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May Day Dramatised

When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

40+ gas leaks, fires at refineries and oil wells in 4 years: Petroleum Ministry to LS

Admission made in a response to a Parliamentary question about the Baghjan oil well leakage and fire.

Swami Agnivesh, my friend

Ever since my wife and colleague, Teesta Setalvad and...

India loses a true guiding light under these dark times

Swami Agnivesh leaves behind a void that will be hard to fill

Reduce essential service cost, unburden the poor: Swaraj India

Members of Swaraj India demand that BESCOM reduce its electricity charges as previously directed by the Karnataka government.

Public buses continue of work bearing the brunt of the city

Following heated protests in Virar, SabrangIndia talked to commuters and public transport workers to weigh in on their opinions.

UP just got its first detention camp

Construction at Nandgram site completed, could be inaugurated in October

BJP Vs BJP: From Savarkar to Swamy over flyovers, and onto Twitter

Kannada groups object to name flyover after VD Savarkar, while Swamy wants party to act on his complaints

Shrey Hospital Fire: The curious case of the missing phones

It is bad enough that eight people died in the fire that broke out in the ICU, but now it turns out their phones may have been taken away before the fire

Covid-19 vaccine hits road bump, as India speeds towards 100,000 daily cases

As Oxford Covid vaccine trials paused in UK, Serum Institute of India gets show cause notice

Most dangerous thing is the death of our dreams: Pash (9 September 1950 – 23 March 1988)

Had he lived, written his poems of resistance in India today, he would have been called an “urban naxal’, jailed like Varavara Rao, or gunned down like Gauri Lankesh.

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May Day Dramatised

When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.