धर्मनिरपेक्षता
December 24, 2014
Pandit Vikash Maharaj, famed Sarod playerof the Banaras Gharana to Teesta Setalvad in an exclusive interview
The Prevalent Public Discourse of Aggressive Consumerism and Communalism can be countered by interventions of Hindustani Music and Art: Pandit Vikash Maharaj, Banaras
Sangeetkar ko na jaat- paat, na unch-neech ki baat karni chahiye:Pandit Vikash Maharaj
The...
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...