धर्मनिरपेक्षता
November 3, 2014
October 15, 2014
Baba Adhav, at 84 remains a doyen of the working class movement having organised the unorganised section of India's working class, the ragpicker, the domestic worker into what Pune and many parts of Maharashtra proudly know as the Hamal Panchayats. Hamals, mainly from backward castes, came from all over rural Maharashtra to Pune's markets, unloading heavy sacks of grain or cement on their...
September 21, 2014
September 12, 2014
New Delhi, 12 Sep 2014: India's prominent Muslim organization has written a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh over spurt in saffron hate campaign against minorities, particularly Muslims since Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the Centre in May this year. In his three-page letter on Wednesday, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, country’s largest...
May 1, 2014
When Justice Becomes the Victim
The Quest for Justice After the 2002 Violence in Gujarat
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This report was authored by Stephan Sonnenberg, Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law with the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (IHRCRC). The Stanford IHRCRC is one of ten clinics in the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School.
The...
November 24, 2013
End Impunity, Ensure Accountability
National Campaign for the Tabling in the Parliament of the
PREVENTION OF COMMUNAL AND TARGETED VIOLENCE (ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND REPARATIONS) BILL, 2011
Supported By:
Justice P.B.Sawant (retired) Supreme Court of India
Justice Hosbet Suresh (retired) Bombay High Court
Justice S.H.A Raza...
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...