धर्मनिरपेक्षता
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...
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...
August 1, 1998
Did the fact that you and your husband, Vinod, hail from different communities ever intrude in your initial involvement with each other that finally led to marriage?
During the initial stages of involvement I did have apprehen-sions in my mind such as, “How would we adjust since our backgrounds are very different, i.e. he’s a Marathi Hindu and me an Anglo–Indian...
August 1, 1998
That’s what Farzana Khan’s father told her daughter, determined to tie the nuptials with a Parsi 30 years older than her. The result: ‘Busybee’ got a face and a name — Behram Contractor
I am not sure about the Mumbaites but there is not a Bombayite who is not familiar with the name ‘Busybee’. The erstwhile Evening News of The Times of India...