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Truth behind the Violence- Mumbai Police’s mature handling of Saturday’s protest #mustshare

Citizens for Justice and Peace met the Commissioner of Police Mumbai to express our concern over the fallout of Saturday’s violence. His mature  handling of a potentially explosive situation on Saturday did ensure that matters were brought under control. Most… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release-BUJ statement on attacks on media in Mumbai

  The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists (BUJ) deplores the attack on the media on Saturday, August 11, 2012, during the violence that broke out in Mumbai by protestors of the riots in Assam. The BUJ is particularly disturbed at what… Continue Reading →

Police atrocities on dalits: High court issues suo motu notice to Gujarat #Narendramodi

TNN | Aug 10, 2012, 03.55AM IST  the state home secretary and Rajkot police commissioner to explain the alleged police atrocities on dalit women and children. A bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharyaand Justice J B Pardiwala took suo motu cognizance of the issue on basis of… Continue Reading →

The Nai Duniya: Then and now, now and then #Narendramodi #mustread

    By Mohammad Sajjad,twocircles.net   As a school student in the 1980s in rural north Bihar, I have grown up reading few news periodicals, some of these occasionally, others almost regularly; these include, the English weekly Sunday, Urdu weekly… Continue Reading →

Bringing Bangladeshi Angle to Assamese Ethnic Conflict is Disservice to the Nation

      V.K. Tripathi, IIT Delhi                The ethnic violence between Bodos and Muslims in Bodo territorial region of Assam is a national calamity. It has taken a toll of 65 innocent lives (besides the scores of… Continue Reading →

This land is my Land- How are demographics changing in Assam and Bengal?

How are demographics changing in Assam and Bengal? And what does this mean for ‘indigenous’ communities? Garga Chatterjee considers the argument for territorial purity, in the Friday Times, Pakistan’s First Independent Weekly Paper This land is my land 2 0 Bodo women cry at a relief… Continue Reading →

Assam, Muslims and the Insiders

  By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Recent Bodo-Muslim violence that left at least a hundred dead and hundreds of thousands homeless has given an opportunity to many to indulge in the usual Muslim-bashing rhetoric. A few insiders of the Indian establishment has… Continue Reading →

Rohingya Muslims: A brief history of centuries-long persecution

  By Syed Zubair Ahmad, Two circles. net The recent ethnic clashes between the Rohingya Muslims and the Buddhist community in the Rakhine (or Arakan) province of Myanmar have attracted global attention though late – the latest is the UN’s… Continue Reading →

Sexuality and freedom of speech #censorship

M. Najibur Rohman, Semarang | Thu, 05/10/2012 , The Jakarta Post The involuntary dissolution of Irshad Manji’s book launch in Salihara Cultural Center last week is representation of the tyranny of conservative groups that suppresses freedom of speech. Indeed, as… Continue Reading →

Invitation for a Film Treat at TISS- May 8, Block it !!

The School of Media and Cultural Studies invites you to a screening of  a series of five final films by the Class of 2012. The film screenings will be followed by an interaction and discussion with the filmmakers. Date: May… Continue Reading →

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