Intellectuals flag threat to secular polity http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/intellectuals-flag-threat-to-secular-polity/article5876770.ece?ref=sliderNews
A group of noted academics, artists and concerned citizens have issued an appeal, in the context of Elections 2014, to defend India's secular democracy. The statement, the lead signatories to which are Zoya Hasan, Rooprekha Verma, Sashi Kumar, Vivan Sundaram, Achin Vanaik, Jayati Ghosh and Prabhat Patnaik, said: "Never before in post-independence India have political forces, which are a front for an organisation committed to creating a Hindu Rashtra, made as strong a bid for power as in the coming elections. These forces are led by a person who presided over a pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and has never expressed any contrition over his role in that ghastly incident. And they enjoy the backing of the most powerful corporate houses in the country. The prospect of this alliance of corporate capital and communal forces coming to power constitutes a palpable threat to the future of our secular democracy. "We urge all responsible individuals and political formations to ponder over the situation and urgently take whatever steps are necessary for defending our secular democracy. We appeal to the electorate to foil this corporate-communal alliance's bid for power by voting against the BJP-led NDA." Rooprekha Verma Sashi Kumar Vivan Sundaram Achin Vanaik Jayati Ghosh Prabhat Patnaik Kumar Shahani Nirmalangshu Mukherjee Abhilasha Kumari Githa Hariharan Ajeet Caur Anand Sahay Doodh Nath Singh Arpana Caur Amit Sen Gupta Maya Rao Amiya Kumar Bagchi Akeel Bilgrami Irfan Habib M.K. Raina Amit Upadhyay Ram Rahman Saeed Mirza C.P. Chandrasekhar Shakti Kak Anil Sadgopal Janaki Nair Suvira Jaiswal S. Kalidas M.M.P. Singh Vishwamohan Jha Neeladri Bhattacharya Madangopal Singh Aban Raza Abdul Maboob Lima Kanungo Ali N. Rizavi Amar Farooqui Amar Kanwar Amarjit Chandan Jehangir Jani Aijaz Ahmad Angelie Multani Aniket Alam Anil Bhatti Anita Cherian Apoorva Gautam Archana Prasad Arjun Dev Arunkumar H.G. Asad Zaidi Ashish Dasgupta Ashish Ghosh Ashley Tellis Ataullah Atlury Murali Atul Bhardwaj Ayesha Kidwai B.P. Sahu Badri Raina Banwari Taneja Biswamoy Pati D.N.Jha Deepak K. Singh G. Arunima Praveen Jha Geeta Kapur Girish Mishra Girish Shrivastav Gitanjali Shree Gunjan Doogar Harbans Mukhia Harun Riaz Imrana Qadeer Indira Arjun Dev Indira Unninayar Ishrat Alam Indira Chandrasekhar Iqtidar Alam Khan Jasodhra Bagchi Jauhar Kanungo Javed Malick Jawaharlal Pande Jawarimal Parakh Joe Athialy K.M. Shrimali Kanti Mohan Soz Kesavan Veluthat Keval Arora Lata Singh Madhu Prasad Madhu Trivedi Madhusree Dutta Manas Ray Mandira Sen Malini Bhattacharya Mandira Sen Manjari Katju Anand Bala Mazher Hussain N.K. Sharma Mihir Bhattacharya Mohan Rao Mohd Arif Moloyashree Hashmi Mushirul Hasan Nalini Taneja Navjot Altaf Neena Rao Neera Chandhok Wasi Haider Neeraj Malik Nilima Sheikh Oishik Sirkar Pamela Philipose Parthiv Shah Prabhat Shukla Pushpamala N R. Ramachandran R.C. Thakran Rahul Verma Rajinder Arora Rajiv Gupta Rajni Arora Rakhshanda Jalil Ramesh Rawat Rashmi Sawhney Rashmi Sawhney Rebecca Kurian Reena Ginwala Rekha Awasthi Ritu Jerath S. Anand Shabnam Hashmi S.Z.H. Jafri Saba Hasan Selvyn Jussy Seshnarayan Singh Shamshad Sherna Dastur Shibanj Kinkar Chaube Shikha Sen Shilpaa Anand Shireen Moosvi Shivaji Panikkar Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Smita Gupta Sohail Hashmi Srinivasan Ramani Sruti Bala Sudhanva Deshpande Sudhir Chandra Sudhir Gandotra Sukumar Muralidharan Sumitra Purkayastha Sunil Suresh Jayaram Ujjawal Gupta Zoya Hasan Utsa Patnaik V. Ramakrishna Venkatesh Athreya Vidya Arora Vivek Monteiro Xavier Dias Yogesh Snehi Veenapani Chawla Rani Ray Ramnik Mohan Mallika Taneja Debjani Sengupta Radhika Prasad Manish Kansara Sumant Sengupta Meghna Joshi Mukul Priyadarshini Shanta Gokhle Ira Anjali Urmimala Sarkar Kajri Jain Anomita Sen Neha Chaturvedi K.P.Jayashankar Jaideep Chatterjee Annie Koshi Mahavir Sharma Dvijendra Nath Kalia Lakshmi Krishnamurty Rimli Bhattachrya Gargi Chakravarti Saskia Sassen Chitra Joshi Supriya Verma Kamla Menon Yousuf Saeed Shiba Chhachhi Malathi A Soumya Dutta Urmimala Sarkar Sumangala Damodaran Saumyajit Bhattacharya Jaishankar Monteiro Rabin Chakraborty Shubhradeep Chakravorty Madhu Sahni -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
