Sunday, November 03, 2013
Saturday, November 02, 2013
"GOOD-BYE DEAR JACKIE!" (Remembering a FRIEND on ALL SOULS DAY )
“GOODBYE”, DEAR JACKIE !
Dear Jackie,
Ever since I got the call from Austin on Thursday morning telling me that you were no more, I have just been too numbed for words! The news of your sudden death has shocked us all - your beloved wife Leela, your loving children Alka and Austin and their families: Kevin, Darin, Edwin, Ethan, Ian and Ingrid and all the rest of us: family and friends, gathered here today – and those far away!
Everything at this moment seems unreal: like a bad dream which will hopefully pass away. It is so difficult and painful for us to accept that you are no longer here Jackie; that you just had to leave us so suddenly, swiftly and silently.
But then, we do accept that our life here is but a pilgrimage. All of us are here today and gone tomorrow. As Christians, we do believe in the resurrection, that all of us are called to eternal life. In some ways, the hollowness that we experience at this moment is mitigated by the fact that we will unite with you one day.
So at this moment, we gather together as one family to celebrate what you have meant to each one of us during your life here on earth – warm and tender memories of a husband, a father, a grandfather, a friend, a companion, a colleague, a neighbour.
Last night, I was wondering what to say at this homily today. Like a film the many years that we have known each others just rolled by - almost twenty five perhaps, if not more! I cherish those happy moments we spent together; but at this moment I want to highlight just three remarkable qualities which were you Jackie.
- Sincerity
Our world today is fraught with hypocrisy and a lack of authenticity. So a person like you Jackie who has always been so sincere, so very genuine - was like a breath of fresh air. There was a kind of transparency that always radiated from you; a special joy which one felt when in close proximity of you. In your life there were no pretensions. You did not try to hide anything nor did you try to put on any airs. You were always just yourself Jackie! That is what drew people to you. There were people like me, who were just happy to be your friend or to call you theirs. From your sincerity, there always exuded a genuine warmth, something special, which your immediate family always experienced in you.
- Sensitivity
The sincerity in you Jackie also made you a very sensitive person; always loving and caring, responding to the needs of the others. It was this sensitivity, which made you always available for others. Last night, as we celebrated your memory in a special family Eucharist, I asked each of your four grandsons Kevin, Darin, Ian and Ethan - this one question – “What did granddad mean to you?” The answers were spontaneous and genuine: “he loved us”; “he accompanied us”; “he played with us”; “he took me to the park”; “he accompanied me to my karate classes”; “he spent time with us”; “he talked to us”. This, Jackie is the best tribute that anyone can get. Out of the mouths of babes flow words of truth. There are indeed so many all around who have experienced your sensitivity during your life here on earth. We thank you Jackie for this.
- Simplicity
Whenever I think of you Jackie, I am reminded of St. Joseph. St. Joseph, we know was a simple and just man. There was a profound simplicity in you Jackie: In your demeanour, the way you came across to people; your unassuming nature was definitely something special. All of us needed to learn this from you. Yes Jackie, there was a touch of class in your simplicity. You were unobtrusive yet you became a comfort-zone for many. There was something about your simplicity Jackie, which had an ‘old-world-charm’, a kind of a quiet which belonged to the distant shores of Karwar. In your simplicity you were always there for all.
So dear Jackie, as you lie here in front of us – Leela, Alka, Austin, Ingrid, Ethan, Ian, Darin, Kevin and Edwin and this large crowd who have come to pay their respects to you, we thank you for the sincere, sensitive and simple life you led here on earth. These 3 S’s in fact highlight your SELFLESSNESS throughout your life.
There are several questions all of us ask this moment: Why did you have to go away so suddenly dear Jackie and so swiftly and so silently? Why did you choose to go away when all were so unprepared, with no a hint or trace of any warning from you? Why did you choose to say your last ‘goodbye’ in the midst of all your immediate family? Why did you choose the very time I happened to be in the United States in spite of my own programmes being rescheduled at so many different times? Yes dear Jackie, there are many questions indeed and we will always search for the answers. But even in death, you wanted to trouble no one – that was typical of you Jackie!
We are all going to miss you very, very much, dear Jackie:
Leela, Alka, Austin, Ingrid, Ian, Ethan, Edwin, Kevin and Darin will miss you in ways unknown to others because you have been a loving husband, a devoted father and a doting grandfather.
My colleagues at ‘Prashant’ are shocked and saddened to hear the news of your death! They will miss those many fleeting visits with a ‘hi-and-bye’ from you, with a wave of hand and that very special smile you had reserved for us.
