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South Asia Citizens Web Dispatch
2-3 November 2000

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#1. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Violence Escalates
#2. India: The Hindutva offensive
#3. India: Truth & Raparations for victims of Bombay riots
#4. India: Hindu Right opposes compulsory iodization of salt
#5. New Book 'on Minorities Under Threat in India'
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#1.

SRI LANKA: ETHNIC VIOLENCE ESCALATES

(New York, November 1, 2000) Human Rights Watch said today that ethnic
violence in Sri Lanka would continue to escalate without decisive
government action against those responsible for a prison massacre last
week. The international monitoring group also called on all groups
involved, including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), to
refrain from retaliatory attacks.

On October 25, twenty-five Tamils in a detention facility in Bandarawela
were killed by a Sinhalese mob. Many of those killed had been detained
on suspicion of links to the LTTE. Following the massacre, President
Kumaratunga ordered two high-level police probes into the incident.

"We welcome President Kumaratunga's swift action to set up high-level
inquiries. We hope the investigations will proceed equally swiftly,"
said Sidney Jones, Asia director of Human Rights Watch. "It's critical
that the government impartially investigate allegations that police
personnel stationed at the camp were complicit in the attacks, and look
into reports of incitement of violence by political parties preceding
and following the massacre. With ethnic tension already so high, failure
to address these highly-charged issues could be explosive."

A sharp rise in communal tensions has followed the attack, with some Sri
Lankans describing the situation as worse than at any time in the last
twenty years.

Ethnic clashes and large-scale riots erupted in Sri Lanka's central
hill districts following the Tamil-led protests against the massacre. As
many as four people were killed and many were injured in rioting from
October 28 to 30 in the towns of Talawakale, Ginigathena and
Nuwara Eliya.

In Talawakale, demonstrators set fire to Sinhalese shops after a drunken
Sinhalese man reportedly abused the demonstrators. Sinhalese mobs
retaliated, burning and looting Tamil shops. In Ginigathena, hundreds
were driven from their homes after mobs set fire to local shops. Rioters
also stoned vehicles on the main highway to Nuwara Eliya.

After the massacre, police briefly detained more than 250 suspects from
the majority Sinhalese community. Several police officers who guarded
the camp were also reportedly arrested. Curfews have been imposed and
security has been stepped up in hill district towns to quell further
protests and rioting. The unrest marks the first time in recent history
that communal riots have broken out in tea estate areas where most of
the 140,000 Tamils of Indian origin live.

Human Rights Watch also emphasized that the government must address the
underlying causes of the uprising at the detention center, including
prolonged detention without trial. Ahead of the massacre, inmates at the
facility=F3many of whom may have been held without trial under the
Prevention of Terrorism Act and other security laws=F3had been protesting
conditions of their detention and allegedly took at least one security
guard hostage. As news of an attempted inmate takeover spread, Sinhalese
residents reportedly began amassing outside the camp and on the morning
of October 25 stormed the facility.

For more information, please see:

Sri Lanka: Donors Should Demand Protection for Civilians (HRW Press
Release, May 19, 2000) at
http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/05/slanka0519.htm

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#2.

Frontline, November 10, 2000
Frontline Column: Beyond the Obvious

THE HINDUTVA OFFENSIVE

by Praful Bidwai

As RSS chief Sudarshan launches a vicious new attack on Christians, BJP
minister Jagmohan is about to transform whole urban landscapes along
Hindutva lines. These plans must be stoutly opposed.

If Union urban development minister Jagmohan has his way, the banks of the
Yamuna in Delhi will soon turn saffron with kitschy calendar-art
recreations of episodes from Hindu mythology. Jagmohan's latest brainwave
is a spectacular Mahabharata theme park, or rather, "theme village".
Ideologically charged by the archaeologically dubious folklore "theory"
that the city of Indraprastha once existed somewhere near today's Purana
Qila (Old Fort), the worthy minister wants to create larger-than-life
Disneyland-type structures which "show" where and how the five Pandavas
lived. The "home" pavilion of each Pandava will be a characteristic design:
for instance, Bhima's will be an akhara (wrestling ring), elaborately
decorated with mythological artifacts associated with him. The project
could stretch all the way from Nigambodh Ghat to Kalindi along the Ring
Road, spanning hundreds of hectares.

