The Saga of Bihar and Jharkhand: Underground Fire Within Submerged Human Scape

The Saga of Bihar and Jharkhand: Underground Fire Within Submerged Human Scape


Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 53


Palash Biswas
http://troubledgalaxydetroyeddreams.blogspot.com/


Times Now.tv Indian Floods Maroon 1.1 Million in Bihar, Singh to Visit State
Bloomberg - 3 hours ago
27 (Bloomberg) -- India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake an aerial survey tomorrow of flood-hit areas in Bihar state, where more than 42 ...
Declare floods as calamity: BJP Hindu
Kosi floods Bihar, Nitish turns to Centre for help NDTV.com
Not just a flood, but a catastrophe: Nitish Times of India
Thaindian.com - Hindu
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Jharia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jharia coal field fire. The Jharia coalfield in Bihar is an exclusive storehouse of prime coke coal in the country, consisting of 23 large underground ...
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TopNews
Education, employment will check extremism: Soren
Zee News - 30 minutes ago
Ranchi, Aug 27: Stating that education and employment oppurtunities could help check the problem of extremism, which is not only a law and order or social problem, new Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren said today.
JMM supremo Shibu Soren was sworn in as the Chief Minister Jharkhand Times Now.tv
Soren prepones trust vote to August 29 Sify
Daily News & Analysis - Indian Express - MSN India - IBNLive.com
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Bihar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bihar, which is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size and 3rd largest by population, has close to 90 per cent rural population. ...
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Dynamics of coal fire in Jharia Coalfield, Jharkhand, India during ...
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10 Jan 2007 ... Surface and subsurface coal-fire areas of Jharia Coalfield during 1992 .... fire to the surface (a), from underground mining galleries with ...
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American Chronicle | Underground mine fire engulfing Jharia town ...
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The people of Jharia then realized that the underground fire had finally reached ... The history of coalmine fire in Jharia coalfield can be traced back to ...
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Obama to Be Nominated as Another Clinton Speaks
New York Times - 38 minutes ago
By JOHN M. BRODER DENVER - Senator Barack Obama will officially become the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party later on Wednesday, but his moment in history remains fraught with drama and uncertainty.
Great job Hillary, say gleeful Republicans AFP
Hillary Rex Newsweek
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NDTV.com
Jammu hostage crisis: 2 terrorists killed
NDTV.com - 1 hour ago
Four little children between two and nine years of age have been held hostage for over 12 hours by terrorists in Jammu. Militants have taken over a building, which had women and children inside, and the encounter that began early on Wednesday morning ...
Militants kill four near Jammu, two terrorists gunned down Press Trust of India
One militant killed in Jammu encounter Times of India
Hindustan Times - IBNLive.com - Sify - Newstrack India
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Sify Singur effect takes its toll on industry
Times of India, India - 20 hours ago
KOLKATA: The Singur effect is beginning to show. And Brand Bengal is struggling to wriggle out of it. Investors, not quite happy with Didi’s do-or-die ...
Singur impact only short-term: Assocham chief Sajjan Jindal Hindu
Nano will roll out from Singur in Oct: Buddhadeb Hindu Business Line
Double the land compensation for farmers at Singur: Jindal Business Standard
Financial Express - Expressindia.com
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Singur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Singur railway station is 34 km from Howrah Station on the Howrah-Tarakeswar line. It is 2 km ahead of Kamarkundu junction, the crossing point of ...
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News results for Bengal

Wall Street Journal Continue investing in West Bengal: Buddhadeb to India Inc - 26 Aug 2008

NEW DELHI- West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on Tuesday attempted to placate India Inc on Singur issue. “Continue investing in West Bengal,” ...

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UPDATE 1- JSW Steel to go ahead with Bengal project - official - Reuters India - 52 related articles »
“Centre can play facilitating role in West Bengal” - Hindu - 17 related articles »

Bengal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 21 Aug
Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গ Bôngo, বাংলা Bangla, বঙ্গদেশ Bôngodesh or বাংলাদেশ Bangladesh), is a historical and geographical region in the ...
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Orissa Government Portal
Official site with information on the ministers, departments, corporations, tourism, and culture.
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Amid the reports of Flood Riots in Bihar and Singur Stand Off in Bengal ,Our old Friend, the Robin Hood of Jharkhan, Disham Guru Shibu Soren has become the chief Minister of Jharkhand crossing across so many controversies the Indian Nation is quite aware of. Now Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a ruling party after all. The party which spearheaded the Jaharkhand Nationality Movement once upon a time. Whereas in Orissa, communal flare up continues.
Hardening its posture, the Trinamool Congress ruled out any compromise with the West Bengal government or the Tata on Singur issue, threatening to intensify the agitation and take it to the doorstep of the state secretariat.