And there are many others who will miss you in a countless different ways!
Above all Jackie, I will miss dearly someone who regarded me as his closest friend and to which I reciprocated without hesitation.
In the Gospel of today Jesus tells us, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, though he die, shall live”. (John 11:25) Yes, Jackie, we believe, that at this moment, you are there with the angels and the saints enjoying the eternal happiness to which you have been called.
Thank you, Jackie for being with us and accompanying in the journey of life here on earth.
Thank you for being that wonderful husband, father and grandfather and above all I thank you for being a true friend.
Goodbye dear friend – till we meet again!
-Fr. Cedric Prakash sj
This homily was delivered on 12th October, 2013 at the Funeral Mass for Mr. Jackie Fernandes at St. David the King, Catholic Church, Princeton. NJ, USA. Mr. Jackie Fernandes expired in Princeton on 10th October, 2013.
This homily was put in text – form, a few days later)
Friday, November 01, 2013
Greetings for DIWALI and the NEW YEAR!
MAY THIS FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
ILLUMINE OUR HEARTS, MINDS and SOULS ....
So that we ALL
COURAGEOUSLY SEEK and LIVE
THE TRUTH and WHAT IS RIGHT
"(May) the light of faith is (be) concretely placed at the service of justice, law and peace."(Pope Francis)
May Faith, Charity and Hope reign in the hearts of ALL!
HAPPY DIWALI! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
with our warm wishes
with our warm wishes
Fr. Cedric Prakash sj
Director
and ALL at
"PRASHANT" (A Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace)
Hill Nagar, Near Kamdhenu Hall, Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052,Gujarat, INDIA
Tel :+91 (0)79-27455913/66522333
Hill Nagar, Near Kamdhenu Hall, Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052,Gujarat, INDIA
Tel :+91 (0)79-27455913/66522333
Cell : 9824034536
Blog: www.humanrightsindia.in
Thursday, October 31, 2013
CM Narendra Modi’s tacit admission of fear: detains activists without charges ahead of his visit
31st October 2013
PRESS RELEASE
CM Narendra Modi’s tacit admission of fear: detains activists without charges ahead of his visit
On 30th October 2013, 4 activists, Rohit Prajapati, Trupti Shah, Amrish Brahmbhatta and Sudhir Biniwale were put under house arrest by Rajpipla police even before they had reached the venue of the symbolic protest, in their own houses (not at the venue of the CM’s public meeting). The symbolic protest was to be in the form of a daylong hunger strike. They were not to assemble at any public place or sit on dharna at any public place. The sit-in protest in their own homes was aimed at protecting their land, forest, livelihood, river, (jal, jangal jamin, nadi, janavar).
They were followed by police vehicles right from Devalia chokadi when they were travelling from Vadodara to Rajpipla. When they reached the Rajpipla Social Service Society campus they (the police) were standing guard outside the place as if the activists were criminals. No policemen told them why they were holding guard or what the charges against them were.
Other activists and villagers from more than 7 villages were also detained from their homes by the police, again without pressing any formal charges. At midnight many prominent activists viz. Lakhan Musafir, Dhirendra Soneji, Dipen Desai, Rameshbhai Tadvi from Indravarna village, Shaileshbai Tadvi from Vagadia village, Vikrambhai Tadvi and 2 others form Kevadia and other villagers were detained illegally. As of 6 a.m. on 31st morning we know that at least 10 other people from 5 more villages were detained and taken to various police stations. More police action is also apprehended.
This is one of the clearest admissions by the CM and his team of their fear of people’s voices and the entire administration bending over backwards to ‘protect’ the CM. The CM Mr. Narendra Modi has always operated under fear and thus has clamped down hard on activists and rights defenders. This is one more instance of the CM not wanting to hear the people’s voices from his own state and not allowing them to be heard by the rest of the world. CM Narendra Modi’s talk of ‘daring’ and ‘boldness’ is entirely devoid of substance and is empty rhetoric, much like an adolescent’s bombast.
It is also one of the clearest evidences, if one cares to heed it, that Gujarat is today reeling under a state of “undeclared Emergency”, working much like the Congress dispensation in 1975. Summary detentions without charges, or on trumped up charges, routine denials of permissions for public demonstrations and protests, selected targeting of human rights and civil rights activists, name-calling and myth-making are the order of the day – and all these can be substantiated with evidence by us, unlike the CM who cannot substantiate a single charge that he makes against those he dislikes.
