On the occasion of the Republic Day of India

An evening of presentations and discussions on some of the prominent struggles

against the State-Corporate nexus in India

India: State and Corporates Hand in Glove

Please join us and discuss

26 January (Tuesday), 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Room G2, SOAS, London (provisional)

• Opening Remarks

• POSCO Not Welcome: South Korean President, chief guest

of this year’s Republic Day, inaugurates the Posco project in
Orissa even as strong local opposition continues

• Dantewada Despatch: Readings from Javed Iqbal’s reports

on site from Dantewada that highlight the violence of
Operation Green Hunt, Indian Government’s battle against its
own people

• Vedanta Onsalught: Film clippings from Samarendra Das’s

film Wira Pdika (Earthworm and Company Man) which brings
to light the human and environmental disaster of Vedanta mining in the Niyamgiri
region

• Bhopal 1984-?: Updates from the continuing struggle in Bhopal by the victims of
DOW-Carbide’s many poisons

• DFID and India: A discussion on the contemporary role of the British state and
NGOs in the implementation of neoliberal policies in India.

• Closing Remarks

Organised by the Release Binayak Sen Now Campaign, U.K.