Founding Editor: Daya Varma (1929-2015)
Editors: Vinod Mubayi (New York) and Raza Mir (New Jersey).
Editorial Board: Ram Puniyani and Irfan Engineer (Mumbai); Pervez Hoodbhoy (Islamabad); Dolores Chew (Montreal); Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Amherst); Ajay Bhardwaj (Vancouver).
Circulation/website: Feroz Mehdi (On behalf of Alternatives, Montreal).
A SYSTEM AGAINST DALITS
Vidya Subrahmaniam
Bibipur is a metaphor. Locally it is a symbol of unrelieved Dalit suffering in Haryana. Nationally it is about the staggering insensitivity of the state machinery to a community grievously wronged by history.
THE THREAT POSED BY HINDUTVA
Vinod Mubayi and Daya Varma
In the December 2006 issue of INSAF Bulletin, we argued that Maoists were not a major threat to India. In the March issue we wrote that globalization is also not the most important threat to India. In this final article of the series, we express our position that Hindutva poses the greatest threat to India.
COPING WITH GLOBALIZATION – II
Mritiunjoy Mohanty
In ‘Coping with Globalization’ in the March 2007 issue of INSAF Bulletin, Daya Varma and Vinod Mubayi argue that globalization is not the most important threat facing India. Whereas in general I agree with that position, there are a few issues on which I think the argument can be a little more nuanced. I hope this contribution takes that debate forward and clarifies issues that Daya and Vinod, in their inimitable polemical style, raise.
GUJARAT GENOCIDE 2002: FIVE YEARS LATER
Sabrang Alternative News Network, December 20, 2006
BACKGROUNDER: Victim survivors of the Gujarat Genocide, especially those committed to their struggle for justice have been reduced to a life of every day terror and harassment. Five years later, people in Shaikh Mohalla in Sardarpura village of Mehsana district, Gulberg society in Ahmedabad, Ode village in Anand district and other areas live as internally displaced refugees without bare civic rights like ration cards, BPL cards, electricity and water. Victims of the Ode massacre still look in vain for the missing bodies of their lost ones and repeated inquiries to the police face a cold response.
GUJARAT: FIVE YEARS AFTER THE GODHRA POGROM
Dionne Bunsha
The Hindu February 28, 2007
There is no violence but the atmosphere of fear and prejudice still prevails. Gujarat is a society divided – where minorities are segregated and face social and economic boycotts. Muslims have been pushed into ghettos.
NEWS BRIEFS
- MASSIVE INQUILAB RALLY BY CPI (ML) IN INDIA’S CAPITAL
- CPI DISAPPROVES BRUTAL POLICE FIRING IN NANDIGRAM
- CPM ADMITS NEGLECT OF MUSLIMS IN WEST BENGAL
- INDIAN PM RELEASES THE BOOK “CULTURAL HERITAGE OF INDIA”
- PAKISTAN-INDIA VISA REGULATION TO BE EASED
- INDIA-NEPAL TRADE AGREEMENT EXTENDED
- KASHMIR: THE LAND OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
- NEPAL MAOISTS BEGIN CONSULTATIONS ON FORMING INTERIM GOVERNMENT
- RALLY FOR COMMUNAL HARMONY
LETTER: Anand Patwardhan
Dear Vinod (Mubayi), Daya (Varma) and Sekhar (Ramakrishnan)
Your article “The Siege of Nandigram” in INSAF Bulletin Supplement (March 2007) is poorly thought out, perhaps born out of distance from the scene.
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