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Why Gandhi is Immortal
Why Gandhi is Immortal Some Thoughts on Translating Chandrakant Wankhade’s Gandhi ka Marat Nahi Death should mean the end of life. But why is that Mahatma Gandhi continues to live even after his assassination? It is not just his followers who consider him alive, but even those who engineered his murder continue to battle with…
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Celebrating May Day – Watching ‘Manthan’
Celebrating May Day – Watching Shyam Benegal’s Classic ‘Manthan’ I thought let me celebrate this May Day by watching Shyam Benegal’s milestone movie ‘Manthan’. A classic dedicated to women working in the renowned cooperative ‘Amul’ – the taste of India –  this movie changed the course of thought process in people’s movement. Film Heritage…
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The Correct Route after Rejection of Plaint
The Litigation Notebook A Continuing Series in the Vidarbha Gazette Statutory Remedy versus Constitutional Superintendence: The Correct Route after Rejection of Plaint Recently, a plaint filed by me was rejected by the Civil court under 7/11 on the ground that the suit is barred by law. In other words, the Civil court accepted my opponent’s…
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Caste Mobilisation in Chandrapur District Bar Association Elections
Why Caste Mobilisation Matters in Chandrapur District Bar Association Elections Modern Elections, Old Inequalities: Caste as Strategy in the Chandrapur District Bar Association (CDBA) Elections Elections are a divisive time for the voters in general. We consider elections as a mechanism through which the electorate exercises its voting rights to elect their representatives. This is…
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The Setti Celebration of Naikpodu Adivasis
We walked away from Kamalbai’s mud hut on the thin path that wended its way through wide cotton fields, with the streaming blobs of white cotton bursting out of pods waiting to be plucked. ‘Would it be the second pluck?’ I asked, following Kamalbai. We must have made a funny pair – she, sixty-seven according…
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Acquisitions & Mergers : Fadnavis Style
Acquisitions and Mergers: Fadnavis Style In the process of shaking the core of Maharashtrian politics, Devendra Fadnavis has started to re-write the rules of political engagement in the state. Let us take the most recent example – it is obvious that the two Thackeray brothers are circling each other, assessing the pros and cons of…
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Apropos: Mr. Khobrargade’s Dubious Quest for Justice
Apropos: Mr. Khobragade’s Dubious Quest for Justice This article deals with some of the key questions regarding Bar-Bench relations in Chandrapur district court arising from the recent FIR registered against some lawyers because of a private criminal complaint. The facts of the matter are as follows. There was a succession case filed at Ballarpar…
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The Role of Tribal Development Department in the Context of Adivasi Land Rights
Revisiting the Role of Tribal Development Department in the Context of Adivasi Land Rights It is time to revise the mandate of the Tribal Development Department beyond implementation of a few schemes and disbursal of the Tribal Sub-Plan to other departments. In fact, the department should be empowered to ensure the Constitutional and Legal…
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The Potential of Coal-Mine Tourism in Chandrapur
The Potential of Coal-Mine Tourism in Chandrapur What can we learn from successful international models? Picture 1 above is of the closed coal mine at Dhorwasa, Chandrapur. Picture 2 below is of the Butchart Gardens created on a 55 acre closed quarry in British Columbia, Canada. Can Picture 1 transform to Picture 2?…
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Underneath Every Mosque
Underneath every mosque – first, a few broken bricks pieces of forgotten scaffolding and beneath that wayward roots squiggling through dense rot blind earthworms turning over layers a hundred years of dirt and shards of skulls further below perhaps a seam of coal a streak of gold a fraction of blue grey pottery the…
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