Best of Hardnews

With in-depth analysis, insightful ground reports and academic rigour, here are some of the stories that have been respected and appreciated by our readers. Watch out for our weekly updates.
Hardnews Bureau

Red is the colour of blood
There is clear evidence after the massacre that 'Operation Nandigram' was jointly conducted by the police and armed cadre of the ruling CPI(M)
Rajat Roy Nandigram
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/09/1261

The train stops at Nandigram
After 30 years of being big bully, big brother in Orwellian West Bengal, with 'Buddha' being equated with Narendra Modi as 'the role model of development', Nandigram might mark the epitaph of the CPI(M) in 'India Shining'
Amit Sengupta Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/04/870

Celebrate the resistance
The Left tradition is alive. In the amazing resistance of peasants, among poor people who cling to their urban dwellings and livelihood, in the unprecedented, tumultuous expressions of solidarity with the people of Nandigram that now rock cities and towns
Tanika Sarkar Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1263

Who is the Left?
We salute the magnificent spirit in which secular-democratic and genuinely socialist forces in Bengal express their dissent. Maybe, a Left politics will emerge out of this churning. It cannot possibly come out of the morally bankrupt official Left
Sumit Sarkar/Tanika Sarkar Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/12/1860

Let America be America again...
The Left is becoming respectable. Anti-Bushism is not only getting mainstreamed, it has  become commercially viable. Even while blacks are pushed to the ghettos of abject poverty and big corporations call the shots
Sanjay Kapoor Washington
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1363

Ten per cent growth amid the dance of death
To revive Indian agriculture from the abyss of low growth and mass suicides, farmers desperately need an income commission as a social security net
Devinder Sharma Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/09/1210

It didn't hurt when farmers were dying
Bailing out farmers from a distressing situation is considered bad economics. The sooner politicians emerge out of it the better it would be for growth, development and justice Devinder Sharma Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/11/2427

The Burning Train
And why exactly is this train called India headed for disaster?
Satya Sivaraman Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/11/2428

Power flows from the barrel of the BALLOT
Can Maoists form the government in Nepal? Will the army follow     protocol? Will the king go and the parties accept the Maoists? Will the mandate    overcome the feudals? Will India checkmate Washington?
Amit Sengupta Kathmandu
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/06/2211

Black earth, red hope
The simple mountain community of landless Tharus, condemned to abject exploitation as bonded labourers, are pitching their hope on the Maoists. Will the red flag change their lives?
Akash Bisht Surkhet
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/06/2208

Black Is Beautiful
If Barack Obama has made history, he can change it too. Yes, he can.
Sanjay Kapoor, Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/11/2413

Dr Binayak Sen, My Brother, My Hero
Twenty two Noble Laureates pleaded for him in an appeal to the PM. He was given the highest American medical award, honours by medical colleges and doctors in recognition of his protracted work for the poor in remote interiors. And yet, he is condemned in jail on fabricated charges by the BJP government in Chhattisgarh. Dr Binayak Sen's younger brother arrives from Belgium to seek justice for his Dada, and discovers a saga of pain and injustice. Special to Hardnews
Dipankar Sen Raipur/Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/08/2328

NREGA: It's Been A HARD Day's Night
The scheme has received flak from several quarters for widespread corruption, lack of efficiency and accountability, cheating the jobless, landless poor, among other reasons. Hardnews enters the twilight zones across the nation, as the NREGS stumbles from stunning life affirmation and optimism, to the inevitability of blind alleys and sudden death.
Akash Bisht Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/07/2265

The Terrorist who was not a terrorist
Eyewitness account of a young boy picked up from his home in Jamia Nagar by the Special Cell
Amit Sengupta/Akash Bisht Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/10/2388

Not the last tango in Tibet
Lhasa has not yet recovered from the jolts of the March uprising. Between economic prosperity and visible censorship, it's a deceptive Tibetan tangle
Amit Sengupta Lhasa
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/08/2306
 
A COUNTRY OF Dream
As it reaches the pinnacle of economic boom with the Great Olympic Games, will Superpower China change?
Amit Sengupta Beijing
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/08/2305

Stiglitz and Sen, Profits and Pain
Every economist - and Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen are iconic iconoclasts within the tribe - is career-habit-and-hide-bound to pay   his homage to the wisdom of market forces, even when he is critical of them
Assem Srivastava Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2008/08/2301

Octopus of Hate
Despite the current political setback and its failure to expand its xenophobic base, the RSS and its brand of Hindutva is resilient and kicking
Pralay Kanungo Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2007/10/1337

No more SHORTCUTS for India
As always, workers have to bear the brunt of any adjustment and restructuring by business in a period of recession. That is how capitalism works.
Aseem Srivastava Delhi
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2009/01/2482

Agony of Palestine
Dilip Simeon, Hardnews Bureau
http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2009/02/2566