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1. Forum News

All India Secular Forum congratulates Dr. Suresh Khairnar for being awarded Mukundan C. Menon Award (2016). The award is in recognition of Dr. Khairnars work for rights of religious minorities in particular. His work in investigating the cases of Hindutva terror network had a major impact on our understanding about this phenomenon. He is constantly engaged with the issues which undermine the secular ethos and upholds the secular values through his interventions. We wish him all the very best in his endeavors.

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C O N T E N T S Editorial 1. CSSS News - Report - 10th Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture by Prof. Akeel Bilgrami

2. Articles - Christmas in the Midst of Unseen Violence

By Fr. (Dr.) Anand Muttugnal

- - - Me, The Anti National by Prof. Shah Alam Khan 3. Dalits and Hindutva

- ! 4. Movements - Report- Khudai Khidmatgar Sanji Virasat Yatra from Rajghat to Deoband 5. Investigation - Report: Rejinagar Shariyati Violence 6. Campaign - Letter to Honorable Chief Justice of India - Stop criminalizing Triple Talaq: Punitive action is not difference 7. Archives - India: Sardar Patel on the RSS 8. Resources - New Book Reignites Questions over alleged cover-up of Kandhamal killings

- Book on Muslim contribution in India freedom movement

- New Book on Communalism by Ram Puniyani - A package of 21 socially relevant films

----- - -------------------------------- Ph. 022-26149668, 022-26135098 E-mail: [email protected] Editor: Ram Puniyani, [email protected], www.pluralindia.com Advisory Board: L.S. Hardenia, Irfan Engineer, Dhirendra Panda, Mohammad Arif.

Newsletter of All India Secular Forum

Volume. 13 No.1 January 2018


Correspondence Address: CSSS, 602 & 603, New Silver Star, Santacruz (E), Mumbai: - 400 055

From the Editors Desk The month of Christmas saw a rising violence against Christians, particularly priests. Carol singers were targeted and prayer meetings were disrupted. This year the incidents of such violence have gone up. As such the rough observation has been that the anti Christian activities are observed more often in the month of December, the month of biggest Christian festival. As such violence is also spread more in Adivasi-dalit areas while Christian mission schools in urban areas are earning a high respectability with parents opting them as the top choice for their childrens education. The fright being instilled among this section is a part of the agenda which is opposed to the liberal democratic society with values of equality. We recently saw the release of the revised edition of the book, Who Killed Laxmanand. The author, Anto Akkara has been pursuing the case doggedly. He recounts the horror unleashed in the aftermath of Swamis murder. It was VHP volunteers who thrashed some Christians and dumped them into police station as being the killers of Swami. They were released only after prolonged Court harassment. Again another set of Christians have been implicated and the investigation and legal proceedings are tardy. The author argues for a proper inquiry into this murder as it was used as a trigger for the biggest anti Christian violence in the Country in which nearly one hundred people lost their lives. We also carry the petition of eminent citizens endorsing the appeal of Admiral Ramdas for a proper high level inquiry in to the suspicious circumstances in which Justice Loya lost his life. Just to recall the judge was to give his verdict in case related to Amit Shah, for which an earlier judge was transferred. The story of Caravan Magazine has raised the questions which need an answer.

Ram Puniyani

(Editor)

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1. CSSS News

10th Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture

The 10

th Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer

Memorial Lecture was organized by

CSSS in collaboration with India Arab

Cultural Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia

University in Delhi on 8th December

2017. The Lecture titled "Some

Reflections on the Limits of Liberalism"

was delivered by Prof. Akeel Bilgrami

from Columbia University. The Lecture

was chaired by the honourable Vice

Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia

University, Prof. Talat Ahmad. The

Lecture was attended by over 60

persons. Those who attended the Lecture

included prominent academics,

professors, activists and students.

Before the Lecture commenced, Prof.

Akeel Bilgrami released a book called

Babri Masjid, 25 Years On..... This

book is published by Gyan Publisher and

edited by Sameena Dalwai, Irfan

Engineer and Ramu Ramnathan.

After the release of the book, the Chair

expressed pleasure of organizing the Dr.

Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lectures

at Jamia. Prof. Bilgrami began the

Lecture by reminiscing his interaction

with Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer. The

Lecture centred around the freedom of

speech and liberty by citing theories and

ideas of John Raul's and Rousseau. With

elaboration and examples, Prof. Bilgrami

presented a comprehensive framework to

understand the relationship between free

speech and liberalism. He also explained

the ideas of populism which helped to

understand the socio political context in

India today. The lecture was well

appreciated which reflected in the

responses and questions posed by the

audience.


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2. Articles

Christmas in the Midst of Unseen Violence

By Father Dr. Anand Muttugnal

There have been times when the Christian community celebrated Christmas with peaceful heart. Gone are those days when we thought of Christmas as times of peace, joy and happiness. The carol singing was considered as taking the message of peace and joy that come with a birth of Christ to the people but the recent happenings of violence against the carol team in different parts of county and the threat calls issued by the hardcore Hindu fundamental organizations have made it an event inviting troubles and violence. Under this circumstances the question comes to our minds is that, will the Christianity that has faced numberless persecutions throughout the history stop preaching the message of peace? Will these mindless violences force the Christians from doing charity and humanitarian services as demanded by Christ?

