हिंसा
January 1, 2017
मुजफ्फरनगर। एक तरफ यूपी में सरकार चला रहे समाजवादी पार्टी में कलह खत्म होने का नाम नहीं ले रही है, वहीं दूसरी तरफ राज्य में कानून-व्यवस्था बद से बदतर होती जा रही है। यूपी के मुख्यमंत्री अपने पारिवारिक कलह में उलझे हुए हैं और दलितों पर पुलिसिया अत्याचार जारी है। ऐसी ही एक खबर यूपी के मुजफ्फरनगर जिले से आई है। जहां एटीएम से पैसे निकालने में जाटों ने...
December 30, 2016
As early as January, when David Bowie departed the scene, some were already looking dubiously at 2016. Bowie was an icon of the 1970s, the era when what is now the dominant section of the population in most Western societies in terms of spending power – the post-war baby boomers – came to maturity. As more cultural legends from that age also died – many without the last burst of...
December 30, 2016
There are a little less than 4 lakh Catholic priests in the world, actually 3.92 lakh in 1992, the year for which authentic data is available. Every year many are killed, injured or arrested in the world’s hotspots, from the steamy forests of Latin America where they face hostile governments and drug lords, through to Indonesia, Malaysia, and occasionally, India. And now,...
December 30, 2016
Dhulagarh seems divided along political, rather than religious, lines.
Image credit: Ipsita Chakravarty
Dhulagarh, a small town 25 kms west of Kolkata, is sectioned off between parties. At the Shiv Kali temple on the Puratan Chowrasta, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and other Hindu groups are organising “traan” or relief for people who lost their homes in the...
December 29, 2016
Several incidents of organised violence against ethnic and religious minorities took place in 2016.
Opportunistic groups have used religion as a political device creating an atmosphere of fear making hundreds of minorities leave Bangladesh in large numbers that experts say they have not seen since the Liberation War.
Although the constitution protects religious freedom and ensures...
December 28, 2016
The remarkable power of the media, particularly the electronic media, as a means of mass communication is unquestionable. The media power springs from the credibility of the information which the media person intends to pass over to the readers and the viewers. One expects the professional media person to be the source of information himself/herself without being dependent on untested/untried...
December 27, 2016
तस्वीर में सन 1400 में तैमूर लंग के दमिश्क विजय का चित्रण है। सीरिया की राजधानी दमिश्क को जीतने के बाद तैमूर ने उसे जला दिया। शहर के बाहर 20 हज़ार नरमुंडों की मीनार बनाई गई। ये मुंड उन्हीं लोगों के थे जो इस्लाम में अक़ीदा रखते थे। दो साल पहले ही दिल्ली विजय के समय इस्लाम की दुहाई देने वाले तैमूर को अपने ही धर्म के लोगों के सिर काटने में कोई हिचक नहीं हुई।
लेकिन आजकल यह बताने की होड़...
December 27, 2016
Provoked: A True Story
‘ Today, I have come out of my husband’s jail and entered the jail of the law’
Kiranjit Ahluwalia 1989
Kiranjit Ahluwalia and Rahila Gupta
Published by Harper Collins India 2007
ISBN 9788172236700
The Southall Black Sisters' Inspiring Campaign:
‘Today, I have come out of my husband’s jail and entered the jail of the law...
December 27, 2016
Last year at this time, a Mondoweiss video report showed one of the checkpoints Palestinian day laborers have to use to enter Israel. It takes hours for the thousands of men seeking day work to get through the checkpoint.
And since they’re not allowed to stay in Israel overnight, they queue at two or three in the morning, sleeping on cardboard, lighting fires with scrap wood, until...
December 27, 2016
We need to ask those who swear in the name of the Ummah: is the blood of Rohingyas insipid in comparison to other Muslims?
Photo credit: Wessex Scene
For nearly one and a half million Rohingyas, it must be a rude shock to realise that they are no longer Burmese citizens. Rohingyas are Burmese Muslims who settled in that part of the world in the wake of British East India Company...