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*Newsletter of All India Secular Forum*
* Volume 10 No.11 November 2015 *
*C O N T E N T S*
*1. CSSS News*
Report of Public Lecture by Romila Thapar
*2. Concerns*
India Today: Reasons for Concern
* - Jairus Banaji*
*3. Articles*
Why I, A Muslim, Hosted a Pork Dinner
to counter religious extremism
* - **N.P. Ashley*
India, Pakistan: Same to Same
* - Javed Anand*
Why doesn’t the violence against Dalits
incite liberal fury, as does violence against
Muslim?
- *Ajaz Ashraf*
*4. Condemning the attack on Sudeendra*
* Kulkarni*
*5. Appeal for upholding values of Indian*
* Constitution *
*6. Scale of Social Violence in escalating*
*7. From Babri to Dadri – Stop playing with *
* lives and rights of minorities *
*8. Poem *
*9. Rejected Film on Beef wins 2 Awards*
*10. Interview*
India: Reasoning and rationalism..are
Under attack – Interview with P.M.
Bhargava
Communal forces have hijacked the spirit
of our constitution –Interview with Anand
Patwardhan
*11. Resources*
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*E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>*
*Editor*: Ram Puniyani, [email protected], www.pluralindia.com
*Advisory Board*: L.S. Hardenia, Irfan Engineer, Dhirendra Panda, Mohammad
Arif.
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*From the Editor’s Desk*
The incidents of intolerance have been going up from last year and a half
in particular. Many an artists, writers, scientists have returned their
awards. These awardees have been among the best of contributors to social
thought and culture. An attempt to vilify them is under progress as to why
they did not return their awards when similar events had taken place in the
past. The major point being missed deliberately is that these returning
awards is not in response to a particular even but to the process of
growing intolerance and to the increasing stifling of the liberal
democratic space in the present regime. There is a qualitative
transformation in the ‘Hate other’ politics, which has gone up during last
many months. Already this process of spreading rumors was there, hate
propaganda was there but now it’s growing intensity has changed they
situation in a qualitative way and so the returning of awards. While we
write this; the result of Bihar Assembly elections has come as a big
relief. The rout of BJP led NDA has shown that the public has realized that
hollow promises of Narendra Modi cannot sell beyond a point. This will
certainly arrest the process of growing intolerance and also give boost to
the coming together of political forces to oppose the communal politics.
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*Ram Puniyani*
(Editor)
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