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None can beat the RSS in its nefarious attempts to undo a democratic-secular India from within. This Hindutva brigade, knowing fully well that the politics of Hindutva is not acceptable to this country, continues evolving newest foul methods of communalizing the democratic-secular (…)
At a time when a progressive patina is being painted over the rule of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a reporter visiting Gujarat four years and six months after the pogroms finds a state where Muslims are being thrust forcibly into ghettos. The trauma of the butchery is as raw as ever. The (…)
Chief Minister Narendra Modi will use any trick in the book to get Gujarat its due. Modi accompanied Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to Israel last week — possibly the only foreign country that will host him now, after the 2002 Gujarat riots. Modi managed to establish an impossible (…)
Vadodara, May 19: The vice-president of the little-known Bazm-e-Aziz Charitable Trust, Mohammed Arif Sheikh, has sought permission from the Gujarat government to initiate criminal proceedings against mayor Sunil Solanki, municipal commissioner Rohit Pathak, Vadodara Municipal Corporation (…)
During those turbulent times when Hindutva was just about emerging like an incipient octopus, LK Advani told VP Singh, on being offered land to build a temple in Ayodhya, that the Sangh parivar was not that foolish. The slogan then was ‘Mandir wahin banayenge’ - exactly at the same spot where (…)
Citizen’s Inquiry Committee
Digant OzaHarsh ManderIrfan EngineerLakshmanbhai RathorePrasad ChackoRam PuniyaniRohit PrajapatiShabnam HashmiSuresh KhairnarUttambhai Parmar
Untold Story of Hindukaran (Proselyisation) of Adivasi (Tribal) in Dangs
Contents
Executive (…)
This was written for India Today’s special issue :“30 Years : Turning points in recent Indian history”. An edited version has appeared in the December 26, 2005 issue.
Imagine Gujarat in March 2002. What if the bloodthirsty mobs in Baroda had found Irfan Pathan or Zaheer Khan? What if Mohammed (…)
Dr. John DayalMember: National Integration Council, Government of IndiaNational President: All India Catholic Union (Founded 1919)Secretary General: All India Christian Council (Founded 1999)President: United Christian Action, Delhi (Founded 1992)
23d December, 2005
Dr Manmohan SinghHon’ble (…)
The Bharatiya Janata Party is a remarkably bad loser. During its six years in power in New Delhi, it deluded itself that as a proponent of Hindutva, it was the ’natural’ party of governance because 82 percent of Indians are Hindu by birth. The delusion persisted although the BJP couldn’t have (…)
The Following is the Text of the Press Statement by National Integration Council Member Dr. John Dayal, President, AICU and Secretary general, All India Christian Council.
Over the years, the nation has come to expect the most bizarre and dangerous statements from the hyper-nationalist (…)
The banner of revolt raised by Mr Raj Thackerary against his cousin and Mr Bal Thackeray’s heir-apparent Uddhav signifies the gravest-ever crisis in the Shiv Sena’s 39 year-long history. Raj decided to resign from all Sena posts within a few days of a crushing defeat inflicted on the Sena (…)
few could have expected the BJP and the Sangh Parivar to be ensnared in such an acute and protracted internal crisis so soon after being ousted from power. For the best part of its post-defeat period, the Parivar has been busy holding introspection sessions and battling ideological confusion and (…)
It is one of the ironies of our times that the US Government, notorious for its human rights violations across the world has unwittingly gladdened the hearts and minds of those in India and abroad fighting for social justice and secularism by denying US visa to Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister (…)
Islamic fundamentalism has been a topic of discussion worldwide in the decade of 1990,in general, and after September 11,in particular. Hindu fundamentalism, however, has gone, meantime, almost unnoticed internationally. The recent Hindu-Muslim riots, last February, in the Indian town of (…)
AS RIOTS FLARED across Gujarat, people started clutching at straws in the hope of saving something from the crisis. The immediate cause was supposedly the Godhra carnage — where several train cars carrying Hindu militants were burnt, killing fifty-eight. Not only was the incident condemned, but (…)
India’s entry into the new millennium has been marked by a series of dramatic ruptures with its post-independence settlement. The most insulated large economy of the capitalist developing world with the most autonomous bourgeois bloc has adopted a neo-liberal form of integration into the world (…)
From Ayodhya to Pokhran ; Ram Mandir to Shakti Peeth ; Jai Shri Ram to Bam Bolo. The BJP/RSS has yet again changed gear - this time, from religious fanaticism to (almost) ’secular’ jingoism.
At one level, the change is mere cosmetic rather than substantive and does not signify any fundamental (…)
WITH the dissolution of the 11 th Lok Sabha on December 4, 1997 the Indian media, almost as a body, have launched a concerted propaganda barrage to overwhelm the public with three meticulously manufactured Impressions. One, now the only issue before the Indian electorate is the stability of the (…)
Within a short while after the destruction of the Babri Masjid on 6th December 1992, Lal Krishna Advani boldly announced that on 6th December, a “national shame” had been abolished. The extremist fundamentalists are all agreed that by overthrowing a hundreds of years old symbol of “foreign (…)
This article was written in early 1993, in the aftermath of the Demolition of Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
Fascism in contemporary Indian as distinct from the European historical context had appeared till the other day a mere epithet, worn out by overmuch, indiscriminate use, (…)
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