The function of these "Pandava" pavilions, Jagmohan told senior Delhi
Development Authority officials in the second week of September, is to
inculcate the right "values" and samskaras especially among children. He is
allotting a hefty Rs. 5 crores as seed money for a preliminary feasibility
study alone. The costs of the project proper could run into hundreds of
times the seed money. Add to this plans for showcasing other facets of
Indian (read, Hindutva) culture, including birth and death rituals, and you
have a gigantic, almost violent, transformation of the Yamuna. Already, the
river's left bank is dotted with temples and ghats, including political
samadhis. A humongous Swaminarayan temple, run by a remarkably rich cult
based in Gujarat, is coming up too.

Projects like these spell something special, even singular: the
transformation of a "neutral" or "secular" public space potentially
accessible to all citizens into a religious, sectarian, or communal entity
relevant only to some people--a conscious, planned, engineered
transformation. Perhaps in no other society has such a retrograde
re-engineering of the urban landscape taken place in recent history.
(Perhaps Saudi Arabia is an exception. But even there, the re-landscaping
has occurred around the existing monuments of Mecca and Medina--under a
self-confessed ultra-conservative "Islamic" regime. This is evidently the
BJP's model.)

British colonialism created the Eighth City of Delhi--a new Imperial
capital with the Viceregal Lodge and the Princes' Park at its center--over
and above the older Seven Cities. Now Jagmohan is proceeding to establish
the Ninth City, Hindu Delhi, in a unique amalgam of myth and modern
technology, petty prejudice and power-driven grand ambition, money and
mumbo-jumbo, Hindutva hubris and half-digested notions of urban planning.
This is an assault on anything approaching a civilised, open-minded,
liberal, urbane, sensibility, not to speak of a secular one. What the
BJP-led dispensation at the Centre, with just one year in office, will
leave for succeeding generations is a series of monuments to its sectarian
prejudices which could prove hard to dismantle--like the makeshift Ram
"temple" at Ayodhya.

Jagmohan must not be allowed to proceed with his ill-conceived plan. It
must be scupperred right now. The whole idea is just as unbalanced as his
trade-mark "demolition" activity, which ends up bulldozing the homes of the
poor, while "regularising" the patently illegal and aesthetically gross
mansions of the affluent as in Sainik Farms: money thus "legally" covers up
grave breaches of decency and legitimacy. Jagmohan's latest "achievement"
is the demolition of a colony of people with amputated limbs just outside
Nehru Stadium, who had dared to put plastic sheets over their heads. A
similarly horrendous, discriminatory, attitude informs his Yamuna plan. It
favours just one group of people (Hindus) and celebrates their religious
legends as the authentic culture of all of India.

This communal plan puts Jagmohan in the same category as K.S. Sudarshan who
demands that the Church in India must go swadeshi by freeing itself from
"foreign" influences. Sudarshan's demand is doubly offensive. First, it is
impertinent. He is poking his nose into the affairs of another religious
community, although it is doubtful if he represents any religious
sensibility, as distinct from a politicised religious identity. Worse, he
casts aspersions upon the integrity of millions of Indian citizens and
their right to participate in our political community because they are, to
him, lesser Indians, being non-Hindus. This morally repugnant and
politically obnoxious statement is a form of hate speech involving abuse of
the freedom of expression. Free expression doesn't mean you scream "fire"
in a crowded cinema hall without cause. Even less does it mean you malign
people by questioning their loyalty, their Indianness, their citizenship
rights; or that you demand they "admit" that their ancestors were Rama and
Krishna.

It won't do to plead that Hindus are more Indian by virtue of location. As
argued often in this column, historically, this proposition is dangerously
false. Christianity and Islam are as indigenous to India, indeed older in
this country, than Hinduism in its varna form. But even if this were not
the case, even if the cultural or religious identity of a group could be
traced to ancient India, that would be no reason for politically negating
their inalienable democratic rights as citizens, or for socially depriving
them of dignity and stature as authentic Indians. Indeed, no one class,
community, ethnic or linguistic group can claim to be more or less
"authentic". By maligning Indian Christians, Sudarshan is spreading venom.
His attempt at a cover-up--a "majority of Christians in the country are
patriotic, but foreign missionaries have wreaked havoc with India's unity
and integrity"--is even shabbier. So is his call to Muslims to "Indianise"
Islam and join "the national mainstream."

