Dr. Amit Sengupta shares with Newsclick the crucial local context behind the success of the recently concluded Tunis World Social Forum. He also discusses how the Tunis chapter went on to become a forum of resistance and how it changed many minds doubting the utility of the World Social Forum.

On 26th December 2004 the then UPA-I Government promulgated an ordinance -- The Patents (Amendment) Ordinance, 2004.

The Sangharsh Sandesh Jathas organised by the CPI(M) concluded with a big public meeting held at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on March 19.

The Vision Document of AAP* brings no surprises. It puts down in black and white what its main protagonists have been saying for the last two years.

Prabir Purkayastha, a power expert and also with Newsclick discusses the reasons for the 2 grid collapses on 30th and 31st July. These collapses are the direct consequence of "open access" and transferring large amounts of power between regional grids. He believes that it is a precursor to a much bigger crisis of the power sector caused by wrong policies of the neo-liberal regime running India.