Ye Kaisi Aazadi Hai!
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. Yes! India has woken up to freedom, but for whom? After 61 years of Independence, around 400 million unorganised workers struggle to survive without any tangible right, though they substantially contribute to the national income. No employment [...]
Godhra Incident Revisited
THE DERAILED REPORT OF NANAVATI COMMISSION
COMMENTS ON NANAVATI COMMISSION REPORT
ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO
GODHRA
REPORT ON THE BURNING OF SABARMATI EXPRESS
Jan Sangharsh Manch comments on Nanavati Commission Report
THE DERAILED REPORT OF SABARMATI EXPRESS
(Please click on the below link for the complete text of Jan Sangharsh Manch’s Report on the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra)
ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA BY JAN SANGHARSH MANCH
PREAMBLE:
1. On 28th February 2002, the news dailies of Gujarat were carrying the screaming headlines of the gruesome death [...]
POTA - Production of Terrorist Act
P . O . T . A
Production of Terrorist Act, Gujarat.
How does one declare a war on terrorism if there are no terrorists around? In Gujarat, this logical hurdle is easily surmounted. Create them first and then declare war on them so that the "hapless citizens" can vote you to power as their sole savior! [...]
Fabricating Systematic Lies - FSL Report
Fabricating Systematic Lies
(Mukul Sinha, Jan Sangharsh Manch)
When the S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express had reduced to ashes near the Godhra railway station on 27th February, 2002, few had imagined that this event would forever change the politics of this country. Use of communal politics is not [...]
Judicial Activism on Right to Shelter - Rights of the Urban Poor
By S.H. Iyer
Advocate
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND RIGHTS OF THE URBAN POOR IN INDIAN CITIES
A poor homeless person was sleeping in the premises of a court. The Marshal came and scolded him. He was asked to go away. The man who was woken up from his slumber said ‘I am prepared to leave [...]
Minorities in India: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Yesterday, they could perhaps relate themselves with the elites of the mighty rulers of the Mugals or the British Empire. Today, the same two religious groups are struggling to swim against the waves of communal politics of the present ruling elite. Secularism and communalism have become wholly intertwined with the vote politics. While Nanavati Commissions [...]
Godhra - The Truth
Conclusions by Jan Sangharsh Manch
The official version of Government of Gujarat regarding the burning of the coach as developed through 9 charge-sheets does not inspire any confidence since the said version suffers from innumerable contradictions obvious on the face of records.
The theory that Razak Kurkuyre, Salim Panwala and few other Muslims of Signal [...]
Dharamveer
‘Dharamveer’ is a common man living peacefully when he is suddenly confronted with conflicting and competing ideologies. trapped in an ideological web, his innocence vanishes and his thoughts are subverted by the collective hate of fanatic mobs.Dharamveer is an attempt to project the frightening reality of impressionable minds transformed into ‘holy warriors’. In the chaos, [...]
Encounters of Gujarat
The Encounters
Sameer Khan Pathan was killed on 22.10.2002 at 1.55 am while in the custody of the Gujarat Police on the allegation that he was about to attackl the policemen.
Sadik Jamal Mehtar was killed on 13th January, 2003 near Galaxy cinema , Ahmedabad on the allegation that he had come to murder Narendra Modi as [...]
