Intellectuals join BUPC Martyrs’ Day rally in Nandigram

Font Size -

Express news service

Posted online: Tuesday , January 08, 2008 at 12:00:00
Updated: Tuesday , January 08, 2008 at 01:16:58

Kolkata, January 7 Both the CPM and Trinamool observed Monday as Martyrs’ Day in Nandigram, in memory of their supporters who were killed a year ago in the violence that has characterised the struggle to acquire farmland for industry.

The opposition packed in a good show with nearly 150 intellectuals reaching Nandigram to participate in a rally at Bhangabeda and Sonachura. Nearly 5,000 villagers marched in the rally, the frontline of which had filmmaker Aparna Sen, author Mahasweta Devi, drama personae Shaonli Mitra and actor Kaushik Sen.

Sen addressed the rally at Sonachura bazar and said the people of Nandigram have created an example by organising a year-long movement against a state government. She would always stand by the people on their struggle, Sen said.

Author Mahasweta Devi said the movement has been sustained for so long because it drew from the determination of thousands of villagers. She said their struggle should inspire others in the country to resist the taking away of farmland for industry.

Bookmark this Page

What is this?

Digg

On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

del.icio.us

At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.

To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

Reddit

Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Digg

My Yahoo

Fark

del.icio.us

Newsvine

Rate this Article

Rating

Post Comments

Name*		Email ID*
Subject*		Country*
Message*	Characters remaining

TERMS OF USE: The views represented here are not neccesarily endorsed by www.expressindia.com and its allied websites. All messages will be moderated and no message that has inflammatory, abusive, derogatory language or any language deemed unfit for publication by the editor will be displayed. Though it will be endeavoured that as many messages as possible be displayed, there will be time lag between the submission and publication of the messages. The website reserves the right to publish or reject any message.

I agree to the terms of use.