राजनीती
December 29, 2015
Acknowledgement, remorse, justice and reconciliation are the accepted steps required for collective healing when wounds of an indescribable nature have been inflicted on a whole population. In Gujarat, five years after independent India’s worst genocide, there has been little or no acknowledgement of the crimes and no question therefore of any expression of remorse from perpetrators and...
December 29, 2015
The anti-Sikh riots in 1984 and violence in Gujarat, after killing of 59 Ram Bhaktas in Godhra Railway Station, in 2002, and subsequent subversion of Criminal Justice System in Gujarat State, had inflicted infamy on the image of Indian State and its commitment to the Rule of Law. Unlike terrorist attacks and explosions, no communal riots can prolong unless the authorities avoid implementation of...
December 28, 2015
INDEPENDENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL
On Sardar Sarovar Claims and Realities of Development and Rehabilitation
(September 11th and 12, 2015 at Rajghat, Badwani, M.P.)
Justice (Retd.) Panachand Jain
Rajasthan High Court
Justice (Retd.) V. D. Gyani
Madhya Pradesh High Court
Justice (Retd.) N.K. Modi
Madhya Pradesh High Court
Justice (Retd.) Nagamohan...
December 23, 2015
Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy,
Justice D. A. Desai,
Justice D. S. Tewatia (Panel)
In the December of 1992, when the Babri Masjid was demolished, the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), then in the Opposition, rode piggy-back on the more rabid Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) combine, and even participated, and celebrated the demolition of...
December 22, 2015
Destruction of the Babri Masjid: A National Dishonour is a sequel to The Babri Masjid Question 1528 2003: A Matter of National Honour , published in 2003 in two volumes a compilation by A.G. Noorani of documents and primary source material on various aspects of the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute, covering the demolition of the Masjid on 6 December 1992, and the legal proceedings in the...
December 18, 2015
बाप के मरने पर सभी रोते हैं। रामखेलावन जी भी, एकदम बिलख-बिलखकर रो रहे थे कि अचानक दो भारी डील-डौल के लोग उनके घर आये। रामखेलावन जी ने सोचा, ग़म में शरीक होने आये होंगे, इसलिए और ज़ोर-ज़ोर से दहाड़ मारने लगे। लेकिन उन पहलवान टाइप अजनबियों में से एक ने उन्हे बहुत ज़ोर से डांटा— "ख़बरदार, शोर मत मचाओ। हम यहां सरकारी काम से आये हैं।"
"सरकारी काम?"...
December 13, 2015
Economist, Jean Dreze questions the skewed priorities of the Modi regime
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Q: India’s economic record is a little confusing. Some observers feel that the Indian economy is in recession, others that it is booming. Where does the truth lie?
Ans: Around the time of the last Lok Sabha elections...
December 12, 2015
Published on: December 12, 2015
प्राचीन मान्यता है, राजा ईश्वर का रूप होता है। आधुनिक मान्यता है, जनता जिसे चुनती है राजा वही होता है, भले ही वह खुद को सेवक क्यों ना बताये। राजा चाहे राजतांत्रिक तरीके से बना हो या फिर जनतांत्रिक तरीके से, भक्त हर युग में उसे भगवान साबित करने पर तुले रहते हैं। लेकिन किसी के साबित करने से राजा कभी भगवान नहीं बन पाता है बल्कि इसके लिए उसे वास्तव में ईश्वरीय...
December 12, 2015
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Haunting impressions of a fascist curriculum
By Javed Anand
In July 2010 well-known secular activist Suresh Khairnar spent several hours at the Goa headquarters of the Sanatan Sanstha and came out convinced that it is the most rabid Hindu organisation in the country, engaged in an attempt to Talibanise Hindus. For various reasons we were unable to...