"Return 400 acres and we will leave Singur. But we will not bow our heads to the CPM and the Tatas and for that I am ready to sacrifice my life," Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, who is on an indefinite dharna outside the Tata Motors plant since August 24 told a gathering.

"I am still holding my patience. It is not a movement by any political party but a farmer's movement. We have already agreed that the main factory of the plant will be set up on 600 acres. How much more blood of farmers do they want?" she asked.

Commenting on the concern expressed over the obstruction of movement of trucks as traffic on Durgapur Expressway, the busiest freight corridor in the state, remained paralaysed for the fourth day today due to Trinamool Congress's dharna in Singur, Banerjee said, "The government is now holding brief for the truck operators after looking after the interests of the Tatas."

"One road has been closed. Next it is turn of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee's doors to the Writer's Buildings (state secretariat) to be closed," she said.

She said instead of two-hour road blockade across the state beginning 3 pm on Friday it would be one-hour road blockade from 4 pm. "The step was taken considering the people's inconvenience in mind", she said.

With Bihar reeling under devastating floods, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a day-long aerial survey tomorrow of the worst-affected areas to assess the damage caused by the swirling flood waters of major rivers in the state.

The Prime Minister will fly over North Bihar which has borne the worst brunt of the current spell of floods in the state leaving millions affected.

Singh's visit follows demands by Bihar leaders cutting across party lines that the Prime Minister must assess the situation himself and sanction enough Central funds to tide over the problem.

After making an aerial survey, Singh is scheduled to review the relief and rescue measures launched by the state government at a high-level meeting with senior officials.

A delegation of UPA parties in Bihar led by RJD chief Lalu Prasad had called on Singh yesterday to apprise him of the grim flood situation in state and seek a massive relief package from the Centre.

Besides requesting the Prime Minister to visit Bihar, Prasad had asked UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to visit the state and take stock of the flood situation in large areas of the state.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced an additional assistance of Rs 250 crore to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and Rs 20 crore to Majuli, world's largest river island, during his two-day visit to the state.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said today that Dr Manmohan Singh had reviewed the entire gamut of issues concerning security, development and welfare of the people with him during his two-day visit, which ended on Tuesday, to his home constituency.




I am closely linked with these three states besides my home states Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh! my mother late Basanti Debi belonged to Baripada, Orissa. Partition victim Bengali Indigenous refugees form a significant part of Orissa population. Specially the SEZ drive in Paradip area is involved with deportation of our people. Coastal areas are also inhibited by our people. More over, historically Bengal, Orissa and Bihar with Jaharkhand formed single geopolitics in recent past. Even the United Province was included in British Presidency area!

I am accustomed to calamities. Our life is full of calamities. We worshipped all natural forces to face all these calamities. We worshipped totems as we were connected with nature. We still happen to be the people of the Past rather than those of the Present!

Past is never past for us. Past always overtakes our Present as well as our Future.
Our people inhibited the River zone of East Bengal until they were ejected out of their homeland. Thus , we share the legacy of Floods,Tsunami, Earth Quake, Famine, Starvation, Poverty ,Epidemics and all the calamities!

Our live contact with the nature always saved us as the aboriginal tribes in Andaman and Nicobar survived Tsunami. Our folk culture, deep rooted Natural livelihood and economy with abundance of Natural resources, our totems, Myths, superstitions and rituals saved us for thousands and thousands years.

We are a combined human scape and We always feel the warmth of underground Fire within us. The human scape is often submerged, flooded, inflicted with epidemics,cold wave, heatwave and other calamities, but we never cease to feel the underground fire! This fire enables us to resist the ruling class for time infinite. Indigenous communities survive all aggressions divine or human, with this underground fire only. Our People, thus, lead the anti imperialist War worldwide. All the indigenous people in Americas, Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia happen to be our blood relations as we are the Black untouchables.

