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| Book Teesta for Inciting Communal Disharmony |
Book Teesta for Inciting Communal Disharmaony It has been the impression of many of us that our well known human rights activists are very responsible people who have only the interests of the nation at heart. But now this stands shattered with the recent revelation by the SIT in its report submitted to the Supreme Court of India. This is true, at least, in the case of the renowned human rights activist Teesta Setalvad who had been decorated by the ‘secular’ Government of India with a Padma Shree. And it is not for the first time that that renowned human rights activist Teesta Setalvad is herself in the dock, benumbed an... Read More >> |
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| An Unconcionable Act | An Unconscionable Act
 Pratap Bhanu Mehta The news reports of the Supreme Court appointed SIT’s charges against a leading activist, Teesta Setalvad are truly disturbing. She is charged with adding morbidity to the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat by “cooking up macabre tales of killings”. One has to see the full SIT report to come to terms with how grievous the charges are. On the face of it the SIT is credible. But by all news accounts Teesta Setalvad has done the cause of justice irreparable harm. And her actions, as described, will undermine the capability of civil society to have any imprimatur o... Read More >> |
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| A Fatherhood More Equal? | A Fatherhood More Equal?
 Francois Gautier Not many people know that originally, the Congress was created in December 1885 by an Englishman, A.O. Hume, with the avowed aim to "allow all those who work for the national (read British) good to meet each other personally". Yet, between 1906 and 1910, Sri Aurobindo was not only demanding outright independence from the British, but he also re-enacted Krishna's message in the Bhagavad Gita by allowing his brother Barin to manufacture bombs in his own house and secretly endorsing early assassinations of select Englishmen. Compare this to the Mahatma, who only as... Read More >> |
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| Editorial: Exposed Setalvad Maintaining Studied Silence |
Editorial: Exposed Setalvad Maintaining Studied Silence The recent SIT findings submitted to Supreme Court exposes the evil designs of certain ‘secularist’ NGOs, self styled human rights activists in collusion with a section of media. The SIT, headed by former CBI Director, RK Raghavan along with former DGP CB Satpathy and three senior IPS officers Geetha Johri, Shivanad Jha and Ashish Bhatia was assigned to enquire into post-Godhra riots in Gujarat by the Supreme Court. The SIT report has categorically indicted Teesta Setalvad, a self styled human rights activists running an NGO Citizen for Justice and Peace of tutoring the witnesses, cooking up the macabre tales of wanton killi... Read More >> |
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| Deoband's Anti Terrorism Declaration: Part I |
Deoband’s Anti Terrorism Declaration: Part I An anti-terrorism conference was organized by the Rabta Madaris Islamiah (Islamic Madrassa Association) at Darul Uloom Deoband, on Monday 25 February 2008 . The conference was attended by over 10,000 participants that included clerics, scholars and religious leaders from across the country including representatives of other Islamic schools like Nadwatul Ulema and Sufi orders like Chishtis of Ajmer Sharif, and senior dons of the renowned Deoband seminary. The Conference concluded by issuing a Declaration which, besides proclaiming the stand of the Conference on Terrorism, also contained some observations regarding the performance of the ... Read More >> |
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