If the CM has any sense of propriety and public responsibility, then we challenge him to answer the following questions:
- Why was the police following the activists from Vadodara?
- Why were Rohit Prajapati, Trupti Shah, Amrish Bhrambhatta and Sudhir Biniwale not allowed to get out of the RSSS campus and prohibited from proceeding to Kevadia?
- Why are no charges framed against them?
- Why were people from the villages in the Kevadia area rounded up on 30th evening?
- What are the charges against them?
We strongly protest against this illegal police action against the activists and against the constitutional violation of the freedoms of expression, movement, and association. We also urge all others to register similar protests against the high-handed and authoritarian dispensation that is the government of CM Narendra Modi in Gujarat today.
Prasad Chacko Jimmy C. Dabhi Fr. Rajeev, SJ
Raju Deepti Mahesh Pandya Persis Ginwalla
Deepti Raju Gautam Thakar Priyanka Christian
Kishore Chaudhary Rajnikant Gamit Fr. Vinayak Jadav
Sunil Gamit Imran Pathan Vasudev Charupa
Joseph Patelia Ramesh Borisa Hiren Gandhi
Sheznaz Ansari Saroop Dhruv Prakash N. Shah
Gaurang Raval Sagar Rabari Fr. Cedric Prakash
Rajnibhai Dave Lalji Desai Swati Desai
Anand Mazgaonkar
PRASHANT
- A Centre for Human Rights,Justice and Peace
Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052,
Gujarat, India
Phone :+91 79 27455913/66522333
Fax : +91 79 27489018
Email: sjprashant@gmail.com
Monday, October 28, 2013
One Million Post Card Campaign to the Prime Minister to table PCTV Bill
Dear Dr Manmohan Singh,
I believe in an India, free of violence and hatred. I urge therefore that the government of India keeps it’s nine year old promise and tables the
The Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations Bill ), 2011 in the Rajya Sabha, forthwith.
Towards this India of our dreams,
Yours Sincerely,
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End Impunity, Ensure Accountability
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October 28, 2013 Press Release
One Lakh Post Card Campaign to the Prime Minister
Campaign Launch: By Actor Rahul Bose for the Justice For All Campaign
A Fast Track Intensified Campaign to ensure that the union government tables the of Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011 in the Winter Session of Parliament will be launched by the Justice for All Campaign from Mumbai on Monday, October 28, 2013.
Actor Rahul Bose will launch the Campaign Fast Forward that seeks to send over One Lakh Post cards to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh from different parts of Maharashtra.
Teesta Setalvad, Dolphy D’Souza, Farid Shaikh, Maulana Mahmood Daryabadi will address the press.
Venue – Press Club, Mumbai
Time – 3 p.
Date –
SAY NO to Violence, YES to Justice and Peace are the slogans of this campaign that has been in action since early 2013. The single point demand of the Campaign is
Ø To Expedite Tabling of Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011 in the Rajya Sabha
Campaign Launch: By Actor Rahul Bose for the Justice For All Campaign
Please depute your Reporter / Cameraman to give coverage to the Press Conference
Organisers:-
Issued by Justice for All Campaign Ad Hoc Committee: Teesta Setalvad (Convenor), Dr Amarjit Singh Narang, Irfan Engineer, Aslam Ghazi, Maulana Burhanuddin Qasmi, Maulana Daryabadi, Dolphy D'Souza, Farid Shaikh, Haroon Mozawala, Javed Anand, Keval Ukey, Kaushik Sangahvi, Rahul Bose, Sumedh Jadhav, Yusuf Muchhala.
All India Contact : c/o Sabrang, Nirant, Juhu Tara Road, Juhu, Mumbai 400049; Telephone: 91- (0)22, 6602288/26603927;
Email: teestateesta@gmail.com , www.sabrang.com
Email: teestateesta@gmail.com , www.sabrang.com
An Online Petition has also been launched .
