Prof. Bandukwala wants Muslims to stay away from politics; Dr. Manzoor Alam of All India Milli Council (AIMC) wants Muslims to give top priority to politics in the present political scenario when success in all walks of life depended on political influence of the community. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Ahmedabad: Divergent views were expressed here [...]
STATUTORY PREVARICATION COMMISSION OR OMMISSION? (Mukul Sinha) Prologue: Six months back, when I was asked by Lassnet to send the summary of what I would be presenting in January, 2008, I had said that the Commission of Inquiries Act, as implemented in the present days, provided a convenient machinery for prevarication. I had even [...]
INDIA IN A CENTRIFUGE (The Secular Nation in Danger) (Mukul Sinha) INDIA perhaps is now going through the most severe socio-political crisis in the post Independence period. Never before has the moral and intellectual content of the Nation dipped so low. Never before has the Nation been so deeply inflicted by corruption, communalism [...]
Paragraph 229 (Mukul Sinha) (1) 229 may be a number that Narendra Modi would like to wear on his shirt sleeves as a lucky talisman. Of the 230 paragraphs that the Commission of Inquiry Chaired by Justice G.T.Nanavati devoted to the unraveling the “conspiracy to set the S/6 coach on [...]
An NGO today came out with its own report on the burning of the Sabarmati Express in 2002 and claimed that the incident was "not a pre-planned conspiracy", contradicting findings of the Nanavati Commission that inquired into the case. The S6 coach of the train burned due to flash fire that followed an initial ignition, [...]
Right from the day the Justice Nanavati-Shah commission was constituted in 2002, there was one lawyer who conducted it directing its course of investigation. Gujarat High Court advocate Mukul Sinha of Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a former scientist with Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) turned lawyer, brought out most of the facts of Godhra carnage and [...]
OMISSIONS AND COMMISSIONS (Mukul Sinha) The spectre of “Terrorism” seems to have finally captured the sensibility of the entire nation. All spaces, be that in the print media or the electronic media, be it in a public place or in a private drawing room, are fully occupied by this spectre; a sterile nation incapable of [...]
Anti-Terror Laws Would GUJCOC inhibit the Growth of Terrorism? (Mukul Sinha) Opening Remark: The word terrorism in the modern times is really a gift from the American establishment after the 9/11 attack in NY that led to collapse of the world trade building. Be that as it may, without entering into the realities [...]
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 this [...]
NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM Report, Proceedings and Resolutions 1st September, 2007 VENUE: Town hall, Ashram road ,Ahmedabad Inaugural Session. (Presided by Shri A.P.Ravani, Retd Chief Justice Rajasthan High Court) After registration of the delegates, the conference began with the screening of the film `Come see America’ by Sashi, highlighting America as the root cause of [...]