How much truth is there in the allegation of forced conversion of people belonging to the economically weaker sections, very specially tribals and scheduled caste? The Christians in most of the states are very minuscule minority which has no politically voice. The number of families in most village Churches can be counted on fingers. So how

will the powerless Christians force the villagers to get converted to

Christianity? The Churches in these villages are mostly very shabby and runs in small rooms which silently proclaim the bad economic condition of the churches and families associated with it. How could one justify the allegation of alluring Hindus with regular or irregular economic aid to get converted Christianity?

The Christian community must be running more than twenty five thousand educational intuitions across the country. And adding to it, the Christian community in the country runs thousands of charity organizations supporting millions of peoples to improve their lives. If these organizations and educational institutions as alleged by the fundamental organizations, were working with the sole aim of conversion, then what would have been the population of Christians in the country? If these allegations to be true then how could many of leaders of the Hindu fundamental organizations and Bhartiya Janta Party leaders including Mr. L.K. Adwani (Former Deputy Prime Minister) remain a Hindu? In the recent years in Chhattisgarh many personal working in educational institutions were attacked in very many ways including very serious allegations of sexual abuses. In spite of all these the faith of people in the services offered by the community is still in a growing pace.


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So do the allegations of using educational and charity organizations for conversion stand ground?

If we analyses these attacks on the institutions, some of them are organized just to popularize to fundamental list ideology and to stop Christians from working for the poor and downtrodden peoples belong to be lower strata of the society. Some of them are planned and executed to get access to the administration of the educational intuitions so that leaders of fundamental organize get their choice of students get admitted to the schools. One of the majour reasons could also be that the Christian community is branded as supporters of Congress Party and the socio-political organizations following Hindutva ideology take political vendetta on the Christians. It is true that there may be few incidents of violence taking place due to religious reasons.

A clear study of attacks on Christians could reveal the fact that in many of these cases fundamental organizations have executive their vicious plans with the help of the police. In some of the incidents the victims were beaten up, man handled and very badly abused in the presence of the police or in the police stations but police made little efforts to stop them. In the case of the recent attacks on priests and brothers (Christians) in Satna and Bhuranpur and Aligarh in U.P are clear examples of police supported violence. There are many cases reported that the members of

the fundamental organizations in the midst of the prayer came with the police and took away the pastor and believers who objected to the police stations. If police find that the arrested persons have no influence in the higher ups, then they are mentally and physically tortured and in many cases police register cases under the Freedom of Religion Act and other sections of IPC and send them to jail. One might tend to ask the question, are these police men safeguarding the rights of people or executers of the plans of the fundamental organizations?

There are serious violations of freedom of religion guaranteed in the Article 25 of the Constitution of India which grantees every citizen freedom to practice and propagate his/her faith. How could one interpret conducting prayers in houses, conventions, retreats, Bible studies, carol singing, etc as methods of forcing or alluring people to conversion? The misinterpretation and misuse of the provisions in the Freedom of Religion Act is a clear violation of the spirit of the Article 25 of the Constitution of India. We need to place the Christmas and the worries of the Christians in the background of these rising unseen violent situations. In the midst of most uncertain times we pray, Oh! Lord, Have Thine Own Way, yes it calls for a total surrender of oneself at the feet of the Cross, Wish you all a Happy Christmas.

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Me, the Anti-National?

Farooque was a Kashmiri. He hated India. His cousin was killed by security forces while at a demonstration in Srinagar. This was 1990. We were classmates; I always took him head on for his anti-India rhetoric. Those were the times when no one minded his rhetoric and our arguments, and life went on. Then came March 1992 and the cricket world cup. The determined Imran Khan and Pakistan came from behind and won the cup. I bunked college the day Pakistan won because I did not have the courage to face Farooque, who was of course ecstatic beyond words and was looking to rub salt in my wounds. I was madly in love with cricket and equally devoted to the team which had let me down but I knew defeat was part of the game, as much as of life.

But 1992 also came with hate. The 400-year-old Babri Masjid was pulled down within four hours by kar sevaks. That become a defining moment in Indias secular history and Farooque taunted me on being the citizen of a country which could not protect the mosque from a group of rabid communalists. I was hurt but was confident that this was the handiwork of a lunatic fringe which shall never find

toe space within the pluralistic and secular India I was so proud of. Again, life went on and we graduated from college. India too graduated from an innocent past and the mid-1990s saw the swift embracing of neoliberal policies. People changed and jumped classes overnight. Farooque left the country and we lost contact.

