Citizens for Justice and Peace
After writers, artists enter protest-against-intolerance canvas
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28 2015 : Mirror (Mumbai) Sobhana K Nair in New Delhi mirrorfeedback Days after writers took to streets protesting the growing intoler ance, artists have now begun to raise questions. On Tuesday, over 400 artists, including Vivan Sundaram, Anjolie Ela Menon and Subodh Gupta, condemned recent attacks on rationalists and minorities. The creative bunch…
Writers were not blind to ‘love jihad’ or ‘ghar wapsi’, our agitation not manufactured
28-Oct-2015
IE EDIT 28OCT2015 Writers were not blind to ‘love jihad’ or ‘ghar wapsi’. Our agitation was not manufactured. by Keki N. Daruwalla | As dust settles over the anti-Sahitya Akademi protests, certain questions hang in the air, unanswered. Why did politicians see a hidden political knife somewhere in this unrest? Why did they feel insecure…
Meet Pratheesh Viswanath: The VHP man who allegedly ‘orchestrated’ police raid at Kerala House
28-Oct-2015
A Kerala High Court lawyer by profession, Viswanath is also the all-India joint coordinator of a helpline set up by the VHP to help “victims of love jihad”. Written by Liz Mathew | Delhi | Updated: October 28, 2015 9:14 am On a day when news websites and television channels flashed pictures of him with…
Communal violence: Scientists write to President
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28, 2015 | Age Correspondent| chennai Eminent thinkers and researchers from Scientists for Ethical and Societal Values, including professors from IIT- Madras and the Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences, have submitted a petition to the President with regard to the recent rise in incidents of communal violence across the country. “We, as scientists, are…
Now, Hindu Sena targets Kerala House
27-Oct-2015
Shubhomoy Sikdar NEW DELHI, October 27, 2015 Activists say canteen has beef on menu; official denies cow meat is served. Activists from a right wing group created a ruckus at Kerala House near Jantar Mantar on Monday, alleging that the canteen there was serving cow meat (in the name of beef on the menu). K.G.…
‘Use cow urine to clean hospitals’
27-Oct-2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Corporator Parminder Bhamra wants BMC to use Gomutra (cow urine) which has ‘germ killing’ properties to sanitise city hospitals A Congress Corporator wants Mumbai civic body to use cow urine to sanitise hospitals across the metrpolis. Parminder Bhamra said cow urine has ‘germ-killing’ property and he has been using it for…
Kerala House beef row: Delhi Police should have shown restraint, says Chandy
27-Oct-2015
Biju Govind Kozhikode, October 27, 2015 Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday criticised the Delhi Police for carrying out “raids” at the Kerala House in the national capital last evening. A team of the Delhi Police had gone to Kerala House following complaints from an activist of the Hindu Sena that cow meat was…
In letter to PM, President, Admiral Ramdas alleges RSS pushing ‘Hindu Rashtra’ agenda
26-Oct-2015
Ramdas, who was the chief of naval staff between 1990-93, accused the country’s leadership of playing with fire. By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: October 26, 2015 6:27 am In an open letter to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Navy chief Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas alleged that the “RSS…
Dadri lynching result of Akhlaq son’s affair with Hindu girl: ABVP to claim
26-Oct-2015
The ABVP is not clear on which one of the two brothers had an “affair” with a Hindu girl. Written by Lalmani Verma | Lucknow | Updated: October 26, 2015 7:39 am At its annual state-level convention to be held in Sitapur from November 1 to 3, RSS students’ wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)…
4 Sainiks held for stopping Pak play in Gurgaon
26-Oct-2015
Oct 26 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Gurgaon: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Four Shiv Sena activists, including the party’s district president Gautam Saini, were arrested on Sunday for disrupting a Pakistani play being staged in the city on Saturday evening. The four, who had stormed into an open-air theatre in Sector 29 and stopped…