धर्मनिरपेक्षता
June 1, 2006
Bad mullahs, good mullahs
Secular India has failed to give Indian Muslims a fair deal. To all but the prejudiced, the bare facts are too stark to be ignored or explained away any longer. Problems of educational and economic backwardness, social discrimination and political under-representation continue to dog a community of around 150 million. As if that were not bad enough, there is...
November 1, 2005
Empowering Dalit Muslims
Ali Anwar is the founder of the Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz (‘Marginalised Muslim Front’), Patna, Bihar, a union of several Dalit Muslim and Backward Caste Muslim organisations. A well known Hindi journalist, he is the author of Masavat Ki Jang (‘The Struggle for Equality’) and Dalit Musalman (‘Dalit Muslims’) and writes regularly on...
October 1, 2005
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