And then 2002 happened. Yes, it happened not as a year but as a moment of perfidy for the thousands of Muslims who lived in different parts of Gujarat, imagining it to be their home. I emailed a Muslim and a Hindu friend from Ahmadabad asking about their well-being. Both were copied on the same mail. The Muslim guy replied in short Alive while my Hindu friend wrote, Ashamed to be alive. I was thankful that I had lost touch with Farooque. The brevity of the message from my Hindu friend gave me a lot of hope. They will never be able to hijack this country, I thought, but a tiny doubt had crept up in me. Like an insect, it sat over my being, fluttering its wings whenever the doubt was reinforced. Then came 2014 and the insect matured into a dark black stag beetle. It grew two tiny biting mandibles when Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched in 2015


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and then grew bigger and bigger as it fed itself on the lynching of Junaid Khan, Majloom Ansari, Pehlu Khan and the like.

The Champions Trophy this year saw India defeating Pakistan in its very first match, but we lost the finals to a resurgent Pakistani side. To my horror, I didnt feel as bad as I had when we had failed to reach the finals of the 1992 world cup, which was won by Pakistan. I couldnt explain what deferred me from being sad. Sadness, like happiness, should have a reason and I was scared to face this reason. It was like a disfigured person looking at his/her face in the mirror for the very first time. Was I turning into an anti-national, like Farooque? Why would I not mind India losing to its arch rival? I assumed that the stag beetle within me was preying on my nationalism.

And that evening my phone rang with urgency. It was Farooque after 25 years he had traced my number through a common friend. We talked for half an hour, discussing our lives and careers.

Aur miyan, abhi bhi nationalist hee ho? (So, are you still a nationalist?) he asked me in his usual provocative tone. I was ashamed not because he had the reason and audacity to pose the question, but because I sidestepped his question and abstracted our conversation into something irrelevant. Irrelevance, the best disguise for survival.

Prof. Shah Alam Khan

Prof of Orthopaedics, AIIMS, New Delhi (Views are Personal)

First published in The Wire: https://thewire.in/205885/babri-masjid-gujarat-riots-hindutva-nationalism/

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4. Movements

Report- Khudai Khidmatgar Sanji Virasat Yatra from Rajghat to Deoband

Khudai Khidmatgar organised a yatra from Rajghat-New Delhi to Deoband-Uttar Pradesh on 30th November in memory of Indian Freedom Fighter Sheikh Ul Hind Moulana Mahmoodul Hasan, during his 97th Death anniversary. The yatra began from Rajghat-Gandhi Ji Memorial, the yatra flagoff by Social Activist Swami Agniwesh, Journalist Dr. Manimala, All India Majlis E Mushawarat National President Navaid Hameed and Khudai Khidmatgar National Convenor Faisal Khan, with a short addressing in front of the yatris gathered. Khudai Khidmatgar taking effort to remember the heroes of freedom struggle from its revival, all those leaders who played an exemplary role in nation building, the young generation should know and remember the forgotten heroes like Bibi Amtus Salam, sheikh

Ul Hind, the culture of Sanji Virasat and many more. In those series we organised this yatra too. Social Activist Swami Agniwesh during his address, mentioned that the yatra in memory of Sheikh Ul Hind Moulana Mahmoodul Hasan is the need of the hour, to unite the society beyond all forms of differences, especially the youth gathered here are the real inspiration to the nation and will bring the social change, we must also try our best to counter the negative preaching and hate among the people by the name of religion. Khudai Khidmatgar National Convenor Faisal Khan said, It is the historical event of the organisation, Khudai Khidmatgar as like other activities it has now remembering the sacrifice


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and contribution of Sheikh Ul Hind to this nation and organizing the yatra on his name, Khudai Khidmagar working to fulfill the dreams of Moulana as he expressed the eagerness that Hindus and Muslims should come together to develop the nation and our people. All India Majlis e Mushawarat National President Navaid Hameed addressed the gathering, by remembering the historical participation of Sheikh Ul Hind and his interest to strengthen the hands of Mahatma Gnadhi Ji during freedom struggle and harmony in the society, he also remembered the contribution of Moulana and several other Islamic Scholars (Ulama) who worked very progressively for the social and national liberation. Senior Journalist Dr. Manimala said that, the activities of Khudai Khidmatgar gives me new hope, we spend our young days with revolutionary like Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Narayanan, Ram Manohar Lohia, and many other exemplary personalities. As of now I am happy to see all those Leaders within each and every Khudai Khidmatgars, we are having the capacity of giving new hope and directions to this society to counter present challenges. The participants in the yatra are the members of Khudai Khidmatgar from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Kerala.

