[Reader-list] WB CPI (M) Deputation meets Governoron Nandigramdevelopments

[TaraPrakash]

Good that intellectuals could take a stand and act upon it. I wouldn't mind 
a suicide squad in the CPI (murderers) politburo meeting and help those to 
leave this world who should have died of shame long back.

Not the best solution, but not at all bad.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tapas Ray" <tapasrayx at gmail.com>
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] WB CPI (M) Deputation meets Governoron 
Nandigramdevelopments


> Going by these and other reports, Nandigram is now "terror-free". The
> interesting point to note is that this status has been bestowed upon it
> by the CPI(M) and not the state administration. The magnitude of murder
> and rape is not clear, as the media were prevented from entering the
> area. So were Medha Patkar and some intellectuals accompanying her.
>
> One wonders what the leaders think they are accomplishing with this,
> other than turning the state of West Bengal into fertile ground for all
> kinds of extremism.
>
>
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> http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=406808&sid=REG&sname=INDIAN-NEWS&news=CPI(M)%20regains%20control%20of%20key%20BUPC%20areas
>
> CPI(M) regains control of key BUPC areas
>
> Nandigram, Nov 11: West Bengal's ruling CPI(M) Sunday regained control
> of strongholds of an opposition Trinamool Congress-backed outfit amidst
> reports of a large number of houses being torched and a senior party
> leader claimed Nandigram was 'now free of terror'.
>
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> http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=65389230-fbae-4692-a0b3-d851eb1c7f51&MatchID1=4585&TeamID1=1&TeamID2=8&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1151&PrimaryID=4585&Headline=Leading+Kolkata+intellectuals+storm+police+HQ
>
> Kolkata intellectuals storm police headquarters
>
> In an unprecedented action, leading Kolkata intellectuals, including
> filmmakers Aparna Sen and Gautam Ghosh, on Sunday night fought with
> cops, entered the city police headquarters and freed their colleagues
> arrested during a rally to protest violence in Nandigram.
>
> Sen, Ghosh, upcoming actor Parambrata Chatterjee, poet Shankha Ghosh,
> playwright Bibhas Chakraborty and a host of others reached the police
> headquarters at Lalbazar, a stone's throw from the state secretariat,
> and demanded the release of 41 artists and intellectuals who were
> arrested before the Nandan and Rabindra Sadan cultural complex.
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>
> TaraPrakash wrote:
>> In other words, the government has lost control and must be replaced.
>> It was an interesting thing to add in the memo that the alliance that
>> included ultra left destroyed red flags. The governor should be 
>> infuriated
>> by this revelation. So, the president's rule in West Bengal? Marshal law?
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "prakash ray" <pkray11 at gmail.com>
>  >
>>> A delegation of four WB CPI (M) MPs and one MLA met the Hon. Governor on
>>> the
>>> late morning of 9 November. The delegation in a detailed memorandum
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