Citizens for Justice and Peace
The Importance of the Zakia Jafri Petition
25-May-2013
by Teesta Setalvad It is not often that the battle against aggressive communalism, the sustained mobilization that precedes brute and targeted violence and includes hate speech and hate writing, the deliberate debilitation and paralysis of preventive and pro active measures of law and order that minimize the spread of reprisal violence and protect lives and…
Firing One Way, to Kill
20-Feb-2013
By Teesta Setalvad Images of the Delhi police lobbing teargas shells and water canons at protesters at India gate agitating against the gang rape of a young girl on a Sunday, December 22 2012 are embedded deep in the nation’s psyche largely the courtesy of our omnipresent twenty four seven news networks, sharpened further by the…
Face to Face with Fascism
01-Apr-2000
By Teesta Setalvad Forced ethnic segregation, calculated violence and the blatant misuse of government machinery throttles democracy in Gujarat Muslims and Dalits, masjids and the kachrapeti (the garbage dump), are the symbols of the clear communal and casteist segregation of space in urban Gujarat, be it in Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Surat, Rajkot, or elsewhere. The Muslimvaas…
India a nation of women killers?
01-Aug-1993
Hindutva’s Hard Sell The BJP’s claim of being “within striking distance of the Centre” is bogus. But only the purblind will deny that, as of now, the party which is playing with fire seems to be the only dynamic force in the political arena It is only that the individual accounts get more gruesome. Acid…