I felt the Underground fire within as well as out while I landed in Jharia Coal Field! Since then, I am habitual to see all the indigenous people from Himalayas to the Down South being submerged with either Floods or Tsunami. We are depressed for time infinite. We are deprived for time infinite. We have been kept in darkness for ever. We are inherent of injustice and inequality. We are enslaved. We are the submerged United geopolitics of Black Untouchables!

But we have got the Underground fire within us! So they brand us as Demons, Dragons, Devils, Rakshas, Asurs, Terrorists, Extremists, Separatists, Anti Nationals,Maoists and so on whenever we stand United rock solid to defend Man and Nature, whenever we try to protect our property the natural Resources, whenever we demand for empowerment and awakening, enlightenment and share, participation in so called democracy, whenever we demand to recognise our identity and right of self determination!

They have their religion and all the holy scripts!

They have the Ruling Hegemony equipped with Military Gestapo!

They have their bloody New Galaxy Post Modern Manusmriti Apartheid Order run by corporate MNC Zionist White Hindu Imperialism.

They are habitual of making our home killing fields.

They have hands full of Blood.

They have minds full of Venom. They play Mind control game to finish us, our languages, our culture!

They use all the calamities against us to uproot us from life and liberty! Most of the calamities are Man made, masterminded to annihilate us and capture our natural resources, self sufficient sovereign Indigenous Production system.
They call it development!
They call it Urbanisation!
They call it Industrialisation.
They call it Infrastructure!
They brand it as SEZ, Chemical Hub, Nuclear Energy, Retail chain, Information explosion and reality show and so on!

They have all the weapons of Mass Destruction.. Nuclear, chemical, Biological..

They have complete dominance on our soul, our spirit, our livelihood, our life and beyond our life, our space, our galaxy!
They own all the Black Holes to send us there only!

Any flare up of the Under Ground fire sends off global alert and all the killing instinct combined, we are targeted! They call it war of Ideology! War of Culture! War against Terrorism. War against Maoism!

How do they work aligned!
just see!
Warning that 'fear psychosis' was being created to slow down projects of national interest, India's corporate leader Mukesh Amabni on Wednesday threw his lot behind Tata's Nano project in Singur saying industry and politicians need to work together.

"A fear psychosis is being created to slow down certain projects of national importance. This will be counter productive for the country's economic growth, its global image as well as our ability to attract investments from across the world," the Reliance Industries Chairman said in a statement.

Ambani called for the Indian industry and the political leadership to work together to meet aspirations of millions of Indians in urban and rural areas.

Justifying its stand on scrapping of SEZ projects in Goa, the state government has said the Centre has the power to denotify those which are not operational within the stipulated timeframe.

"During my talks with Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, he said that SEZ projects should be completed within a particular time or else the Centre has the power to denotify them," Chief Minister Digambar Kamat told the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister said the State Government's stand on SEZs is very clear and there is no change in it.

12 SEZs have been scrapped in Goa while three zones are pending denotification. In all seven SEZ developers have filed cases in the Bombay High Court against the State Govenment-run Goa Industrial Development Corporation's (GIDC) move to issue show cause notice to them seeking to revoke allotted land.

Earlier, Leader of Opposition, Manohar Parrikar had alleged that government was not seriously applying its mind over getting rid of SEZs.

Parrikar had said he does not doubt government's intention but felt that it is not serious on implementation.

Replying to the contention, Kamat said that there will be no laxity in defending the cases against SEZs in the Court.

"We will engage best of lawyers in the country," he said.

Kamat also added that he would examine the possiblity whether GIDC can take back the land from SEZ developers under lease agreement.


Feel the striking Power of the Repressive ruling Hegemony!
Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju on Wednesday said forces inimical to India were trying to disrupt the forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir but asserted that the government was well prepared to neutralise any problem that may arise.

"The election process is on (in the state) and we expected that there will be attempts to disrupt the process and infiltration is part of that bid. But we are prepared as a nation to quell any problem that may arise," Raju told reporters on the sidelines of a defence seminar here.

"Forces that are behind the disruption want to show that they exist. We are taking all efforts to see that they do not get a upper hand and they will be neutralised," he said.

Stating that increase in infiltration and militant attacks were anticipated as this being an election year for J&K, Raju said there may be plans to disrupt the normal process of polling.

