India - Meerut violence: Over 3,600 booked, BJP MLA Som's supporters give call for another panchayat

The Times of India
Meerut violence: Over 3,600 booked, BJP MLA Sangeet Som's supporters give call for another panchayat
Ashish Tripathi, TNN | Sep 30, 2013, 06.57 PM IST

BJP MLA Sangeet Singh Som's wife and brothers have been booked for violating prohibitory orders and organizing panchayat in Khera village.

LUCKNOW: The Meerut police on Monday lodged cases against 3,605 people including BJP MLA

Communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar: little has been written about the trauma suffered by women

From: The Hindu
September 28, 2013
THE OTHER HALF
The politics of violence

Kalpana Sharma

[Photo] PTI Riot-affected women and children at a makeshift camp in Muzaffarnagar.

In all the reports about the recent communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar, little has been written about the trauma suffered by women.

Imagine if you are a woman with several children and a riot breaks out. You can run, carry

India: Meerut clashes - Mahapanchayat in Khera village in Meerut defying ban orders

Daily News and Analysis

Meerut clashes: Mulayam Singh Yadav blames BJP, RSS; assures action
Sunday, Sep 29, 2013, 21:29 IST | Place: Lucknow | Agency: PTI

At least 20 people, including security personnel, were on Sunday injured and a number of government vehicles damaged in a clash between villagers and police over holding a Mahapanchayat in Khera village in Meerut defying ban orders.

Taking a

India: Artists perfom in Delhi against threat to democracy and protest against Modi

From: Zee News

Artists stage protest at Jantar Mantar against Narendra Modi

Last Updated: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 23:15
New Delhi: Coinciding with Narendra Modi's rally in the city, a group of artists and activists on Sunday staged a protest against the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate.

The Members of Act Now for Harmony And Democracy (ANHAD) and artistes under the banner of Artistes

India: Citizen's March for Secularism in Delhi by students and teachers of three universities to demanded justice following Muzaffarnagar violence

From: Indian Express

Secularism under threat, say students, teachers on rally eve
Naveed Iqbal : New Delhi, Sun Sep 29 2013

On the eve of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally in the capital, students and teachers of three Delhi universities held a demonstration against the communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, UP, and demanded that efforts by political parties to destroy the

Photos from Aman Ekta Manch public meeting in Nizamuddin on communal violence Muzaffarnagar - 28 Sept 2013,

The Aman Ekta Manch called a meeting at the Ghalib Academy in Nizamuddin on 28 September 2013 to discuss "the new phase of communal violence". The photos posted below were taken by Mukul Dube

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India: How Modi Appropriates, Manipulates - Talk of idol building for Sardar Patel is an example (Pavan Varma in TOI)

The Times of India - 28 September 2013

By putting up a statue of Sardar Patel, Modi is trying to appropriate the man who steadfastly opposed the RSS

by Pavan K Varma

Narendra Modi is a good orator, and his first public speech at Rewari in Haryana on September 15, after being elected the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, provided ample evidence of this. I was intrigued, though, by his fulsome

Pakistan: Campus Terror and the Muslim Right | Khaled Ahmed

Jamaat-e-Islami rules university campuses across Pakistan in general and Lahore in particular. It rules through the IJT and dominates teaching faculties too. The PU vice chancellor is on the defensive because of cases of sexual harassment registered against him and some other teachers. The latter are also periodically caught obtaining doctorates on the basis of plagiarised theses. As a result, PU

India: CBI summons BJP leaders over alleged conspiracy to protect Amit Shah

The CBI has served notices to BJP leaders Prakash Javadekar and Bupendra Yadav to appear for questioning in connection with a sting operation which purportedly shows the leaders discussing ways to protect Amit Shah, former Gujarat Home Minister, in a case where is he accused of murder. A Public Interest Litigation or PIL filed in the Supreme Court claims that a journalist named Pushp Kumar Sharma

India: Report on Muzaffarnagar riots and resulting demographic transformation

From: Frontline, 18 September 2013

Muzaffarnagar: The riot route

The riots in Muzaffarnagar following the killing of two Jats and a Muslim sharpen the communal polarisation in western Uttar Pradesh. By AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA in Muzaffarnagar

