*Newsletter of All India Secular*
*Volume. 12 No.2 February 2017 *
*C O N T E N T S*
*Editorial*
*1. CSSS News*
*-Report of 8**th** Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture on *
* ‘Ambedkar and Democracy’ by Christophe Jaffrelot*
* - Cultural Evening “Sant Vani”*
*2. Article*
- न मूर्तियों से गोडसे जिंदा होंगे, न गोलियों
से गांधी मर सकते हैं
*3. Happenings*
- प्रेस नोट- संघ के हिन्दू सम्मलेन पर
सजप/श्रआंस ने उठाए सवाल
*4. UP Elections*
* -* इस चुनाव में उत्तर प्रदेश की जनता
के हाथ में एक सुनहरा मौक़ा
*5. State Targeting Teesta Setalvad*
- तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ के खिलाफ फिर मीडिया ट्रायल -
बदला लेने के लिए चलाई जा रही नफरत की आंधी
*6. Dalit journalist from Gujarat returns award over *
* anti-Dalit policies of state government *
* 7. Interview*
- *We Can’t think of society as similar to the *
* market: Pankaj Mishra*
*8. Resources *
*- Mehdi Hasan debates at University of Oxford*
* - Nalini Rajan’s Graphic Novel ‘Story of Secularism’*
* - Youtublink – Lecture on Indian nationalism *
* versus Hindu Nationalism by Ram Puniyani*
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*Ph. 022-26149668, 022-26135098*
*E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>*
*Editor*: Ram Puniyani, [email protected], www.pluralindia.com
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*From the Editor’s Desk*
The forthcoming UP Elections are yet again showing as to how communal
forces resort to ‘hate speech’ to polarize the communities for the sake of
electoral advantage. The BJP Manifesto talks of ‘Sampoorna Hindu Samaj’,
and its different spokespersons have been invoking the distorted
presentation of violence. Yogi Adityanath, the BJP MP is talking about
‘remember riots and rapes’ before voting. Another BJP MLA has circulated
the CD of Muzzafarnagar violence. The mass displacement of Muslims in the
aftermath of Muzzafarnagar violence has been put on its head and ‘exodus of
Hindus’ from Kairana is being used as a polarizing point. Some of them are
going to the extent of saying that Western UP is being converted in to
Kashmir where Hindus are being made to leave. The issue of internal
migration is a painful aftermath of the violence and lakhs of Muslims have
been displaced all over the country but this is the first time that the
same issue is being brought forward in an upside down manner. As usual Ram
Mandir and triple talaq issues are also being made use of. How will the
Supreme Court respond to this, in the light of its judgment that ‘Electoral
process’ is a secular activity?
In this issue we carry the excerpt from Teesta Swetalbad’s book, ‘Foot
Soldier of Constitution’. It is a remarkable book from the brave fighter
for the values of Indian Constitution. The travails of Teesta who has taken
up numerous issues related to preservation of democratic rights needs to be
saluted. These excerpts give an insight of the processes which have been
unleashed to undermine the rule of law for the goal of Hindu Rashtra. Also
we are carrying the report of Asghar Ali memorial Lecture, delivered by
Christophe Jaffrelot, on the crucial topic of ‘Ambedkar and Democracy’.
Ram Puniyani
(Editor)
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