कानून का बोलबाला
September 1, 2003
To our readers
When we left our full-time jobs in The Sunday Observer and Business India magazine in 1993 to start Communalism Combat, many friends and well-wishers believed this was a hasty and unwise step. Why leave the mainline media to start a niche publication whose reach would necessarily be far more limited?
But we believed we were taking the right decision. Working in the mainline...
December 1, 2002
To our readers
On November 21, 2002, an eight–member Concerned Citizens Tribunal, consisting of retired supreme court and high court judges, activists and academics, released a report based on a detailed investigation into the gruesome carnage in Gujarat, earlier this year. The report, ‘Crime Against Humanity’, is a severe indictment of the Gujarat government, senior IAS and...
November 1, 2002
Dedicated to the victims of communal carnage in Gujarat whose terrible sufferings have once again warned against converting India into a theocratic state.
UNDOING INDIA - THE RSS WAY
©Shamsul Islam
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September 1, 2002
M E S S A G E
Secularism and humanism are basic features of our Constitution even as egalite and compassion are the finer components of our Paramount Parchment. To sustain these precious values is a fundamental duty of every citizen of India. To resist aggression on this composite cultural heritage is a primary obligation if we are truly Indians.
In this humane perspective, communalism is...
June 11, 2002
86 pages
Leah Levin
Illustrated by Plantu
NATIONAL BOOK TRUST, INDIA in collaboration with UNESCO Publishing
Language - English
Read online: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/humanrightsnbt.pdf
May 31, 2002
The Tribunal collected 2,094 oral and written testimonies, both individual and collective, from victim-survivors and also independent human rights groups, women’s groups, NGOs and academics. The documentation work done by relief camp managers and community leaders, from lists of persons killed or ‘missing’, to the meticulous tabulation of economic loss and religious desecration...
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...