"That is why we are aware and prepared. It is unfortunate that this (militant attack) is happening. I hope that it will discontinue in the near future," he said.

Discounting the Amarnath controversy as a prime reason for the trouble the border state faced today, Raju said row had nothing to do with the increase in infiltration or the terror attacks. He said the terror attacks and infiltration bids are entirely to disrupt the elections slated for October this year.

"The Amarnath controversy has happened at a wrong time unfortunately. But it has nothing to do with it (infiltration and terror attacks)," the minister said.


Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday "firmly condemned" the violence in Orissa and called upon Indian religious and civil authorities "to work together to restore peaceful co-existence and harmony between the different religious communities!

What is the stance of the Secular UPA Centre?
Here you are!
In the wake of violence in Kandhamal and other districts of Orissa which claimed nine lives, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said no political party or group should be accused without proper evidence.

"Who has actually done it (killing of VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati or indulging in violence that followed) we have to find out. Some people say this party or this section of society having this kind of ideology has done it... Let it be decided," Patil told news channel Times Now.
"I have been in contact with the chief minister (of Orissa) and I have told him that the incident in which the Swami was killed has to be condemned. But it should not cause damage to others and it is the responsibility of the state government and all of us that different sections of society should not be attacked," Patil said.
Patil agreed that initial reports suggested involvement of Naxals in the killing of Saraswati but said, "Unless and until it is proved who has done it, acting against some section of society is wrong."
Saraswati, a VHP activist, had been active in the area for the last four decades.
The Home Minister informed that 20 companies of paramilitary and helicopters have been provided to Orissa to deal with the violence that continues to rock the state. Minister of State for Home Sri Prakash Jaiswal is visiting the state to take stock of the situation.
In the violence that followed the murder of Saraswati, at least nine people have lost their lives and several have been injured. Unofficial reports put the death toll at 14.
Fresh wave of communal violence hits Orissa 27 Aug 2008 14:05:00 GMT
Source: Trocaire - Ireland
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Orissa, a state of just under 40 million people in east India faces many development problems. It is one of the poorest states in India with almost half of its people living in poverty, it faces natural disasters such as flooding and drought on an annual basis, and now it is in the midst of communal violence that has seen at least 9 people killed over a three day period.
Orissa has suffered from communal tension between Hindus and Christians in the past but the current wave of violence has spread far wider than any previous incidents. The killing of an elderly Hindu religious leader and five of his followers in the district of Kandhamal late on Saturday night triggered the current violence. Despite Maoist rebels being blamed by the police for the killings many Hindu leaders are blaming Christians for the attack and as a result a severe backlash against Christian institutions, NGOs and communities has been witnessed over the past 2 days. Some of Trócaire's local partners have been caught up in the violence. Kandhamal has a history of communal violence, the most recent being last Christmas when at least 5 Christians were killed, hundreds of Christian owned houses and shops were destroyed, and many churches were attacked.
The entire state was brought to a standstill on Monday when a day long strike was called by supporters of the murdered Hindu leader. Fanatical mobs caused mayhem at will in many pockets of the state. In the capital city, Bhubaneswar, life was brought to a halt with all offices and shops closed and traffic forbidden to move. Anyone who ventured out risked facing the wrath of the mob and many people were injured as a result.
Churches and church-run institutions were and continue to be attacked at will across much of Orissa, not just in the Kandhamal area. The government has imposed a curfew in the worse affected areas and Rapid Action Force personnel have been deployed to several sensitive areas of Kandhamal. However, this action came too late for many. At least three people have been killed in the district and many NGOs have had their offices looted. One Trocaire partner had their office burnt to the ground and all their vehicles destroyed. Many staff of that organisation are currently in hiding as police have been unable to offer sufficient protection from the fundamentalists.
Reports from other parts of Orissa are equally depressing with churches and Christians facing attack. In one horrifying incident a missionary-run orphanage in western Orissa was set a light and a female employee caught inside the building was burnt to death.
Trócaire has been working in Orissa since 1999 when the state was hit by a devastating cyclone. We work with a mix of Christian headed, Hindu headed and non-denominational NGOs in rural Orissa. We are closely assessing the developments in the state and will work with our partners and other international organisations to help those most affected by the current violence.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/220999/121984604991.htm

After days of political upheavals in the state, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren was finally sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand on Wednesday.Soren was invited to form the government on Monday by Governor Syed Sibtey Razi.Soren gained the numbers to form the government in the state with the support of Madhu Koda, who recently resigned as the chief minister of Jharkhand.
Koda, who was forced to step down on Saturday to make way for Soren, took a U-turn and extended his support to the JMM chief after a meeting with him and RJD chief Lalu Prasad.

