SACW | 20 July, 2003

Harsh Kapoor aiindex at mnet.fr
Sun Jul 20 04:46:58 CDT 2003


South Asia Citizens Wire  |  20 July,  2003

[1.] Minorities in South Asia (Ishtiaq Ahmed)
[2.] Kashmir: The valley of love (Badri Raina)
[3.] India: Counterfeit Peace: The Settled Injustices in Gujarat (Harsh Mander)
[4.] India: Intellectuals back Plan campaign [in Kerala]
[5.] Political Economy of Nationalism: Minority Left and Minority 
Nationalisms vs. Mainstream Left and Majority Nationalism in India 
(Pritam Singh)
[6.] Governance and the Pluralisation of the State - Implications for 
Democratic Citizenship (Neera Chandhoke)
[7.] India: [Christian right at work] 'Crusading' Do-Gooders - Why 
They Should Leave Us Alone (Yoginder Sikand)
[8.] India Pakistan and the Little Girl:
- The Noor effect (Edit., The Hindu)
-  Many more operations? (Ashok Rajwade)
- The Indo-Pak cycle of chills and thaws (Sunil Sethi)
- It's not just Noor Fatima (Munnoo Bhai)
[9.] Pakistan - India Doctors in the US to collaborate to promote peace
[10.] India: Letter to the Editor "News on State-owned broadcasting 
service of a secular country,  should not deviate from fact" (Mukul 
Dube)
[11.] Obituary: A life of commitment: Bhisham Sahni, 1915 - 2003 
(Rajendra Sharma)
[12.] Making India 'Hindu': Local Milosevic plans "Hindu" 
Independence day (Ojas Mehta)
[13.] Upcoming event: Resisting fascist forces and defending 
secularism in India  (Anhad's Bhopal Workshop)

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[1.]

The Daily Times [Pakistan] July 20, 2003

Minorities in South Asia
[by ] Ishtiaq Ahmed
Democratic-minded political leaders and enlightened intellectuals 
have to come out and speak openly against the homogenisation mania 
that is being fostered
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_20-7-2003_pg3_2

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[2.]

Frontline [India]  July 19 - August 01, 2003

PERSPECTIVE
The valley of love

BADRI RAINA

Incalculable suffering of the past decade or more has helped the 
people of Jammu and Kashmir rediscover the old values of Kashmiriyat, 
something that expresses itself first and foremost as an overwhelming 
desire for peace and non-abrasive coexistence.
  [...].
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2015/stories/20030801002008400.htm

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[3.]

The Times of India, July 17, 2003

Counterfeit Peace: The Settled Injustices in Gujarat
HARSH MANDER

"I know today that I will never be able to return to my village. And 
yet, more than anything in the world, I wish I could go home. After 
all, my brother, one's village is one's village. Nothing in the world 
can replace it."

These disconsolate words of an elderly woman as she fought back her 
tears, were to echo many times in a journey of healing that took us 
through the tribal regions that were the epicentre of the violence 
that had ripped apart Gujarat.

Over a year has passed since Gujarat was devastated by the 
death-dealing squall of hate that traumatised the nation. For many 
months, the state slipped off the front pages of national newspapers. 
The widely-shared assumption was that after the stunning electoral 
endorsement, peace has been  restored to the ravaged state. Long 
before the Best Bakery case tone down this facade before an outraged 
nation, our journey had revealed to us the frightening anatomy of 
this utterly counterfeit peace.

Authentic peace can be founded ultimately only on justice, trust and 
dignity. In the wake of blood-drenched betrayal and mass  
brutality, the construction of an enduring peace requires both the 
healing of remorse and compassion and the demonstration of justice 
done. Neither was evident anywhere during our harrowing travels. 
Instead, we witnessed twisted malformed mutations of peace, based on 
a resigned social acceptance of settled fear, utterly unequal and 
degrading compromises and the institutionalisation of second-class 
citizenship.

Worn out by months of living in bleak makeshift relief camps run by 
community volunteers, many conquered their dread of the duplicity of 
their neighbours, and gathered the courage to return to their 
villages. No one from among those with whom they shared bonds 
nurtured through generations even greeted them, let alone extended a 
helping hand. Amidst their hostile silences, they bravely tried to 
restart life in the charred ruins of where their homes and shops had 
been razed and  plundered, and their loved ones killed, maimed or 
raped. The disquiet of each night was stirred by chilling taunts and 
threats. Defeated, many returned ultimately to the safety of numbers 
in the town, sometimes fleeing in the dead of night.

