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  • India: Harassement and intimidation of Mallika Sarabhai because she speak out against the Gujarat riots

    25 October 2003
    (sacw.net, 25 October 2003)
    A letter From Mallika Sarabhai
    My dear friends,
    Over the last 20 months many of you have been aware of my stand against the anti muslim pogrom that happened in Gujarat. With many of you I have had personal conversations, and many of you know that I have had to go underground and that I and Darpana [The 60 year old performing arts institute in Ahmedabad, begun by Mrinalini Sarabhai, Mallika’s mother.] have been harassed and threatened continuously, amongst other  (...)

  • Tributes to Abu Abraham, 1924-2002

    24 September 2003

    Abu Abraham was a celebrated political cartoonist and journalist. The abiding themes of his cartoons and in his newspaper columns in later years was the argument for a secular India and disapproval of the increasing division of Indian society on communal and sectarian lines and of the Hindutva brigade that came to power in the country.

  • The day I fell out of love with India | Luke Harding

    20 September 2003

    As a young backpacker Luke Harding found India charming and eccentric. Fifteen years later he returned as the Guardian’s correspondent. Now, after finishing his time there, he recalls how one terrible incident of sectarian violence in Gujarat brought his love affair with the country to an end

  • India: The Shiv Sena - Semi-Fascism in Action

    18 June 2003

    The Shiv Sena, during nearly three and a half decades of its existence, has always symbolised the semi-fascist face of reaction. The Shiv Sena (SS)a clear ideological affinity with the RSS-controlled Sangh Parivar. Although their interpretations may somewhat differ, the SS and the BJP share a common allegiance to the communal and fascistic concept of cultural nationalism and to the aim of achieving a “Hindu Rashtra†. The rapid growth of the SS in Maharashtra since the mid-eighties is, in fact, closely linked to the parallel growth of the saffron brigade at the national level during the same period.

  • Why a dress code? Why only women?

    by Kalpana Sharma, 19 April 2003

    Behind the concern for girls and women, some of it genuine, is both fear and a desire to control.

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