On 14 and 15 May 2019, revenge violence broke out in a number of towns in Sri Lanka against Muslim shopkeepers by Christians motivated by the Easter Sunday attacks on three Christian churches, two Roman Catholic and one Protestant. The Easter church attacks…
Tinkering with History Textbooks-The Case of Channar Revolt
Politics over history textbooks is a bane of modern India. In the month of March this year, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)…
Naseeruddin Shah ko Gussa Kyon Aata hai?
The index of health of democratic society is gauzed by the feeling of security experienced by the minorities. Similarly one can say that the degree of…
Bulandshahr: Unraveling the anatomy of a riot | Ram Puniyani
The scene of violence in the name of emotive issues has been continuously throwing new patterns of instigating and orchestrating violence. In recent times we saw the major violence following the demolition of Babri Mosque (1992), Godhra train burning (Gujarat…
Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism | Irfan Engineer
Traditions and customs are being used to redefine and redraw the contours of secularism in India in last couple of years. The Constitutional parents, with near unanimity, if not unanimously, embraced the principle of secularism and the principle was followed…
Have Muslim failed Islam in dealing the caste discrimination issue?
Pakistan is on the turmoil at the moment. In a historic judgment Pakistan Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi, a Dalit Christian woman who was sentenced to death by the lower courts for the charges of blasphemy. The court judgment has created an unprecedented…
Need for Reconciliation with Justice | Babri Demolition and aftermath
In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court in a 2-1 majority verdict refused to refer the Dr. Faruqui verdict to Constitution bench. This said verdict had stated that Mosque in not an essential part of Islamic practice. In recent judgment the dissenter judge…
What to believe in: Words or deeds? RSS Supremo’s Public relations Exercise
Do organizations say what they intend to do? Not necessarily. This came out clearly from the three long lectures by RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat. The event was supposed to be a dialogue, but the maximum of dialogue one could see was his answering few questions…
Need to Combat Emerging Global Sectarianism
Like people of all regions and religions, a large number of Hindus have been migrating to all the parts of World. The reason behind this is better pastures and better living standards in those places. In most of the parts of the World one can see a substantial…
Korean Anniversary: Confidence-building Measures Still Needed
Sunday 9 September was the 70th anniversary of the creation of North Korea. As has been usual in recent years there was a very highly-structured ceremonial parade. Such mass events are used to convey policy priorities to its citizens and to the outside…