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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...
November 1, 2011
An open letter to President Asif Ali Zardari regarding the gang rape of a Christian girl and the plight of Hindu women in Pakistan
Mr Asif Ali Zardari,
President of Pakistan.
We, the following social activists and members of the web-based online forum The Moderates, have come to know about a dastardly incident that has taken place in your country, through a news release of the Asian...
October 1, 2011
Fear and the farce
Even for a party that pays mere lip service to constitutional principles, it was a moment of great shame. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India directs the Special Investigation Team (SIT) – specially appointed by the court to reinvestigate the major cases of carnage in Gujarat in 2002 – to also investigate the role of chief minister Narendra...
September 2, 2011
A REPORT ON THE ATTACKS ON MINORITIES AND THEIR PLACES OF WORSHIP IN KARNATAKA
PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ENQUIRY THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH
AND
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Conducted at the instance of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties,South Kanara
And
Transparency International India, Karnataka Chapter
By:
Justice Michael F. Saldanha,
Retired Judge, Karnataka High Court....
June 1, 2011
Reactions to the death of the man whose name was identified with Islamic terror.
March 1, 2011
Hindutva’s evil genius
The sangh parivar is not just a sick organisation suffering from a blind and incurable hatred of Muslims and Christians. It is far worse than that. There is a method in the murder and mayhem that it promotes and perpetrates, which clearly points to an evil genius at work. Forget the average Indian, most secular activists outside Karnataka will probably remember the...
October 1, 2010
Religious Liberty in Gujarat, Kandhamal & Karnataka.