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September 10, 2014
September 10, 2014   Sadbhav Mission B16, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi 110017     Prof. V. K. Tripathi Convenor   Shri Narendra Modi Hon’ble Prime Minister South Block New Delhi 110001   September 10, 2014   Sub.: Prime Minister’s Address to Children on Shikshak Divas   Hon’ble Sir, Shikshak Divas has a sanctity. It has...
September 6, 2014
Destruction of Record by the MHA Post May 2014 Dear all, Readers may remember the furore in the Rajya Sabha on 9th July when an Hon'ble Member raised an issue of destruction of files of historical value as alleged in news reports published that day. Several members expressed their concern over this alleged files destruction. First, the Union Minister for Law and Justice denied that any...
May 1, 2014
When Justice Becomes the Victim The Quest for Justice After the 2002 Violence in Gujarat May 2 0 1 4 This report was authored by Stephan Sonnenberg, Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law with the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (IHRCRC).  The Stanford IHRCRC is one of ten clinics in the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School.   The...
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...
October 1, 2011
Fear and the farce Even for a party that pays mere lip service to constitutional principles, it was a moment of great shame.  A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India directs the Special Investigation Team (SIT) – specially appointed by the court to reinvestigate the major cases of carnage in Gujarat in 2002 – to also investigate the role of chief minister Narendra...
March 1, 2011
Hindutva’s evil genius The sangh parivar is not just a sick organisation suffering from a blind and incurable hatred of Muslims and Christians. It is far worse than that. There is a method in the murder and mayhem that it promotes and perpetrates, which clearly points to an evil genius at work. Forget the average Indian, most secular activists outside Karnataka will probably remember the...
October 1, 2010
Religious Liberty in Gujarat, Kandhamal & Karnataka. 
January 6, 2010
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...