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This is a scanned and digitised version of Less Than Gay the celebrated 1991 report published by ABVA in New Delhi

Barely a month after the massacre at an army public school in Peshawar that shook not just Pakistan but the world, the Shikarpur attack brings into focus an ongoing, destructive trend – inroads into Sindh by extremists following a Takfiri ideology (to to declare someone a “kafir” or non-believer. Takfiris term other Muslims as non-Muslim or accuse them of “blasphemy”, and justify their murder)

The following is a tribute to Perin Chandra (née Bharucha), 96, who passed away in Mumbai on January 7, 2015, from Primla Loomba one of her oldest associates since her days in Lahore.

By his own admission, [Naturam] Godse belonged to an ideological stream fed by Hindu nationalism and political violence against Gandhi, a school of thought that began with B.G. Tilak and was perpetuated by “Tilakites” such as V.D. Savarkar, Godse’s mentor

Our polity is now faced with an assault on the mind. Our very sense of discrimination between right and wrong, good and evil, truth and falsehood is under attack. We live in an ideological climate of nihilism, wherein human life is of no consequence, and conversation is fast evaporating. It is time thoughtful Indians of every political inclination asked themselves a simple question: Has the new-found status of the ’Parivar’ made us take leave of our senses?