The Yatra lead by Khudai Khidmatgar Western Uttar Pradesh Co-Ordinator Kamar Intekhab. Yatra began at Rajghat crossing Ghaziabad, Meerut, Kathauli, Muzaffar Nagar, Khampur, and finally reached at Deoband- the grave of Sheikh Ul Hind. The yatra received a huge welcome at Ghaziabad by the members of Muslim Maha Sabha and Ghaziabad District Khudai Khidmatgar, mean time the yatris distributed pamphlets and conducted meeting, like wise a meeting conducted at Meerut Shahi Eidgah Maidan by Meerut District Khudai Khidmatgar, Where Socialist party President Dr. Prem Singh, Khudai Khidmatgar volunteers from Kerala Sadik pattalam, Sushil Khanna, Philip Christy whome were among the yatris were also presented their talks and views on the aim of yatra and need to work towards social harmony and realize the dream of SANJI VIRASAT. When yatra reached Muzaffar Nagar, a huge gathering received the yatra and organised a meeting near Meenakshi Chowk, likewise in Khatauli, and in Deoband also. Finally Islamic Seminary DARUL ULOOM DEOBAND Vice Chancellor Moulana Abul Qasim Banarasi invited the yatra team to had a discussion and to convey his wishes for this historical initiative and advised the team to take up similar initiatives timely and seriously, since the nation needs a better Hindu as well as a better Muslim by which we could


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protect this nation from hate politicians and fake religious people. It is too sad to know that more than 90 percent of Activists to a common man does not know about Sheikh Ul Hind, then how the messages of these personalities transform to the society, is a biggest question in front of all.

Thanks & Regards Faisal Khan Khudai Khidmatgar National Alliance of People Movement Contact, +91 99688 28230 +91 93131 06745 [email protected]

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5. Investigation

REPORT: REJINAGAR SHARIYATI VIOLENCE

Drawing on inclusive narratives and interactions with the survivors of the Rejinagar Shariyati violence, common people, perpetrators and activists who resisted; this report anatomises how Radical Islam hypothesised to engulf Popular Islam or Sufism. This meticulous field study makes a significant and timely contribution to the discussions on radicalisation of society, administrative inaction and particularly peoples resistance. It is a little but in-depth research we have been able to complete. Here our team members were Akbar Ali Sekh, Suman Nath, Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury, Amitava Sen Gupta and Faruq Ul Islam. This report is drafted and written by Suman Nath, edited by Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury and published by Anupam Das Adhikary. 'Rejinagar Shariyati Violence' is available in the following centers. Thanks.

AAMRA (An Assemblage of Movement Research and Appraisal), Kolkata.

Like our other series of reports on Conflict and Co-existence Studies, Rejinagar Shriyati Violence is now available in the following counters/libraries of Kolkata-

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2. National Library, Kolkata Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata State Central Library, Kolkata For information on availability of our reports, please contact with the following persons - Amitava-9830919951, Samindra-

9831680542, Suman-9433879158, Tutun-9903213059, Subhaprotim- 8697095776, Faruq- 8820852054, Subhas-9007161663, Anupam- 8017954126 AAMRA (An Assemblage of Movement Research and Appraisal), Kolkata.

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6. Campaigns

To The Honourable Chief Justice of India, New Delhi. The Honourable Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Mumbai.

Honourable Justices,

Please find below copy of a letter addressed to you by Admiral (Retd) L. Ramdas, former Chief of the Naval Staff, requesting for a high level judicial enquiry into the mysterious circumstances of the death of Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya, the Special CBI Judge presiding over the trial of BJP President Amit Shah and several Gujarat Police Officers in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.

Also find below a report recently published in The Wire listing several discrepancies in the circumstance surrounding his death.

Former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, Justice A.P. Shah had also recently spoken out about the allegations, opining that not enquiring

into the allegations made by the family would send a very wrong signal to the judiciary, particularly the lower cadre. He had also expressed concerns over allegations of corruption, as Judge Loya was allegedly offered a bribe of Rs.100 crore.

Former Bombay High Court Judge, Justice B.H. Marlapalle, also has sought an SIT probe into the Judges death.

We, the undersigned veterans of the Armed Forces, would like to place on record our support for the appeal made by Admiral (Retd) L. Ramdas to institute a high level judicial inquiry into this matter and urge you to take appropriate action for all the reasons mentioned in his representation and


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to resolve the discrepancies mentioned in The Wire report.

Yours faithfully,

1. Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat

2. Lt Cdr Atul Bhardwaj

3. Vice Adm Adolf Britto

4. Colonel M.S. Kapoor

5. Colonel R.B. Mistry

6. Rear Adm S.A. OLeary

7. Captain S. Prabhala IN (R)

8. Brigadier Amardeep Singh

9. Cdr Mani Thomas

10. Maj Gen S.G. Vombatkere

(Admiral Ramdass letter was carried in last issue of SAN)

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STOP CRIMINALISING TRIPLE TALAQ: PUNITIVE ACTION IS NOT DETERRENCE

Appeal for a wider consultation with womens groups for gender-just family laws

The government has tabled a Bill titled Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage), 2017, on the first day in this winter session of the Parliament. This Bill proposes to make the practice of triple talaq a criminal offence, leading to imprisonment of husband who pronounces instant talaq.Created in the name of safeguarding womens rights, this problematicBill fails in its primary mission, and is instead designed to be another tool by which to criminalise Muslim men by making the practice of triple talaq a criminal offence, leading to imprisonment.

We would like to state at the outset that Bebaak Collective, along with other womens groups of this country, are opposed to this arbitrary and

repressive move. If this law is passed, then it is going to adversely affect Muslim women and children, whose survival is at stake. That this step has been hurriedly taken without inviting the opinion of womens rights groups and other civil society stakeholders involved in the issue is cause for further concern.

