धार्मिक कट्टरपन
January 1, 2017
फ़हद सईद
दिल्ली कि एक अदालत ने इरशाद अली और उनके साथी मौरिफ कमर को बेगुनाह करार दिया।आज से तकरीबन 10 साल पहले 9 दिसंबर 2006 को दिल्ली पुलिस ने उन्हें आतंकवाद के इल्जाम में गिरफ्तार किया था। बताया गया कि वे दोनों प्रतिबंधित आतंकी संगठन अल-बदर के सदस्य हैं। पुलिस ने उस वक्त मीडिया को दिखाया कि गिरफ्तारी के वक्त उनके पास से पिस्तौल, गोलियां व डेटोनेटर बरामद हुए हैं। दोनों के खिलाफ आइपीसी...
January 1, 2017
नई दिल्ली। केंद्र में भाजपा सरकार आने के बाद दलितों और महिलाओं पर लगातार अत्याचार बढ़ रहे हैं। यही नहीं बदलाव की आड़ में दलितों और महिलाओं के संघर्ष की लड़ाई का इतिहास भी दबाया जा रहा है। ऐसा ही कुछ करने की कोशिश की है भारत सरकार द्वारा संचालित केंद्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा बोर्ड ने। सीबीएसई ने 19वीं सदी में दक्षिण भारत में अपने स्तनों को ढकने के हक के...
December 30, 2016
Every December, lexicographers around the world choose their “words of the year”, and this year, perhaps more than ever, the stories these tell provide a fascinating insight into how we’ve experienced the drama and trauma of the last 12 months.
There was much potential in 2016. It was 500 years ago that Thomas More wrote his Utopia, and January saw the launch of a year...
December 30, 2016
As early as January, when David Bowie departed the scene, some were already looking dubiously at 2016. Bowie was an icon of the 1970s, the era when what is now the dominant section of the population in most Western societies in terms of spending power – the post-war baby boomers – came to maturity. As more cultural legends from that age also died – many without the last burst of...
December 30, 2016
Radicalism is nothing but a byproduct of misinformation coming back to haunt us
The youth today have a different thinking process/BIGSTOCK
As a journalist, I often come across young people who are eager to listen to my views on global events which often cannot be explained unequivocally.
During the invasion of Iraq and then Libya, the common questions were around the...
December 30, 2016
Students unions and opposition party Congress have raised serious objections to the incident of RSS workers climbing atop a heritage monument and chanting communals and ‘objectionable slogans.
The alleged incident, according to a report by Indian Express, took place on 24 December when a group of RSS workers clibmed the top of the Kareng Ghar, an 18th-century palace which is now an ASI-...
December 30, 2016
There are a little less than 4 lakh Catholic priests in the world, actually 3.92 lakh in 1992, the year for which authentic data is available. Every year many are killed, injured or arrested in the world’s hotspots, from the steamy forests of Latin America where they face hostile governments and drug lords, through to Indonesia, Malaysia, and occasionally, India. And now,...
December 30, 2016
In Dhulagarh, a principle is at stake – that of free and unfettered access to journalists to report.
This is a very straight and simple issue that involves press freedom and I will try and keep this piece short. It concerns the First Information Report (FIR) against Zee TV and its news editor Sudhir Chaudhary. They have been reporting on the riots which took place...
December 30, 2016
Dhulagarh seems divided along political, rather than religious, lines.
Image credit: Ipsita Chakravarty
Dhulagarh, a small town 25 kms west of Kolkata, is sectioned off between parties. At the Shiv Kali temple on the Puratan Chowrasta, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and other Hindu groups are organising “traan” or relief for people who lost their homes in the...
December 29, 2016
Several incidents of organised violence against ethnic and religious minorities took place in 2016.
Opportunistic groups have used religion as a political device creating an atmosphere of fear making hundreds of minorities leave Bangladesh in large numbers that experts say they have not seen since the Liberation War.
Although the constitution protects religious freedom and ensures...