धार्मिक कट्टरपन
November 3, 2016
Even as ‘facts’ come in flying thick and fast in this ‘developing story’, as a film-maker I cannot but help analyze the script/ screenplay/ dialogues offered so far by the cops, the Chief Minister and assorted BJP spokespersons on TV.
Firstly, let me acquaint you with a basic premise: Cinema works on the basis of “willing suspension of disbelief”....
November 2, 2016
As the Rohingya Muslim community from Myanmar is believed to be on the ultimate stage of genocide, the de facto leader of the country and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is accused of islamophobia and is being slammed for her inaction on the alleged attempt of the ethnic cleansing of the community from the country.
An online petition on a platform called Change.org has...
November 2, 2016
Admitting that it’s his party’s policy to differentiate on the basis or religion, Assam minister and convenor of the BJP’s North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday asked the people to choose their enemy between “1-1.5 lakh people or the 55 lakh people?”, according to an Indian Express report.
Himanta Biswa Sarma ...
November 2, 2016
Condemning the state’s role in the pandemonium created in Kashmir post the killing of Hizbul Mujahidin commander Burhan Wani, several activists, academicians, journalists and filmmakers call for an end to the violence in the Valley.
In a statement endorsed by 172 individuals and 14 organisations, attention has been called to the several issues including the gagging of media, mangling...
November 2, 2016
फर्जी एनकाउंटर में मारे गए 8 सिमी कार्यकर्ताओं की हत्या पर अब केन्द्र की बीजेपी सरकार ने जमकर राजनीति करनी शुरू कर दी है। कल सरकार में तीन मंत्रियों ने इस पर भड़काऊ भाषण दिए थे।
जिनमें सबसे पहले कल मध्य प्रदेश के बीजेपी शासन वाली सरकार की जेल मंत्री ने एक मीडिया चैनल से बात करते हुए कहा था कि “आप लोगों को हमारी तारीफ करनी चाहिए कि हमने आरोपियों के भाग निकलने के बावजूद उन्हें मार...
November 2, 2016
The Hindus of Nasirnagar area in Brahmanbaria district who had chosen not to flee despite massacres committed against them during the 1971 Liberation War are now thinking of it as the last option to save their life.
Two Hindu women offer devotion before an idol of Lord Shiva, broken from an attack on the temple at Makhalpara, Brahmanbaria on Sunday. The photo was taken yesterday MAHMUD...
November 2, 2016
Right-wing movements are repackaging ideas from white nationalism into a new, more middle-class culture by using the strategies and language of the left (4,500 words).
This article first appeared in Waging Nonviolence.
A Trump supporter at an April PSU Students for Trump event. Credit: WNV/ Shane Burley. All rights reserved.
A murmur began in May around Berkeley and the surrounding...
November 1, 2016
राश्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ की विचारधारा ने जो सबसे घिनौना काम किया है वह है महात्मा गांधी की हत्या। आज पूरी दुनिया में भारत की पहचान अगर किसी एक व्यक्ति से होती है तो वे महात्मा गांधी हैं जिन्हें दुनिया के तमाम कमजोर लोगों के दमनकारी षक्तियों के खिलाफ आंदोलन और पर्यावरण संरक्षण हेतु आंदोलन अपना आदर्ष मानते हैं। इस अपराध का कलंक राश्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ कभी धो नहीं पाएगा भले ही नरेन्द्र मोदी उनके नाम...
November 1, 2016
A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state.
Image: Hindustan Times
A series of communal incidents in Madhya Pradesh has raised the question about the security of Muslims in the state. In all these incidents Muslims were the main targets.
According to the findings of a team of All India Secular Forum, more than 40...
November 1, 2016
Only 30-35 policemen were deployed to control a 3000-men strong crowd, which later turned into an unruly mob and vandalised about 100 homes and 10 temple in the district's Nasirnagar upazila
The conjoint idol of Radha and Krishna-- Hindu god and goddess, somehow survived an attack launched on different temples in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar on Sunday, October 30, 2016Dhaka Tribune...