*Newsletter of All India Secular Forum*
*Volume. 11 No.2 March 2016*
*C O N T E N T S*
* Editorial*
*1. CSSS News*
*Cultural Evening on Peace and Harmony*
*2. JNU Episode *
-* स्मृति ईरानी को एक जे-एन-यू के छात्र की चिट्ठि *
* -**Why is the media not reporting Kanhaiyas’s *
* Speech?*
*3. Intolerance in India*
- *Amnesty International Annual Report Condemns *
* ‘growing intolerance in India’*
*4. Interview*
* -**Interview with Yogendra Yadav, the *
* distinguished social scientists and psephologist*
*5. Resources*
*- What are the origins of today’s Hindu *
* nationalism?*
* - Hindu Unity – VD Savarkar, who coined the term *
* Hindutva *
* - The real classroom: Outdoor lectures dissect *
* nationalism at JNU*
* - Film on 30th January 1948*
* - Communalism explained video*
* - Celebrating the assassin of Gandhi*
* - Kanhaiya speech in JNU after release *
*-*
*From the Editor’s Desk*
The country witnessed the spectacle of manufacturing ‘Anti Nationalism’
into an equivalent of what Prophet is in some countries. Shouting
anti-National slogans is being constructed as an act of blasphemy for which
the storm trooper can indulge in violence against the accused while police
and state can be the silent bystanders or encouraging force. The attack of
state-Sangh combine on JNU is the un-foldment of the intolerant attitude on
one side and creation of another tool for demonization of those who stand
for secular-democratic values. The use of doctored videos, the manipulation
of state controlled police and the planned attack on JNU students is
something which was never witnessed here. Even during emergency it was the
authoritarian state power which tried to snub those against politics of
ruling government. Now the added factor of communal politics is that it can
unleash the ideologically indoctrinated mobs to physically attack. This is
what is the difference between the authoritarian state and state controlled
by communal forces. JNU has been the citadel of progressive liberal values
and so this attack has been planned to stifle the dissenting voices and
progressive ideologies. This is akin to many a regime which was fascist.
The propaganda is at the service of this sectarian ideology and through
different conduits the lumpen elements supported by this communal force
take up violence. The machinations in JNU are also an attempt to divert the
attention from the issue of Rohith Vemula. The redeeming feature is the
response of majority of students-teachers in JNU. The ‘teach-ins’ started
there and the meeting where Kanaiyaa gave electrifying speech are features
which are the hope for future.
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Link
http://www.csss-isla.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SAN-March-2016-new-1.pdf
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