PWG leader and Revolutionary writer Varavara Rao contradicted the notion that Peoples War Group was banned because it was violent in nature. He claimed that it became violent because it was banned!

"Since there is a ban on these organisations and there is no grassroots level organisation to take up such issues, armed squads are going to the villages," he said.

He also railed against himself and took strong exception to his own earlier statements.

Varavara Rao, like many other rights activists, takes exception to the use of term People's War Group and says it is not a group but a political party - Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) People's War.

During an online chat on Rediff a few years ago, Varavara Rao had claimed, "In fact, it is the tribals under the leadership of the Peoples War Group who are fighting against the entry of MNCs into Bastar..."

What caused this fire is still a mystery. What is clear is that in all likelihood Muslim mobs outside Godhra station did not rush to the Sabarmati Express and torch it as the police chargesheet would have us believe.

In May this year, the life transforming message of the Lord Jesus Christ drove a student to attempt suicide at Mysore. Mrs.Velangani, the Principal of KR Hospital Nurse Training College attempted to forcibly convert the students of the college and was suspended after angry students agitated against her. Mysore Medical College Bulletin, a blog about events at Mysore Medical College covers the case in detail. Be sure to check out the archives for news in the month of May.

Why then were Sikhs butchered? The only `cause' of the massacre was the attempt of Hindu nationalists (mainly `secular') to teach the Sikh community a political lesson - that it must submit to the political will of the majority, and they succeeded in their mission because of the blatantly partisan and communal role of the law-enforcement machinery, which functions as a subordinate body organised to provide the maximum political satisfaction to the "rulers".

"We need to learn from the Chinese model of rural business hubs that add value to agricultural produce within the rural area."

This is not the first time that Manmohan Singh has attempted to follow Chinese methods. While he was the Finance Minister in the Narasimha Rao Government, he was criticised for changing the definition of poverty and bringing down the percentage of those below the poverty line.