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  • India: ’Cartoonists should be liberals and radicals’ - Interview with Abu Abraham

    26 November 2004

    Rediff on the Net interview with Abu Abraham the political cartoonist and journalist in 1997

  • The Idea of India: Text of Nehru Lecture delivered by Amartya Sen at Trinity College, Cambridge | 5th Feb 1993

    13 November 2004

    Text of Lecture delivered by Prof Amartya Sen at Trinity College, Cambridge in Feb 1993

  • Of Figures And Indian Fascists

    by J. Sri Raman, 15 September 2004

    We have heard of chemical warfare, the kind witnessed in the U.S. defoliation campaign in Vietnam. Of biological warfare, which the U.S. Government waged by donating smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans long before the advent of anthrax terrorism. Not, however, of population warfare. It has been left to the fascists of India to discover this new dimension to unconventional warfare. And they see in it the cunning, conspiratorial strategy of their main enemy - the country’s religious minorities. It has taken only a single mis-statement of a census official to revive this pet theme of "Hindu nationalists" (a misleading, self-conferred title).

  • Caught in historical cliches

    by Praful Bidwai, 11 September 2004

    The Sangh Parivar’s tirades against textbook reform reek of obscurantist communalism and its glorification of Savarkar legitimises his pioneering of the Two-Nation theory and poisonous Hindutva. History-writing cannot become a handmaiden to such sectarian agendas; its independence and dignity must be restored.

  • The Case for Banning the VHP, Bajrang Dal and RSS

    by Rohini Hensman, 25 August 2004
    In the context of the prolonged and horrific violence in Gujarat, there have been numerous calls for the VHP and Bajrang Dal to be banned. For some people, evidently, the well-documented role of these organisations in planning, inciting and perpetrating systematic attacks on Muslims - destroying their livelihoods, driving them out of their homes, raping hundreds of women and girls, and murdering thousands of men, women, children and babies - seems an obvious reason for outlawing them.  (...)

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