धार्मिक कट्टरपन
November 13, 2013
Indian media turns a deaf ear to issues of caste and mass mobilization. At the outset of our niche independent journalistic journey, we had tracked how the 1992-1993 post Babri Masjid demolition violence dropped off the coverage of the national media especially when crucial witnesses of the affected minority began deposing before the Justice BN Srikrishna Commission from 1993-1998. (Communalism...
May 29, 2013
June 1, 2012
Though it is not exactly hot news, this might surprise our readers as much as it surprised us. In "the land of the free" – the United States of America, atheism continues to be a dirty word and atheists the most stigmatised community. That this is so has been borne out by a number of research studies in recent years. And given the growing Islamophobia post-9/11, the findings of...
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...
November 1, 2011
An interview with former Sachar Committee member Abusaleh Shariff
By Tritesh Nandan
Abusaleh Shariff, who is chief economist at the New Delhi-based think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research, served as member-secretary of the Sachar Committee, the prime minister’s high-level committee appointed to prepare a report on the ‘Social, Economic and Educational Status...
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...
September 2, 2011
A REPORT ON THE ATTACKS ON MINORITIES AND THEIR PLACES OF WORSHIP IN KARNATAKA
PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ENQUIRY THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH
AND
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Conducted at the instance of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties,South Kanara
And
Transparency International India, Karnataka Chapter
By:
Justice Michael F. Saldanha,
Retired Judge, Karnataka High Court....
September 2, 2011
State Terrorism - Tyrrany
(A Report on the Attacks on Minorities and their Places of worship in Karnatak)
Peoples's Tribunal Enquiry the Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
Conducted at the instance of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties,South Kanara
And
Transparency International India, Karnataka Chapter
By: Justice Michael F. Saldanha...