Category Archives: India

Muslims in India’s Gujarat state who bore the brunt of religious riots in 2002 say they have been abandoned by the political parties. The BBC’s Soutik Biswas met some riot victims ahead of the general election in the state. Continue reading →

Doubts have been raised about police reports of a foiled attack on India’s capital blamed on Pakistani militants, with newspapers wondering if the whole episode might have been staged. Continue reading →

Two things emerge from last month’s horrendous attack on Mumbai: one is how interconnected South Asia is with the rest of the world. The other is how the Carter Administration’s ill-conceived strategy in Afghanistan more than 30 years ago still reverberates throughout the region. Decades of subversion, terrorism and invasion have created what historian Vijay Prashad calls a “cauldron” from which has emerged avenging angels and dark demons in equal measure. Continue reading →

Add to this the continuing sore of Kashmir which has for decades been treated as a colony by Indian troops with random arrests, torture and rape of Kashmiris an everyday occurrence. Conditions have been much worse than in Tibet, but have aroused little sympathy in the West where the defense of human rights is heavily instrumentalised.

Updated 09 Dec.2008 Continue reading →

It’s not hard to understand why these soughts of things happen in India if one considers India’s history on inter-religious relations.  When Christians get slaughtered by Hindus nothing really happens to the perpetrators. See: 100 die in anti-Christian attacks in … Continue reading →