Why no criminalisation?

There is no rationale to criminalise the practice of talaq-e-biddat. Using penal actions leading to imprisonment to discourage the practice of triple talaq will not help in getting justice for women. When a woman reports a complaint about triple talaq, she wants to continue


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staying in matrimonial home and draw financial support from her marital home. Imprisoning the husband will deprive her of both, making her and her children even more vulnerable.

Since marriage is a civil contract between two adult persons, the procedures to be followed on its breakdown should also be of civil nature. We do not believe in retributive justice, which emphasises punitive measures instead of the ensuring the rights of women. It is essential to think of civil redressal mechanisms and reparative justice to ensure that Muslim women are able to negotiate for their rights both within and outside of marriage.

The Bill is limited to triple talaq and is not addressing related issues of polygamy, the practice of halala and other issues of discriminations faced by women in marriage and family.We believe that piecemeal legislations will not address larger issues of subordination of women within patriarchal structures.The penal action to discourage the practice of instant triple talaq is a myopic view as it leaves many other issues of economic and social security of women unaddressed. In addition, in our present conjuncture, the move to imprison Muslim men will add to the prevailing insecurity and alienation of the Muslim community. Family and community members might create undue pressures on the woman not to report against her husband.

Criminalisation of instant triple talaq will further stifle the voices of Muslim women instead of offering them avenues for justice. Our effort as womens groups and the government should be to strengthen the negotiating capacities of women bystrengthening their economic and social rights.In any case, if there is a need for criminal intervention e.g. in cases of domestic violence, or when triple talaq is construed as violence, in such cases, the aggrieved woman can use the existing provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 and Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. These two legal options for women encompass both criminal and civil provisions.

Appeal for broader consultation on the proposed Bill about tripletalaq

Overtime, social movements have stressed that law/policy making by the government should be developed in the spirit of a democratic, participatory and transparent process with a view to incorporate the lived experiences of the affected sections of society. More recent legislations, like the Protection of Women against Domestic Violence Act, 2005, the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 are results of long struggle of the womens movements. All these laws or amendments were preceded by and benefitted from wide consultations with the civil society and affected sections, where voices and experiences of


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women and marginalised groups were heard, and legislations formulated accordingly to promote gender equality.

Our appeal to the Members of the Parliament is not to hastily pass this legislation but to reflect on the repercussions of the same, through meaningful consultations with a broad range of stakeholders, particularly with womens groups.

Underlying Principles:

As a secular democratic country, all laws in India (whether personal or not) must be tested against the Constitutional mandate. If there is a contradiction, then the principles of equality must prevail. Arbitrariness and discrimination cannot be permitted on the grounds that a particular practice or law is an essential or non-essential part of religion. Since all the Personal Laws are discriminatory against women in varied ways, we must aim to create new laws or amendexisting laws to ensure they are in consonance with the fundamental rights of equality and non-discrimination.In recognition of the fact that gender relations in society are unequal, these lawsmust provide special safeguards to secure the rights of women.

Our demands:

Marriage among Muslims is a contract and hence cannot be dissolved in a unilateral manner. There can be no more injustice than to be constantly at

the fear of being unilaterally divorced, with no judicial recourse available. We appeal that all the forms of unilateral talaq (including talaq-ahsan and talaq-hasan) should be invalidated as it vests power in the hands of the man, and reinforces unequal relations within the marriage. Accordingly, the matters related to talaqunder the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 should not be applicable.

Muslim women have the option to approach court for divorce under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939. This law should be available to men too. There should be legal provisions to deal with the matters of dower and maintenance of the wife, child custody, right to reside in matrimonial home, and other economic obligations.

The matrimonial home as the residence of a married woman has to be ensured in law, along with an equitable right of ownership and access to all property belonging to the partners at marriage.


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In order to discourage the practiceof talaq-e-biddat, we suggest that when a complaint is received against any qazi, religious or social organisation for encouraging, abetting or administering instant triple talaq, their registration should be cancelled.

The practice of nikah-halalashould be made a punishable offence. This practice makes the woman vulnerable to all kinds of physical, sexual, emotional and economic abuse, thereby denying them their right to live with dignity and self-respect. Any person who solemnises or acts as a witness to a marriage knowing that it has been contracted as nikah-halala so as to facilitate

remarriage with the previous husband should also be punished.

The Ministry of Minority Affairs should formulate a scheme to spread awareness about the Supreme Courts judgment, take cognisance of complaints of its violation and the issues arising out of such matters with appropriate authorities, provide monetary relief and socio-legal aid to women who are affected by the violation of this judgment.

Bebaak Collective is one of the interveners in the Supreme Court, who supported the petition of Ms. ShayaraBano challenging the constitutionality of triple talaq, nikah-halala and polygamy. We were represented by Senior Advocate Indira Jaising.