This is precisely the kind of anti-Jewish hate speech that Germany's
"indigenists" and Aryan nationalists perfected before Hitler's rise to
power. (Classic texts like those of Gramsci, Thalheimer, Bauer, Carsten,
Barrington Moore, Nolte, and Reich document the tremendous corrosion of the
intelligentsia's sensibilities and the growth of majoritarianism that
underlay the fascists' rise to power.) Once Hindus (Christians or "proper"
Germans) alone are declared to constitute the mainstream, "others" are
marginalised, cornered and isolated.

Top BJP leaders like L.K. Advani, J.P. Mathur, Jana Krishnamurthy and
Narendra Modi have heartily supported Sudarshan's statement, paraphrasing
him and underscoring the BJP-RSS link. On this issue, even Bangaru Laxman
can't be demarcated from the hardcore RSS viewpoint. He told U.S.
ambassador Richard Celeste that his party is committed to religious
freedom, but opposes "forced conversions, and support to insurgent groups
by Christian groups, particularly in the North-East." (The Hindustan Times,
Oct 12).

We are back to the rhetoric of all non-Hindus being suspect. Those who
thought that the BJP's first Dalit president would really reach out to the
religious minorities should think again. What unites and integrates various
leaders and ideologues of the BJP, VHP or RSS and their 180-plus front
organisations is a malign majoritarianism. The only difference is the
vigour with which they push it, the form in which they do it. Laxman might
do it less harshly than Murli Manohar Joshi, but their agenda is the same.
That agenda lays claim to a superior "Hindu" identity by falsely rooting
Aryans in Harappan civilisation, or by grossly exaggerating the scientific,
cultural and intellectual achievements of Vedic Indians.

This claim to "superiority" is then used to demand parochial privileges for
a particular group. And its numerical strength is cited to construct a
dangerous argument apparently cloaked in "democracy", defined as the rule
of the majority. But majoritarianism is the opposite of democracy.
Democracy is based not on a permanent, unchanging, majority defined by
ethnicity or religion, but on political majorities which change from time
to time. The communalists' procedure is the same as that used by fascist
ideologues and religious fundamentalists of all hues.

Hindutva ideologues are now busy conjuring up historical or archaeological
"evidence" for their Aryan-Hindu primacy and "superiority" claims. The
latest instance is the "Piltdown Horse." (Frontline, October 13) It is of
such stuff-voodoo archaeology, distortion of evidence and manipulation of
images--that Hindutva's national "greatness" agenda is made.

That agenda is now receiving the imprimatur of prime social science
research institutions as these are taken over by sangh parivar ideologues
such as B.R. Grover and M.L. Sondhi. Grover in September boorishly
disrupted an academic seminar addressed by K.N. Panikker in Canada for
questioning Hindutva-style nationalism. Earlier, Hindu communalists had
targeted a secular SAHMAT exhibition in Canada depicting protests against
nuclear weapons. To his shame, the Indian High Commissioner forced an
academic institution in Canada to dissociate itself from the exhibition.

The saffron agenda is gathering momentum at both ends of the education
spectrum. Under the guise of promoting morality and samskaras, the National
Council of Educational Research and Training is setting up a resource
centre for "value education," which is to be made mandatory for
schoolchildren. In a note in circulation, it lists 83 "values"--a confused
compendium of ideas, some of them mutually incompatible. This is a
euphemism for promoting rabid Hindutva nationalism and false pride in a
glorified past. It is designed to teach the child that if there is anything
commendable in any civilisation or culture, it must be Indian, or rather,
Hindu.

In universities and engineering colleges, too, students will compulsorily
study "value education". On October 10, Union education secretary M.K. Kaw
announced that IIT Delhi would be the centre for "value education" for all
engineering colleges. Also in the pipeline is a "centre for consciousness
and leadership" at IIM-Lucknow. According to The Indian Express, the "value
education" course is likely to include the teachings not just of
Vivekananda and Chinmayananda, but also of the controversial Sri Sathya Sai
Baba, even the Brahmakumaris and Sadhu Vasvani Mission. Kaw holds the
prejudiced view that "in India, secularism has meant absence of any
religion, but true secularism is respect and knowledge of all religions..."
This is a shopworn communal clich=E9. That a senior bureaucrat in a sensiti=
ve
ministry touts it is deeply deplorable.

