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The News International, September 27, 2008
India is witnessing an increase in the incidence of both anti-minority violence and terrorism. Christians are under attack in Orissa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and now even Kerala, long held up as a model of pluralism. Leading the attacks are Hindu-extremist groups like the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Shiv Sena, which don’t bother to disguise their identity.
The Indian state has failed to protect Christians and punish their (…)

Press Release
DATE: 27TH SEPTEMBER 2008
· The Nanavati Commission has conveniently misunderstood Mr. Modi and his Government without examining them.
· Mr. Modi and his Government got Full Marks without appearing in the Exam of the Nanavati Commission.
· We strongly feel that the Nanavati Commission has forgotten the real story of the Gujarat Carnage 2002, publicly admitted and proudly advocated by the Mr. Modi and his BJP. - Rohit Prajapati & Trupti Shah - (…)

Hitchcock Lecture at UC Berkeley in May 2005

Harsh Mander speaking about efforts to defend the victims of Gujarat and the fight to end hunger and abject poverty in India.
— June 2005 on www.chicagopublicradio.org/

"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence" Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
The history of India over the past century unfolds like a chronicle of civil war. India was partitioned, the segment re-partitioned. “Internal enemies” were identified and massacres unleashed. No solutions were found. Today, communal myths possess nuclear bombs. There are lines of control everywhere — in villages, cities and in hearts. Barbed wire, iron gates and (…)