"I have extended support to Shibu Soren. No one is above the UPA (United Progressive Alliance)," Koda had told reporters.

The Koda government was reduced to a minority in the state legislature after the JMM withdrew support to it on August 17. Koda stepped down following advice from the Central UPA leadership.

While the Congress and the RJD announced their support to Soren, he managed to win over eight Independents, including Koda, one after the other.

On Monday, Deputy Chief Minister Stephen Marandi in the Koda government also announced his support to Soren.

Soren, who was chief minister of the state for 10 days in March 2005, had long dreamt of returning to the post. He got an opportunity when his party supported the Manmohan Singh government in the crucial Trust Vote on July 22.

How Shibu Soren has changed!
How the Marxists known for the land reform drive, anti imperialist anti feudal movements, peasant and labour movements, cultural activities, Tebhaga, Telengana, Food Movement, Rural development, decentralisation of power and so on... have changed !
Marxists are known for their Ideology!
Shibu Soren is not an individual of Ideology!
Had Comrade AK Roy changed, I would have been shocked!
He is as intact as he always has been.
AK Roy is a man of ideology!
Just see the changing color of the Marxists!
The CPI(M) on Wednesday distanced itself from West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's remarks that he does not support any bandh, which has generated a country-wide repercussion, forcing the Left allies to plan to raise the issue at its next meeting.
"This is not our party's stand," the state secretary of the party Biman Bose, who is also the Left Front chairman, told reporters today when his reaction was sought on the Chief Minister's anti-bandh remarks.
Later, at a meeting to mourn the death of Harkishan Singh Surjeet where the Chief Minister was also present, Bose said that it was the fundamental right of workers to take recourse to strike to fulfil their just demands.
"If workers are deprived by owners, they cannot take law in their own hands. Strike is a weapon to fulfil their demands."
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was responsible for breaking the UPA coalition which had resulted in withdrawal of Left support to the government.
Speaking at the condolence meeting of former CPI-M general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet here, Bhattacharjee said that the Left's support to UPA government was not unconditional.
"We had been opposing the 123 deal as it would undermine the country's sovereignty," he said.
We condemn Buddha Brand and the Blind Run of the Ruling Left on the super Highway of capitalist development.
Let us evaluate the tradition of revisionism right from PC Joshi, Nambudaripad,Nag Bhushan Patnaik, Vinod Mishra, Jyoti Basu and Surjeet!
Just read between the lines as uttered by comrade Buddhadeb, the Brahmin!
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was responsible for breaking the UPA coalition which had resulted in withdrawal of Left support to the government.
Speaking at the condolence meeting of former CPI-M general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet here, Bhattacharjee said that the Left's support to UPA government was not unconditional.
"We had been opposing the 123 deal as it would undermine the country's sovereignty," he said.
He said that the Prime Minister had broken the coalition by trying to enter into the civil-nuclear deal with the US.
The Left parties are in such a situation now that they have to ward off dangers posed by the Congress on one side and BJP on the other. "In this scenario, we will have to build up a separate front," he said.
Referring to BJP, he said that although the party was not in power, it was trying to raise its `ugly head' as manifested in the recent violence in J&K and Orissa.
Recounting Surjeet's contribution to coalition politics, he said that the Left parties should garner enough strength to fight communal forces.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday reviewed the Singur situation at a high-level meeting at Writers' Buildings.
The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary A K Deb, Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty, DGP A B Vohra, city police Chief Gautam Mohan Chakraborty and IGP (law and order) Raj Kanojia, besides Industry Secretary Sabyasachi Sen.
Kanojia said that other 'important issues' also figured in the meeting.
He said that the police had been instructed not to be provoked under any circumstances while keeping watch on the situation at Singur.
"Adequate police deployment has been made at Singur under the supervision of senior officers," he said adding that the situation there was 'peaceful' during the day.
He said that many vehicles from here were being diverted through old Delhi road as the Durgapur Expressway was still blocked due to dharna by Trinamool Congress activists.
He said that talks were still on to reopen one side of the expressway to facilitate movement of stranded vehicles.

