हक़ और आजादी
December 31, 2015
Image Courtesy: M.Moorthy, The Hindu
दिव्य चिंतन में डूबे साहब के मन में अचानक एक बहुत पवित्र बात आई। साहब ने अपने मन की बात पूरे भारत को सुनाई और एक झटके में ही देश के दो करोड़ लोग विकलांग से दिव्यांग हो गये। इस चमत्कार के आगे पूरी दुनिया को नतमस्तक होना चाहिए। भारत वह देश है, जहां अंधे, गूंगे, बहरे और लंगड़े लोगो के साथ हकलाने वालों तक पर चुटकुले बनाने का रिवाज है। कॉमेडी शोज़ में जब...
December 31, 2015
‘The Freedom Theatre’ troupe from Jenin refugee camp of Palestine and Jana Natya Manch of Delhi have hit the road with ‘FREEDOM JATHA’, as they call their joint tour of 11 Indian cities this winter. They enthralled Lucknow (18-19 Dec) and Bhopal (20-21 Dec) with amazing performances. See, attached, a picture from a performance in Bhopal and also the tour itinerary. Their...
December 31, 2015
The Suchana Evam Rojgar Adhikar Abhiyaan (SR Abhiyaan) is currently on a hundred day " Jawabdehi Yatra" across the State of Rajasthan. The Yatra has received a strong and positive response from ordinary people – both in terms of support for a strong accountability law, as well as through the filing of individual and collective grievances and complaints. We write to give you an...
December 30, 2015
The origin of the Sarva Bhasha Samvad lay in understanding the situation of the country and an attempt to reaffirm faith in the principles of diversity, plurality and integrity. Writers, Artists and Activists from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa undertook a Dakshinayan sojourn in the last week of November 2015. They visited the bereaved families of the Late Dr. Narendra Dabholkar,...
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 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 18, 2015
Soni Sori, the Adivasi woman leader who was tortured in custody in 2011 has become the face of the struggle for the Adivasi (indigenous) people of Bastar. She speaks to us of the struggle in Bastar, Chhatisgarh in this detailed interview that was originally in Hindi
Question: The 2012 Nirbhaya rape case had a huge impact in Delhi, in fact on the whole of country. A year and a...