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7. Archives

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India: Sardar Patel on the RSS... Daily O https://www.dailyo.in/variety/sardar-patel-rss-partition-hindu-right-wing-communists/story/1/21070.html

[Book extract] The address was delivered in Madras in 1949 where Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India's first deputy prime minister referred to threats from the Left as well as from the Right.

Excerpt from Indian Nationalism: The

Essential Writings, edited by S Irfan

Habib, Aleph Book Company

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

For unity, we must forget differences of

caste and creed and remember that we

are all Indians, and all equal. There can

be no distinction between man and man

in a free country. All must have equal

opportunities, equal rights and equal

responsibilities. This is difficult for

achievement in practice, but we must

continuously strive towards that end.

There is one more thing that we have to

do to maintain peace and order in this

country. For a few years at least, till we

are able to stand on our own legs, we

must forget that we can every now and

then threaten the government. We

cannot function if the government is to

be challenged day after day by groups of

people who want to have their own

way. What they want may be, according

to their own honest thinking, very good;

but Gandhiji has put before us the ideal

of obtaining what we want by peaceful

methods and through truth and non-

violence. If people begin to threaten

and challenge government's authority

and try to overthrow it to gain their

objectives by force, the latter would not

be able to do anything constructive.

Forces are existing in this country which

would create chaos and disorder, which

would weaken the country instead of

strengthening it

...We in the government have been

dealing with the RSS movement. They

want that Hindu Rajya or Hindu culture

should be imposed by force. No

government can tolerate this. There are

almost as many Muslims in this country

as in the part that has been partitioned

away. We are not going to drive them

away. It would be an evil day if we

started that game, in spite of partition

and whatever happens. We must

understand that they are going to stay

here and it is our obligation and our

responsibility to make them feel that

this is their country. It is, of course, their

responsibility, on the other hand, to

discharge their duties as citizens of this

country.We must all understand that

partition is behind us. It has to come to

stay. I honestly believe that it is good for

both the new nations to be rid of a

perpetual source of trouble and

quarrels. In 200 years of slavery, the

administration created a situation in

which we began to drift away from each

other. It is good that we have agreed to

partition in spite of all its evils; I have


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never repented my agreeing to

partition.

From the experience of one year of joint

administration when we have not

agreed to partition, I know we would

have erred grievously and repented if

we had not agreed. It would have

resulted in a partition not into two

countries but into several bits.

Therefore, whatever some people may

say, I am convinced and I remain

convinced that our having agreed to

partition has been for the good of the

country.

...People are impatient; they want more

wages for labour. Do they think we want

to starve labour? Are we foreigners?

Some people say we are capitalist

agents. One thing I learnt from

Mahatma Gandhi is that a public man

should not have any property, and can

challenge any government or any

Communist to play this game with me.

But my quarrel is what those who,

contrary to the second part of

Mahatmaji's advice to us, want to use

violence. There should be no terrorism

amongst ourselves. So long as people

were playing that game when we were

under a foreign power, we made

allowance for it; we are paying for it

also, because an evil once tolerated

grows. That is what we see in

Hyderabad.

Why are these Communists creating

trouble there? How did they grow? It

was because the Hyderabad

government was foolish enough to

allow them to grow for its own ends and

we had no control over them then to be

able to suppress them. And what is it

that we see there now? In three or four

months' time, 200 or more young

Congressmen, their own brothers, have

been murdered. Is it a sign of freedom

that in the first year of freedom you

have 200 Congressmen killed in cold

blood in a small area? Once these

terrorists are driven out from that area,

where will they go? Inside your border.

They will harass you; they will play the

same game with you. To the

Communists, my appeal may be in vain,

because they do not listen. I told them

immediately after my release from jail

last time that I was prepared to take all

the Communists into the Congress, to

forget the past and keep the doors open

provided they give up violence and

cease to draw their inspiration from

foreign countries.


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Even now our offer is open, but if

terrorism is the only method they want

to employ, because they cannot defeat

us at the polls and separate us from the

masses of India, then it is our

misfortune that we have to put our own

dear young men and women into prison

or to drive them underground.

... That is one section of the people,

with whom we have to deal; the other is

the RSS. I have made them an open

offer: "Change your plans, give up

secrecy, eschew communal conflict,

respect the Constitution of India, show

your loyalty to the Flag and make us

believe that we can trust your words. To

say one thing and to do another is a

game which will not do." In one year of

freedom we have experienced many

things and learnt many lessons.

Whether they are friends or foes,

whether they are our own dear young

children, we are not going to allow them

to play with fire, so that the house is not

set on fire. It would be criminal to allow

young men to indulge in acts of violence

and destruction, to let the lessons that

our neighbouring countries have learnt

be wasted on us.

Thus I have spoken to the RSS and to

the Communists. Then you have our

Sikh friends. Some of them, have also

begun to threaten us and throw

challenges. They are the only

community in India which is allowed,

with the unanimous voice of the

Constituent Assembly, to keep arms. No

other community is allowed to keep a

sword or a kirpan. Why did we do this?

Not in order that they might threaten

the government with the use of force.

Government is prepared to hand over

power to anybody who can take people

with him. But if anybody is going to play

false and threaten the popular

government, the latter will not fail the

people...

