From: editors <editors@hardnewsmedia.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Subject: The August issue of Hardnews is Live and avaliable on stands
To: editors@hardnewsmedia.com
Dear contributors and friends,
The August issue of Hardnews is live and available on stands. Please visit www.hardnewsmedia.com for details and http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1426 for where the magazine is available.
The website is being updated regularly and now includes more than the print version.
Cover Story: The Dark Night Rises: Maruti Lock Out and Workers' Unrest
Cover story includes:
1) Neither Swift, Nor Dzire by Amit Sengupta and Sadiq Naqvi in Manesar (Haryana)
Was the Maruti violence stage-managed? Did a section of aggressive union leaders go berserk? Or, was it infinite angst becoming sudden explosion?
2) Dark Side of the Moon by Amit Sengupta and Sadiq Naqvi in Manesar (Haryana)
In these urban village ghettos hidden inside the intestines of the golden zone of big brand big business, contract workers die a daily death
3) "We received reports that bouncers and police were around"
DL Sachdev, Secretary, All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) speaks to Sumati Panikkar
4) Change is Always the Last Word by Krishna Jha in Delhi
Nothing existing remains intact and the new is being created every moment. In the modern era of economic reforms and globalisation, that is the biggest challenge before the working class movement
Other Stories:
1) Jaswanti's Hell Hole by Sadiq Naqvi in Rohtak (Haryana)
Hardnews investigates the horrific underworld of bestiality and sexual abuse inside a government-backed shelter home for children and girls in Haryana. With influential link-ups this perverse syndicate, is there a massive cover up being engineered from the top?
2) '17 People were Killed in Cold Blood'
Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi speaks to Akash Bisht on the recent killings by the security forces in Bijapur
3)Ground Zero and Troublesome Tribals by Karen Gabriel and PK Vijayan in Delhi
As long as we act, either as legally appointed dacoits or as patrons bearing a new 'white man's burden' in all the racist senses, we will remain complicit in genocide
4) Akhilesh Amnesia Yadav by Pradeep Kapoor in Lucknow
Despite its pre-poll promise, the SP government in UP seems stunningly indifferent about the fate of innocent Muslims branded as terrorists and rotting in jail
5) No Safe Haven for Wildlife by Ravishankar Ravi in Guwahati
With Brahmaputra wrecking havoc on the pristine national parks in Assam, the wildlife is under constant threat from rising waters and poachers
6) End this End Game by Raza Rumi in Kabul
Pakistan will have to focus on bilateral trust building: with US, Afghanistan and India. This sounds daunting but there is no alternative to stronger diplomatic engagement
7) N for Nuanced by Nilova Roy Chaudhury in Delhi
The US will not push military confrontation with Iran, at least until after the November presidential polls. There are strong indications that direct back channel talks are on between Washington and Tehran
8) 'At every turn there are winners and losers'
Dr Burak Akcapar, Turkey's Ambassador in New Delhi speaks to Hardnews
Dr Harsh Vardhana Singh, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organisation, speaks to Hardnews
10) The Burden of Pain by Sonali Ghosh Sen in Kolkata
The consequences of a deranged mind has brought into debate gun laws, moral responsibilities, societal decay, and the entire brooding world of Batman into the public eye
11) Epic Finale Served Cold by Sonali Ghosh Sen in Kolkata
A Dark Knight movie with not enough of Dark Knight, a super hero movie of gravity but not enough levity, a season of light in the shadow of darkness
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