हिंसा
March 17, 2016
Synopsis
Muslim legal tradition does not treat men and women equally. At the root of this discrimination lies a theological assumption: God has given men authority over women. This assumption is justified with reference to a Qur'anic verse (4:34) and is expressed in two key legal concepts that underlie the logic of most contemporary Muslim family laws. One, qiwamah, generally denotes a...
March 17, 2016
Recent Posts on Facebook by Om Thanvi, former editor, Jansatta and Visiting Professor, JNU
यमुना पाट के आयोजन में पाकिस्तान ज़िंदाबाद के जवाब में रविशंकर महाराज ने 'जय हिन्द' कहा, भारत माता की जय तो नहीं कहा?
नहीं कहा, तो क्या फर्क पड़ता है अगर वे "जय हिन्द" कह देते हैं। भारत की जय बोलने में भारत माता की जय क्या शरीक...
March 11, 2016
Having chosen to be part of the sanghi lynch mob, Zee News has cast aside every pretense of journalistic ethics. Already in the dock for doctoring videos to aide the ABVP's sinister agenda of raising the bogey of 'anti-nationals' at JNU, in its ongoing witch-hunt it has found fresh targets in poet and scientist Gauhar Raza and academic Nivedita Menon. Reproduced below is the...
March 10, 2016
In Conversation with Pranjal Rewa
This interview was conducted in New Delhi on March 9, 2016. It is a collaborative effort between Communalism Combat, Newsclick and Hillele TV
The battle of the gun fosters more conflict, never peace: Soni Sori
Bandook ki ladhai se hamesha Ashaanti hogi, Shaanti Kabhi Nahin: Soni Sori
We are neither with the Naxalites who have the guns...
March 9, 2016
In Conversation with Teesta Setalvad
This interview with Kanhaiya Kumar, President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) was conducted on the JNU Campus on March 8, 2016. It is a collaborative effort between Communalism Combat, Newsclick and Hillele TV
If the last bus on Delhi’s streets at 11 p.m. had fifty per cent of women, and we as a society...
March 6, 2016
इक्कीस महीनों से इक्कीसवीं सदी के इस महाभारत का चक्रव्यूह रचा जा रहा था. अब जा कर युद्ध का बिगुल बजा. लेकिन चक्रव्यूह में इस बार अभिमन्यु नहीं, कन्हैया है. तब दरवाज़े सात थे, इस बार कितने हैं, कोई नहीं जानता! लेकिन युद्ध तो है, और युद्ध शुरू भी हो चुका है. यह घोषणा तो ख़ुद संघ की तरफ़ से कर दी गयी है. संघ के सरकार्यवाह सुरेश भैयाजी जोशी का साफ़-साफ़ कहना है कि देश में आज सुर और असुर की लड़ाई है...
March 5, 2016