There is confusion about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s much awaited appearance before the Special Investigation Team on March 21. The SIT was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2009 to probe into the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. A well-informed source who is involved with the supervision of criminal cases of the Gujarat riots [...]
Eighty years of Globalization The financial crisis of 2007–2009, began in July 2007 when a loss of confidence by investors in the value of securitized mortgages in the United States resulted in crisis of liquidity (free-flow of money/capital). The perceived credit risk in the general economy rose alarmingly in July 2007, reaching a peak [...]
Seven years after hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat were murdered in some of India’s most vicious religious violence since partition, the families of those who died are a step closer to justice after the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of fast-track tribunals. Among the people to be investigated will be the state’s controversial chief [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Defeat Communal fascism and Globalization Speech of Amrish Patel, Gen. Secretary, New Socialist Movement In the Convention against Communal Fascism and Globalization At Kolkata on 26th September 2005. I come all the way from Gujarat, the State which has now come to be known as the Laboratory of Hindutva. By calling it the Laboratory of [...]
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 [...]
LONG LIVE STALIN Just when the French were celebrating the 200th anniversary of their revolution, a very similar bourgeois revolution was fast changing the face of Eastern Europe and striking at the shores of the Soviet Union. The slogans were also the same. Freedom, democracy and market economy! Perestroika and Glasnost might as well be [...]
