धर्मनिरपेक्षता
February 1, 2005
Reality of reel life
In collaboration with the Xavier’s Institute of Communications, Mumbai, we organised a two-day workshop for the students of the institute in the first week of February. The theme: how and to what extent has Hindi cinema reflected the values of pluralism and democracy over the decades? We are grateful to such illustrious names from filmdom as Javed Akhtar, Mahesh...
May 31, 2004
Dedicated to the victims of communal carnage in Gujarat whose terrible sufferings have once again warned against converting India into a theocratic state.
March 14, 2004
People's Tribunal on the Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA)
and Other Security Legislations
13-14 March, 2004, New Delhi
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...
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...
July 28, 2002
Gujarat Genocide 2002 & Victims Dilemma
A Report Submitted by Chairman
Foundation for Civil Liberties New Delhi
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
Concerned Citizens Tribunal - Gujarat 2002
The Concerned Citizens Tribunal – Gujarat 2002, was conceived as a response to the carnage that rocked the state of Gujarat following the Godhra tragedy on February 27, 2002. The eight-member Tribunal was constituted in consultation with a large number of groups from within Gujarat and the rest of the country. A copy of its terms of reference...
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...