धर्मनिरपेक्षता
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...
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
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...