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A report by CNN-IBN television network: Rationalist Sanal Edamaruku has been forced to live outside India as he fears an arrest back home. He has been accused of hurting religious sentiments and an FIR has been registered against him in Mumbai. But Edamaruku says he will never apologise for something that he has scientific evidence for. Freedom of speech is a Constitutional right of every Indian citizen. But for Edamaruku, freedom of speech came at a high price as he is now forced to take shelter outside India fearing an arrest.

A video recording of Rohini Hensman by Marieme Helie Lucas in 2008. This is part of wider a series of video interviews with political activists and feminists on secularism, fundamentalism(s) and on women’s rights being compiled at siawi.org

. . .[Bal] Thackeray’s unwritten authority and clout have run deep in the [film] industry. No wonder they whisper his name and Godfather in the same hushed breath yet refuse to be openly quoted on him. Even when he is no more. Understandable, considering some of the most influential names in the film industry have been at the receiving end of the Sena offensive.

As the world moves towards abolition of capital punishment or a moratorium on its use, India remains unmoved

On the 28th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak disaster of 02/03.12.1984, which has already left over 20,000 dead and had inflicted injuries in varying degree on over 550,000 other human inhabitants of Bhopal, the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS) and the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS) pay their homage to the departed and reiterate their determination to continue to uphold the cause of the survivors.