[Book editor S Irfan Habib's note: Soon

after independence, India confronted

challenges from both the Left and the

Right. The Left had ideological issues

and proclaimed soon after

independence that "yeh azaadi jhooti

hai" and thus began a critical tirade

against the newly elected government.

Being the home minister, Sardar Patel

confronted these forces and even

exhorted the communists to join the

Congress and be part of the nation

building project. The idea of India or

Indian nationalism was not ideologically

or otherwise sectarian for Patel. He was

threatened by the RSS from the Right,


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and this threat was more serious as it

was clothed in the nationalist garb.

Patel questioned their definition of

nation and nationalism and even

warned them saying, "They (RSS) want

that Hindu Rajya or Hindu culture

should be imposed by force. No

government can tolerate this." The

address included here was delivered in

Madras in 1949 where Patel referred to

threats from the Left as well as from the

Right. Those were difficult early days

and Patel categorically said that India as

a new nation belongs to all, we are all

Indians without any discrimination.]

(Excerpted with permission from Aleph

Book Company)

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8. Resources

New Book Reignites Questions Over Alleged Cover-Up of Kandhamal Killings

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Politicians, rights activists demand probe into circulation of hate literature following Swami Laxmananandas murder.

Christians attend a protest against the killings and atrocities on Christians in Odissa and Karnataka, in New

Delhi. Credit: Reuters

New Delhi: A group of politicians and

rights activists on Friday criticised the

manner in which the murder of Swami

Laxmanananda in 2008 was investigated

and how innocent people were allegedly

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tried and convicted for the crime without

proper evidence.

The speakers who demanded a probe

into the real conspiracy behind

Laxmananandas killing were

attending the release of a revised edition

of journalist Anto Akkaras book Who

Killed Swami Laxmanananda. The book

examines the killing of the Vishwa

Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader in

Odishas Kandhamal and the consequent

widespread violence against members of

the Christian community in the district.

Christians were targeted after

Swamis killing

In the latest edition, Akkara has looked

at how following the 81-year-old

swamis death, nearly 100 Christians

were killed and 300 churches and 6,000

houses plundered in a spate of violence

that rendered nearly 56,000 homeless.

At the launch of the book, Akkara also

played a video clip of Laxmanananda in

which he is shown saying: The actual

intention of the Europe, US, the Pope

and Sonia Gandhi was to convert the

entire region into the independent

Christian land. God has sent me from

Himalaya and it was stalled. That is why

their campaign was to drive away

swamiji and create a Christian land. As

long as I am alive I shall not let you do

that.

Akkara says this video was cited in the

documentary The Agony of

Kandhamal (which was produced by the

India Foundation) and was allegedly

used as evidence to prove the

Christian conspiracy behind the murder

of the Swami.

Swami killed in suspicious

circumstances

He also alleged that Laxmananandas

trusted bodyguard was missing on the

day the swami was attacked and that the

police guards ran away when the

assailants entered the ashram.

Following the murder, Akkara claimed,

four Christians including a 13-year old

illiterate boy were picked up by VHP

workers, thrashed and then dumped in

police stations. Vishva Hindu Parishad

(VHP) leader Praveen Togadia

announced the names of Swamis

killers and not the police. That is how

the nation was fooled about the

Christian conspiracy behind the

Swamis murder.

Further, the journalist said, when the

police could not fix the first batch of

killers who had been detained for 40

days, they were let off with an affidavit

that read due to fear, we had taken

shelter in police.

Then, Akkara said, the investigation

team arrested the second batch of

killers this time seven innocent

Christians from remote Kotagarh jungle

in two batches. Akkara said judge

Biranchi N. Mishra of the fast track

court who had presided over the final

two years of trial was transferred in 2013

before the verdict was delivered.

Seven Christians convicted without

worthwhile evidence

The judgement in the case was delivered

by a third judge in October 2013 and all

the seven accused were convicted and

sentenced to life imprisonment. This,


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Akkara claimed, happened even though

no worthwhile evidence was brought

before the fast track court judges.

Akkara, who subsequently also brought

the family members of these seven

innocent convicts to Delhi, to let the

media know their real story, said

surprisingly, two years after this

conviction, the same police officers who

had ensured the conviction of the

innocent Christians told the Justice

Naidu Commission of Enquiry that the

much trumpeted Christian conspiracy

theory was baseless.

He said the swamis claim of coming to

Kandhamal to not let it become a

Christian land was parroted in various

VHP statements on the murder from day

one. Since the swami had named even

the Pope and Sonia Gandhi as people

who considered him a threat, it was easy

to spread the rumour that Christians had

killed him. Therefore, he charged that

Swamis murder was actually a supari

(contract) killing.

Latest edition questions books,

authors and publishers role

In the latest edition of the book, Akkara

has written about attempts to cover up

the real controversy. He has claimed that

he stumbled upon this mammoth fraud

from documents gifted by then

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

spokesperson Ram Madhav to the head

of the Kerala Catholic Church during a

visit in 2012.

