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SAHMAT 8, Vithalbhai Patel House, Rafi Marg,New Delhi-110001 Telephone- 23711276/ 23351424 e-mail: sahmat @ vsnl.com
25.9.2008
We applaud the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, Professor Mushirul Hasan and the entire academic community of the university for their calmness and courage in what is proving to be a testing and traumatic time.
We fully endorse the decision by the Vice Chancellor, to provide the university students who have been swept up in the terrorism dragnet, (…)

In the aftermath of an attack by the Hindu right on a exhibit of works of the famous painter MF Hussain, the Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi offered to host the exhibition on its campus. The exhibit prepared by SAHMAT - the secular platform of artists, now has plans to take this other campuses in India

25th September 2008
Press Statement
Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group
Jamia Teachers Condemn Communal Witch Hunt and Demand Independent Impartial Enquiry
At the very outset we, the members of Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group would like to state that we strongly condemn terrorism of all kinds, including State terrorism.
The events of 19th September and subsequent days have left the Jamia community shocked, aggrieved and fearful. In particular the manner and the suspicious (…)

Frontline, September 27 - October 10, 2008
Nationalist euphoria over the NSG waiver will breed monumental arrogance, great-power delusions, and contempt for peace among our social-Darwinist elite.
THE headlines reporting the waiver granted to India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) from its nuclear trade rules could not have been more breathless or gung-ho – to the point of hysteria: “Nuclear apartheid ends”, “Nuclear dawn”, “India N-abled”, and so on. Even more excessive were the (…)

Buddhist statues, monasteries and rock carvings in the Swat valley are under threat from the Taliban, who see them as the remnants of an infidel civilisation.