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The General Dilemma

The 2012 state election sees the crumbling BJP deploying their last and strongest card by replacing their floundering chief minister with one they unceremoniously dumped in 2009. While Khanduri has perhaps saved the party from an ignominious thumping at the polls, will it be enough…

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Negi to campaign for Raksha Morcha

The Uttarakhand Raksha Morcha (URM) will started its election campaign in Haridwar from tomorrow by holding public meetings. Legendary folk singer Narendra Singh Negi will be sharing the dais with the core team members of the morcha, including Lt-Gen Tej Pal Singh Rawat (retd), former…

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Taking forward Girda’s legacy

Writers, thinkers and intellectuals from across the state gathered in Nainital on Saturday to chalk out a road map for taking forward the legacy and thought of revolutionary folk poet and cultural activist Girish Tewari who is fondly remembered as Girda. The day-long deliberations were…

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A swami and sand mafia

Uttarakhand banned mining along Ganga over and again. Will it obey court order this time? Just a few days before Swami Nigamanand died while on a fast to protest state-sponsored sand mining and stone crushing along the Ganga near Haridwar, the Uttarakhand government ordered a…

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Hell in holy land

Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 26, Dated 02 July 2011 In the battle between the sadhus and the mining mafia over the Ganga, the BJP government in Uttarakhand has repeatedly and blatantly taken sides with the latter. Ashish Khetan & Manoj Rawat uncover the murky…

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Baba’s black sheep and the golden fleece

Ramdev and his aide Balkrishna seem to have spun an unholy empire using all kinds of means. Brijesh Pandey and Manoj Rawat reports from Haridwar [more]

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Pay the rich, for the rich

Ashish Kothari Hindustan Times June 16, 2011 The starkly disproportionate response of the government, media and the public to the two babas on fast over the last few days is symptomatic of a deep malaise in our democratic set-up. Capturing the headlines was Baba Ramdev,…

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Why did 36-year-old Nigamanand have to die?

Rituparna Chatterjee, IBNLive Updated Jun 14, 2011 at 04:19pm IST New Delhi: In his lifetime, Nigamanand, an ascetic fighting a lonely battle against quarrying activities in Uttarakhand, tried to draw the attention of the national media to an environmental disaster waiting to happen in the…

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Baba death bares Ramdev fast farce

By Raju Gusain in Dehradun Mail Today, June 13, 2011 BABA RAMDEV’S deluxe ward at Dehradun’s Himalayan Hospital was not far from that of his ‘fellow faster’ Swami Nigamanand. Yet, while the camera bulbs wouldn’t stop flashing as Ramdev broke his fast following nine days…

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Nigmanand died away from the spotlight

Swami Nigmanand passes away after a 68-day fast to save the Ganga Haridwar, June 13 The Tribune While yoga guru Ramdev hogged the media limelight as religious leaders and political dignitaries made a beeline for the Himalayan Hospital at Jollygrant near Rishikesh to offer him…

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