A Real Encounter
We have read a number of stories of fake encounters and though less prevalent now, but it is a powerful extra judicial tool for police officers and therefore it will continue to be used. We as common...
View ArticleVictims Of India’s ‘War On Terror’
In a development of far-reaching and frightening implications for the stature of the Indian judiciary, Bar Associations in several parts of the country are effectively banning advocates from defending...
View ArticleO Delhi, my Delhi!
[Pictures by AFP] Two days after 9/11, at around half past six, I was browsing at Khan Market’s Bahri Booksellers when Mr M Singh, the bookshop assistant, cried out that Delhi has been hit by serial...
View ArticleAnd They Struck Again
The terrorists struck again and this time in Delhi at the time and place of their choosing on 13th September in the evening when maximum number of people go out shopping. As usual before the...
View ArticleSome Questions About The Counter-Terror Operation At Jamia Nagar, New Delhi
A team comprising activists, academicians and journalists visited the site of the police operation against alleged terrorists staying in an apartment in Jamia Nagar in the afternoon of 20.09.2008...
View ArticleJihad? But What About Other Verses In Qur’an?
The terror attacks in India as well as abroad has created an impression as if jihad is central to Qur’anic teaching. First of all, as we have asserted repeatedly, jihad does not mean war in Qur’an as...
View ArticleWhither India: Qualitative Change In Polity
Last six months have been most disturbing on the Indian political scene. As far as the values of integration are concerned they are being attacked very severely by terrorist-communal forces. First, we...
View ArticleHindutva Terror: Why?
“He who troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. And the foolish shall be servant to the wise.” Proverbs 11:29 In a very important development in Indian history, members of a few Parivar groups...
View Article5 Things Muslims Should Have Done!
The attacks are a direct result of radicalisation of Islam and hatred for anyone who does not share your belief. Unlike the earlier blasts, Indian Muslims have not been blamed for the recent Mumbai...
View ArticleTackling Terrorism: A Call To Hindu And Muslim Religious Leaders
Maulana Waris Mazhari (Translated by Yoginder Sikand) The recent assault on Mumbai is the most deadly terrorist attack that India has witnessed so far, and it has shaken every Indian. Every one of us...
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