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The BJP’s covert roll back of its opposition to the Indo-US Nuke Deal had exposed its own surrender on the question of defending the nation’s sovereignty. In the wake of this surrender, the BJP has sought to shore up its sham of ‘nationalism’ by whipping up a storm over the so-called ‘Ram Setu’ (…)
It was shocking that three MLAs of Ittahidul Muslimin in Hyderabad gatecrashed into the book release function of her book Lajjai translated into Telugu on 9th August and tried to beat up Taslima and shouted slogans using unbecoming words, even using abusing language. And all this in the (…)
On August 9, 2007, the Centre for Enquiry, Hyderabad, held a meeting at the local press club, to celebrate the publication of two Telugu books, both translations, one from the Bengali of Taslima Nasrin, and the other from the Chinese (via English) of Jung Chang. Since the two authors are (…)
The Sangh Parivar has been trying to takeover the Gandhian Institute of Studies in Rajghat, Varanasi for some time through an expelled employee of the Institute Smt. Kusum Lata Kedia.
The Institute was founded by late Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) in 1960 with the purpose of building a closer (…)
The uncomfortable reality of discriminatory justice has raised its ugly head in riot cases.
Acknowledgement, remorse, justice and reconciliation are the accepted steps required for collective healing when wounds of an indescribable nature have been inflicted on a whole population.
In (…)
The Maharashtra chief minister has promised to reopen the riots cases mentioned in the Justice Srikrishna Commission report. It is a welcome step, even if similar promises have been made in the past. Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is under pressure to act since the Supreme Court has (…)
Taslima Nasreen attacked in Hyderabad during book launch
The Times of India, 9 August 2007
HYDERABAD: Taslima Nasreen, the controversial Bangladeshi novelist, was attacked on Thursday by Majid-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (MIM) activists in Hyderabad Press club.
The attack took place during the (…)
The convictions of around 100 people in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case has been accompanied by much euphoria by the Indian establishment. But the loud self-congratulations have only served to make the silence on the 1993 Mumbai riots all the more deafening. Those who unleashed the communal carnage (…)
TV JOURNALIST Sagarika Ghose said those worried words in a column last week. She was referring to a controversial verdict in which a hundred persons were handed stiff sentences, including death, by an anti-terror judge for alleged involvement in a string of blasts, which killed 257 people (…)
To: citizens of Mumbai, India and the world
The convictions of the accused in the 1993 Bombay blasts case are intended to be a form of redress for the 250 families who lost dear ones in the serial blasts and aim to send the message that the Indian system delivers justice for all crimes, (…)
SANJAY DUTT’S defence for keeping an AK-56 rifle and an 9 mm pistol was that they were for protecting his family as they were getting threatening calls during the 1993 Mumbai riots. His father, the late Sunil Dutt, was amongst the few trying to save the colonies under siege by hooligans. (…)
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE BILL
PUBLIC MEETING
Mehendi Nawab Jung Hall, Paldi, Ahmedabad
9th August 2007 : 4.30 - 7.30 pm.
As all of us are aware, the UPA Government had promised the nation a comprehensive legislation to combat communal violence. This legislation would be expected (…)
The Sikh fundoos have distorted out of all recognition the militant order of Khalsa that Guru Gobind Singh instituted in 1699. It is incomprehensible how anyone can project nine years of Khalsa as theraison d’êtreof Sikhism and give it precedence over 239 years of the history of Sikh Gurus. (…)
Liberation, May, 2007. Bharat Mata, Gau Mata and the Hindu woman. These are the three staples in the Hindu Right’s repertoire of communal venom. Bharat Mata (Mother India) is threatened by dismemberment; Gau Mata (Mother Cow) by disembowelment; and the Hindu woman is vulnerable to seduction, (…)
WHILE the earlier episodes of communal violence, the 10 days of curfew and the disruption of life were fresh in the memory of the people of Karnataka, the Sangh Parivar instigated yet another episode of well planned violence in two assembly constituencies of Bangalore where the BJP had (…)
Golwalkar’s book disparages democracy as alien to the Hindu ethos and extols the code of Manu...
THIS column generally deals more - much more - in appreciation than in depreciation. However, it is obligatory on the historian to also (occasionally) notice individuals whose influence on (…)
THE recent communal violence in Mangalore is part of the larger process of communalisation that the Sangh Parivar is engaged in throughout the country, and more particularly in the states where it holds the government, on its own or in partnership. Karnataka has seen considerable amount of (…)
RSS run schools are coming under a scanner, with MHRD minister contemplating action against them (Oct 2006). In last three decades thousands of schools of different variety have mushroomed, Ekal Vidyalaya, Sarswati Shishu Mandirs, and Vidya Bharati, run by RSS combine. Those working in the (…)
# Inmates do not have rudimentary civic amenities # “Overwhelming” number without ration cards
Special Correspondent,
NEW DELHI: Four-and-a-half years after the carnage of 2002, over 5,000 displaced families belonging to the minority community continue to live in camps in “sub-human (…)
A CPI(ML) fact-finding team comprising of Comrade Akhilendra Pratap, Md. Nihaluddin, General Secretary, PDF, Comrade Kaushal Kishore and Md. Salauddin, visited the riot affected Masauli town and Sahadatganj and Anupganj villages where riots broke out during Dussehra festival on 2 October and met (…)
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