Secular Action Network
Newsletter of All India Secular Forum
Volume. 9 No.10 October 2014
C O N T E N T S
Editorial
1. Forum News
Sarva Dharma Prathana Sabha
2. CSSS Activities
Report 3rd Dr. Asghar Ali
Engineer Memorial Lecture
3. Secualr Initiatives
- Training of Trainers Programme
- Chronicling communal violence
4. Articles
हिटलर के नक्शे-कदम पर संघ परिवार का ‘लव जेहाद’
Modi’s defence of Muslims – a
Little to late?
by Amulya Ganguli
5. Events
-Walk for love and harmony on
International peace day
- Modi in United States
6. Voices from Kandhamal
7. Press Conference
8. Poem
9. Interview
Love Jihad campaign treats
women as if they are foolish
10. Resources
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Editor: Ram Puniyani, ram.puniyani@gmail.com, www.pluralindia.com
Advisory Board: L.S. Hardenia, Irfan Engineer, Dhirendra Panda, Mohammad Arif.
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From the Editor’s Desk
All India Secular Forum and CSSS have taken an inititive to promote the peace activities at local level. Two events which took place this month, one at Saharanpur and one at Varanais may set the trend for more local activists to start the local campaigns and awareness programs in their areas. Similarly Center for Harmony and Peace and STEP organized two day training for trainers program for building bridges across communities. We hope more such activities will begin and promote the cause of communal amity and national integration.
The issue of Love Jihad did dominate the social space. We are carrying a major interview by Charu Gupta, who points out that to conceptualize Love Jihad, the way it is being propagated by ‘RSS combine’ presumes that girls-women are fools. We also carry a report of the group called Love Commandos, whose goal is to help the couples in love. Such a step is very meaninglful at present as the sectarian communal forces are out to target the Muslim youth and restrict the freedom of Hindu girls. A face book posting by Kavita Krishnan announces the convention of Youth to oppose the Love Jihad propaganda and to assert the right to choose one’s own partner by boys as well as girls.
An important article by Abdul Khalique, the Secretary of Lok Janshakti Party, which is opportunistically allying with BJP, tells us as to how a stifling atmosphere against Muslims is being intensified by the Modi Sarkar. The parties quietly allying with Modi cannot escape the blame of this. Moderate utterances of Modi and promotion of communal attacks by Modi affiliates in VHP, Bajrang Dal and many other outfits which have sprung up is a clear attack on freedom of religion.
In a major inititive Communalism Combat and www.hillele.org have launched a video interview of Hansal Mehta which is part of a series of audio-visual interviews, available for viewing on the internet on the joint You Tube video channel. This video exposes the politics of sectarianism.
Ram Puniyani
(Editor)
Link
SAN October issue both word and pdf format and also link.
http://www.csss-isla.com/SAN-October-2014-new-1.pdf
