South Asia Citizens Web

24 January 2013
While one may or may not agree with the terminology employed by the Home Minister in his recent speech at Jaipur, we feel that for long prejudice has ruled investigations, obscuring the role of organizations and their multiple affiliates in planning and executing of attacks and bombings in the country. The veneer of ’nationalism’ — narrow, exclusionary and based on hatred for minorities as it is— cannot hide the violence that Sangh and its affiliates beget and peddle. (…)

Press Statement
We the undersigned are concerned by the developments in Andhra Pradesh following the alleged hate speech by Mr. Akberuddin Owaisi recently. Many groups and organisations including many of the undersigned had condemned the speech and demanded action and also against members of some Hindutva organisations who were engaging in similar activities. There were many instances of hate speeches and communal instigations by leaders and members of different communities in the past (…)

RETHINKING SECULARISM by Bhagwan Josh, Dilip Simeon, and Purushottam Agrawal(published in Mainstream, December 30, 1990). NB - This article was published 23 years ago, but is probably unread today. It was written in the period immediately following Advani’s failed Rath Yatra, and the BJP’s withdrawal of support to VP Singh’s government in late October. It was also the time of the unrest following the implementation of the Mandal commission recommendations in August 1990. Readers may judge (…)

We urge the governments and people on both sides to resume dialogue and end the current escalation of tensions at the earliest. We demand that the J&K police withdraw its misleading advisory on nuclear war.

Not long after telling the police that she had been raped, a woman from South Delhi looked out her apartment window and saw the man who had attacked her laughing with an officer who had given him a ride back from the police station. “That officer then came over and asked me why I wanted to file a complaint,” the 30-year-old mother of two said in a recent interview. “He said I would be ridiculed unless I agreed to settle things without an investigation.” After months of intimidation from her (…)