The memories of the Past haunts me violently as I witnessed joint Rallies of JMM and Marxist co Ordination Committee led by our dearest comrade AK Roy, the ex M.P. from Dhanbad!
I was unfortunate enough to be present in the JMM Convention when Suraj Mandal succeeded to alienate AK Roy from JMM. Only Binod Bihari Mahato accompanied AK Roy until he breathed last. I don`t know the where about of Suraj Mandal, the mastermind behind the division!
I also was lucky to visit underground bases of Shibu Soren in the forests of Jharkhand. I witnessed how unexpected changes changed the man.
I landed in Dhanbad very dramatically. I started for Allahabad University as soon as I got the Marks sheet of my M.A. Final exams. I intended to complete the research work and then adjust myself in either Nainital or Almora Campus of Kumaun University. I reached Allahabad and took a Rickshaw to get in the house of eminent Hindi Writer Shailesh Matiyani in Colonel Gaunj. he sent me immediately to the University. Where I met Dr Raghuvansh, then the head of Hindi Department. he suggested me to work in Hinidi. Then, I met Dr Manas Mukul Das with whom I debated modern poetry for hours in Nainital. He had already registered six students and could not accommodate me. He introduced me to Dr Malviya and he agreed to guide me and I agreed to assist him editing his career mag!
Dr Batrohi from DSB college had stayed with Matiyani in sixties as a student. But the room was occupied by a close relation of Matiyanis. I shifted myself in another Kumayooni House. Shekhar Joshi was our Ideal as a short story writer. I used to write short stories in my earlier days. In fact , I have got two books of short stories later. Mr Joshi resided in a rented house , 100, Looker Ganj, Allahabad with two sons Pratul, Sanjay, daughter Bunty and their IZA means mother. I stayed in the house and searched for job as I had already discontinued to rely on my family since I passed B.A... I did work as a freelance journalist during my student life as part of mass mobilisation for Chipko Movement. I had a post graduation degree. thus, I believed to earn enough to support myself. I applied for Northern India Patrika beside doing some translation work for Mitra Prakashan thanks to Bhairab Prasad Gupta and Amarkant. editors working there.
Mr Mathur was the most powerful News Editor I have ever encountered. He was the recruiter in Northern India Patrika and he rejected my application. Manglesh Dabral was the magazine editor. Biren Dangwal was also in Allahbad in those days. i befriended with Neelabh and Ramji Roy. Very soon, I became a part of Progressive students` Union. I have friends in SFI also.SFI friends got an accomodation for me in Mamford Ganj.i had some tutions also. Then, manglesh suggested me to go to JNU. Birenda and Neelabh endorsed. I was introduced to Urmilesh and we got Vaishali express and landed in Poorvanchal hostel of JNU. I had to do M. Phil in Linguistics. The next day, iIwas out to search for job. I got one in Delhi Press. but I could not stay there. I was getting some assignments and translation works.
Meanwhile, I visited my village. Where i came to know that DSB College english department was looking for me. I just rushed to Nainital. Captain LM sah was the head of the department. He drafted the application and recommended it. I had to meet the Vice Chancellor. I visited the VC office in Brook Hill. I had to wait for some time. Meanwhile, so impulsive I had been, my student life experience and encounters with the VC haunted me and I decided against surrendering to the corrupt VC. i never knew, it ended my academic career.
Yes, I had been very impulsive as Namashudras are best known for. All Indigenous communities suffer from this sever personality disorder. I had to pay for it so often!
I returned to my village Basanti Pur and got involved in a quarrel during a drama festival. My friend Tekka was beaten. it enraged me so much that I stopped the show as I enjoyed the support of the youth and students whom I used to lead.
My father was very angry. it was a hot exchange as he suggested me that I had to be cool and work for peace!
The next day, I got a letter from Urmilesh. he had visited Dhanbad and was offered a job in a daily News paper. He was not interested. But he knew that I could do the job as I had a soft corner for Nationality Movement and Jharkhand.
Immediately I rushed to JNU. I told Urmilesh that I would be working there until next session opens. I wanted to have a feel of Indian Economy and I believed I might get the experience in Jharkhand. In 1980, Jharkhand was a part of Bihar. I was proud of Bihar`s indigenous History and present. i was aware of mass movements and general consciousness and awakening in Bihar. I wanted to be a part of all this. My family was not involved in all this vital decisions. Having reached Dhanbad I stayed with Hindi Poet Madan Kashyap who was a sub editor in Daily Awaz.
Brahm Dev Sharma, the editor and Bankim Babu, the manager welcomed me. Having joined Awaz, I informed my father.
Very soon, I was involved with Jharkhand movement. Beer Bahrat talwar was in Dhanbad and he and Man Mohan Pathak were publishing Shalpatra. Professor Prabhakar singh and Professor BB Sharma led the pro Jharkhand Intelligentsia.
Ak roy organised Prem Chand Jayanti. Mahashweta Debi was the chief guest. I had read all her prominent works including Hazar Churaseer Ma, Aranyer Adhikar, Chotti Mundra Teer and so on. In fact, I was introducing mahashweta literature to the readers of Awaz in my column in Awaz. Madan kashyap was to speak. but he had to leave Dhanbad for personal work. eventually I spoke. it was my first public exposure in Dhanbad. Mahashweta Di became a permanent Relation since that day. I was now very close to AK Roy.
Then, I began writing on Mines accidents. I joined classes in Indian School of Mines and CMRS. It was an interactive campaign which made me a journalist which I never intended. coal India had to declare officially that all mines are Unsafe and Mining is hazardous!
I got married in 1983. my wife Sabita belonged to Bijnore, U.P... She could not adjust in the coal fields. Then I shifted in Ranchi, in Prabhat Khabar. Finally I landed in Meerut, in 1984.

