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July 1, 2012
Robert Frisk covers the fallout of the Arab Spring and how Egypt reacts to the Electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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 open letter to President Asif Ali Zardari regarding the gang rape of a Christian girl and the plight of Hindu women in Pakistan
Mr Asif Ali Zardari,
President of Pakistan.
We, the following social activists and members of the web-based online forum The Moderates, have come to know about a dastardly incident that has taken place in your country, through a news release of the Asian...
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...