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---------- Archive 2012 ----------

January 2012

CRYING FOR JUSTICE
Excerpts from the report of the
National People’s Tribunal on Kandhamal

February-March 2012

2002-2012
The Gujarat Genocide
TEN YEARS LATER

April-May 2012

PROSECUTE MODI

June 2012

BEWARE OF DOGMA
Defending atheists: The most
stigmatised community in America

July 2012

RELUCTANT DEMOCRATS
Although forced by circumstances to tread the democratic path, the JIH’s vision is still clouded by the spectre of Maududi

November2012

JUSTICE DELIVERED
Excerpts from the Judgement
in the Naroda Patiya Case

---------- Archive 2011 ----------

February 2011

Special Issue
FACT & FAITH
The Allahabad High Court Judgement
in the Ramjanmabhoomi-
Babri Masjid Case

March 2011

The wrong arm of the law
As the Somasekhara Commission report attempts a shameful cover-up, a citizens’ inquiry commission highlights the full horror of the sangh parivar’s targeting of Karnataka’s Christians in 2008

April 2011

Pakistan
Hope is dying
The violent fanaticism on display
in Pakistan is too close for comfort

May 2011

LETHAL FOOTPRINT
Madhya Pradesh: Another Hindutva
laboratory in the making

June 2011

Mass Grave at Lunawada
Burying the Truth
The status of religious minorities in Pakistan:
Excerpts from a report by the Jinnah Institute

July-August 2011

Breach of Faith
The status of religious minorities
in Pakistan: Excerpts from a report
by the Jinnah Institute

Sept-Oct 2011

Still under fire
Although the road ahead is a long one,
the Supreme Court ruling in the Zakiya Jaffri
and CJP case is certainly no victory for
Narendra Modi

November 2011

Act Now
Why the Communal and Targeted Violence Bill
must be codified into law

December 2011

Judgement Day
The November 9, 2011 verdict in the Sardarpura massacre case

---------- Archive 2010 ----------

January 2010

KASHI ka KABIR
Reinterpreting a poet’s life and his times

February 2010

Breaking the silence
Testimonials of Israeli
Women Soldiers

March 2010

SITTING ON THE TRUTH
The several failures of the Special Investigation Team appointed to reinvestigate nine major cases of violence that occurred in Gujarat 2002

April 2010

LOOKING AHEAD
Report of the
National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities

May 2010

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
Rediscovering the tolerant tradition in Islam

June 2010

MOMENT OF RECKONING
Clinching documentary evidence corroborates serious charges against Narendra Modi and key officials in his administration

July-August 2010

State of siege
It is now or never in Kashmir

---------- Archive 2009 ----------

Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009

Pakistan: Descent
into chaos
A View from Within

February 2009

Hindutva Terror
More dangerous than we are given to believe

March 2009

SAHMAT 20 YEARS

April 2009

TEACHING WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Report of the CABE Committee on
'Regulatory Mechanisms for Textbooks and Parallel Textbooks Taught in Schools Outside the Government System'

May 2009

THE ACCUSED
Modi and 62 others face investigation
for mass murder

June 2009

PAKISTAN SPEAKS
Voices against extremism

July 2009

To veil or not to veil
Don't ban the burkha. Question it

August-September 2009

The Indian Constitution
Who Cares?

October 2009

The Supremacy Myth
In a little known book, Huququn
Niswan (Rights of Women), published over a century ago, Maulvi Mumtaz Ali (Lahore) launched a no-holds-barred attack against fellow ulema who claimed Islam teaches that women are inferior to men

November 2009

Remembering 1984

25 Years After the Anti-Sikh Carnage

December 2009

Ayodhya 1992

Excerpts from the Report of the
Liberhan Ayodhya Commission
of Inquiry

---------- Archive 2008 ----------

January 2008 Christmas mourning Systematic and brutal attacks on the Christian community in Orissa	February 2008 Gulberg Society: Museum of resistance A memorial to the victims of communal violence	March 2008 Equal opportunity Preventing discrimination, promoting equality: India has much to learn from the UK experience	April 2008 Jihad against Terror Two cheers for the Deoband declaration	May 2008 Three hundred Ramayans The epic story’s spectacular journey through the ages: An extract from The Collected Essays of AK Ramanujan
June 2008 Global Minorities Towards equal rights for all	July-August 2008 Blast After Blast Who is responsible?	September 2008 Dreams & Reality Hindi cinema’s flirtations with truth	October 2008 Typecasting Terror
---------- Archive 2007 ----------
January-February 2007 MINORITY REPORT (Excerpts) Rajindar Sachar Committee Status of the Muslim Community in India	June 2007 Gujarat 2002-2007 Genocide's Aftermath (Part I)	July 2007 Gujarat 2002-2007 Genocide's Aftermath (Part I I)	September 2007 INDIA AT 60 Free spaces	Nov.-Dec. 2007 Islam and modernity Muslim living in the west show the way

