30
July, 2003
Antony Must
Resign
Online petition campaign against A.K.Antony's statement
against minorities in Kerala. Please
sign the petition
26 July, 2003
Foreign Direct
Investment In Hatred
By Kalpana Wilson
Pro-Hindutva organisations have come to rely on
the moral and material support of the Indian diaspora. The key to this
is the fostering of strong idealogical roots in these communities
25 July, 2003
And Justice
For All
By Hosbet Suresh
If we look at every communal riot that has taken
place in India, we would find hundreds and thousands of victims who
have no chance of getting justice. The majority of such victims belong
to the minority community
20 July, 2003
Look
What Best Bakery Judge Also Dished Out
By Manoj Mitta
H U Mahida, the judge, who acquitted all the 21
accused in the Best Bakery Case links job reservations as a cause for
communal riots in his verdict
18 July, 2003
Antony- Kerala's
Terminator Seed?
By Binu Mathew
Kerala Chief Minister A.K. Antony's statments against
minorities have done irreparable damage to the social fabric of Kerala
and will make it a breeding ground of fascist forces
17 July, 2003
It's All About
Pluralism
By Mohammad Shehzad
'The Pakistani perception of the Indian Muslims
being an oppressed lot is an overdrawn picture. They do have problems,
but no government in India has ever denied fundamental rights to the
Muslims,' - An Interview with Azghar Ali Engineer
13 July, 2003
Ayodhya: A
Future Bound By The Past
By Sumanta Banerjee
Fearful of an adverse judicial verdict, L K Advani,
Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and others of their ilk are now keen
on an out-of-court settlement of the Ayodhya dispute which will put
an end to the court cases against them
12 July, 2003
Hating Romila
Thapar
By Subhash Gatade
Why the Hindutva brigade has set its sights on
Indias most distinguished historian
11 July, 2003
Crisis Of Archaeology
By Irfan Habib
If the unprecedented court order to excavate the
Babri Masjid site for historical evidence whether there existed a temple
previously, did not do worse at Ayodhya, part of the credit goes to
the numerous archaeologists, who maintained a constant vigil at the
excavations.
04 July, 2003
Blah, blah,
blood
By Rajmohan Gandhi
VHP plan to use the Shivaji-Afzal Khan picture
as a weapon; an inspiring example of what Hindus should be doing, and
also to provoke Muslim violence which would serve as a pretext for a
pogrom of the post-Godhra kind
03 July, 2003
Clandestine
Survey Of Christians And
Muslims In Kerala
The Home department of the central government is
conducting a clandestine survey of Christians and Muslims to collect
information on their churches,mosques and the related institutions like
schools or orphanages.
A Devious Ayodhya
Solution Will Fail
By Praful Bidwai
There must be no humiliating, dishonourable, unjust
compromise, which erases the crime committed against Indian secularism
in December 1992
30 June, 200
RSS and Fascism
By Shyam Chand
The RSS is an organised hypocrisy, criminalised
communalism, institutionalised terrorism and mytho-logised falsehood.
It pretends to be a cultural organi-sation but it is a criminal mafia
of the anti-national fascist forces
Religion And
Communalism
By Asghar Ali Engineer
Religion is not only part of problem it can also
be part of solution, if handled imaginatively
29 June, 200
BJP - The Saffron
Years
By Sabrang Alternate News Network
Taking a look at the last five years of BJP rule
in India
26 June, 200
Hedgewar
And RSS
By Sushila Ramaswamy
Compared to Gandhi's elaborate and inclusive plank
that included every single Indian, Hedgewar was a minor prophet whose
prescriptions reflected a myopic world view resulting in a narrow social
base for the RSS
23 June, 200
In Hindutva
Genes:Treason and Moral Turpitude
By I.K.Shukla
"Savarkar should have been tried for treason.
He was let go in those days of national euphoria. It only whetted his
passion for more treason and grosser crime, culminating in Gandhi's
assassination"
15 June, 200
How Textbooks
Teach Prejudice
By Teesta Setalvad
Forget RSS-run Shishu Mandirs and Muslim madrassas.
Textbooks prescribed by even secular central and state education
boards in the country promote religious, caste and gender prejudice
14 June, 200
Will Bajrang
Dals Real Dad Please Stand Up
By Shamsul Islam
Many of the organisations of the sangh parivar
are organized on a true fascist and clandestine manner. The RSS runs
like a well-organized mafia through its subsidiaries
13 June, 200
The Emergency
And The Sangh
By Arvind Rajagopal
The Emergency rendered the Jana Sangh, the BJP's
predecessor, respectable, and paved the way for it to enter the mainstream
of Indian politics
11 June, 200
In Search Of
Gandhi And Godse
By Harsh Mander
During a hectic schedule of speaking engagements
that recently buffeted me across the length and breadth of the United
States, I witnessed a diaspora in tumult, even more polarised, divided
and wounded, than the middle classes in India today.
10 June, 2003
Textbook Troubles
By Siddhartha Deb
Hindu Nationalists Rewrite India's Past-Conveniently
The Nation That
Is India
By Irfan Habib
There is a strong case for a nation that is India.
But Communalism and parochialism are its worst enemies, whatever nationalist
masks these might wear. The Indian people, hopefully, will retain the
vision of the Indian nation and reject everything that seeks to undermine
it