Please join this campaign by signing @ http://chn.ge/H7Kn3L
Campaign to:-
Campaign to:-
- To protect the Lives and Properties of Disadvantaged Citizens who are Victims of Targeted and Mass Violence during which bouts, officers of the state have shown overt or covert complicity; in short to breathe life into Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution (Right to Life and Right to Equality Before the Law)
- Support the Justice for All Campaign
- Ensure an End to Impunity,
- Ensure Accountability from Public Servants
To Breathe Life into Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Indian Constitution
Summary
After the genocidal pogrom of Gujarat in 2002, UPA I in its Common Minimum Programme assured India’s minorities of a special law and well defined crimes to ensure that the perpetrators of mass and targeted violence are punished and fair reparations are made mandatory. This promise has been kept in cold storage. The recent perpetrated violence in the four districts of Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Shamli and Meerut demand that India’s political case are made to fulfill this long overdue promise. India’s National Advisory Council (NAC) drafted a bill in June 2011 aimed at tackling communal and targeted violence and delivering justice and compensation to victims. The proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011 brings in categories like sexual offences, hate propaganda, dereliction of duty and culpability of officials within its ambit, widening the spectrum of crimes that constitute communal violence.
While the Bill seeks to prevent all forms of violence against all communities, the many incidents of violence targeting religious minorities in the past three decades – e.g., Nellie, Assam (1983), Delhi (1984), Kashmir (1989), Bhagalpur (1989), Mumbai (1992-93), Gujarat (2002) and Kandhamal, Orissa (2008) – as well as the failure of the police and justice systems to punish the guilty show the need for such a law to ensure accountability, due process, reparation, and protection of these peoples’ human rights. These constitutional guarantees have been repeatedly denied and it seems the state machinery is complicit in acts of communal violence, both by commission and omission.
The inaction on the proposed bill (almost 2 years since its drafting) would seem to support this allegation. Civil society groups in India are now campaigning for the NAC draft bill to be tabled and taken up in Parliament.
Background
There is a history of targeted violence in India in the past three decades. To name a few: Nellie, Assam (1983), Delhi (1984), Kashmir (1989), Bhagalpur (1989), Mumbai (1992-93), Gujarat (2002) and Kandhamal, Orissa (2008) . The attacks were made on India's religious minorities: Muslims, Kashmiri Pandits, Sikhs, Christians. Tamilians in Karnataka and Biharis in Maharashtra are examples of linguistic minorities who have suffered. Dalits and Adivasis too are frequent victims. The Khairlanjee massacre of Dalits in 2006 or the Ramabai Nagar police firing in 1998, both in Maharashtra, are cases in point.
The attacks are also allegedly state-sponsored and state-condoned. Moreover, when it comes to following the Rule of Law and ensuring accountability and due process after bouts of such targeted violence, the local administration and the police have been found tardy and wanting, failing to deliver justice and punish the guilty. Local sources opine that successive governments have been guilty of serious crimes of omission and commission.
Apparently there is what they call an “institutionalized riot system”. The November 1984 massacre of Sikhs provides a good illustration. Victims were unable to get the local police to protect the lives of their family members or property. They were unable to file a proper complaint in the police station. Senior police officers, bureaucrats and ministers, who got reports from all across the city, state and country, did not act immediately to ensure the targeted minorities were protected. Incendiary language against the victims was freely used. Women who were raped or sexually assaulted got no sympathy or assistance. When the riot victims formed makeshift relief camps, the authorities harassed them and tried to make them leave. The victims had to struggle for years before the authorities finally provided some compensation for the death, injury and destruction they suffered. As for the perpetrators of the violence, they got away since the police and the government did not gather evidence, conducted no investigation and appointed biased prosecutors, thereby sabotaging the chances of conviction and punishment.
On a smaller scale, all victims of organized, targeted violence — be they Tamils in Karnataka or Hindi speakers in Maharashtra or Dalits in Haryana and other parts of the country — know from experience and instinct that they cannot automatically count on the local police coming to their help should they be attacked. Over fifteen years ago, a serving, senior police officer made a stunning statement: “No riot can last for more than 24 hours unless the state wants it to continue”. T his statement has since been endorsed by a number of senior policemen and political leaders.
What this means is simple. If the police and administration were to be held directly responsible for the failure to impartially enforce the Rule of Law, perpetrators of recurring violence would be halted in their tracks. If the law could give fair reparation commensurate to the loss and to be compulsorily paid within a time-frame, the future would not benefit rioters. If senior officers were held responsible for dereliction of duty they would ensure accountability from themselves and the men and women they command.
The proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011 (PCTVB) is a first step towards addressing these incidents of targeted violence, a modest contribution towards ensuring that India's citizens enjoy the protection of the state regardless of their religion, language or caste. It was framed by the National Advisory Council (NAC) and released in June 2011. Sources also feedback that it is a huge improvement over a bill originally drawn up by the United Progressive Alliance government in 2005.
