#8216;Talibanist&#8217; violence here, with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. A whole manhunt has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4612&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dialogue with God and Dialogues that go missing</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/07/08/a-dialogue-with-god-and-dialogues-that-go-missing/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/07/08/a-dialogue-with-god-and-dialogues-that-go-missing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nivedita Menon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SUDEEP KS and BOBBY KUNHU On Sunday 4 July 2010, T J Joseph, a college lecturer, was attacked by a group of people on his way back from the church in Muvattupuzha in central Kerala, and his right hand was chopped off. We believe this heinous act deserves to be condemned, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4584&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Areas, Political Economy and the &#8220;Left-Progressive Line&#8221; on Operation Green Hunt: Shankar Gopalakrishnan</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/06/25/forest-areas-political-economy-operation-green-hunt/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/06/25/forest-areas-political-economy-operation-green-hunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by SHANKAR GOPALAKRISHNAN. This piece also appeared in Radical Notes earlier. As central India&#8217;s forest belts are swept into an ever-intensifying state offensive and resulting civil war, there has been a strong convergence of left, liberal and progressive arguments on Operation Green Hunt. This note argues that this &#8216;basic line&#8217; is problematic. The line can be summarised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4467&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand &#8211; Two Elites and a Proletariat: Satya Sagar</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/30/thailand-two-elites-and-a-proletariat-satya-sagar/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/05/30/thailand-two-elites-and-a-proletariat-satya-sagar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 14:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by SATYA SAGAR The two month long street protests in Bangkok by thousands of ‘red shirt’ opponents of the Abhisit Vejajiva government demanding fresh elections and the violence that followed has been described as the worst conflict Thailand has ever faced in its modern history. It left in its wake at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4339&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanise First</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/30/humanise-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 13:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is dismay in some sections that the FIR lodged by the driver of the ill-fated Gyaneshwari Express does not name Maoists as the suspect perpetrators. Within hours of the derailment and death of the passengers, newspapers were already lamenting that the centre did not have guts to take on Maoists. Suggestions have been made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4331&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of the Ignorant</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/29/4299/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hand trembles as I write again. To say that it is murder, mass murder and we cannot remain silent when faced with such horror. I do not know who is responsible for this and what caused it. Was it a bomb blast or tempering with the fish plates which derailed the Gyaneshwari Express train [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4299&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New &#8216;Bush&#8217; Doctrine: Nirmalangshu Mukherjee</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/28/the-new-bush-doctrine-nirmalangshu-mukherjee/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/05/28/the-new-bush-doctrine-nirmalangshu-mukherjee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 09:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya Nigam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJEE A well-known left intellectual in Delhi, belonging to one of the naxalite &#8220;splinter groups&#8221;&#8211;the term is Arundhati Roy&#8217;s to distinguish the maoists from everyone else in the naxalite movement&#8211;recently advised me that, whatever be the objections to the CPI (Maoist), we must side with them in their struggle against the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4294&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Regret and Control</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/20/on-regret-and-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 12:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I get ready to mail this piece, I read the news of the killing of four CRPF men who were out on a patrol in an IED blast in Begal. I know that these deaths do not qualify as deaths of the ‘people’ since all the dead were ‘combatants’. I therefore do not expect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4227&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Maoist Regret</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/19/on-maoist-regret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aarti Sethi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no room for doubt anymore that the landmine attack on a bus plying on the Dantewada-Sukhma road was planned and executed by the CPIM (Maoist). About 36 people have died, a majority of them civilians. This was not a mistake.The Maoists have said this was a calculated attack to target the Koya Commando [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4223&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Maoist Killings Once Again</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/19/the-maoist-killings-once-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 07:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apoorvanand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news of  killing of more than 40 people travelling in a bus  blown by a blast in Dantewada is only a new chapter in the  book of brutalities that is  being scripted in Chhatisgarh and other parts of India in the name of &#8216;the People&#8217;. Six people were found slain in Rajnandgaon just a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4214&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Alleged Maoist Atrocities</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/17/4206/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shuddhabrata Sengupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I have on several occasions expressed my disgust at the way in which the Government of India is conducting it&#8217;s &#8216;Operation Green Hunt&#8217;, I have to say that the news of the attacks by alleged Maoists in Chattisgarh, in which 6 villagers have been killed, and more recently a bus, with several civilians (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4206&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kathmandu Siege &#8211; They Are Here</title>
		<link>http://kafila.org/2010/05/04/kathmandu-siege-they-are-here/</link>
		<comments>http://kafila.org/2010/05/04/kathmandu-siege-they-are-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>prashantjha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathmandu&#8217;s elites cannot seem to understand who these people are. But talk to the cab driver, waiter, vegetable seller, small shopkeeper, slum dweller or construction worker and you will get an idea of who may dominate the streets from Saturday. There has been coercion in the process of mobilisation. But the Maoists have essentially tapped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kafila.org&amp;blog=2985212&amp;post=4140&amp;subd=kafilabackup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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