धार्मिक कट्टरपन
May 23, 2002
The burning of Coach Sl6 of the Sabarmati Express on February 27 at Godhra railway station continues to raise questions. Was it a conspiracy? Who did it and-why? Even three months after the incident, contradictory versions keep surfacing.
All accounts, including that of the National Human Rights Commission, suggest that the violence against hluslims in the rest ...
June 1, 2000
A collective investigation into the Aug 3-10, 2000 post bandh violence all over Gujarat state tracks the most recent evidence of how the state ‘s minorities — Muslims and Christians — live in a state of terror, ghettoised, with their patriotism forever under question.
Gujarat 1998 - 2000 is live testimony to the utter contempt that the Indian Constitution and the rule of law...
March 1, 2000
Born in 1962, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen shot to international fame in 1993 when her novel Lajja – a story on the plight of a persecuted Hindu family in Bangladesh following the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in December 1992 — was banned by the Bangladesh government succumbing to the outcry of fanatics belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami and other communal...
June 1, 1999
Report of the Srikrishna Commission appointed for inquiry into the riots at Mumbai during December 1992–January 1993 and the March 12,1993 bomb blasts
Memorandum of Action to be taken by the Government
Extracts from the D.P. Madon Commission on the Bhiwandi, Jalgaon and Mahad riots in May 1970
December 29, 1998
The Srikrishna Commission Report and the Maharashtra Government's Response
August 1, 1998
Screen idol and heartthrob of millions, Aamir Khan has been married to Reena for a dozen years. Theirs is a Hindu–Muslim marriage that thrives on cultural diversity within which the issue of religious differences has never posed any problem.
In an exclusive interview with the editors of Communalism Combat on the occasion of its fifth anniversary, Aamir spoke at length this...
August 1, 1998
Mahesh Bhatt, son of a Hindu father (Nanabhai Bhatt) and a Muslim mother (Shireen), grew up in the predominantly Hindu Shivaji Park area of Mumbai. He studied at Don Bosco, a Catholic school, imbibing, as he says, the cosmopolitan character of Mumbai and “never faced any dilemma or schizophrenia, no religious leaning as such”
Madonna and Ganesh are still the...