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Magazine Section / The Hindu, September 21, 2008
Terrorism and the State
A People’s Tribunal held recently found out that many innocent lives get destroyed or traumatised when the State presumes an entire community to be responsible for terror attacks.
As bombs explode in crowded market places and places of worship - whether in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Mumbai or Delhi - many innocent lives are abruptly snuffed out, while others are marked for life, maimed or (…)

Noida CEO killing: Inaccuracies, inconsistencies , anti-labour bias marked coverage
New Delhi, October 2: Factual inaccuracies, inconsistencies in reportage, and preponderance of anti-labour quotes marked news coverage of the recent killing of a chief executive officer by sacked workers in Noida, according to a study by Newswatch, an independent online entity which monitors, collates and documents news and information pertaining to the news media and journalism.
The Newswatch (…)

Dawn, September 29, 2008
The real fight is between secular and communal Hindus
“SO This has set up a Hindu-Muslim confrontation, then?” The TV anchor from a Pakistani news channel was clear in her mind as she lobbed her anxious question from across the border. As far as she knew the Nanavati Commission report had indicted Muslims for deliberately setting fire to a railway coach in Godhra that killed 59 Hindu passengers in February 2002. Muslims naturally opposed the report as biased. For (…)

anhadin.net
’No Double Standards in the Fight Against Terrorism’
In recent months the country has witnessed a spate of terrorist attacks in different cities as well as organised communal violence against religious minorities in several states.
We the undersigned strongly condemn all these acts of violence that have resulted in loss of life and grievous injury to scores of innocent people. It is clear that whoever is responsible for such violence should be severely punished under Indian (…)

sacw.net
Saba Parveen still repents the fact that she sent her younger sister Farheen to Bhikku Chowk to buy some Pakoras. Little she could have the premonition that she would never get to see her 10 year old sister a class V student alive.
The blast at Malegaon’s Bhikku Chowk, has literally shattered the family of Shaikh Liaquat Wahiuddin, Farheen’s father who lives around 100 feet away from the Chowk near the Kasbapada masjid. A father of three daughters and two sons and a wife has (…)