At this rate, value education will collapse into religious instruction.
We'll soon have Creationism-style "revealed" wisdom competing with
Darwinian science. Kaw's notion of "values" includes something as broad and
vague as "spirituality, meditation, yoga and ways to manage the self and
consciousness", besides "loyalty" towards India. Now, one can talk about
the "value" of being truthful or diligent. It makes no sense to talk of
yoga or meditation as "values".

These are dangerous ideas. Such half-digested, semi-literate notions about
what values are and how they should be inculcated will produce incoherent
syllabi bound only by a fierce, intolerant and arrogant nationalism, and by
emphasis on Hinduness and "family values". This last term, part of the
favoured lexicon of the Hard Right in America's Bible Belt, is being
imported wholesale into India by, among others, Information and
Broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj.

"Family values" may sound as innocuous as mother's milk. But it is a
disciplinarian notion of the family, which worships hierarchy and
authority, and restricts freedom and individuality. "Family values" is
deeply anti-feminist and perpetuates sexual inequality as well as
stereotypes about the assigned roles of the father, mother, son and
daughter within the patriarchal family. It is precisely on such illiberal,
hate-based, foundations that the ideological edifice of fascism was erected
in Europe in the 1920s.

The sangh parivar is busy building those very foundations in India today.
Going by the pusillanimous reactions of the BJP's NDA allies to LK Advani's
disgraceful identification with the RSS as the government's "guiding
force", and his emphatic assertion of the unbreakable nature of the RSS-BJP
link (Oct 17), it is meeting with little resistance from within the ruling
coalition. Advani now speaks with full authority as Vajpayee's anointed
successor as Prime Minister. The BJP may not last long in power. But the
poison it is infusing will continue to work in our system for a long
time--unless we stop the parivar in its tracks right now.--end--

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#3.

http://www.timesofindia.com/271000/27edit2.htm
The Times of India,
27 October 2000
Editorial

TRUTH AND REPARATION

It would be fitting for the Vilasrao Deshmukh
government to mark the completion of its first year in
office by fulfilling a key electoral promise made to
the people of Maharashtra implementing the
recommendations of the Srikrishna commission report on
Mumbai's communal riots of 1992-93.

Not only had the reigning Democratic Front alliance
assured voters in its election manifesto last year
that it would implement the report, but it had also
pledged to do so in toto in August. Instead, the
recent decision by the DF government to absolve 12
policemen indicted by the commission has come as a
shock to riot victims and activist groups who have
looked upon the Congress-led alliance as their only
hope for justice. From 1993, when the commissions
hearings first began, its inquiry into those traumatic
months has been a long and rocky journey.

First, in what was seen as an attempt to dilute the
investigation, the then Shiv Sena-BJP government had
extended the commissions purview to include the bomb
blasts of March 1993. Then, in 1996, the saffron
alliance scrapped the commission altogether,
reinstating it the same year under pressure from Mr
Atal Behari Vajpayee. Not surprisingly, when the
report was finally submitted in 1998, the Sena-BJP
government summarily rejected its findings as biased
and one-sided. The commission had held the Sena
responsible for whipping up communal frenzy and had
named several of its leaders, including Mr Bal
Thackeray. It had also accused the police of playing a
partisan role in the riots, indicting 31 policemen,
none of whom have been prosecuted so far. The only
action the Democratic Front government has taken has
been the arrest, albeit token, of Mr Thackeray in
August.

ittle wonder, then, that the riot victims who had
counted on this government to implement the report now
feel a sense of betrayal. As some of them pointed out
at a public meeting in Mumbai recently, seven years is
a long time to wait for justice. One survivor, who
said he had been made to recount his story over and
over again, asked despairingly, How many more public
meetings? How many more halls? How many years? Some
citizens have expressed the fear that the process of
retribution may reopen old wounds. But the experience
of the survivors suggests that their wounds are likely
to continue to fester until justice is done.

The Srikrishna commission has been likened to the
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Committee
investigating the crimes of apartheid in South Africa.
There, too, the idea was not to bury the harrowing
decades of racial injustice and violence, but by
painstakingly drawing out the reality of what
happened, to begin the process of reconciliation.
That, precisely, was what the Srikrishna hearings
accomplished. However, if justice is to be seen to be
done, the next step must lie in reparationpunishing
the guilty and compensating victims. The government
can re-establish its bona fides by initiating
prosecution in those cases where there is sufficient
evidence, and making good its promise to rehabilitate
those whose lives were devastated by the riots. The
police, on its part, will have to work towards
retraining a section of the force in order to restore
its secular credentials and win back the trust of
Mumbais citizenry.