The author claimed from these

documents it was revealed that two men

Michael Parker and Brannon Parker

supposedly authored the same book on

Kandhamal under different titles.

Harvest of Hate Kandhamal in

Crossfire by Seattle-based

anthropologist Michael Parker was

published by the India Foundation in

2009, Akkara said. The bulky book

carried a publishers note by then India

Foundation director Nirmala Sitharaman,

who is now Indias defence minister.

Interestingly, he said, in her introduction

to Harvest of Hate, Sitharaman had

described the author Michael Parker as

born in India while the profile at the

end of the same book declared that

Parker was born in the US.

The same Michael Parker book, Akkara

said, was now being marketed

worldwide as ORISSA in the

CROSSFIRE Kandhamal Burning by

Brannon Parker.

On downloading this book from the

Internet, Akkara said he discovered that

the name of the publisher India

Foundation was there but there were

no contact numbers. But there was an

address 343, Chandanwadi

Apartment, Sector 10, Dwarka, New

Delhi 110045 which turned out to be

that of a house owned by national

security adviser Ajit Kumar Doval.

NHRC accused of taking it easy

Akkara said a DVD titled The Agony of

Kandhamalwas also brought out by

India Foundation which portrayed

Hindus as victims by forging testimonies

of Christian victims. He lamented that

the National Human Rights Commission

(NHRC) played a dubious role in the

Kandhamal cover up by not even issuing

a press release in the last nine years.


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Having taken 25 trips to Kandhamal in

pursuit of the truth, Akkara also

questioned why no action has been taken

by the Odisha government on the

enquiry report of Justice Naidu

Commission which was submitted

December 22, 2015.

Seeking a probe into the massive cover-

up of the real conspiracy, senior

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

leader Brinda Karat said: Akkaras

book has brought out the absurdities and

discrepancies of the judgement

convicting seven persons in the case

wherein a resolution of a church, that

later turned out to be fudged, is the only

evidence.

She said after some Maoists claimed that

they were responsible for the killing of

the swami, all efforts were made by the

prosecution to manufacture evidence

to show that the seven accused had links

with the Maoists. This is the most

outrageous travesty of justice, she said.

Karat said she had visited the seven

accused in jail in 2015 and had also

urged the President of India to ensure

that they were not victimised the way

they were. The judgment is an example

of what it should not be, she said,

adding that the review has unfortunately

dragged for a long while in the High

Court.

Make Naidu Commission findings

public

Demanding that the Naidu Commission

report be made public, she alleged that

BJP ensured in this case that every

single process of justice was subverted.

Even when it came to those accused of

killing Christians and raping a nun, she

said while 13 were convicted for

murders all are out on bail. As for the

rape case, she said only one convict was

in jail in 2015 and in all probability he

too would have come out.

On the questions raised by the book,

Karat asked, who are the Parker

brothers?

She also wondered why no question of

plagiarism arose despite both the books

having the same text. She also noted that

when Teesta Setalvad handed some

documents to the United Nations, she

was accused of treason. Why is it then

that no questions are being asked of Ram

Madhav for handing over documents to

US agencies? she asked.

Seeking an enquiry into the role of India

Foundation and Doval in the whole

episode, Karat said the books were

written to project the Christian

community in a certain light. This

shows that there was a method in which

the propaganda machinery was set up

with complicity of people in the political

scene. Karat said truth also needs to

come out because the issue also pertains

to the rights of dalits and adivasis as all

the seven convicts belong to these.

Soft Hindutva a challenge to idea of

India

Releasing the book, veteran journalist

Kuldip Nayar emphasised the need to

preserve the countrys plurality,

cautioning that some forces are

disfiguring the country by enforcing

majoritarianism, leading to slipping of

the idea of India. He decried that a

soft kind of Hindutva (Hindu


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nationalism) was spreading across the

country that needed to be challenged by

people, especially the younger

generation.

General Secretary of CPI, D. Raja, said

an atmosphere of hatred and fear was

being spread through cultural fascism

and called for fighting it to save the

country.

Leader of the United Christian Forum,

John Dayal, questioned why the appeal

against the fast track court order was

getting delayed. Are they delaying the

judgment (on the appeal of the

Christians) because dont want to answer

the question who killed the swami?

Stating that a senior VHP leader was in

Kandhamal the day the swami was

killed, Dayal said everybody knows

who killed the swami, they just do not

want to say it.

***

Books on Muslims contribution in Indian freedom movement

released by Harsh Mander December 22, 2017

TCN News

In a glittering ceremony, two books on

Muslims contribution in Indias

Freedom movement were launched in

Patna on December 17. The function

was presided over by Harsh Mandar,

former IAS officer and human rights

defender in the country.

The books Muslim Freedom Fighters:

Contribution of Indian Muslims in the

Independence Movement and its Urdu

version Muslim Mujahideen-e-Azadi

aur Tehrik-e-Azadi Mein Unki Khidmat

have been authored by well-known

Delhi based author and journalist Syed

Ubaidur Rahman.

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New book on Communalism

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