[PEN-L:1801] Re: SHOCKING NEWS: INDIAN GOVERNMENT COMMITTED MASS MURDER IN

[pchakrav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pauline Chakravartty)]

I'm not sure where this news report is originating about the forced
extermination of thousands of "untouchables" by the Indian government from
1980-1989, but as a student of South Asian politics, I have never heard of
such a thing. The Prime Ministers in the period were Indira Gandhi/Rajiv
Gandhi. The bourgeois bastards who rule Calcutta are Marxists. Calcutta is
in West Bengal, which has been ruled by the CPI(M), a Marxist-Leninist
party which has been in power for over 20 years. Calcutta is not
necessarily an easy place to live in, in Western standards, but it is a
very political city, with freedom of the press, particularly on the left,
with wider parameters than in this country, so I somehow doubt that this
story didn't make it to the Indian presses.

I don't know if John Waterman is the best source for news in this context.

>From the black hole of Madison, WI.

p. chakravartty.