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#4.

New York Times
November 2, 2000

GANDHI'S SPIRIT HOVERS AS INDIA DEBATES IODIZED SALT

By CELIA W. DUGGER

Barry Bearak/ The New York Times Thakurdas Bang opposes
compulsory iodization of salt, disputing its worth in fighting iodine
deficiency.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 1 India has made tremendous progress in eradicating the
ancient scourge of iodine deficiency =97 the single most preventable cause =
of
mental retardation =97 by making cheap, iodized salt available to most of i=
ts
billion people. But a recent government decision has jeopardized these
advances, medical researchers say.

Indeed, India's entire scientific establishment, including the Indian
Medical Association and the Indian National Science Academy, seems aghast
that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Health Ministry lifted a
two-year-old ban on the sale of noniodized salt in September. In doing so,
the government bowed to a lobbying campaign by Hindu nationalists,
Gandhians and small- scale salt producers.

"It is a great tragedy for India to have found a solution, to have come
such a long way and now, this has happened," said V. Ramalingaswami, who at
age 80 is regarded as one of India's eminent medical researchers. His field
studies more than 30 years ago helped establish that the simple addition of
iodized salt to the diet radically reduced the incidence of goiter, an
unsightly swelling of the thyroid gland on the neck that is the most
visible sign of this insidious deficiency.

But those who opposed the ban apparently convinced the prime minister that
people should be allowed to choose whether to buy iodized salt or common
salt, which is slightly cheaper. They dispute the view of scientists who
maintain that the most effective way to combat iodine deficiency, which is
endemic throughout the subcontinent, is to ensure that all salt is iodized.
It is especially important in a developing country like India, where about
40 percent of the population is illiterate.

The ghost of Gandhi the independence leader and the symbolism of salt,
that most humble of condiments, hover over this debate. In 1930, Gandhi led
a march to the sea to protest a tax on salt levied by India's British
rulers.

Those on both sides of iodization claim to be the true inheritors of
Gandhi's legacy. The scientists say Gandhi would be happy that salt has
become a way to ensure that even India's poorest children do not have their
intelligence dulled by a lack of iodine, while some followers of Gandhi
contend that he would object to the compulsory iodization of salt.

Thakurdas Bang, the 83-year-old leader of Sarvodaya, a Gandhian group,
said he told the prime minister when they met: "Mahatma Gandhi made this
simple commodity a medium of our liberation. It's now being used as a
medium of exploitation."

Since the mid-1980's, salt has increasingly become a medium for combating
iodine deficiency in India and all across the developing world. Unicef and
the World Health Organization have spearheaded global efforts to iodize
salt as the simplest and most effective way to make up for iodine
deficiencies in an estimated one billion people at risk worldwide.

Though all but three Indian states have banned the sale of noniodized
salt, iodized salt is still not universally available. Salt is iodized by
adding the chemical potassium iodate to it. India's salt commissioner, R.
Prakash, said iodization adds only a small fraction of a penny to the cost
of a pound of salt. Each Indian consumes, on average, 10 pounds of salt a
year.

A 1999 government-financed study found that 70 percent of Indian
households use adequately iodized salt. Unicef and other experts here
estimate that 200 million of India's billion people are at risk of iodine
deficiency disorders =97 and that 70 million have goiter.

Two years ago, the central government imposed a national ban on the sale
of noniodized salt, extending it to all the states.

But India's health minister, C. P. Thakur, who is a medical doctor and an
impassioned advocate of iodized salt, said opponents of the ban convinced
the government that the ban on the sale of common salt was "a little
coercive."

The prime minister's spokesman, H. K. Dua, declined to comment on the
reasons that Mr. Vajpayee, agreed to lift the ban, saying only, "The
government's decision is also his decision."

Scientists say that lifting the ban means that common salt can again be
sold legally in three states and may leak across their borders to markets
in neighboring states. The reversal of the central government policy also
sends a signal that may encourage lax enforcement of state bans, they say.

