धार्मिक कट्टरपन
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 24, 2015
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मेरे जीवन में सौ प्रतिशत सर्वधर्म समभाव है। मैं सभी धर्मों से समान रूप से पीड़ित हूं, इसलिए सबके प्रति एक जैसा भाव रखना मजबूरी है। अगर आप कभी दिल्ली से गाज़ियाबाद के बीच कहीं कांवड़ियों के हाथों पिटे हों या पिटते-पिटते बचे हों, शब-ए-बारात की जुलूस से किसी तरह जान बचाकर निकले हों, गुरुपर्व पर रास्ता रोककर श्रद्धालुओं ने आपको कभी ज़बरदस्ती...
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 19, 2015
Shivaji, valorised in Maharashtrian folklore as a riyasaton ka raja (the king of the smaller kingdoms/landholdings) has in turn been dismissed by contemporary historians and ‘captured’ by the extreme Hindutvawaadi (politically supremacist) right who would obscure the caste dimensions of his rise to power and especially, his coronation.
Within Maharashtra, however renowned...
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
The country witnesses its first experience governance in Shivaji’s swarajya. It was not supported by education the country remained impoverished intellectually. One dimension of the nation was strengthened by practical experience. Those who had become impoverished and were insignificant started performing miraculously heroic deeds. The Brahmins subsisting on alms turned into statesmen;...
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...