For those who still chose to stay on, it was a new untouchability 
that they are subject to in village after town, an elaborately 
accomplished economic apartheid. What is terrifying is that this new 
manufactured injustice is not now imposed from outside but 
internalised into the local social fabric, and the unresisting, 
almost fatalist, acceptance by the victim community of the terms of 
this masquerade of peace.

In the villages where the hapless refugees of hate have returned, if 
they owned a shop and are Muslim, no clients from other communities 
now patronise them. New competitors have opened businesses in every 
town and village, thriving on the hatred fostered against an entire 
community. If you were employed, even for decades, as a factory, 
transport or farm worker or even a domestic worker cleaning dishes or 
sweeping floors, you now find yourself summarily retrenched. 
Creditors are mocked and   despair of recoveries, owners of tiny 
catering establishments and paan shops are helpless if clients refuse 
to pay. Tenants of long standing are abruptly evicted from homes, 
shops and agricultural land.

Relief camps across the state have been forcefully disbanded. Those 
who could do so have returned to the safety of the states of their 
origin, but also to the dead-end poverty they had once tried to flee. 
The large majority have taken shelter in the tiny  tenements of 
their relatives, or masses are cramped into small hired rooms. 
Charitable organisations are building rows of homes for several of 
these refugees in Muslim ghettos, but work is hard to find. For the 
first time since  Independence, the state has wantonly denied all 
but the most meagre assistance, and extended no soft loans to help 
rebuild shattered lives.

Other forms of this bogus peace require as a minimum condition of 
sufferance, the withdrawal of all complaints whether of assault or 
arson. We saw villages in which brave witnesses of rape and 
slaughter, sometimes women and girls, were under pressure from elders 
of even their own  community to refuse to give further evidence, as 
the price of their safety. The inti-midation and bribery of key 
witnesses and the openly partisan attitude of state agencies 
responsible for investigation and prosecution, evident in the Best 
Bakery case, represents a pattern found in all cases of violence.

The majority of mob leaders, even when named in police complaints, 
walk free, compounding the terror of the residents. Of 4,500 cases 
registered in the wake of the carnage, 2,000 have already been closed 
by  investigation authorities, claiming lack of evidence. On the 
other hand, even where the mass violence exclusively targeted the 
minorities, as was the situation in an overwhelming number of cases, 
it is they who are being arrested on various charges, including under 
POTA. Frequently, as in both Naroda Patiya and Godhra, the 
peace-makers are especially targeted for arrests. Lawyers from the 
majority community are unwilling to defend them and even the courts 
are reluctant to free them on bail.

This is the counterfeit peace, more than a year after, in Gujarat.

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[4.]

The Hindu (India) July 18, 2003

Intellectuals back Plan campaign [in Kerala ]

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM July 17. The controversy over foreign funding for 
the People's Plan Campaign took a new turn today with intellectuals 
and activists coming out in support of the programme.

A joint press note issued by 13 noted academics including Noam 
Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robin Jeffrey 
of the La Trobe University, Australia, Jean Dreeze, Centre for 
Development Economics, New Delhi, Patrick Heller of the Brown 
University, U.S., Haris Gazdar, Pakistan, and Sten Widmalm, Sweden, 
said the allegations of CIA involvement in the campaign were aimed at 
stifling democratic debate. The pressnote was released by the noted 
historian, Rajan Gurukkal, at a news conference here today.

Terming the Plan campaign as one of the most radical experiments in 
deepening democracy, the press note said it held vitally important 
lessons for policy makers, academics and all those with an interest 
in building more participatory and equitable institutions for 
development. It also recognised the role of the Centre for 
Development Studies in bringing the achievements of Kerala to the 
attention of the international community.

``For these reasons, we are alarmed to learn that simple association 
with foreign researchers has become grounds for maligning the 
integrity of organisations, institutions and individuals. We are 
pained to learn that the professionalism and motives of such an 
accomplished scholar as Dr. T.M. Thomas Isaac who played a key role 
in designing and implementing the Campaign, are being questioned 
simply because he has collaborated with many of us in legitimate 
academic research.''