KAWAL, one of the largest villages in Muzaffarnagar district, was a quintessential village, divided into two distinct halves, in western Uttar

Meera Nanda on India’s superstition industry | Frontline

Frontline, 18 September 2013
Cover Story

In the name of faith

Asaram Bapu’s alleged sexual assault on a young girl offers an opportunity to throw light and lift the veil on the state-temple-corporate complex. By MEERA NANDA

http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/in-the-name-of-faith/article5137396.ece?homepage=true&css=print

India: Charges Against Students for promting enmity on grounds of religion, race etc - Unsigned Student Pamphlet from Hyderabad,

OUTSOURCING DISCIPLINE, POLICING CULTURAL RESISTANCE

The English and Foreign Languages University has filed a criminal case (dated: 11/09/13) against six students (four students from the SC/ST/OBC communities and two women students) with the Osmania Police Station (Case Details: Crime No. 350/2013 U/S 153 (A) IPC). They are charged with the grave offence of,

"Promoting enmity between different

Public Meeting Announcement: New Phase of Communal Violence and its Implications (28 Sept, Nizamuddin, Delhi)

PUBLIC MEETING

by

Aman Ekta Manch

on

New Phase of Communal Violence and its Implications

28th September (Saturday) 2-5 PM

at Ghalib Academy, Nizamuddin [New Delhi]

Speakers

Sukumar Murlidharan, Senior Journalist

Dr. John Dayal, Member NIC

Dilip Simeon, Noted Historian and Author

Prof. Ali Javed, Delhi University

Manisha Bhalla Journalist

Nishat Qaisar, Jamia Millia Islamia

Panini

India: RSS top brass are trying to engineer a new brand image for the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi (M K Venu)

The Hindu, September 27, 2013

A new chemistry experiment

M. K. Venu

PTI The Muzaffarnagar communal violence is seen as benefiting the BJP because the Jat community is said to be preparing to ‘give Modi a chance.’

The RSS and the BJP are trying to package prime ministerial aspirant Narendra Modi as a development-oriented backward class leader in the crucial Hindi heartland, heightening

Artistes Against Fascism: Music Dance and Poetry September 29, 2013 - 11am to 4pm (Jantar Mantar, Delhi)

Artistes under the banner pf Artistes Against Fascism from Delhi have decided to respond, to the screeching and jingoistic monologue projected manifolds by the corporate media, through their music, dance, poetry- the language of love and sanity. Let Us Celebrate Diversity.

JOIN US to say : WE OPPOSE COMMUNAL FASCIST FORCES
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India: When Modi deciphers Gandhi - Editorial in Free Press Journal

Free Press Journal
September 27, 2013 12:04:13 AM | By FPJ Bureau

Editorial: When Modi deciphers Gandhi

He has used his old trick to introduce a connection between his unabashed personal desire to be the prime minister with a 63-year-old Gandhian goal

There are enough indicators in Modi’s track record to assess the ruthless manner with which he deals with his political opponents. Indeed, there

What Ails National Integration Council -Ram Puniyani

What Ails National Integration Council?



Ram Puniyani



The meeting of National Integration Council (NIC)
on 23rd September (2013) was a damp squib. Held in the aftermath of
Muzaffarnagar violence and in the times when the next Parliamentary elections
are on the horizon, one expected some concrete proposals and actions which
Government could have discussed and brought in as a voluntary code

India - Muzzarfarnagar Violence: Upcoming Public Meetings of Aman Ekta Manch in New Delhi

Dear Friends,

You must be aware that in the wake of recent communal violence in Muzzafarnagar of UP and growing polarization, the Aman Ekta Manch (formed after Gujarat Progrom) is revived earlier this month. Ever since its revival we have organised a protest at UP Bhawan, 3 weekly meetings and a Public Meeting with the students and teachers of Dayal Singh College (DU). We have also published a

India: Five years after being acquitted in the Mecca Masjid bomb blast case ... treated as outcastes

The Hindu
Hyderabad, September 26, 2013

Treated as outcastes and looked at with suspicion

Five years after being acquitted in the Mecca Masjid bomb blast case, life continues to be a struggle for Mohd. Abdul Raheem (32), now a grocery store owner. The trader was arrested in the Mecca Masjid blast case in 2007 and had to spend nearly six months in prison before being released on bail.

