Press Conference in Ayodhya Banned
Today when we tried to hold a Press Conference at the Ram Janki temple in Saryu Kunj, Vasishtha Kund, Ayodhya at 11 am at the venue of the two days…
Communal Harmony
Now Ram Puniyani Prevented From Going To Ayodhya
We condemn the house arrest of Advocate Mohammd Shoaib, Sandeep Pandey and other friends on 11th and 16th August, 2019 on the issue of staging one hour candle light demonstration…
Disturbed Areas Act in Gujarat: A tool to fuel the communal divide
The Gujarat Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provision for Protection of Tenants from Eviction from Premises in Disturbed Areas Act, 1986 (Government would have passed another bill in…
The Growing Phenomenon of Demonising Muslims
The majority-minority cleavages seem to be sharper in democracies than in other systems. Ever since the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11,…
Human Identities and Liberation
The liberation of humanity is dependent on raising above immediate ‘identities’. The identities may be that of caste, class, religion, region, race, gender, ethnicity, language etc. However, it becomes a…
Growing up with (Jai) Siya Ram!
If you are born in Uttar Pradesh or for that matter, in any other northern state of India, acquaintance to Ram is similar to those of a new-born getting familiar…
Karnataka Artist S Raghunandana declines the Sangeet Natak Akademi award
Eminent theatre director from Karnataka S Raghunandana on July 17 declined the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 2018, a day after it was announced, in protest against incidents of “mob…
Will India Remember Dadri’s Akhlaq, as Germany Recalls Victims of Nazi Barbarism?
Hier Wohnte Bernhard Marx JB 1897 Deportiert 20.07.1942 Minsk Ermordet 24.07.1942 ‘Here lived Bernhard Marx Year of Birth 1897 Deported 20.07.1942 Minsk Assassinated 24.07.1942’ It was while walking past a…
Hindu Son Cries for Muslim Mother –A Tale of Communal Harmony in India
A Facebook post by Sreedharan that “my Umma (mother) has honored the summons of Allah, please pray for her soul…if there is heaven, my Umma will surely find a place…
When Will We Hear A Peaceful ‘Ram Ram’ Greeting?
Dehko, o deewano, yeah kaamnakaro, Ram kanaambadnaamna karo… The plaintive song from the past runs through my head as one reads the news reports of the competitive slogan mongering that…
100 years old Mosque stands tall in Punjab
The 100 years old mosque in village Hedon Bet, Machhiwara Tehsil in Ludhiana still stands tall, despite zero Muslim population in the village. The Mosque that was built in 1920…
The Anatomy of Anger and Hatred in India
Dominant social groups need to make the necessary distinction between legitimate anger to set right history and illegitimate hatred to push back history. For, anger is organic while hatred is…
Whither Secularism: Democratic Society and Minority Rights | Ram Puniyani
We are living in times where the social norms, the values of Constitution have been violated times and over again. The increasing atrocities on dalits, the lynchings of minorities in…
Maharashtra government must protect Dr Ram Puniyani
Dr Ram Puniyani is one of the most prolific authors of our time writing on communalism particular that of the Sangh Parivar variety. At the time, when most of the…
Will Nehru’s Secular India Survive post- 2019 Elections?
The secular minded academics and civil society have reminded us once again that Nehru’s secular legacy needs to be remembered in a given political context, on the occasion of his…
Eid Mubarak! From Hindu Rashtra
Eid Mubarak! I’m writing this article on the eve of Eid. Two weeks after the Modi 2.0 government was installed in India. When the election results came out on May…
India: Communalism or Islamophobia?
In his attempts at explaining Islamophobia as a phenomenon unique to the west, Prof Guduvarthy(‘There is Communalism – Not Islamophobia in India, The Wire, 01/05/19) commits a number of erroneous…
A Catholic Priest Whose Father Was Forced To Convert To Hinduism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_SECQmS0FQ Fr. Manoj Nayak, 44 years old, is one of the main leaders of the Kandhamal Survivors’ Association. After the major communal violence in Kandhamal in 2008, he has been…
Md. Aariz Imam – A Draft Charter of Demands for India’s Muslims
Removal of Hindu bias from the constitution evident in Article 1, 25, (a)(b), 48, 341, 343, 351 & in 8 the Schedule, through a constitution amendment bill Providing proportionate representation…
Muslims getting Visible at Punjab’s Landscape
Punjab faced the full fury of the communal violence in 1947 during the Partition of India. The state witnessed an extremely turbulent and traumatic situation in the run up to…
Nation Needs Anti-Mob Lynching Law and Manipur Enacted One.