The press note feared that the preposterous accusations made against 
the campaign would undermine legitimate research endeavours and 
stifle open debate. ``We strongly believe that intellectual exchanges 
and collaborative research projects between Kerala and academics and 
activists abroad have contributed to a greater understanding of the 
possibilities for equitable and just democratic development.

``At a time when democratic discourse is threatened by political 
leaders in the West and in India who readily stoke the flames of 
chauvinism and communalism and warn against fantastic foreign threats 
to serve their narrow agendas, and when democratic institutions and 
rights of nations to choose their own path of development are being 
undermined by neo-liberal globalisation, we need more, not less, 
international exchange of ideas between those who support democratic, 
just and inclusive alternatives.''

The press note said it would be tragic if Kerala's famously vibrant 
traditions of political and intellectual debate were to fall prey to 
irresponsible and scurrilous accusations.

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[5.]

International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol 9 No.2, July- Dec 2002

Political Economy of Nationalism: Minority Left and Minority 
Nationalisms vs. Mainstream Left and Majority Nationalism in India

Paul Brass and Achin Vanaik (eds.), Competing Nationalisms in South 
Asia, (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2002), ix+297pp, ISBN 81-250-2221X 
(hb), Rs.525 / £29.95

P. Varavara Rao (ed.), Symphony of Freedom: Papers on Nationality 
Question (Hyderabad, All India Peoples Resistance Forum, 1996 First 
Edition), v+ 301pp, No ISBN, Rs.150 / $13 (pb), Rs.300/$18 (hb).

[by] Pritam Singh (Oxford Brookes University)

Punjab as a region in South Asia has been the site of, perhaps, the 
most bitterly contested perspectives of nationalism. Most regions of 
India and Pakistan have experienced either two or three contestations 
of nationalism: religiously-inspired Hindu and Muslim nationalism in 
addition to a linguistically inspired regional nationalism. Punjab 
has introduced a fourth contestant: Sikh nationalism which is a 
contradictory and complex mix of religious and regional nationalisms. 
One might add another fifth contestant to this spectrum of 
nationalisms in the case of India: secular Indian nationalism. In 
this arena of contest between five nationalisms, it is Punjabi 
nationalism based on the language, shared culture and economic 
interests of most, if not all Punjabis which, potentially, can be the 
most powerful challenger of the other four i.e. Hindu nationalism, 
Muslim nationalism, Sikh nationalism and secular Indian nationalism. 
Punjabi nationalism's challenge to nationalisms based on religions is 
self-evident but its challenge to secular Indian nationalism lies in 
its potential to critique the assumptions and pretensions of Indian 
nationalism to be the over-arching nationalism of all regional and 
linguistic identities in India. However, such a  self-conscious 
Punjabi nationalism remains, in theory, insufficiently articulated 
and, in politics, insufficiently projected. Two recent attempts at 
conceptualisation and acknowledgement of Punjabi identity are aimed 
at critiquing the religious sectarianism that has historically split 
the Punjabi people (Singh and Thandi, 1999; Singh and Talbot, 1996). 
The exploration of the potentialities and limitations of Punjabi 
nationalism in the two nation states of India and Pakistan requires 
not only the elaboration of commonalties embedded in Punjabi identity 
but also the examination of the intricate context of Indian and 
Pakistani nationalisms in its various hues. [...] .

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[6.]

The Economic and Political Weekly [India]
July 12, 2003

Governance and the Pluralisation of the State
Implications for Democratic Citizenship

The state has been pluralised and now shares power with sub-national 
governments, proliferating forms of network and partnership 
organisations, a variety of quasi-public and private organisations, 
NGOs and international agencies and other forms of supranational 
governance. What remains of the significance or meaning of the 
liberal democratic notion of the state as the undisputed centre of 
political aspirations and its task of pursuing the collective 
interest when it has been itself enmeshed in a number of 
organisations? How do we democratise bodies that are out of the reach 
of representation? How do we ensure that democratic procedures take 
into account background inequalities? Governance in other words has 
thrown up major challenges for the liberal democratic project and we 
need to think this through. Or should we raise new questions for the 
project of governance itself?

Neera Chandhoke

[ ... ].

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[7.]