Since 1980 onwards , I am privileged to have a very responsive and favourable readership in Bihar as well as in Jharkhand. My novel Amerika se Savdhan was published serially in Awaz from Jamshedpur as well as Dhanbad since 1995 to 1997...

The Kosi swallowed fresh areas in Supaul, Saharsa, Araria and Madhepura districts of Bihar on Wednesday even as bad weather stopped three IAF choppers from conducting relief sorties. The death toll in the floods has mounted to 55 with nine more deaths reported from the region.
"Nevertheless, personnel of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Special Auxiliary Police (SAP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), state police and one column of the Army battled the elements to reach succour to victims," Additional Commissioner of Disaster Management Pratyay Amrit said.
With flood situation in Bihar turning grim, state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought central assistance of Rs 1,000 crore and one lakh tonnes of foodgrain immediately for the affected people.
After meeting Singh, Kumar told reporters here that "the Prime Minister has assured me all help. I am confident of getting full support of the central government."
"I requested the PM to give the state a relief package of Rs 1,000 crore and one lakh tonnes of foodgrain, preferably rice, to be distributed among the flood victims", Kumar said adding the PM will be carrying out an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas in Bihar tomorrow.
Pointing out that evacuation of marooned people stuck is on the top of his government's agenda, Kumar feared that the situation could turn worse in the months to come when the Kosi river releases more water.
Kumar also sought boats and tents in large numbers from the Centre to evacuate the flood victims and shelter them in safer areas.
"People in the worst-affected areas need to be evacauted early. The evacuated people may have to be kept in safer areas for a period of two to six months, which require a huge expenditure", the Chief Minister said.
Kumar said the number of affected people currently is 11 lakh, which can go up to 25 lakh if there is a further rise in the water level of Koshi, as has been the trend during September-October.
The government is currently estimating to keep 10 to 15 lakh people in tents, he said.

