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Pink Chaddi Campaign
What is the Pink Chaddi Campaign? The Pink Chaddi Campaign kicked off on 5 February 2009 to oppose the Sri Ram Sena. The campaign is growing exponentially (1,300 at this point in the life of our Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women) and that is not surprising. Most women in this country have enough curbs on their lives without a whole new franchise cashing in with their bully-boy tactics.
Here is we want to do with the Pink Chaddi Campaign. Join in. Be (…)

Move to ban co-education in Indian madrassas strongly condemned
Muslim intellectuals and organisations from across the country have condemned the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrassa Education’s (UPBME) order banning girls from co-educational madrassas, terming it "Talibani high-handedness". Various organisations have called it a "fatwa inspired by Taliban" and declared that it would be unacceptable to the masses. They allege that it was a design of the anti-education elements to push Muslim (…)

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One can only marvel-if that’s the word-at the breathtaking speed with which the sangh parivar has vitiated the social climate in state after state. Within months of taking power in Karnataka, it has unleashed savage repression and turned Mangalore into a Hindu Taliban bulwark, where women are attacked if they go to a bar, where Hindus must not mix with Muslims, and where there’s no media freedom and free interaction among young men and women. The Sri Rama Sene, led by Pramod (…)

The Hindustan Times, February 07, 2009 Learning lessons from Mangalore
Most of us will have been encouraged by some of the political responses to the attack on pub-goers in Mangalore. Even Rajnath Singh, not usually perceived as a pillar of the liberal establishment, delivered a ringing condemnation of the assaults and most political parties joined the chorus of disapproval.
The politicians — and many media commentators — based their criticisms of the assault on two separate liberal (…)

SANN I am a proud Indian. Not only in the context of the interesting times that we live in, when we seem on the verge of becoming a global superpower, but also for much of what it has stood for down the ages. Though admittedly, I do not share the imbecile pride of the uninformed who believe that we are the font of all civilization & that had it not been for us the rest of the world would still be walking around sans knickers. In the middle of all this heady & contentious pride, (…)