The Economic and Political Weekly [India]
July 12, 2003
Commentary

'Crusading' Do-Gooders
Why They Should Leave Us Alone

Islam is being increasingly seen in the west as a Satanic-inspired 
programme of terrorism that bodes ill for all humankind and 
represents the greatest challenge to Christianity and Christiandom. 
Christian evangelist fundamentalists appear to be convinced that the 
time has now come to wage an all-out spiritual war or 'crusade' in 
the Muslim world. It is very likely that India, with its vast Muslim 
population, figures prominently on their map.

Yoginder Sikand

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[8.]

The Hindu [India] July 19, 2003
Editorial
The Noor effect

IN A SUBCONTINENT that is capable of showing shocking callousness to 
the sufferings of human beings, the spontaneous response of the 
common people to the plight of a little girl from across the border 
must be both heart-warming and refreshing.  [...].
http://www.thehindu.com/2003/07/19/stories/2003071900421000.htm

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[Related Material]

18 July 2003
Letter to the Editor SACW

Many more operations?
If we go by the goodwill that has been created after a two year old 
girl Fatima's heart with holes was set right by Indian surgeons, the 
politicians on both sided of the border - especially of the extremist 
variety - seriously need an antidote of love. These politicians have 
been antithesis of simple desire for 'live and let others live' that 
the common men & women across the border have exhibited in the case 
of Fatima.These politicians also need to be operated on for their 
punctured brains that keep spewing the venom of religious hatred and 
keeping the communal virus alive.
Let the wave of sympathy and warmth not recede. Historically, lot of 
damage is done to both the communities and nations by way of 
partition and the associated hatred. It is time to to show some 
boldness and repair it. Kashmir is not such a big problem that cannot 
be resolved if we have sympathy and love for the common man in 
Kashmir who has lost livelihood on account of the violence. If we 
cannot resolve the Kashmir problem which is messed up due to the 
collective ego whipped up on both sides, we can make it unimportant 
and minor in the years to come. The common man in India and Pakistan 
is so much entangled in his day to day struggle (with problems like 
drinking water, indebtedness, lack of job opportunities, increasing 
costs of health and education, employment for children) that 
he cannot afford to take the headache of communal violence. But he 
can stop religious hooliganism of few miscreants by expressing his 
dislike of all such things, through simple acts such as refusing to 
listen to the communally minded leaders and by defeating candidates 
playing communal cards.
May Fatima grow to live hundred years and may the spirit of love and 
goodwill between India and Pakistan rise to greater heights!
-Ashok Rajwade
B-302, Amisha, Laxman Mhatre Road, Dahisar West, Mumbai 400068. [India]

o o o

Business Standard [India]  July 19, 2003

The Indo-Pak cycle of chills and thaws
Sunil Sethi
http://www.business-standard.com/today/story.asp?Menu=26&story=18862

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The Daily Times [Pakistan]

It's not just Noor Fatima
Munnoo Bhai
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_20-7-2003_pg3_3

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[9.]

The Daily Times (Pakistan), July 19, 2003

Indian peace activists speak at Pakistani convention
Staff Report
WASHINGTON: For the first time in its history, the Association of 
Pakistani Physicians of North America (AAPNA) which met in Florida, 
earlier this month, invited two Indian peace activists to address one 
of the sessions.
The invitees were Dr Amit Shah and Gautam Desai, both 
Indian-Americans. Dr Shah is a member of the governing body of 
American Association of Physicians of Indian descent (AAPI) while 
Desai is co-founder and president of Develop-in-Peace (DIP), a 
non-profit organisation, which is dedicated to promoting peace in 
South Asia. He is also linked to the Association for India's 
Development (AID).
Another invitee to the conference was Dr Pervaiz Hoodboy of the 
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, who spoke on the issue of nuclear 
proliferation in the subcontinent. He also showed a 35-minute 
documentary called 'South Asia under the nuclear shadow.' The 
screening was followed by a question and answer session. The message 
of the documentary and the gist of the subsequent discussion was that 
a nuclear holocaust in South Asia was a "real possibility" and that 
the people of the region needed to work for a durable peace.
According to the Syed Asif Alam, head of the Association of Pakistani 
Professionals, "Our Indian colleagues noted the influence of almost 
50,000 physicians of South East Asia and argued for a proactive 
stance from the community toward peace and prosperity in South Asia. 
Issues pertaining to interracial and ethnic issues in India, with a 
particular reference to the sectarian violence in Gujarat, India, 
were also discussed. Deliberations at the meeting culminated in the 
creation of a group called the Action-group of Physicians of South 
Asia (APSA). It was decided that the initial focus of the group will 
be on promoting exchange of intellectuals and activists between 
India, Pakistan and America.
APSA will take up a series of activities, starting with the screening 
of the documentary "South Asia under the nuclear shadow" for its 
members and the public."

