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When People and Governments Come Together

Vol. 55, Issue No. 18, 02 May, 2020
Aruna Roy, Saba Kohli Davé

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a test of the Indian state’s capacity to deal with the repercussions of a public health crisis. Kerala’s success, as it continues to draw strength from its political culture of participatory governance and its emphasis on social welfare, is elaborated. Some of the decentralised, scientific, and humane policy measures taken to contain the virus are also elucidated.

Statement on the Illegitimate and Inappropriate Use Money Bills and Finance Bills

Vol. 52, Issue No. 12, 25 Mar, 2017
Aruna Roy, Prabhat Patnaik, Fali Nariman, Jayati Ghosh, Anand Teltumbde, TM Krishna, Medha Patkar, and others

More than 200 concerned citizens have expressed concern on the classification of the Finance Bill, 2017 as a "Money Bill" and appealed to Vice President Hamid Ansari. The statement is reproduced below:

Restore the Rule of Law in Bastar

Vol. 52, Issue No. 5, 04 Feb, 2017
A P Shah, Achin Vanaik, Aruna Roy, Arundhati Roy, C Rammanohar Reddy, Freny Manecksha, Indira Jaising, Jean Dreze, Kalpana Sharma, Ramachandra Guha, Sandhya Gokhale, Sanjay Kak, Shubhranshu Choudhary, Sreenivasan Jain, Srinivasan Ramani, Swaminathan S A Aiyar, Uttam Sengupta, Wilfred Dcosta, Yug Mohit Chaudhry, and others

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Greenpeace Ban: Violation of Rights

Vol. 50, Issue No. 17, 25 Apr, 2015
A Vaidyanathan, Achin Vanaik, Achyut Yagnik, Anand Patwardhan, and many others from different parts of India, Aruna Roy, Ashish Kothari, Bittu Sahgal, Claude Alvares, Gautam Navlakha, Harsh Mander, Justice H Suresh, Madhuri Krishanaswami, Medha Patkar, Meenal Tatpati, Nikhil Dey, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Rajeev Dhavan, Ravi Nair, Shabnam Hashmi, Shripad Dharmadhikary, Sudha Bharadhwaj, Tapan Bose

(The following are extracts from an open letter sent to the Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh, protesting against the decision to freeze Greenpeace India’s accounts.)

'We Oppose the Death Penalty'

Vol. 49, Issue No. 7, 15 Feb, 2014
Aamir Khan, Abhijit Banerjee, Anand Teltumbde, Andre Beteille, Aruna Roy, Jagdish Bhagwati, Javed Akhtar, Medha Patkar, N R Narayana Murthy, Prabhat Patnaik, Ramachandra Guha, Sharmila Tagore, Vikram Seth and 320 others from across India.

We, concerned citizens and organisations from different walks of life and with different world views, are united in opposing the death penalty and ­demanding its repeal in India.

Illegal POSCO SEZ

Vol. 48, Issue No. 31, 03 Aug, 2013
Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar, Nikhil Dey, Prafulla Samantara, Prashant Bhushan

The ongoing POSCO Steel project in Odisha is infamous for several illegalities: tree-felling, grabbing forest-dwellers’ land, incomplete assessment and deliberate concealment of facts, seizing natural resources without requisite MoU and environment clearance, beating, arresting and killing those

Cash Transfers and UID

Vol. 48, Issue No. 01, 05 Jan, 2013
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Aruna Roy, Bezwada Wilson, Bina Agarwal, Gautam Mody, Jean Dreze, M S Swaminathan, Shantha Sinha, Utsa Patnaik, Veena Shatrugna

We support cash transfers such as old-age pensions, widow pensions, maternity entitlements and scholarships. However, we oppose the government’s plan for accelerated mass conversion of welfare schemes to Unique Identification Authority (UID)-driven cash transfers.

No to Kingfi sher Bailout

Vol. 47, Issue No. 10, 10 Mar, 2012
Aruna Roy, Debashis Basu, Nikhil Dey, Sucheta Dalal

[Extracts from a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.]

Statement of Protest

Vol. 46, Issue No. 40, 01 Oct, 2011
Abha Sur, Amit Bhaduri, Angana Chatterji, Anthony Arnove, Anuradha Chenoy, Aruna Roy

We write to protest the denial of entry to David Barsamian by immigration authorities at the New Delhi airport in the early hours of 23 September 2011, and we write to draw attention to the growing arbitrariness of the Indian government in dealing with dissent of any kind.

Police Action on Ramdev-II

Vol. 46, Issue No. 24, 11 Jun, 2011
Aruna Roy, Bhanwar Meghwanshi, Lal Singh, Nikhil Dey, Shankar Singh

Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) condemns the forcible disbandment of Baba Ramdev’s protest on 4-5 June through police action. The right to peaceful protest, irrespective of ideologies, individuals or issues is fundamental to a functional democracy.

Hyderabad Metro

Vol. 46, Issue No. 16, 16 Apr, 2011
Aruna Roy, E A S Sarma, Medha Patkar, P M Bhargava, Rajendra Singh, Sekhar Singh

Ee would like to demand that the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project be subjected to a rigorous scrutiny on environmental and economic aspects.

Ajit Bhattacharjea

Vol. 46, Issue No. 16, 16 Apr, 2011
Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey

The National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) mourns the loss of yet another stalwart in Ajit Bhattacharjea, senior journalist and dear friend, who helped shape critically the campaign’s collective efforts to secure transparency and accountability in all institutions of publ

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