---------- Archive 2006 ----------

March 2006

PROVOCATION AND RESPONSE

May 2006

THE BEST BAKERY CASE
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

June 2006

POLITICS OF FAITH

July-August 2006

LIVING WITH TERROR

September 2006

BLOODY HARVEST
Karnataka is fast emerging as Hindutva’s new hate laboratory

October 2006

WAYS OF SEEING

November 2006

SHADOWS & SILENCE

December 2006

THE WAY WE WERE

---------- Archive 2005 ----------

January 2005

PREJUDICE IN PARADISE

CINEMA &
SECULARISM

CASTE CRIMES

ISLAM, REFORM

GUJARAT GENOCIDE VICTIM
WAITING FOR JUSTICE

Aug-Sep. 2005

HAND IN HAND
Saluting the unsung heroes of
the 2005 deluge

October 2005

SILENT PRAYER
Is piety not possible without noise pollution?

November 2005

Minority institutions:
Rights or privilege?

December 2005

Breaking Grounds:
New bill to curb Communal Violence

---------- Archive 2004 ----------

January 2004 SHREDDING A LEGACY	Feb-March 2004 LOK SABHA ELECTION 2004: A PEOPLES AGENDA	April May 2004 SC judgement on Best Bakery Case Proud moment for secular democracy	June 2004 GOOD NEWS FROM GUJARAT	July 2004 TALAQ TALAQ TALAQ	August 2004 HEY RAM! THE ROLE OF THE RSS
September 2004 LIVING WITH TERROR MINORITIES IN BANGLADESH	October 2004 LOST TRIBES Is the BJP and the rest of the sangh parivar leading Rajasthan in the direction of Gujarat 2002?	Nov.-Dec. 2004 1984: REMEMBRANCE, RESTITUTION, JUSTICE ‘Punishment of the guilty is necessary not because we are brooding over the past but because we are worried about the future’
---------- Archive 2003 ----------
January 2003 VIOLENCE IN SOUTH ASIA 2002	Feb-March 2003 LOK SABHA ELECTION 2004: A PEOPLES AGENDA	March 2003 LISTEN TO THE WORLD	April 2003 GUJARAT - ONE YEAR LATER	May 2003 AGAINST THE LAW	June- July 2003 MESSENGER OF PEACE
Aug.-Sept 2003 10 ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL	October 2003 GODHRA REVISITED	November 2003 INDIA: WHERE MASS MURDERERS GO UNPUNISHED	December 2003 A SANER ALTERNATIVE Embracing corporate social responsibility
---------- Archive 2002 ----------
February 2002 ARMS AND THE MAN Musharraf launches ‘half–a–revolution’	March-April 2002 GENOCIDE GUJARAT 2002	July 2002 GODSES GUJARAT	September 2002 HINDUTVA vs DEMOCRACY	Nov-Dec 2002 CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
---------- Archive 2001 ----------
January 2001 EDUCATION WITH VALUES An X-ray of Murli Manohar Joshi's new education policy.	February 2001 SPLIT WIDE OPEN Nature was undiscrimi- nating in the staggering death and devastation she wrought on Gujarat. But as international and national aid pours in, disturbing reports of caste, class and communal bias in its distribution continue to surface.	March 2001 SHOULD THE HAJ SUBSIDY GO ? Yes, say a large number of Muslims. But what about the mahakumbh and Amarnath yatra, others ask.	April 2001 HIDDEN APARTHEID The continuance of manual scavenging, untouchability and other obnoxious practices do not seem to bother the Indian establishment, the intelligentsia included. What does disturb them deeply is the campaign of Dalits to have the indignities of casterecognised internationally as a distinct form of racism	May 2001 THRICE OPPRESSED Dalit and Muslim women grapple with the triple burden of caste-community, class and gender.	July 2001 WINDS OF CHANGE? Peace on the subcontinent is an idea whose time has come. But can Vajpayee and Musharraf – both backed by hardliners – set the process in motion?
September 2001 PEACEMAKERS A tribute to those countless Indians, men and women, who have put up heroic resistance to the politics of venom and violence	October 2001 ISLAM: MOMENT OF TRUTH Among other things, September 11 has triggered a serious soul-search among Muslims.	November 2001 Rajasthan: attempting a replication Killer ‘Trishuls’ in hand, the sangh parivar is now trying to replicate its highly successful experiment in communalising neighbouring Gujarat	December 2001 Bangla Hindus Victims of growing Muslim extremism
---------- Archive 2000 ----------