India is witnessing a national crisis of mob lynching for last few years. The term ‘mob lynching’ was unheard until the national media began reporting the incidents from some part…
Mahatma and his Mock Assassins Visual Text Analysis
A Professor from Madras University was describing the background of Champaran Satyagrah of 1917, at an International Conference on India Vietnam Relations through the Prism of Gandhian and Ho…
Will Ayodhya Panel Break the Jinx?
Ayodhya issue is an explosive mix of history, religion and politics. Can the Ayodhya land dispute mediation panel make any dent in crafting a compromise among the disputing parties is…
Strengthen the idea of Inclusive India to defeat forces trying to destablise us
In the 46th session of the OIC, external affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was invited and despite Pakistan protest and boycott, the invitation was not retracted. The speech on 'pluralism' by…
Is AMU “anti-national”? Those who say so don’t know its history
Normalcy at the historic Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is yet to be restored. Like yours, my heart also trembles at the latest bolt of lightning that has struck AMU. Around…
Kaifi Azmi’s relevance in times of communal hatred
.... 'Jagmagate thhe jahan Ram key quadam ke nishan Piyaar kee kahkashan leti thi angdayee jahan Mod nafrat ke usee rah guzar mein ayee Dharam kya unka hae, kya zaat…
Twenty Years of a Ghastly Murder
It is exactly 20 years today when India witnessed a ghastly crime against humanity. The barbaric face of the religious hatred was witnessed in Manoharpur village of Keonjhar district of…
When Mylapore went to Tondiarpet
An early morning walk in a poorer working-class neighborhood in North Chennai “Let’s throw caste and religious hatred into the Boghi fire and celebrate Pongal together as Tamilians to attain…
The Agony of Being Naseeruddin Shah
The storm of abuse and sheer vitriol that greeted Naseeruddin Shah’s lament over the alarming state of the nation only proves his point. The actor wasn’t even referring to…
Year of caste and communal tensions
As new year draws closer, there is an increase of tensions on caste and communal lines. The Naseeruddin Shah affair has not yet subsided and another instance of repression took…
Morari Bapu A Different Creed
A saint is one who can give some inner peace by his/her voice. This will happen only when s(he) will talk about love and harmony. Morari Bapu is one saint…
Why Vakkom Moulavi Matters Today?
Problems of Engaging Modernity and the Muslim Reform Movement in Kerala.... This article is written in commemoration of the 145th anniversary (28 December) of Vakkom Moulavi who played a major role…
Whose India, Tagore’s or Golwalkar’s?
India is presently going through a struggle between the ideologies of these two ideologues and one is not sure which one will ultimately prevail! Three years back one wrote an…
Muslims ……The Neo Blacks of Bharath
So, we have veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah in the news again. No, it's not in connection with any of his movie projects or even his personal life. He is in…
The Parameters of Cosmopolitan Ethics: Search for ‘Global Ethical order’ in the age of inequality
Recently under the aegis of Institute of Social Sciences(established in 1985), a new 7thchapter has been opened namely, Centre For Ethics, Politics & Global Affairs, headed by the Prof. Ashok…
Truth Today Is Intolerant: The Comment of Naseeruddin Shah
On a fresh autumn morning, I was going by an auto rickshaw to my college to give a brief summary or lecture on what really tension means for a biology…
Hijabi woman stopped from giving UGC NET
A Jamia Millia Islamia MBA student was stopped from giving UGC NET exam in December 2018 in a school in Rohini, Delhi, after she refused to take off her hijab…
Reflection on the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riot in Delhi
The jail for life conviction of Delhi Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in 1984 anti-Sikh riot case is too little and too late judgment by the Delhi High Court. The Sikh’s…
Calendar dedicated to Jallianwala Bagh massacre centenary released in Canada
Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI), in partnership with Radical Desi and People’s Voice, released a calendar dedicated to 100 years of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, on Sunday, December 16…
Canada must not shy away from calling 1984 Sikh massacre a genocide
Considering recent political developments in India, Canada, which claims to be a human rights leader in the world, should stand up for the Sikhs and recognize the 1984 Sikh massacre…
From Bombay to Bulandshahr
Hindutva has emerged as the clear and present danger to Hinduism and silence is not an option for the sane majority Aijaz Zaka Syed So this is how the cookie…
Bihar government should constitute judicial inquiry into Sitamarhi riots
The Socialist Party demands from the Bihar government that a judicial inquiry should be constituted into the communal riots took place on the occasion of Durga Puja on 20th October,…
Strokes of Saffron Terror
When the fountainhead of the State’s governance, its chief minister overwhelms the need to hunt cow-killers over ‘cop-killers’, it crystallizes a practice in gross violation and rule of mob anarchy.…
Challenging misinformation about 1984 Sikh massacre with simple facts
In one of the worst massacres in the history of India, the world’s so called largest secular democracy, thousands of innocent Sikhs were lynched and burnt alive, while their women…
“Divided by barriers, United by blood’’: India Can Be United By Blood!
