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(Published in: thruthout.org, 4 September 2008)
India’s far right needs no fresh publicity for its crusade against Muslims, the country’s largest religious minority. No one has questioned its credentials on this count ever since the pogrom of 2002 in Gujarat on the western coast, over which Narendra Modi of worldwide notoriety presided.
Far less widely known is the holy war the "parivar" (the far-right "family") has been waging against a minuscule Christian minority (totaling 2.4 (…)

(Published in: The Daily Times, September 19, 2008)
In this mysterious discovery of bombs, the second name is that of BJP Corporator Bhimji Budhna. He turned out to be an even greater “bomb” hunter than Bhalla. With his team of followers he spotted no fewer than eleven bombs
We now have it on good authority that tougher laws to fight terrorism are in the works. In fact, the election season could well be decorated by further, tougher steps like Guantanamo Bay in the Andamans or even (…)

Distribution of the below book was discontinued after the Calcutta High Court started contempt proceedings against the author, the publisher. This valuable study by Hans Dembowski merits recognition and diffusion, despite being barred by the courts in India.

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16.9.2008
PRESS STATEMENT
With the shock and trauma of the serial bombings in Delhi yet to wear off, we are distressed to see the manner in which elements of the saffron brigade are seeking to make political capital out of a national tragedy by pushing for a special law on terrorism. We are struck by the irony that the saffron brigade is concurrently orchestrating a mass (…)

Ramvilas Vedanti, a senior leader of the VHP, refuses to remain out of controversies for very long.
If last year he was caught in a sting operation by CNN-IBN alongwith many leading stalwarts of the spiritual world ’explaining how he changes black money into white albeit with little bit of commission’, this year he reached headlines when he issued ’death sentence to Mr Karunanidhi supposedly for ’insulting Lord Ram’. One still remembers how he asked Muslims to ’vacate’ the Parikrama area (…)