January 2000 YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE IN YOUR HANDS What every teacher, parent and citizen, who does not like biased education, can do.	February 2000 JUSTICE DENIED Seven years ago, India'sChristians told the Union government they were ready for sweeping changes in their outdated personal laws to make it gender just. They now plan an all-India campaign to demand prompt legislation	March 2000 TASLIMA NASREEN IN MUMBAI: 'THE PEN IS MY ONLY WEAPON' An exclusive interview.	April 2000 FACE TO FACE WITH FASCISM Forced ethnic segregation, calculated violence and the blatant misuse of government machinery throttles democracy in Gujarat.	May 2000 INDIA’S SHAME! 50 years after the constitution proclaimed equality for all Indians, over 160 million Dalits continue to be victims of a ‘hidden apartheid’, treated as untouchables, and worse.	July 2000 BLINDING REALITY The PM refuses to face daily asaults on India's tradition of tolerance by members of his own parivar. What about us?
August 2000 ISI -- THE DEMON WE FEED	September 2000 WOOING THE VICTIM "Muslims are flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood", says the new BJP president. Is saffron changing colour? Or, haven't we heard that before?	October 2000 GANDHI OR GODSE? Admirers of the Mahatma’s assassin continue to vilify Gandhi and glorify Godse.	December 2000 SALT OF THE EARTH India’s Christians.
---------- Archive 1999 ----------
January 1999 CONVERSIONS A WARPED DEBATE PLUS a report on the Christmas-time attacks on Christians in Gujarat.	February 1999 REWRITING HISTORY... ...To suit the Hindutva Brigade, Allah’s Army and Sinhalese Lions in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.	March 1999 THE ENEMY WITHIN Muslim extremists unleash a reign of Taliban–style terror on co–religionists, women especially, in Left Front–controlled Kerala and West Bengal.	April 1999 DENYING A SHARED PAST If the Sangh Parivar promotes the ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’ feeling for reasons of politics, the Tablighi Jamaat does the same in Allah’s name.	June 1999 A FOE IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED Vajpayee’s friend from Lahore could not have done the BJP and himself a bigger favour than opening up the Kargil front.	July 1999 AFTER KARGIL, KASHMIR For both the Islamic ‘jihadis’ in Pakistan and the sangh parivar in India, its the continuation of a 1000–year–old ‘dharam yudh’ between Islam and Hinduism.
October 1999 HOW TEXTBOOKS TEACH PREJUDICE Forget RSS–run Shishu Mandirs and Muslim madrassas. Textbooks prescribed by even ‘secular’ central and state education boards in the country promote religious, caste and gender prejudice.	November 1999 TALIBANISATION OF KASHMIR Post-Kargil, imported mujahideen are pedalling a Talibanised Islam in the Valley. And succeeding in good measure, thanks to the unholy nexus between the BJP-led NDA govt and the National Conference.	December 1999 THE MILLENNIUM -- METAPHOR OR REALITY? Rajeev Dhavan, VP Singh, Sitaram Yechury, Javed Akhtar, Justice Hosbet Suresh, Swami Agnivesh, Kancha Ilaiah, Krishna Sobti, Saifuddin Soz, Asghar Ali Engineer, Rev. Valson Thampu, Kesavan Veluthat, Akhilesh Mittal.
---------- Archive 1998 ----------
February 1998 HE RAM! 50 years after he was assassinated, the idea that killed the Mahatma threatens to rule India.	March 1998 WHO’S TO BLAME? By failing to protect the life and property of citizens, the state sows the seed of extremism.	April 1998 PARTITION Award-winning writer, SUKETU MEHTA, meets some elderly Sikhs on the Indo-Pak border and returns with moving accounts of revenge — ‘my mind went mad for one day’ — and remorse of the last 50 years.	May 1998 HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY The killing of innocent Hindus by Pakistan-trained mercenaries in J & K is one more bid to convert the Kashmiriyat issue into a Hindu-Muslim problem.	June 1998 BOMBING LAHORE WILL KILL LAKHS IN AMRITSAR, TOO Nuclear weapons will act like boomerangs on both India and Pakistan.	July 1998 WHY DON'T MUSLIM AND CHRISTIANS UNITE? Targeted as both are by Hindutva, it's in their own and the nation's interest to do so, says a Christian priest
August 1998 FAITH IN LOVE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Aamir Khan, Mahesh Bhatt, Saif Ali Khan, Noella Kambli.	October 1998 GUJARAT: 'WELCOME TO HINDU RASHTRA' Saffron bridgade unleashes terror against Christians and Muslims in the Mahatma's land. EXCLUSIVE: DGP indicts VHP, Bajrang Dal.	November 1998 HELL ON EARTH ‘Islamic’ Taleban and Mujahideen fanatics spread terror and trauma in Afghanistan.	December 1998 ZAKHM A love story which bleeds a wound that needs desperately to heal. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS with Mahesh Bhatt, Pooja Bhatt and Ajay Devgan.