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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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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)
