An all–India women’s fact finding team of four members went to Gajapthi district in Orissa on September 30 – October 1 to investigate into the alleged rape, on February 12, 2010, of a 20 year old adivasi woman by security and police forces.
An all–India women’s fact finding team of four members went to Gajapthi district in Orissa on September 30 – October 1 to investigate into the alleged rape, on February 12, 2010, of a 20 year old adivasi woman by security and police forces.
Unless Hindu fundamentalism is addressed, India will continue on its path toward ethno-democracy. After RSS cadres were arrested following the Malegaon case, Hindu fundamentalism is firmly back on the agenda of public debate.
If caste and religious proscriptions prevent the free option to love, then terrorism as a private and public threat finds new sources to feed into pre-existing fears. ‘Love jihad’ as a construction and a campaign brings to the fore the circularity of hate; youth who dare to choose partners across caste, religion and ethnicity are targeted by families and organizations, and Hindu fundamentalist organizations seek to become protectors of these innocent and or wayward children and in disciplining them gain the support of parents.
The ‘love jihad’ as rumour and disinformation has led to an intensification of public and private animosity and mistrust: families deploy new curfew on their youth and stipulate choice of sociality and dress codes. Members and supporters of the Hindutva brigade take it on themselves to provide surveillance and punishment.
Nepal’s bloody civil war came to an end four years ago with a peace agreement between the king and Maoist rebels. And the country was supposed to be on its way to becoming a democracy by now. But it doesn’t look or sound like one.
Anup Kaphle works for the Washington Post. He reported from Nepal under a grant from the Pulitzer Center. He was in Washington.
The ‘Anti Commonwealth Games Front’ organized a public meeting and protest against the Commonwealth Games at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, today (30 September 2010).
The Front has been formed by a number of organizations and civil society groups which are against the Commonwealth Games (CWG) being hosted in Delhi. Although the member organizations and groups work in diverse areas and have been opposing the games for different reasons, they are unanimous in their criticism of the violation of human rights that the city of Delhi has seen in the run up to the Games, the rampant corruption and financial mismanagement, and also in their perception of the Games as a complete waste of the country’s precious resources, an extravaganza which a poor country like India cannot afford and should not host.
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