Articles by N Venugopal

Assassinated by the enemies of the people on July 4 in Nellore, Ganti Prasadam’s legacy, which has taken root in the political culture of the Maoist movement in Andhra Pradesh, will grow and bear fruit.  

Even as the mass upsurges in the Arab world give new hope to progressives all over the world and instil confi dence in the strength of the masses, the pathetic situation of indifference and inaction in India causes despair.

The State on 2 July killed in cold blood Cherukuri Rajkumar, popularly known as Azad, spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), along with freelance journalist Hemchandra Pandey.

The recent clampdown on the Naxalite groups by the government of Andhra Pradesh was soon followed by a ban on the state's 35-year-old writers' association, Virasam. Although Virasam has undergone such harassment earlier, the question that needs to be answered is why a writers' association, which has done so much for the development of Telugu literature, should be declared "unlawful".

In Tune with Brahminical Legacy Curtailing Debate by Invoking 'Karma' REACTING to my critique of the traditional sciences congress ('Learning from a Legacy: How and What', February 5) L Kannan (Traditional Sciences and Technology', June 11) started off by saying that my way of looking at things "precludes any meaningful debate". I wonder if Kannan treats his own intervention as meaningless, since my piece at least did not preclude his debate! Kannan's is as brahminical a piece as can be, not only in skirting around the real issues, but also in using choicest epithets against the adversary. Rrahminism has developed over-killing as an art: it has 'sahasranama' to praise and as many abuses to denounce. In the same manner, Kannan used words and terms like disappointing, inadequate, effete intellectual reflex, archaic doctrinaire goggles, juvenile, gross lack of under-standing, paranoia, amusing, antiseptic talk, hog wash. armchair intellectual, slavish adherence to alien ideological baggage, petrified time warp, shibboleths, voodoo, intellectual underworld, etc, against me, my critique and my point of view.