South Asia Citizens Web

Activists, artists, intellectuals and human rights defenders belonging to over 60 organisations are coming together to organise a protest in Delhi on August 9, 2014

For almost a month, the state of Israel has attacked the Palestinian population in violation of international law and international human rights along with unacceptable support from the international community, whose silence is an accomplice to Israel’s war crimes in the eyes of the world.

To the Muslim religious leadership and the Urdu media in India I have a few questions to ask. Are you agonising over the pain and suffering of “fellow Muslims” or of “fellow humans”? Why the inflamed sentiments over ongoing atrocities in Gaza/Palestine but near silence over the virtually parallel mass crimes being committed in neighbouring Iraq by a rogue army that calls itself the Islamic State (formerly Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS)

This essay derives its inspiration from the need to engage with and understand the phenomenon of totalitarianism, which appears to me to be a central feature of terror and terrorism. My argument is not restricted to India, nor to a specific religious provenance of Indian communal politics.

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Improper Comments of Judge
August 3, 2014
Press Statement
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
The views expressed by Supreme Court Justice A.R. Dave about the teaching of the Gita and the Mahabaratha in schools, is improper and unwarranted. What Justice Dave has advocated is religious instruction in all schools from Class I. Compulsory religious instruction in government schools violates (…)