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An article by our colleague Dilip Simeon in Hard News |
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Of Fatwas and Fascism The intellectuals of Deoband need to understand that their mindless Fatwas contribute to the fascist degeneration of the Indian polity By Dilip Simeon, Delhi
Over the past four months, the Deoband Ulama has contributed to the climate of intolerance and religious bigotry in India. First, by opposing Salman Rushdie's presence at the Jaipur Literature Festival, and now by sabotaging a perfectly legitimate subject for research.
In the first instance they succeeded by riding on the backs of various hooligans disguised as 'Muslim leaders', and now by presenting themselves as the self-appointed representatives of 'hurt sentiment' - that tried and tested weapon of communal politicians of all colours. (Witness the hue and cry over AK Ramanujan's Three Hundred Ramayanas). They want Rushdie’s work to be excluded from bona-fide literary research, even if the research does not explicitly take up The Satanic Verses. |
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Family Chronicles: An article by our colleague Jamal Kidwai |
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Family Chronicles: An article by our colleague Jamal Kidwai in the April 2012 issue of SEMINAR THE tragedy of the Partition can be revisited from many prisms. The most common is the brutal violence and displacement that shaped the formation of India and Pakistan. In this article I will not address that aspect; instead I want to try and sketch an anecdotal history by dwelling on incidents in my family which, in their own manner, invoke the tragedy of the Partition. These incidents, sometimes comic and at other times tragic, show how the Partition created new and largely artificial identities relating to notions of citizenship, culture, kinship, family and politics. It also shows how our understanding of these concepts became expressive, on the one hand, of a kind of common sense and, on the other, left these same concepts unresolved and unexamined. |
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NREGA Campaign
Two NREGA awareness-raising 'padyatras' were organized in the Jehanabad and Arwal districts of Bihar, in January and February 2009. Local NREGA implementation committees have been formed in the villages visited. Read More
Gender Violence and Law
AMAN's legal aid programme in Jehanabad, Bihar the Kanooni Sahayata Kendra (KSK) organised a one-day workshop on Gender Violence and Law on 6th December 2008. Read More
Flood Relief in Bihar
A new ten-month programme, supported by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has begun in March 2009 on sustainable livelihood generation in Kosi- flood affected districts of Saharsa and Supual, Bihar.
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Rani is a domestic worker... Read
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