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November 27, 2016
Eduardo Galeano’s Portrait of #Fidel
The following passage is excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s history of humanity, Mirrors (Nation Books).
His enemies say he was an uncrowned king who confused unity with unanimity.
And in that his enemies are right.
His enemies say that if Napoleon had a newspaper like Granma, no Frenchman would have learned of the...
November 26, 2016
Image Courtesy: Kashmir Life: Omkar Nath Bhat outside his home in Haal Shopian.
Pic: Bilal Bahadur
Since July 2016, sustained threats and some sporadic attacks have left the 808 Kashmiri Pandit families in the Valley, threatened. On October 29, 2016, Sabrangindia had reported how a petrol bomb was flung at the home of one such cluster of Pandits living in the Valley. A...
November 26, 2016
Viewing the world in absolute terms only serves to encourage propaganda and make simplistic scenarios seem like real solutions. The current public discourse on the refugee crisis is like a piece of political satire, says Ilija Trojanow
Thinking in dichotomies is an early stage of idiocy. Anyone who doesn't believe this yet will find plenty to convince him on...
November 26, 2016
The Assam Forest Department Friday filed an FIR against the builder of Patanjali Mega Herbal and Food Park in Sonitpur district for negligence in providing safety to wild elephants and digging pits at the construction site causing an elephant to die on Thursday.
Jasim Ahmed, Additional Conservator of Forest, West Sonitpur Forest Division, said the FIR was lodged at Salanibari police outpost...
November 26, 2016
Today at the stroke of the midnight hour, thanks to the collective efforts of the Sabrangindia Team and the never dying support of friends, comrades all, Sabrangindia turns one. November 26, Constitution Day. This was a re incarnation of Communalism Combat, a print magazine born out of the fires of hatred, and our commitment to real, meaningful journalism alive between 1983...
November 25, 2016
7 नवंबर 2016 को असम में जब मुख्यमंत्री सर्बानंद सोनोवाल ने बाबा रामदेव के 1000 करोड़ के पतंजलि हर्बल और मेगा फूड पार्क की नींव रखी थी तो बाबा रामदेव ने कहा था, इसमें लोगों को प्रत्यक्ष रूप से रोजगार मिलेगा।
किसानों को उनकी हर्बल फसल के लिए कंपनी उचित मूल्य उपलब्ध कराएगी। इस तरह लाखों किसान और कृषि मजदूर लाभांवित होंगे। लेकिन इस बात का लोगों को अंदाज़ा नहीं होगा की पार्क के इस क्षेत्र में आने...
November 25, 2016
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Before Modi banned Rs 500, Rs 1000 Notes BJP was Busy Investing in Real Estate-CATCHNEWS
Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation policy, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bought land worth crores of rupees.
The party, in power at the Centre, bought several land parcels in Bihar up to the first week of November. And on 8...
November 24, 2016
Image Courtesy: DNA
एक पखवाड़े पूर्व अचानक देशवासियों को यह फ़रमान सुनाया गया कि चार घण्टे बाद देश की 86% मुद्रा सिर्फ़ कागज़ का टुकडा रह जायेगी। यह तुग़लकी फ़रमान था, कहावत के रूप में भी, भावात्मक रूप में भी और वास्तविक रूप में भी। आप विश्व के सबसे बड़े लोकतंत्र के, आप ही के शब्दों में, प्रधान 'सेवक' हैं। आपने कैसे इतना बड़ा कदम बिना सोचे विचारे देश की जनता पर थोप दिया?
हम काले...
November 24, 2016
Carpet Bombing by Demonetisation Drives 70 per cent trucks off India's roads says Economic Times
Kultaran Singh Atwal, a transporter, owns seven trucks. Now, he says, he is forced to keep five of his fleet idle due to demonetisation, as he has been deprived of the minimum Rs 20,000 cash per truck per trip that he requires as running expenses.
Atwal is not an...
November 24, 2016
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After 1,322 days in arbitrary detention, journalist Mr. Mahmudur Rahman has been finally released on bail late on Wednesday afternoon (November 23). The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) have welcomed his long-overdue release, and urge authorities to drop all pending charges against him.
Acting editor of the Daily Amar Desh, a...