Union Minister and LJP President Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday ridiculed the Bihar government’s claim of an “unprecedented tsunami” wreaking havoc in five districts of the state.
The state government’s claim about the unprecedented tsunami is ridiculous. We can say the devastation caused by the floods in Bihar has been like that of tsunami”, Paswan told reporters at the airbase in Purnea after making an aerial survey of the affected areas in flood-hit Araria, Samastipur, Saharsa, Supaul, Purnea and Madhepura. He advised the state government to give up the confrontational attitude with the Centre, which was ready to provide all possible support and financial assistance to tackle the situation.
“The state government was alerted by the Meteorological department about the possibility of ravages likely to be caused by change of course of river Kosi in downstream Nepal.
Had the state government been alert, the situation could have been tactfully handled and the magnitude of damage minimised,” Paswan said.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's opposition to bandhs today invited sharp criticism from his party and allies alike who said it was "unbecoming" on the part of a veteran marxist like him to make such remarks.
The opposition Congress and Trinamool dubbed it as a "volte face" and said that staging bandh was a "fundamental right" of the workers which cannnot be curtailed at the call of Bhattacharjee.
Kerala Chief Minister and Bhattacharjee's party colleague V S Achuthanandan resented the anti-bandh remarks.
"I don't think he had expressed such an opinion. If he had said so, then it is wrong," Achuthanandan told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram.
West Bengal CITU General Secretary Kali Ghosh said "this is his personal belief. We have nothing to say against individual opinion.
"We believe workers will resort to strike as long as capitalism and exploitation are there," he said pointing out that the issue raised by Bhattacharjee should have been discussed within the party.
There were ripples within the Left Front with major partners CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc criticising his remarks as "undesirable from a communist leader".
Opposing Bhattacharjee's view, AITUC general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta, MP, said, "It is very unfortunate, more so as he is a leader of the communist movement.
"Strike is the last resort and it does not take place off and on. It also happens in industrialised countries".
CPI leader D Raja expressed surprise over the remarks saying "staging bandhs is a democratic right. How can it be curbed?.
Addressing an industrialists' meet yesterday, Buddhadeb had said he was opposed to bandhs and would not allow gherao-type agitations in the state as they were "illegal".
Reuters India reports from Patna
Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years.
One person was killed in Madhepura district when angry villagers fought among themselves over limited supplies of food and medicines at overcrowded relief centres.
The Kosi river in Bihar, one of India's poorest states, smashed through mud embankments and changed course last week, unleashing huge walls of water that inundated hundreds of villages and towns. The floods have since killed nearly 50 people in Bihar.
Stranded villagers waved at passing helicopters and sent text messages to local authorities from rooftops of flooded buildings.
"Time is running out for me and there is no relief in sight and I have not eaten for days," a message from flood victim Sanjeev Kumar read.
Torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people in South Asia since the monsoon began in June, mainly in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 725 people have lost their lives. Other deaths were reported from Nepal and Bangladesh.
Some experts blame the floods on heavier monsoon rains caused by global warming, while others say authorities have failed to take preventive measures and improve infrastructure.
Officials said flood victims had looted grain at some places in Bihar. Others ran for miles under helicopters that were dropping food packets. One boy was killed and about 30 people were injured in Supaul district when food packets fell on them.
"We have enough stock of food grains but the problem is that we have limited means of transport to supply them among the villagers," Rajesh Kumar Gupta, a government official in Madhepura, told Reuters by telephone. Continued...
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Mamata plays hardball over Singur compensation deal
Bano Haralu
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, (Kolkata)
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee's unflinching stand on her demand is forcing the government to try and work out a better compensation package.
This, despite the government maintaining that the compensation package by them is one of the best in the country.
For instance, for every acre of single-crop land bought in Singur the West Bengal government paid almost Rs 8 and a half lakhs and upto Rs 12 Lakh for each acre of multi crop land.
Whereas in the neighbouring state of Orissa the maximum compensation offered was Rs two lakh per acre in the case of the Kalinganagar Tata steel project.
The government claims the rehabilitation scheme is also catering to nearly 3000 employable persons from the acquired land area.
"When the land acquisition notice was issued at that time there was an advertisement and we requested all those land losers to register their names who are employable," West Bengal Commerce & Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said.
As a result, nearly 3000 people have registered their names in the WBIDC camp. Out of that, more than 500 are women and more than that 500 are agricultural people and agricultural laborers.
Their qualifications have been categorised and they are being provided with different kinds of training so that their skill upgradation can take place
But Mamata is neither impressed with the statistics nor the rehabilitation scheme.
However, her demand that 400 acres should be returned could perhaps scuttle the Nano project. That's because this land is not contiguous.
In a state like Bengal where 90 per cent of available land is fertile, it's inevitable that land acquired for industry will include agricultural land. But for Mamata, Nandigram or Singur are no longer about economics but about politics.
After 30 years of Left rule the opposition have latched on to an issue with which they can put pressure on the government.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080063092&ch=8/27/2008%206:27:00%20PM




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