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Victims of Terrorism
The multiple terror attacks in Mumbai are unprecedented and blatantly violate the most fundamental principles of law and justice. Regrettably, as Mumbai shows today, there is a huge gap between...
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“Mindless,”“Muslims”
Those two M’s recur, on this blog and elsewhere, in the heated discussions around the tragic, provocatove events that have unfolded this past week. I am reminded of this point Martha Nussbaum wrote...
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Hotel Taj: Icon of whose India? Gnani Sankaran
Gnani Sankaran is a noted Tamil writer who lives in Chennai. Watching at least four English news channels surfing from one to another during the last 60 hours of terror strike made me feel a terror of...
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More reflections as Southasians on Mumbai
Anjum Altaf has sent us two posts on The South Asian Idea that reflect on the terrorism in Mumbai and discuss how best we can respond as Southasian citizens: Terrorism – 1: How Do We Respond to...
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Equality of dead Souls
There is a terrifying equality of the dead in Mumbai last week. The provisional list of 169 dead carried in various papers has people from every faith (Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish), and from all...
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Thinking Through the Debris of Terror: After Bombay
Last week's terror attacks on Bombay/Mumbai, for which there can be no justification whatsoever, have targetted railway stations, restaurants, hospitals, places of worship, streets and hotels. These...
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Mr Friedman’s Demagoguery
Guest post by SAADIA TOOR and BALMURLI NATARAJAN of the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) A response to his op-ed piece in The New York Times, December 3, 2008. Among Mr. Friedman’s long list of...
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Sandra Samuel, Faces and the ‘Nouveau’ Media – Monobina Gupta
Guest post by MONOBINA GUPTA “The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of a cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalistic industry, along...
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Mumbai, the Hindu Right, and the Problem with Sonal Shah
Guest post by SVATI P. SHAH Like so many millions of others, I was glued to the news for days during the Mumbai attacks. In the aftermath of the terrible human tragedy that reverberates from those...
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The Battle of Mumbai
Guest post by BALMURLI NATRAJAN, a member of the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) The Battle of Mumbai did not begin on November 26, 2008. There was no clear beginning, regardless of what...
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The monster in the mirror
Arundhati Roy wants you to choose: There is a fierce, unforgiving fault-line that runs through the contemporary discourse on terrorism. On one side (let’s call it Side A) are those who see terrorism,...
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Looking Kabul, talking Rawalpindi?
Strategically speaking, that is. It is important to think this question through. For one, there’s hardly anybody disputing that the Lashkar-e-Tayebba was behind the attack. Pakistan wants evidence, but...
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Let Us Not Forget – South Asia Solidarity Initiative
Statement by the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) at ‘After Mumbai, Which Way Forward? A Public Dialogue’, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, December 15th, 2008....
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“I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back!”
Alas, the video has been removed fromYouTube. Posted in Media politics Tagged: 26/11, CST, Mumbai, Mumbai attacks, photojournalism
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Of Bhoomiputra and Housing
I was moving around Mumbai city on that weekend, mainly in the western suburbs. Several posters and banners were put up all over, announcing a call to a mass rally by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray....
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A postcard from Bombay for Raj
Don’t think it’s a good idea and you’ll do it one of these days. Do it today! Go to your nearest post office, buy a postcard and address it to Raj Thackeray. Don’t be abusive, write a peace message,...
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The Suicide of Sense
Mumbai has been in the grip of a wave of student suicides this past month. According to the Mumbai Mirror, as many as 25 suicides have taken place in the city in the new year, most of which have been...
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Creative Destructions
Part of a Series. See here. In January of this year, I had taken a friend to Mumbai. One of the places we went to was Lower Parel – I wanted to show him what I could of the Mills. You could still see...
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Memories of another time: Dilip D’Souza
Guest post by DILIP D’SOUZA The anniversary began, for me, with a phone call. Someone I haven’t heard from in some years, mother of a soldier who died fighting for India in Kashmir. Her voice faltered...
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City in Terror: Dilip D’Souza
Guest post by DILIP D’SOUZA Starting today eighteen years ago, for much of December and January (and then March 12), Indian killed Indian on the streets of my city. Terror at its most elemental: I felt...
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The Gandhi Chawl Incident: Meena Menon
This guest post by MEENA MENON is an extract from her recently published book, Riots and after in Mumbai- Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation It was all in the eyes. Beneath the finely drawn brows,...
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Some Questions for the Maharashtra ATS Chief: JTSA
This release comes from the JAMIA TEACHERS’ SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION The Maharashtra ATS claims to have cracked the 13/7 blasts case. Its chief has revealed in a press conference that Indian Mujahideen...
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Review: ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ by Katherine Boo
Guest post by MITU SENGUPTA In a remarkable book about slumdwellers in Mumbai, Katherine Boo brings to light an India of “profound and juxtaposed inequality” – a country where more than a decade of...
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दिल्ली बनाम बम्बई
भारत के दो महानगरों राष्ट्रिय राजधानी दिल्ली और बम्बई को यूनेस्को द्वारा विश्व धरोहर की सूची में नामांकित करने की तैयारियां चल रही हैं, कुछ मित्रों ने दिल्ली या बम्बई की बहस शुरू कर दी है जो वास्तव में...
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Social Media Regulation vs. Suppression of Freedom of Speech: Pranesh Prakash
Guest post by PRANESH PRAKASH This morning, there was a short report in the Mumbai Mirror about two girls having been arrested for comments one of them made, and the other ‘liked’, on Facebook about...
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A dangerous idea
For easy sharing, you can find this image on Twitter and Facebook. Filed under: Government, Law, Right watch Tagged: Bal Thackeray, Freedomof speech and expression, Internet Censorship in India,...
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Ek Tha Tiger: Death and Bal K. Thackeray
We have reasons to be grateful that Bal K. Thackeray has died, a normal, natural death. Several of those whom he admired, didn’t. Adolf Hitler, the fellow ‘artist’ he often invoked, killed himself, his...
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People’s Participation in Planning Mumbai?: Hussain Indorewala and Shweta Wagh
This is a guest post by Hussain Indorewala and Shweta Wagh Since the past six months in Mumbai, there has been an unusual convergence between urban activists, community groups, rights groups, unions,...
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A letter to Father Frazer Mascarenhas SJ
Endorsed by academics, activists and educationists across India. Dear Father, In these troubling times, when the mightiest are being bought over, lured, seduced, or silenced, we salute you for your...
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Protest the communally motivated murder of Yakub Shaikh in Mumbai!
A CALL FOR PROTEST on 29th October 2015 outside Toyota Shinrai, Cotton Green, Mumbai. On 29th September at 2:30 pm, a day after Dadri lynching in Uttar Pradesh, Yakub Shaikh, a worker at the Toyota...
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