In India, where most salt is sold loose out of gunny sacks, "if you have
both iodized and noniodized salt, people will never know which is which and
we will slip back," said N. Kochupillai, who is the chairman of the
department of endocrinology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Among those who personally lobbied the prime minister to lift the ban were
leaders of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch ' or National Awakening Front ' part
of the same Hindu nationalist family of organizations as the Bharatiya
Janata Party, which leads India's coalition government.

In recent interviews, Murli Dhar Rao, the group's organizing secretary, and
Mahesh Sharma, a member of Parliament who is on the group's central
steering committee, made a series of factual assertions that India's
experts on iodine deficiency disorders called baseless and unscientific.

Both men said that iodized salt loses its effectiveness when used in
cooking dal and other Indian dishes at high heat =97 an assertion the
scientists said was false.

Mr. Rao also asserted that iodine deficiency is largely confined to the
country's hilly regions. "People in the plains don't need to consume
iodized salt," he said. Scientists and government officials replied that
his view is a myth. Surveys have documented that the problem is widespread
throughout the subcontinent, including the plains regions, where chronic
flooding has leached iodine from the soil.

During an interview at his office here, Mr. Sharma called attention to an
article about iodized salt in a recent issue of Manthan, a magazine he
edits. It charged that the potassium iodate added to make iodized salt is
poisonous, that iodized salt is part of a "well-hatched conspiracy" by
multinational corporations to capture the Indian salt market, and that
excessive use of iodized salt makes people vulnerable "to TB, diabetes,
cancer and peevishness."

Doctors were taken aback when they heard these allegations. Dr.
Kochupillai, whose research helped document the devastating effects of
iodine deficiency on the brains of babies, said, "This reflects an
unscientific outlook on life and its issues by our leadership."

This May, Dr. Kochupillai went back to the remote villages he had studied
in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the 1980's =97 places where mentally
retarded children were commonplace. Sitting in his office, surrounded by
huge mounds of paper, he first pulled out photographs of village children
taken in the 1980's. Their eyes were dull and their height stunted. Then he
showed off snapshots of the bright-eyed, normal-looking boys and girls he
saw this spring.

"Before iodization, the children were so dull they couldn't even tell us
their names," he said. "Now, the children are so smart that they even told
us their birthdays."

Dr. Kochupillai said he would go back to the same villages at regular
intervals over the next two years to see whether noniodized salt makes a
comeback along with cretinism and mental retardation.

Meanwhile, Mr. Rao, of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, said his group would
take its fight against bans on the sale of common salt to the states. "The
center has no role now," he said. "This is a regional problem."

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#5.

BOOK PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

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under severe threat. Sangh Parivar is on the rampage destroying one
after the other values and ehtos of secularism and democracy. The
articles in this compilation cover the different themes around this
politics.

Ram Puniyani is an independepent writer, and columnist, associated with
EKTA( Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai, and also is a professor at
IT, Mumbai.

Table of Contents:

Section A- Democracy Secularism and State

1.Religion Secularism and State=97From One India One People
2.Feedom of Expression in a democratic society
3. Liberal Ethos on Firing Line
4. Pillars of Faith
5. Conversions in History
6. To be or Not to Be
7. Threats to Indian Constitution

Section B. Gandhian Values Today

8. Major Transition
9. Appropriating Gandhian Mantle

Section C. Dalit Issues

10. Purity Pollution and Quest for Social Justice
11.Law Equality and Social Justice
12 Legal Provisions and Reality
13. Poverty Caste and Violence
14. Status Quo or Change for Social Justice

Section D. Minorities under Threat

15. March of Hate Ideology
16. In the Name of Religion , Truth Behind Forced Conversions and Anti
Christian Violence
17.Minority Demographics
18. Comfort The Afflicted
19. Harmony In History
20.The Other Cheek

Section E. Sangh Parivar and Women=92s Rights

21-Communal Ideology and Violence Against Women
22. Hindu Right And Women

Section F. The Politics of Sangh Parivar

23. Political Wine in a Cultural Bottle.
24 An Appraisal of Hindutva.
25. Looming Saffron Threat and Electoral Choices
26 Guns or Butter
27. Hindutva=92s Subjugation of Small Traditions
28. Sikhism: Religion or Sect

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29 Remebering a Revolutionary : Bhagat Singh

30 Sterling Patriot: Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar

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