The Vidarbha Gazette

Voice of Law, Society & Culture

  • Judgment at Nuremberg (Film Review)

    Judgment at Nuremberg  Why did Judges Capitulate to Hitler?   Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer is a black and white movie that communicates the truth in black and white. The film shows the trial of four Nazi Judges and one Nazi prosecutor and the predicament of Judge…

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  • Book Review: ‘What is Saved: Batori Hui Khushiyan’ by Aamer Hussein

    If the first read of the New Year portends what lies ahead, then 2024 should lead to finding a trove of palm-sized, luminous gems, for this is what my first book of the year, Aamer Hussein’s ‘What is Saved: Batori Hui Khushiyan’ (Red River, 2023), was. Aamer Hussein is a Pakistani-British author who feels a…

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  • Kolams in Ghatraiguda – a Precarious Existence

    Kolams in Ghatraiguda – a Precarious Existence Growing cotton, jawari, ambadi and some lentils is the basic livelihood of the Adivasis in Jivti. If they are driven out of their land, their community life is destroyed and they migrate from place to place looking for wage labour. Today the condition of Adivasis in Jivti is…

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  • Christmas Without Christ

    Christmas without Christ A Christmas message. वह बिनाकहे मर गया’ यह अधिक गौरवशाली है , यह कहे जाने से ,कि वह मरने के पहले ,कुछ कह रहा था जिसे किसी ने सुना नहीं। Well, every year, millions of people around the world celebrate Christmas. It is a widely celebrated holiday by Christians and non-Christians alike.…

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  • Book Review: Fire Bird by Perumal Murugan

    Perumal  Murugan’s Firebird : A Farmer’s Search for Permanence     Name of Book: Fire Bird Author: Perumal Murugan Translator: Janani Kannan Publisher: Penguin Year: 2023   Fire Bird is a story about a farming family and therefore necessarily revolves around land and labour. Muthu, the youngest son inherits the smallest piece of infertile piece after…

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  • Much-needed Structure for Chandrapur District Court finally Sanctioned

    Much-needed Structure for Chandrapur District Court finally Sanctioned   The Government of Maharashtra has recently sanctioned 16 new buildings across the State, each one costing more than Rs. 15 Crores. This includes the construction of new building for the Chandrapur District and Sessions Court. A meeting of a High-Level Committee was called recently to sanction…

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  • दिंडोरा प्रकल्प: बाधित लोकं का लढत आहे?

    दिंडोदा बॅरेज उर्फ धरण बाधित लोक का लढत आह? ग्लॅक्सो,हिंदुस्थान लिव्हर, क्राॅम्प्टन ग्रीव्हज, रिचर्डसन,फिलिप्स इंडिया, ब्रूक बाॅन्ड या सारख्या मल्टीनॅशनल कंपन्या पूर्वीही होत्या. ह्या कंपन्या आताही आहे.सोबतच देशी भांडवलदार ही आहेच. मल्टीनॅशनल कंपनी पैकी एक निप्पोन डेन्रो इस्पात आता तिची ओळख जेएसडब्लू इस्पात स्टील अशी आहे. १९९१ मध्ये राजीव गांधींच्या निर्घृण हत्येनंतर आलेल्या सरकारचे नेतृत्व…

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  • Dhammachakra Anupravartan Din – The Unique Utsav

    Dhammachakra Anupravartan Din – The Unique Utsav   It is well-known that Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar converted with hundreds of thousands of his followers to Buddhism on 14 October 1956 at Nagpur. The day after that Babasaheb travelled to Chandrapur, and here too his followers converted to Buddhism on 16th October 1956. Every year, masses of Dr.…

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  • Caste Census – Challenges of Controlling the Long Term Spin

    Caste Census – Challenges of Controlling the Long-Term Spin    Bihar is the first state to complete the caste census and bring out the results showing that OBCs and EBCs comprise more than 60% of the population while Scheduled Castes comprise about 20% of the population, Scheduled Tribes less than 2% of the population and…

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  • श्रमिक एल्गार आणि गांधी विचार

    श्रमिक एल्गार आणि गांधी विचार ‘बापू तेरे देश में, दारू खुली बजार में’, ‘गांधी तेरे राज में, दारू खुली बजार में’ अशा घोषणा देत, मूल शहरात 2 आॅक्टोबर 2001 ला मूल पोलिस स्टेशनवर दारूबंदीच्या मागणीसाठी श्रमिक एल्गारचा मोर्चा धडकला. मोर्चातील हजारोंची गर्दी पाहून मूल वासीयांच्या तोंडात आश्चर्याने बोटे टाकली होती. हातात गांधीच्या शेकडो तसबीरी, दोन—दोनच्या…

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