Sajjan Kumar, a Congress leader finally surrendered on 31 December 2018 the deadline set by the Delhi Court, which gave the verdict about his involvement in the 1984 anti Sikh massacre. This anti Sikh pogrom had taken place in the aftermath of the assassination…
Communal Violence in India during 2018 — A Brief Report
Communal Violence has been the bane of this country, gratitude to our politicians and their selfish interests. Ironically most of the riots are engineered…
Dangers of Vigilante Politics
The country is experiencing a spate of violence with cases of lynching in different parts of India. The citizen is hapless and government is unresponsive…
In the Name of Holy Cow: Lynching,Lynching’s and more Lynching’s
The lynching of Junaid (June 2017) in the outskirts of Delhi, in a train, did come as a saturation point in the conscience of large sections of society. To express their anguish people came to streets in great number in a largely spontaneous protest, ‘Not…
BLEEDING KASHMIR: THE LAND OF KHAKHI, STONE PELTING AND HOPE
Speaking at a lecture organized by the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, G.D Parikh Centre for Educational Studies, and Vicharvedh, Mr. Bashir Manzar, the editor of a leading Kashmiri newspaper Kashmir Images, said “If the BJP were to go by the…
How would have Bhagat Singh reacted to the Gandhi’s assassination?
On 14th Feb 2017, many received WhatsApp messages informing that it is this day Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged, and we should observe this day in his memory. These days we receive many such messages on social media giving us information (Historical…
A Reality Check on Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir is again in news for violence and counter violence. Again, several solutions are proposed. Any such exercise, however, need to be informed of a reality check if peace is to return in the state in a foreseeable future. The present unrest…
Miscarriage of Justice in Hashimpura
One of the most famous lines on the official All India Radio news bulletins during communal disturbances used to be ‘ Sthiti tanavpurn lekin Niyantran me hai' ( the situation is tense but under control) and police and paramilitary forces have been deployed…
Is ‘India’s daughter’ a victim of corporate media war ?
A few days ago our finance minister and the legal brain of the current government Mr Arun Jaitley spoke in a conference and said that ‘You cannot ban anything in the current age of information’. ‘How can any government ban anything when the flow of information…
The first lesson
I am still trying to come to terms with the horrific rape of the six month old baby in Gujarat, if come to terms you can. Quite frankly only a very sick society can come to terms with sic horror. I had expressed my immediate reaction in a short blog yesterday…