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[10.]

                                         18 July 2003
Dear Editor,

Today's English news bulletin on All India Radio included the words
"the holy ice lingam of Lord Shiva". For the State-owned broadcasting
service of a secular country to attribute so dubious a quality as
holiness to a natural phenomenon, and to further declare it a body
part of a mythical divinity, is unacceptable. News bulletins should
not deviate from fact.

                               Yours truly,
                               Mukul Dube [News Delhi, India]

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[11.]

Frontline (India), July 19 - August 01, 2003
OBITUARY: A life of commitment: Bhisham Sahni, 1915 - 2003.
RAJENDRA SHARMA
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2015/stories/20030801003612900.htm


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[12.]

Asian Age [India] July 19, 2003

Modi plans Hindu August 15
-By Ojas Mehta

Gandhinagar, July 18: The Gujarat government plans to hold special 
Shiv Vandana, Shiv Tandav Nritya and Ganesh Vandana programmes, and 
other similar Hindu rituals, to mark Independence Day on August 15.

The state government has decided to hold the celebrations in Patan 
district for the first time instead of in the state capital, 
Gandhinagar. The move to convert Independence Day into a Hindu 
festival has enraged the state's Muslims, who feel they are being 
systematically sidelined from the mainstream. The Congress party, 
too, has voiced its opposition to the plans. Independence Day will 
begin in Gujarat on August 15 by the ringing of temple bells at 6.30 
am all over Patan. "Prabhat pheris (Hindu religious processions in 
the mornings)" have been organised by various religious sects, 
including the Gayatri Parivar, the Brahmakumaris and the Swaminarayan 
temple.

"Shiv Vandana," accompanied by a "Shiv Tandav Nritya," a "Ganesh 
Vandana" and "ras-garba" will be organised a day earlier.

In a strong reaction to the decision, Gujarat Pradesh Congress 
Committee president Shankarsinh Vaghela said, "This is a political 
drama by the BJP government. What is the point in offering prayers to 
Hindu deities during Independence Day celebrations? Independence Day 
in not a festival of the Hindus alone, and every Indian, from any 
caste or community, has the right to partake in its celebrations."

Patan happens to be constituency of state education minister Anandi 
Patel, a close confidante of chief minister Narendra Modi and the 
only MLA given the privilege of shifting her constituency during the 
December 2002 elections.

Gujarat government spokesman and minister of state for energy Saurabh 
Dalal said the criticism against the Hindu way of celebrations 
displays a "negative mindset."

"By holding the celebrations in Patan, an attempt is being made to 
weave the tradition and culture of Patan into that of the country. 
The state government is not trying to put down any community. At the 
same time, there is no need to be shy about our religion," he said.

But leaders of the minority community feel otherwise. "The decision 
only proves that the BJP government is not interested in promoting 
nationalism, but only in imposing its brand of Hinduism on people of 
other religions as well," general secretary of the Forum for 
Democracy and Communal Amity (Gujarat) Dr Shakeel Ahmad told The 
Asian Age. Gujarat Sarvajanik Welfare Trust secretary Afzal Memon 
remarked that secularism in India will take a beating thorough such 
celebrations, which promote a particular religion. "Everyone is bound 
to stand up to secularism, and when the nation is celebrating a 
national festival, let no one talk of a particular religion or 
caste," he said.

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[13.]

