The High Price of Conscience As much at ease reciting from scriptures of the world’s major religions as quoting chapter and verse from the Indian Constitution and Indian laws, former DGP RB Sreekumar of Gujarat, the first and most critical whistleblower exposing high level state complicity behind the carnage of 2002, speaks to Communalism Combat-Newsclick about the fresh challenges he faces. Published first in Communalism … Continue reading RB Kumar on Gujarat Riots
From the time I was little I remember Gandhi was my ultimate hero. I am not very sure why, but I think a lot of it is to do with the fact that I was in Gandhi house in school. There was no sorting hat (as in Hogwarts) that decided my fate but just I suppose a random teacher’s random choice. A choice that made … Continue reading Gandhi, My Hero – Shelja Sen #GandhiRocks #HarmonyRocks
Mumbai, 2nd of October: If it’s about Peace, Love, Harmony, and Music, then it is at The Gandhi Peace Festival 2015 – Harmony Rocks on 2nd October, 2015 ie today! when all roads will lead to the Bandra Amphitheatre, 6 PM, onwards. In celebration of Peace on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, the Bombay Rock Association is bringing together an eclectic mix of musicians and … Continue reading Shilpa Rao to headline live music gig to celebrate Peace and Harmony on Mahatma’s birth anniversary
(Secular Perspective, September 16-30, 2015) A fact finding team consisting of Adv. Irfan Engineer and these writers, visited the riot torn village of Atali and dwelled into the causes, contentions and nuanced positions of different stakeholders, after two bouts of violence on 25th May and 1st July 2015 in the village. The 150 odd Muslim families in Atali have fled for their lives after two … Continue reading Women’s voices from Atali – Dr. Sandhya Mhatre and Neha Dabhade
In a press conference organised to defend their member Samir Gaikwad who has been arrested in connection with the murder of rationalist Govind Pansare, Sanatan Sanstha, a Hindu extremist outfit, issued a thinly-veiled threat to filmmaker Anand Patwardhan. Advocate Sanjiv Punalekar, representing the Sanstha, had a heated exchange with Mr Patwardhan. The filmmaker was unable to make himself heard. All the journalists who asked questions … Continue reading Sanatan Sanstha threatens filmmaker Patwardhan
Mumbai: Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor minces no words when it comes to expressing his views on sensitive matters — be it blind religious beliefs as well as the meat and beef bans. That, he says, does not make him “anti-Hindu”. Rishi got in a Twitter spat with a user, who wrote: “@chintskap Fools like Rishi kapoor eat beef; have a mini church at home and … Continue reading I’m a proud Hindu: Rishi Kapoor hits back at trolls
Yesterday twenty students sat on a day long symbolic hunger strike that took place in Kolkata, at Jadavpur University. A senior professor from the Film Studies dept went hungry too, along with the students from many departments of #JU and #SRFTI. Provoking posters were put up on all the walls of the university, and numbing performances by four performers of PI(Performers Independent) left everyone disturbed … Continue reading All Day Long #JU and #SRFTI symbolic hunger strike in solidarity with #FTII
A R Rahman, one of the finest music directors of India responded to a fatwa by clerics of Raza Academy by quoting from the Holy book of Quran. An Indian Islamic group had issued a fatwa against Iranian film-maker Majid Majidi and the Oscar-winning Indian composer AR Rahman over the depiction of the prophet Muhammad in a new film. Rahman in his response wrote – “Nothing will … Continue reading “Nothing shall happen to us except what Allah has ordained for us”, reminds AR Rahman !
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