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).
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UNDER ATTACK: INDIA NOT MISTRY!
Daya Varma
The recent attack on writer Rohinton Mistry is part of a grand design to transform India into a Hindu fascist state.
SHIV SENA – FROM LUMPENS TO FASCIST POLITICAL FORCE
Vinod Mubayi
Starting as Maratha chauvinist outfit, Shiv Sena has emerged as a fascist political force threatening the very existence of a secular India.
AYODHYA VERDICT: IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIAN DEMOCRACY
Ranu Jain
We released a special issue of INSAF Bulletin on October 15; the article below deals with socio-political implication of the Ayodhya verdict, not specifically covered by any of the articles produced in that Special issue.
PAKISTAN FEELS US HAS LET IT DOWN
Khaleeq Kiani
The USA is a friend of Israel and no other country, but it takes time for most countries to find that out. Pakistan is discovering nothing new.
SEIZE THE DAY
Suhas Chakma
India has so far been the most important neighbour of Nepal. The proposed visit by Indian Foreign Minister to Nepal has the potential of both solving the problem or complicating it.
AFGHANISTAN: NINE YEARS AFTER US INVASION: 4.9 MILLION DEAD
Dr Gideon Polya
As of 7 October 2010, the 9th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan , the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 4.9 million violent deaths or non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation. A detailed and documented Afghan War Human Cost Fact Sheet has been prepared to assist humane public discussion of the ongoing, US Alliance-imposed Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide that has now reached the dimensions of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).
TWO YEARS ON, MUMBAI IS MARGINALIZING MUSLIMS
Shobhaa De
Marginalization of Muslims has steadily increased since 1947. The more prosperous a state become the more widespread becomes this marginalization, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka…. How it affects different levels of social institutions?
MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES FAIL TO REPRESENT DALIT CAUSE
Staff Reporter (The Hindu, September 27, 2010)
MADURAI: Dalit movements and major political parties in the State are deviating from highlighting the issues affecting Dalits and have largely failed to represent them on many major issues in the recent past, said Dalit Gnanasekaran, founder, Dalit Liberation Movement.
AN EVENTFUL JOURNEY TO MANIPUR
John Dayal
A brief history of religious realignment in Manipur.
THE GREAT INDIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Chetan Bhagat
The author raises the socio-cultural factor in the state of affairs in India.
OBAMA SHOULD PAY HOMAGE TO AMBEDKAR
Kancha Ilaiah and Joseph D’Souza
A similar appeal has been issued by John Dayal of Indian Christian Council. Why it is important and important for Obama to pay respects to Dr. Ambedkar?
TOUCH THE HEART OF INDIA
Suzy Livingstone, Surrey
Dalit women on the march.
CPM RECAPTURES LALGARH
Bappa Datta
CPM seems to have recovered in Lalgarh. Has it?
KARNATAKA, JHARKHAND, BIHAR: BJP’S SORDID SAGA OF OPPORTUNISM
The story of a Party with a Difference, the story of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). The more BJP degenerates the more India benefits.
BOOK REVIEW
QAIDI NO. 100 BHARATI ZINDAN MAI MERE SHAB-O-ROZ KI RUDAD
(Prisoner Number 100: The Story of My Ordeal in an Indian Prison)
Author: Anjum Zamrud Habib
AND THE PEACE PRIZE GOES TO…A WARMONGER: Liu Xiaobo isn’t such a nice guy after all
Ted Sprague
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
THE 2010 NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE: Today In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Tomorrow Botox?
Daya Varma
Eighty-five year old British Doctor, Robert Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for the development of IVF therapy in humans. His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility. It is the other side of contraceptives used by a bigger population. There were rumours that Gregory Goodwin Pincus, who introduced oral contraceptive would get the Nobel Prize but he did not and died in 1967.
LAUNCHING OF THE ASIA TO GAZA CARAVAN
500 civil resisters from 17 Asian countries are marching to Gaza to end the illegal Israeli Siege!
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