भेदभाव
December 1, 2002
To our readers
On November 21, 2002, an eight–member Concerned Citizens Tribunal, consisting of retired supreme court and high court judges, activists and academics, released a report based on a detailed investigation into the gruesome carnage in Gujarat, earlier this year. The report, ‘Crime Against Humanity’, is a severe indictment of the Gujarat government, senior IAS and...
September 1, 2002
M E S S A G E
Secularism and humanism are basic features of our Constitution even as egalite and compassion are the finer components of our Paramount Parchment. To sustain these precious values is a fundamental duty of every citizen of India. To resist aggression on this composite cultural heritage is a primary obligation if we are truly Indians.
In this humane perspective, communalism is...
June 11, 2002
86 pages
Leah Levin
Illustrated by Plantu
NATIONAL BOOK TRUST, INDIA in collaboration with UNESCO Publishing
Language - English
Read online: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/humanrightsnbt.pdf
June 1, 2000
A collective investigation into the Aug 3-10, 2000 post bandh violence all over Gujarat state tracks the most recent evidence of how the state ‘s minorities — Muslims and Christians — live in a state of terror, ghettoised, with their patriotism forever under question.
Gujarat 1998 - 2000 is live testimony to the utter contempt that the Indian Constitution and the rule of law...
March 1, 2000
Born in 1962, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen shot to international fame in 1993 when her novel Lajja – a story on the plight of a persecuted Hindu family in Bangladesh following the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in December 1992 — was banned by the Bangladesh government succumbing to the outcry of fanatics belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami and other communal...
June 10, 1998
Compilation of evidence produced before the Srikrishna Commission of Inquiry into the December 92 - January 93 Mumbai Riots
August 13, 1997
Vishakha and others v State of Rajasthan was a 1997 Indian Supreme Court case where Vishakha and other women groups filed Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against State of Rajasthan and Union of India to enforce the fundamental rights of working women under Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India. The petition was filed after Bhanwari...
April 8, 1995
On February 25, 1992, Professor Mushirul Hasan was appointed as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia, a central government-run university in Delhi. But he has been unable to step onto the campus since April 22, 1992, after a violent agitation was launched against him by a section of students obviously backed by self-styled Muslim Politicians.
His crime? When asked by Louise Fernandes, a...