भेदभाव
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...
October 5, 2009
This is a combined report of two important committees and their findings. The People's Tribunal on the Atrocities Committed Against the Minorities In The Name of Fighting Terrorism from Hyderabad and the National Meet on the Status of Muslims in Contemporary India. The report is a compilation of real life stories and the discrimination faced by the Muslims in various parts of...
May 1, 2009
Gujarat on trial
An order and a judgement of the Supreme Court – in quick succession, on April 27 and May 1 – both pertaining to the genocide in Gujarat in 2002, together constitute a defining moment for the judicial process in the Narendra Modi-ruled state.
In May 2002 Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) had filed a petition in the apex court arguing that given the...
April 1, 2009
A Report by PUCL, Bhubaneshwar & Kashipur Solidarity Group, Delhi
March 1, 2009
Vigilante Attacks on Women and Minorities, 2008-09
Report by People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Karnataka (PUCL-K)
November 1, 2008
Will they bash up universities in Jakarta and other places for teaching different versions of the Ramayana?: Romila Thapar
The controversial decision earlier this month by the Academic Council of Delhi University to drop AK Ramanujan’s celebrated essay on the Ramayana, ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation’, from the BA history (honours)...
December 1, 2007
Women’s rights in Islam: Interview with Asra Nomani
When Asra Nomani became the first woman in her mosque in West Virginia to insist on her right to pray in the male-only main hall, she invited a barrage of criticism from Islamic leaders. But her actions also got her invited to the first International Congress on Islamic Feminism, held in October 2005 in Barcelona.
The conference...
September 1, 2007
Sixty years in the life of a people
Sixty years in the life of a nation and its people is both a benchmark – a significant anniversary – as well as a quotidian number, sixty years. Concerned with issues of freedom and democracy, creativity and diversity, law and governance, Communalism Combat decided to mark the occasion by evaluating the creative
space and the public sphere as we...
June 1, 2007
Why we cannot forget
To start with, our sincere apologies to all readers for the big time lag between the last issue of CC, "Minority Report", and the issue now in your hands. The main reason for this delay relates to the subject matter of this issue, where our prime concern has been to provide extensive information so
that readers can better appreciate the nature of the "...