भेदभाव
May 29, 2013
June 1, 2012
Though it is not exactly hot news, this might surprise our readers as much as it surprised us. In "the land of the free" – the United States of America, atheism continues to be a dirty word and atheists the most stigmatised community. That this is so has been borne out by a number of research studies in recent years. And given the growing Islamophobia post-9/11, the findings of...
March 31, 2012
This book, written by a member of the Communist Party is a brief account of the rise and fall of the RSS in Kerala. The book traces the multi-faceted approach of physical violence and an ideological offensive which the organisation used to make in-roads into a largely Communist dominated voter base. The book also traces the change in the approach of the Communist party which involved greater...
November 1, 2011
An interview with former Sachar Committee member Abusaleh Shariff
By Tritesh Nandan
Abusaleh Shariff, who is chief economist at the New Delhi-based think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research, served as member-secretary of the Sachar Committee, the prime minister’s high-level committee appointed to prepare a report on the ‘Social, Economic and Educational Status...
September 2, 2011
A REPORT ON THE ATTACKS ON MINORITIES AND THEIR PLACES OF WORSHIP IN KARNATAKA
PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ENQUIRY THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH
AND
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Conducted at the instance of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties,South Kanara
And
Transparency International India, Karnataka Chapter
By:
Justice Michael F. Saldanha,
Retired Judge, Karnataka High Court....
October 1, 2010
Religious Liberty in Gujarat, Kandhamal & Karnataka.
August 1, 2010
Muslims and media images: An interview with Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Based in New Delhi, Arfa Khanum Sherwani is an experienced journalist and the newly elected senior vice-president of the Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys’ Association. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, she talks about Indian Muslims and the media.
Q: Could you tell us something about your background?
A: I was...
April 1, 2010
Reservations for whom?
If the Sachar Committee report was made public soon after its submission in November 2006, the report of the Ranganath Misra Commission, though submitted in May 2007, was tabled in Parliament only in December 2009. And that too because the government was left with no choice after The Indian Express made its contents public, publishing chunks of the same. The government...