Articles by Praful Bidwai

We are appalled at the police repression unleashed on the people protesting peacefully against the Koodan­kulam nuclear plant. The repression has forced them to take to a jal satyagraha.

In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age by Stephanie Cooke; Orient Blackswan, 2010; pp xv + 487, Rs 895.

The exposure of a Hindutva terrorist network behind the bombings in Malegaon and elsewhere should put paid to the widely prevalent assumption - shared by the police in numerous states and by the national security establishment - that terrorism in India is an enterprise run mainly, if not exclusively, by Islamic extremists. The rise of Hindutva terrorism cannot be seen in isolation from the climate of divisiveness and the culture of hate that the Bharatiya Janata Party has consciously promoted in its cynical pursuit of power.

in Perspective Crime and Money Laundering: The Indian Perspective by Jyoti Trehan; Oxford University Press, New Delhi,
PRAFUL BIDWAI Among the many varieties of corrupt and criminal financial practices prevalent in the world, perhaps none is as economically damaging as the flight of capital planned and executed systematically by tax evaders, financial racketeers, bribetakers, arms traders, extortionists, drug traffickers, mafia-style criminals, and of course,

The setting up of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace at the conclusion of the national convention held in New Delhi recently gives India's peace movement an organised presence and profile.