At the

India: Hindutva Fascism - What It Is and How to Fight It (Editorial, Analytical Monthly Review)

source URL

Hindutva Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
by Analytical Monthly Review

[Analytical Monthly Review, published in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, is a sister edition of Monthly Review. The text below is based on the editorial in its September 2013 issue. -- Ed.]

The parliamentary elections of 2014 are now casting their shadow ahead. The nationwide elections on a five-year

Forum for Secular Pakistan supports Prime Minister Sharif’s decision to call off the proposed peace talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban

A state can talk with an enemy that follows some rules of warfare, not with brainwashed criminals who conduct cowardly attacks on innocents.
http://www.sacw.net/article5713.html

India: Fact Finding Report on Muzaffarnagar Riots released by Anhad

Evil Stalks the Land: Fact Finding Report on Muzaffarnagar Riots

24 September 2013

A team of 24 activists, journalists, lawyers and students visited several relief camps and villages in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Ghaziabad districts of Uttar Pradesh on September 22 - 23 September, 2013. We met hundreds of victims, scores of relief camp committee members; spoke to people in general on the dhabas

Secularism and the Arts - Sahmant seminar in Delhi 26, 27, 28 September 2013 - programme

SECULARISM and the ARTS

on 26, 27, 28 September 2013

at Sahitya Akademi Conference Hall
Third Floor, Rabindra Bhavan
35 Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi

THURSDAY • 26 SEPTEMBER 2013 • 9.30 am – 6 pm

9.30 am Sohail Hashmi: Welcome address

10 am – 1.30 pm SESSION ONE The Secular: A Historical Perspective
Speakers Irfan Habib: ‘Secularism: In Theory and Practice
Mihir Bhattacharya: ‘The

India: Report by fact-finding team of independent social activists, which visited relief camps of the survivors of the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts

The Hindu,
NEW DELHI, September 23, 2013
“Cry for justice in Muzaffarnagar relief camps ”

Mohammad Ali

A fact-finding team of independent social activists, which visited relief camps of the survivors of the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts, has indicted the Uttar Pradesh Government for “abdicating its responsibility for relief and rehabilitation in the aftermath of the

India: Report in Financial Times on Muzaffarnagar Violence and fears of turmoil ahead of India election

Financial Times, September 22, 2013 6:22 pm
Communal violence raises fears of turmoil ahead of India election

By Amy Kazmin in Muzaffarnagar, India

Pro-Telangana state Osmania University students (R) fall back as a policeman takes aim with a tear gas round during a protest against the 'Save Andhra Pradesh' meeting in Hyderabad on September 7, 2013. Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted Officers (APNGO)

India: Readers' Editor at The Hindu on Evolving norms for reporting communal violence

The Hindu, September 23, 2013
Evolving norms for reporting communal violence

A.S. Panneerselvan

The spectre of communal violence is both a tragedy and a challenge for good journalism. How to report the violence? How to bring out the sense of pain and loss of innocent men, women and children caught in a web of destructive forces aided and spiralling due to political reasons? How can the media

India:A.G. Noorani on Modi and democracy

dawn.com

Modi and democracy

A.G. Noorani

21 September 2013

THE Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) nomination on Sept 13 of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections caused little surprise.

The sole dissenter was L.K. Advani who was embittered by the party’s defeat in two successive elections in 2004 and 2009 which proved a fatal blow

USA: Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions witdraws support for Vivekananda celebrations that were being co-sponsored by VHP (and due to Modi's role in 2002 Gujarat riots )

From: The Times of India

Narendra Modi's long shadow creates a rift in Chicago
IANS | Sep 22, 2013, 10.40 PM IST

Coalition against genocide had reportedly strongly campaigned with the CPWR to withdraw its sponsorship to the event commemorating Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary.

