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May 25, 2006

Social Movement Opposes Tata Steel in India: 37 Wounded & 13 Dead

Stolen for Steel: Tata Takes Tribal Lands in India

by Nityanand Jayaraman, Special to CorpWatch May 25th, 2006

Jug-ger-naut n [Hindi Jagannath, lit., lord of the world, title of Vishnu] 1: a massive inexorable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path.

-Webster's Dictionary

Every year the festival of the Lord Jagannath swells the beach town of Puri, about 300 miles west of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). The climax is a procession where hundreds of men pull giant statues of Hindu gods mounted on three 45-foot chariots through the streets...

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Posted by rjorr at May 25, 2006 10:53 AM