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- West Bengal's Stalinist government mounts terror campaign to quash peasant unrest
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  Through a murderous campaign of terror, the Stalinist government of West Bengal, India’s third most populous state, has reasserted control over Nandigram, an area 160 kilometers southwest of Kolkata (Calcutta) that has been convulsed by peasant protests for the past 10 months.
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- Gap launches inquiry into child labour claims
  Posted by Jenzaka from The Independent
  The high street clothing chain Gap has called an emergency meeting with suppliers to investigate new allegations of forced child labour being used in the manufacture of their clothes.
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- India: Art student targeted by Hindu right and Gujarat authorities
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  All those who care for and defend artistic freedom and basic democratic rights should condemn the attack that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Hindu supremacist allies have mounted, with the support of the Gujarat authorities, against Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) fine arts student Chandramohan Srilamantula and the acting dean of the MSU’s fine arts faculty, Shivaji Panikkar.
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- Coca-Cola agrees to buy vitamin water maker Glaceau for $4.1 B
  Posted by Jeff from Boston Herald
  I stopped buying Odwalla after Coke bought it. Now I'll stop buying Vitamin Water. It's because of Coke's abusive practices in India.
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- India's caste system turned on its head
  Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
  A PARTY of "untouchables" took power in India's most populous state yesterday, the first time a political group championing Hinduism's lowest caste has headed a majority government in the country. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won 206 seats in the 403-seat assembly in Uttar Pradesh, a northern state home to 170 million people - more than the populations of Russia and Australia combined. The BSP, which has fought for the rights of India's Dalits - formerly untouchables in Hinduism's stratif
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- Ah, The Power Of Bollywood
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  Mysore, India, April 30, 2007 --- My three-year-old daughter has three dolls and each of these “babies” has a different Daddy. Their names are ShahRukh Khan, Salman Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, and they’re no ordinary men: Each one is, in his own right, a mega star of the Indian screen, a sort of God in a country that’s, for good or for bad, completely and utterly Bollywood-obsessed.
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- Solar loans light up rural India
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  Since the project began in 2003, there has been a 13-fold increase in the number of the solar power units being financed within the scheme's pilot area in southern India. A system capable of powering two to four small appliances, or lights, costs about $300-$500.
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