CHICAGO: The shadow of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, and his alleged complicity in the 2002

India: Interview with Gadkari the RSS hand in BJP

[New Indian Express 22nd September 2013]

Former BJP President Nitin Gadkari speaks about being a devoted RSS swayamsevak, Narendra Modi’s appointment as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate and Uttar Pradesh government’s role in Muzaffarnagar communal riots with The New Indian Express Editorial Director Prabhu Chawla during Teekhi Baat on IBN7. Excerpts:

Full Text: http://newindianexpress.com/

India: Vishwa Hindu Parishad set to launch another yatra in Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu
ALLAHABAD, September 22, 2013

Vishwa Hindu Parishad set to launch another yatra

Omar Rashid

Undeterred by the clampdown on its 84 Kosi Yatras, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad is set to kick off another yatra, Panch-Kosi Parikrama, from Monday, even as the government issued prohibitory orders in Ayodhya.

Section 144 has been enforced in the temple town, but Faizabad District Magistrate

India: The journal Manushi stands up in defence of 'Khap Panchayats' which issue dictats seeking public honour killings amogst other things - Statement from Manushi

Manushi Intervention in the Supreme Court Stalls Unconstitutional Law Demanded by NGOs to Ban Khaps

In recent years, media has systematically led a hate campaign against Khap Panchayats projecting them as an unwanted hangover of India’s “barbaric” medieval past. Even those who had never heard or knew the meaning of the word Khap, nor ever seen or met a person belonging to any Khap joined the

India: All Party Hindu Coordination Committee demands single shrine board for all J&K temples, shrines

All Party Hindu Coordination Committee demands single shrine board for all J&K temples, shrines
PTI | Sep 20, 2013, 06.29 PM IST

JAMMU: Demanding a single shrine board for all the temples and shrines in Jammu and Kashmir, All Party Hindu Coordination Committee (APHCC) on Friday threatened to go on a dharna on September 27 if the government fails to take the step.

"We demand constitution of

Wisdom from Brown university prof. on Muzaffarnagar riots ...via Gujarat, Los Angeles, France

Indian Express, 20 September 2013

A strange fire
[by] Ashutosh Varshney

Why the Muzaffarnagar riots were a departure from past trends.

In several respects, the recent communal violence in Muzaffarnagar had the classic features of a riot. The immediate cause appeared to be the stalking or harassment of a "girl" by young men of another community, a common trope in riots. There is a dispute about

India - Karnataka: A novel way to curb free speech

The Hindu, September 20, 2013

A novel way to curb free speech

Bageshree S.

The arrest of Yogesh Master in Karnataka for allegedly insulting Hindu sentiments through his book deals another blow to the freedom of expression and creative literary interpretation

The Kannada novel Dhundi created history of sorts in Karnataka when, on August 29, its author was arrested on the charge of outraging

India: Gujarat 2002 vs Delhi 1984 - Which genocide should we vote against?

The Times of India

Gujarat 2002 vs Delhi 1984: Which genocide should we vote against?
Anahita Mukherji
14 September 2013, 04:57 PM IST


The two most widely reported news stories on Friday the 13th, 2013, have a lesson in store for the country. The men who raped and brutalised a young girl in a moving bus in Delhi last year have been awarded the death sentence. The man who oversaw one of

India's1984 anti sikh riots: news report from1994 on the BJP and RSS move to protect its cadres involved in the killings

Scan of April 1994 report in The Pioneer
http://www.sacw.net/IMG/pdf/Pioneer_April_11_1994_BJP_Cadres_1984.pdf

India: BJPs Skullcap Secularism Game

The Hindu, September 19, 2013

Skullcap secularism

Jyoti Punwani

It is strange that the BJP which denounces Muslims for their distinctive religious identity should now insist on their sartorial separation

What if the Muslims of Rajasthan who attended Narendra Modi’s Jaipur rally had turned up in normal attire, indistinguishable from their fellow Hindu Rajasthanis? What if wearing their

India: Zakia Jafri & CJP say Gujarat government was involved in a conspiracy to target Muslims in mobilising VHP-Bajrang Dal

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/zakia-makes-final-submission-challenging-sits-clean-chit-to-modi/article5142910.ece

THEHINDU
19SEP2013
Zakia makes final submission challenging SIT’s clean chit to Modi

[by] Darshan Desai
Says Gujarat government was involved in a conspiracy to target Muslims in mobilising VHP-Bajrang Dal

Zakia Jafri, widow of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri killed in

Muzaffarnagar Violence: Polarization with Difference- Ram Puniyani