South Asia Citizens Web

Recent investigation by CBI into extra judicial killings of Ishrat Jahan and 3 others, had reportedly brought out substantial evidence on the culpable guilt of a few Central IB officials, in planning and execution of this fake encounter, by teaming up with Gujarat police. The Sangh Parivar, Modi Government, self-appointed supporters and resource persons of IB have, of late, launched a vigorous campaign to get the accused IB officials immunized from arrest and prosecution.

..the communal situation in the country has worsened, despite the decline in the number of communal incidents as compared to the year 1990-91. The general election in May 1991 led to a consolidation of the RSS and its front organisations, which, through the agency of four state governments, has continued to subvert the administration and police; launch an onslaught on the trade union movement in Chhatisgarh, where the reknowned leader Shankar Guha Niyogi was murdered by the capitalists; rewrite history for poisoning the minds of young citizens, and, in general, carry on its self appointed task of creating a so-called political Hindu community.

Movement Against Communalism, was founded in Delhi by some of the activists working in the relief camps in 1984

Pabnava of Haryana and Natham of Tamilnadu, separated from each other by hundreds of kilometers, peopled by communities speaking different languages and cultures, is it possible to connect one with the other. Should one claim that they are examples of India’s much celebrated ‘Unity in Diversity’ ? The manner in which dalits ’copy’ their oppressor/dominant castes is visible also from areas which are infamous for medieval sounding decisions of the caste/community councils.

Year 1982. It was a second class compartment of a Jabalpur bound train. I, along with my friend Nilanjan Mukhopadhayay, was going to Jabalpur to participate in an event against communal politics organized by IPTA. One of our fellow travelers was a quiet, almost withdrawn old gentleman, his constant reading interspersed by bouts of reflectively looking out of the window. We took him to be a retired teacher, heading home.