A Comment on the
Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill
The UPA government is about to form a new regulatory authority -- the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) to act as the sole agency responsible for the regulatory system, including research, transport, import, manufacture and use, of GMOs throughout the country. [Read Full]
Howard Zinn:
The historian who changed the history
History since its origin remained in the realm of the ruling elite. It presented, commented and concentrated on a minority gang of monarchs, tyrants, and their tales. It was called objective history. It comfortably and knowingly ignored and omitted the real history of the millions of people, who were oppressed by the ruling class.
Howard Zinn challenged this academic establishment by boldly emphasizing that “there is no such thing as impartial history. The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lie. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of important of course depends on one's values.” Zinn decided to choose side; and he chose to take side of the oppressed, exploited and the toiling masses against the bourgeoisie regime.
He termed it as subjective history.
He used to say he wanted to be known as "somebody who gave people a feeling of hope and power that they didn't have before." [Read More]
“Our land is blowing away as the dust blows away in the storm"
- Dharti Aaba Birsa Munda
ULGULAAN
CHALU
AKANA
THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF JHARKHAND
By
Pankaj Prasoon
From 1771 to 2009, Jharkhand to Jhargram, the tribal continue to face the same ordeal-displacement by the outsiders on any pretext who forcefully evict these helpless people from their ancestral land and forest. The land developed by their ancestors who later become trees whom they worship. This books narrates this sad saga in detail on the basis of authentic records and references so that the people world over should know the grim reality of the millions of tribal of India.
Would US Invade Iran
Iran has never attacked another country. It was the subject of a covert
US-British operation in 1953, and a failed US armed operation in 1980, both of
which violated its territorial frontiers. Also in 1980, the Iraqi government,
with US and British support, attacked Iran and waged war against it for eight
years. Iran has not been implicated in any act of terror against a Western
country since 1996.
In sum, Iran is not a threat. It is not about to attack anybody. There is no
reason to attack Iran. But there are threats to attack Iran. Who is responsible,
and why? In November 2002, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called on the US
and British governments to attack Iran once they are finished with Iraq. The
Israeli defence minister said in November 2003, "In no circumstances would
Israel be able to tolerate nuclear weapons in Iranian possession." The head of
Israel's intelligence service said that nuclear weapons in Iran were the
greatest threat to Israel since 1948.
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A Word About Us
We are an independent not for profit, non-partisan think tank devoted to the
quantitative study of international affairs; Globalisation, World Trade and
political economy. We are, committed to moving beyond traditional boundaries as
a common search for new ways of studying the inter relational dynamics of
politics and economics.
We have a very modest beginning. Way back in February 1996 a small group of
journalists, and political scientists jelled the idea to prepare research
monographs and reports on contemporary political issues challenging the Indian
democracy. There were no authentic publications on such developing subjects. The
media was, of course, under its own limitations of time and space.
So CIPRA was born. The task was enormous....(Read More)