धार्मिक कट्टरपन
November 1, 2008
Will they bash up universities in Jakarta and other places for teaching different versions of the Ramayana?: Romila Thapar
The controversial decision earlier this month by the Academic Council of Delhi University to drop AK Ramanujan’s celebrated essay on the Ramayana, ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation’, from the BA history (honours)...
August 1, 2008
Secular erosion, terror explosion
Fifteen years ago we started Communalism Combat in response to the pogrom against Muslims in a city which until then had proudly called itself the cosmopolitan capital of India: Bombay, now Mumbai. We started publishing the journal with the fond hope that the secular Indian state would soon slay the communal demon that was stalking the land of a...
April 1, 2008
Actor Naseeruddin Shah discusses the vagaries of religion, the Bollywood ethos and his future in cinema
Q: What was the reaction in Pakistan to Khuda Kay Liye? Did you visit Pakistan after the movie was released?
A: The reaction was absolutely unbelievable. In Pakistan the theatres are very tacky, badly equipped, there is no air conditioning and rats run across your feet. They are like...
February 5, 2008
A four-member team of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) visited Hyderabad on 4-5 February 2008 to enquire into complaints against authorities in Andhra Pradesh for allegedly targeting Muslims and Christians in the state. On the issues faced by the Muslim minority, the main complainants were Ms. Nirmala Deshpande, Member of Parliament, and Ms. Nandita Rao, advocate in New Delhi. They...
June 1, 2007
Why we cannot forget
To start with, our sincere apologies to all readers for the big time lag between the last issue of CC, "Minority Report", and the issue now in your hands. The main reason for this delay relates to the subject matter of this issue, where our prime concern has been to provide extensive information so
that readers can better appreciate the nature of the "...
September 1, 2006
COMMUNALISM IN ORISSA
Report of the Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights
Tribunal Led By:
Justice K. K. Usha (Retired)
Former Chief Justice, Kerala High Court
Tribunal Convenors and Report Editors:
Dr. Angana P. Chatterji and Advocate Mihir Desai
November 1, 2005
Empowering Dalit Muslims
Ali Anwar is the founder of the Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz (‘Marginalised Muslim Front’), Patna, Bihar, a union of several Dalit Muslim and Backward Caste Muslim organisations. A well known Hindi journalist, he is the author of Masavat Ki Jang (‘The Struggle for Equality’) and Dalit Musalman (‘Dalit Muslims’) and writes regularly on...