From: <anhadinfo at yahoo.co.in>

  ANHAD  BHOPAL WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (JULY 22-26, 2003)

Day 1 / 22.7.03
8.30- 9.30 
Registration and Breakfast

Day 1 / Session I                                    ANHAD 
INTRODUCTION + over all coordination of the
workshop –APOORV ANAND
The need and urgency of resisting the rise of fascist forces in India 
Defending Secularism

RESOURCE PERSON: PRAFUL BIDWAI
11.00-11.30                                             Tea
11.30-1.00                               CITIZENS RIGHTS      

-         Constitutional values
-         Secularism as constitutional right
-         Fundamental rights and duties

RESOURCE PERSON: UDAY PRATAP SINGH
1.00-2.00                         LUNCH

Day 1 /Session II
2.00-3.30 INDIAN IDENTITY
RESOURCE PERSON:SOHAIL HASHMI
3.30-5.01 Legacy of Freedom Movement
RESOURCE PERSON:AMAR FAROOQUI
5.00- 6.30                                                History of 
Sangh Parivar
RESOURCE PERSON:PRALAY KANUNGO
6.30-7.30                                      SONGS : MOVEMENTS SONGS
7.30 ONWARDS                                  FILM FOLLOWED BY DINNER

Day 2 / 23.7.2003
8.30- 9.00                                                Breakfast

9.00-11.0 Minority Communalism and Majority Communalism
RESOURCE PERSON-JAVED NAQVI
RESOURCE PERSON:
11.00Onwards                                       Reality Unveiled 
with Tea, Lunch Breaks
Facts vs Myths on
·         Appeasement of Minorities
·         Anti Nationalism of Minorities
·         Demography of the nation(Population of the Minorities)
·         Conversion of Christian Missionaries
·         Godhra-The facts and falsities
·         Kashmir-The facts and falsities
·         Ayodhya
RESOURCE PERSON:RAM PUNYANI
5.30-6.00                                                TEA
6.00-7.00                                                Movement Songs
7.00-9.00                         FILM
9.00 Onwards                            DINNER

Day 3 / 24.7.2003
Session I
8.30- 9.00                                                SONGS
 
Dalit-issue,movement,and interrelation with
communal Politics
 
RESOURCE PERSON:RAM NARAIN SIAK
10.00-11.0                      Tribal- issue,movement,and 
interrelation with communal

Politics- ISHWAR SINGH DOST
11.00-11.30                                             TEA
11.30-1.00 
Communalisation of History
 
RESOURCE PERSON: CN SUBRAMANIAM
1.00- 2.00                                                LUNCH
2.00- 3.30 
Communalisation of Education
 
RESOURCE PERSON:NALINI TANEJA
3.30- 4.00                                                TEA BREAK

4.00-5.30                Globalisation and Communalism
 
RESOURCE PERSON:ANIL CHOUDHURY
5.30-6.30                                 SONGS
6.30 onwards                                        FILM: Ankur by 
Shyam Benegal
9.30                                                         DINNER

Day 4 / 25.7.2003

8.30- 9.00                                                BREAKFAST
9.00- 10.30                                              Documentary: 
Zulmaton ke Daur Main AND Junoon ke badhte Kadam by Gauhar Raza
 
followed by discussion on Fascism
RESOURCE PERSON:GAUHAR RAZA
11.00-11.30                                  TEA
11.30-12.30 
Communalisation of Media: Gujarat

 
RESOURCE PERSON:DIGANT OZA
12.30-1.30                                            Communalisation 
of Media: National
 
RESOURCE PERSON:AMIT SENGUPTA
1.30-2.30                                                 LUNCH
                                                                 Role 
and responsibility of writers and poets: literature of resistance

 
RESOURCE PERSON: RAJESH JOSHI
4.00-4.30                                                                 TEA
4.30-6.00                                                 AYODHYA

 
RESOURCE PERSON: DR. KM SHRIMALI
6.00-7.00                                 Songs
7.30 Onwards                                        FILM FOLLOWED BY Dinner

Day5 / 26.7.2003
8.30-9.30                                 Songs
9.30-11.00                                           State and Civil 
Society: Lessons from Gujarat
 
RESOURCE PERSON:HARSH MANDER
11.00-11.30                   Tea
11.30-1.0 CAMPAIGN-COMMUNICATIONS
 
RESOURCE PERSON:                to be confirmed

1.00-2.00                                 Lunch
2.00-5.00
                                                   FOLLOW UP ACTIONS 
TOWARDS SECULAR COMMUNITY BUIDLING

- Possible secular actions & initiatives
- Mode, language, idiom of communication/intervention
- Cultural interventions
- Forms of active resistance
- Plan of actions and commitments from the district
- Anhad's future plan of actions and commitments

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