Sitting in a cab or the more convenient three-wheelers called autorickshaws, while your driver negotiates the madness of India’s roads, you would be forgiven to think you are in your own city. For all Indian cities look the same. But it would be a mistake to dismiss Ahmadabad just like any other Indian city. This [...]
Panikkar was suspended following an inquiry that found him guilty in the Chandramohan painting row The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday passed orders for appointing a new inquiry officer for the fact-finding committee formed by the M S University (MSU) to investigate the suspension of Prof Shivji Panikkar of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA). [...]
Mallika Sarabhai, on Saturday, crossed the ‘border’ between ‘Hindu’ Shrinandnangar and ‘Muslim’ Juhapura with her supporters carrying placards displaying the message, lakirein mita do (remove the lines). Mallika expressed her regret that the two communities have been divided by a line, which has been popularised as ‘border’. She said these borders and divisions had been [...]
While Muslims from Azamgarh demonstrated in New Delhi against random arrest of Muslims in the name of terrorism, Gujarat Muslims avoid any democratic agitation against indiscriminate arrest. While some say it is `fear psychosis’ others hold community’s ‘mercantile culture’ responsible for it. By TwoCircles.net special correspondent, Ahmedabad: When hundreds of innocent Muslim youths were arrested [...]
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 [...]
The Double Helix of Violence (Mukul Sinha) 8.12.2008 THE FIRST HELIX The arrest of Pragya Singh Thakur by the Mumbai ATS Chief Hemant Karkare for the 29thSeptember,2008 Malegaon bomb blast had cracked the very foundation of the propaganda regarding “islamic terrorism” that the Hindu rightist forces were building [...]
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 [...]
Demonstration Against GUJCOC Despite restrictions of the holy Ramzan Month, over a thousand Muslims including women joined the protest Dharna organized by Jan Sangharsh Manch, New Socialist Movement, Jamat-e-Islam, Aman Samuday, Jamate Ulema, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Samiti, Aman Samuday and several other civil rights organizations to protest against the demand of Narendra Modi to enact [...]
Police are the biggest organised gang of criminals, says lawyer quoting an Allahabad High Court judgment Speakers at an anti-GUJCOC rally organised here on Saturday asked the central government not to accept the demand of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for passing the GUJCOC (Gujarat Control of Organised Crime) Bill, 2003, maintaining that it was a [...]
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 [...]
