South Asia Citizens Web

An intimate look at the off-stage lives of "show-girls" in Pakistani Circuses and low-brow theater, reveals a world of both sex-trafficking and rebellious women who are navigating their place in the periphery of Pakistan’s puritanical society.

This is not the first time that Teesta Setalvad is being targetted through false FIRs. Earlier too in the Best Bakery case of Vadodara and the Exhumation case of Panchmahals, there were efforts to malign the name and credibility of journalists Teesta and Javed Anand; however, both were stayed by the Supreme Court. It also cannot be ignored that it was through the efforts of Teesta, Javed and other activists of Gujarat and outside, that 117 people have been given life imprisonment for perpetrating the 2002 Gujarat mass killings, including Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani. Incidentally Gujarat state is the only one where so many victims of communal violence have got justice, thanks to the untiring efforts of human rights defenders like Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand, CJP and others.

Dhinak Dhinak by Beygairat Brigade | Official Video

Two video recorded interviews with Teesta Setalvad, the co-editor of Communalism Combat and India’s prominent crusader for justice for victims of Gujarat pogrom of 2002. She responds to questions regarding her work and what are the facts and reasons for her being targeted . . .

The report titled ’Hate and Targeted Violence against Christians in India - Report 2014’ shows Chhattisgarh topping the list with 28 incidents of crime, followed closely by neighbouring Madhya Pradesh with 26, Uttar Pradesh with 18 and Telengana, newly carved out of Andhra Pradesh, with 15 incidents.