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Articles with tag: Babri

What about Bombay 1992?

Aijaz Zaka Syed   Aug 14, 2007   interacts: 169

As the perpetrators of Bombay 1993 are brought to justice, it is only fair to ask where are those who planned the Bombay 1992 carnage?

Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?

Farzana Versey   May 29, 2006   interacts: 58

V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Farzana Versey   May 3, 2006   interacts: 204

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra

Broken Stones

Farzana Versey   Dec 5, 2003   interacts: 76

I had forgotten that my mother was a Hindu. They had changed her name from Savita Damle to Salma Khan. To me it did not matter…Yet, I wondered whether that stone was for me or them.

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