Category: Manipur

  • ICC World Cup’s killer effect!

    As the cricket mania has reached a feverish pitch here after the victory of India in the World Cup that culminated recently, with obvious display of joy in a country that has huge cricket following among many ordinary Indians, where cricketers are treated next only to God (which is reflective of the skewed & unequal…

  • International Women’s Day: One woman’s struggle against oppression

    Extraordinary stand against the brutal state and draconian powers The struggle for the emancipation of women from sexism and for social-political and economic equality continues in various valiant fights all over India. But on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2011, the extraordinary struggle of one woman against the brutal Indian state and its draconian…

  • Campaign against AFSPA in Solidarity with Sharmila Irom

    As part of a broader initiative under the banner of  Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore, New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) was involved in a week long campaign in Bangalore in the first week of February in solidarity with the 10 year old fast being undertaken by Irom Chanu Sharmila, a Manipuri poet & activist,…

  • Will Irom Sharmila Meet Her Mother?

    What makes a human being himself or herself is very much determined by the context of the social, genetic and environmental factors apart from the subjective will to make the necessary choices. When I look back, I am sure that I would not have become me, if Emergency was not declared in India. I learnt…

  • 10 Years of Sharmila’s Fast

    She is Hungry for Justice-Peace-Democracy Repeal AFSPA During the last few decades, the people of North Eastern states and J&K have witnessed severe repression with the implementation of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (1958). Under this law, the security forces have: The power to arrest and enter property without warrant. The power to shoot, arrest…