India is going through a phase of unparalleled hatred to one another according to their religion, caste, culture, linguistic affiliation etc. It need not be that way. We are all…
Why Does a Play Rile Islamists in Kerala?
The play features a young Muslim girl who is in constant debate with her father, a muezzin in a local mosque. With aspirations to touch the sky, this young girl…
The Fakir Rejects Mandir – Masjid
"Peace is not something you wish for; it's you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." The simple plan of anarchy over Ayodhaya is just…
When an officer on duty is killed by the right wing goons
Uttar Pradesh Police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was killed by a mob in Bulandshahar. The cowardly killings and its videos were viral from yesterday evening. The mob, it is alleged,…
Go ahead, rename India itself
Can you change the past by changing the present? Would Hinduising Faizabad, Allahabad, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Hyderabad and so many other great Indian cities help wipe out the country’s rich Islamic…
India’s prosperity hinges on Religious Freedom
The Indian-Americans have a moral duty to prevent India from being labeled as a “Country of Particular Concern” by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). If India…
Ten years of Kandhamal anti-Christian violence in Odisha
I remember those days when the former prime minister of India late Atal Bihari Vajpayee had suggested for a national debate on conversion though our constitution, even then pointing…
RSS, Nazism and Fascism
It is often said that RSS follows Hitler and/or Mussolini. To what extend it is true? Hitler or Mussolini are persons. RSS is not a single person like them. It…
How not to pay homage to Maulana Azad
On November 11, 1888 Abul Kalam, better known as Maulana Azad, was born in Mecca and two years later his father came to Calcutta to consult a surgeon. Since…
Time to Dump Blasphemy Laws
Mera azm itna bulund hae, Parae sholon se dar nahin. Mujhe dar hae tu atish e gul se hae, Ye kahin chaman ko jala na dein (my confidence in self is strong, I'm…
Killing of Mohammad Azeem: Barbarism Normalised?
The incidents of lynching, killing and abusing the opponents particularly of the Muslims in India have become a norm and the country seems to be either satisfied with justifying things…
Sow hate, and reap violence
We have all been taught that love begets love. That might not be always true as many of us have learnt at great emotional costs. Is that true of…
Indian Diaspora and the Subtle Saffron Shades of Foreign Policy
Diasporas have existed since time immemorial. However they have never been so influential, as they are in contemporary times. Their political weight has increased importantly throughout the twentieth century. Historically,…
Media Trial in Ayodhya Case Must be Carefully Watched
The Ayodhya case is now ready for hearing by the Supreme Court from October 29, 2018. This is happening after a hiatus of almost eight years when the legal proceedings…
Kailash Satyarthi should be stripped of Nobel peace prize for glorifying Hindu supremacy
The Nobel Peace Prize committee should immediately intervene and strip a children’s rights activist of the prize given to him in 2014. Kailash Satyarthi not only attended the annual event…
What Is It Like To Be A Muslim In India?
Do not show the face of Islam to others; instead show your face as the follower of true Islam representing character, knowledge, tolerance and piety ― Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (17…
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