Bravo comrade Karat for demanding a federal law against superstition, black magic

The Hindu
Mumbai, December 2, 2013

Karat demands Central Act against superstition, black magic

Staff Reporter

CPI(M) general-secretary addressed rally marking 100 days since Dr. Dabholkar’s murder

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general-secretary Prakash Karat on Monday demanded a Central Act to prohibit superstition and black-magic.

He was speaking at the rally organised here to mark the

Disgraceful Gurdwaras: Punjab's DGP Notified By NCSC

A breakthrough has been achieved in our Representation with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), regarding the shocking incidences of caste-based segregation in the historic
gurdwaras of Punjab.

The Commission has taken the matter into cognizance and decided to investigate further, in accordance with the powers conferred to it under the Article 338 of the Constitution of India.

Announcement: Press Conference on Muzaffarnagar by CPA on 6 Dec 2013, New Delhi

The CPA Fact Finding team recently visited Muzaffarnagar for the second time since the violence broke out to see the current situation. The team comprised Kamal Chenoy, Harsh Mander, E. N. Rammohan, Sukumar Muralidharan, John Dayal and Seema Mustafa. Earlier, the team visited Muzaffarnagar on September 14 to look into the genesis of the violence there and the reasons for its spread.
CPA will

India: CPM Should Learn from Late PC Joshi and Not from Mulayam Singh Yadav

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CPM SHOULD LEARN FROM LATE PC JOSHI AND NOT FROM MULAYAM SINGH YADAV

by Daya Varma and Vinod Mubayi

The Communist Party of India (CPM) is the life-line of the communist movement in India. There are other communist parties too,

India: BJP youth wing leader held for murder of ex-RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi

BJP youth wing leader held for murder of ex-RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi
Deeptiman Tiwary,TNN | Dec 2, 2013, 03.27 AM IST

[photo caption] Sunil Joshi was found murdered on Decmeber 29, 2007.

NEW DELHI: Months after home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde created a political furore by saying RSS and BJP were "promoting Hindu terrorism", National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a youth wing leader

India: A Symphony of the Absurd | Ambrose Pinto

From: Mainstream weekly, 30 November 2013


To secular Indians, who hold that religion belongs to the private and personal space, two recent national events of three state agencies should be a matter of concern. The first one was the act of ISRO Chairman Dr K. Radhakrishnan performing pooja with the replica of the Mars Orbiter Mission at the Lord Venkateshwara Temple in Tirupati a day before the

India: Very silly this talk of a Hindu left by Mr. S.G. Vombatkere, hoping NAPM will tell him that

Is there a Hindu Left?
by S.G. Vombatkere

While it may not be possible to create a viable Hindu Left before the upcoming 2014 general elections, the Left parties’ work in that direction could be to motivate voters to press the NOTA button on the EVM, rather than drift into voting for the BJP or INC, or for any ragtag coalition of regional, casteist parties that cannot possibly have a national