The PCTV bill sets out to protect religious and linguistic minorities in any state in India, as well as the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, from targeted violence, including organized violence. Apart from including the usual Indian Penal Code (IPC) offences, the NAC draft modernizes the definition of sexual assault to cover crimes other than rape and elaborates on the crime of hate propaganda already covered by Section 153A of the IPC. It also broadens the definition of dereliction of duty — which is already a crime — and, for the first time in India, adds offences by public servants or other superiors for breach of command responsibility.
Another important feature is the dilution of the standard requirement that officials can only be prosecuted with the prior sanction of the government. The PCTV bill says no sanction will be required to prosecute officials charged with offences which broadly fall under the category of dereliction of duty.
Likewise, the Bill fills the lacuna of compensation for those affected by communal and targeted violence. Today, the relief that victims get is decided by the government on an ad hoc and sometimes discriminatory basis. Sections 90 and 102 of the PCTV bill rectify this by prescribing an equal entitlement to relief, reparation, restitution and compensation for all persons who suffer physical, mental, psychological or monetary harm as a result of the violence, regardless of whether they belong to a minority group or not.
The PCTV bill also envisages the creation of a National Authority for Communal Harmony, Justice and Reparation. The authority's role will be to serve as a catalyst for implementation of the new law.
Citizens of India and human rights groups battling communalism have had a major role in debating and highlighting the need for this Bill. Today we need to come together to ensure that these collective efforts are not in vain, that the Bill is tabled before Parliament. Those opposing the Bill are those responsible for communalizing the public sphere and fomenting communal violence. Given the fierce opposition to such a Bill, it became imperative that it be brought back into the focus. We need to take up the challenge and launch a nationwide campaign, at regional and national levels. The campaign now aims at focusing on the need to get the NAC draft bill tabled once it is approved and reworked by government.
SAY NO to Violence, YES to Justice and Peace
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Teesta Setalvad
'Nirant', Juhu Tara Road,
Juhu, Mumbai - 400 049
http://teestasetalvad.
www.cjponline.org
www.gujarat-riots.com
www.sabrang.com
Narendra Modi’s Rise in India (Editorial of NY Times(26th October 2013)
NY Times editorial raises concerns over the political rise of Narendra Modi in India and the threat to religious minorities and the tolerant, secular fabric of India
Narendra Modi’s Rise in India
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
October 26, 2013
In 2002, rioters in the western Indian state of Gujarat savagely killed nearly 1,000 people, most of whom were part of the Muslim minority. Now, barely a decade later, Narendra Modi, who was the chief minister of Gujarat at the time and still holds the office, is a leading candidate to become prime minister of India.
Mr. Modi, a star of India’s main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party,would become prime minister if the party won enough seats in parliamentary elections next summer with support from its political allies. His rise to power is deeply troubling to many Indians, especially the country’s 138 million Muslims and its many other minorities. They worry he would exacerbate sectarian tensions that have subsided somewhat in the last decade.
Supporters of Mr. Modi argue that an investigation commissioned by India’s Supreme Court cleared him of wrongdoing in the riots. And they insist that Mr. Modi, who is widely admired by middle-class Indians for making Gujarat one of India’s fastest-growing states, can revive the economy, which has been weakened by a decade of mismanagement by the coalition government headed by the Indian National Congress Party.
There is no question that the Congress Party has failed to capitalize on the economic growth of recent years to invest in infrastructure, education and public institutions like the judiciary. And instead of trying to revive itself with new ideas and leaders, it is likely to be led in the coming election by Rahul Gandhi, the inexperienced scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
But Mr. Modi’s strident Hindu nationalism has fueled public outrage. When Reuters asked him earlier this year if he regretted the killings in 2002, he said, if “someone else is driving a car and we’re sitting behind, even then if a puppy comes under the wheel, will it be painful or not? Of course it is.” That incendiary response created a political uproar and demands for an apology.
Mr. Modi has shown no ability to work with opposition parties or tolerate dissent. And he has already alienated political partners; this summer, an important regional party broke off its 17-year alliance with the B.J.P. because it found Mr. Modi unacceptable.
His economic record in Gujarat is not entirely admirable, either. Muslims in Gujarat, for instance, are much more likely to be poor than Muslims in India as a whole, even though the state has a lower poverty rate than the country.
India is a country with multiple religions, more than a dozen major languages and numerous ethnic groups and tribes. Mr. Modi cannot hope to lead it effectively if he inspires fear and antipathy among many of its people.
Meet The New York Times’s Editorial Board »
Mr. Modi, a star of India’s main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party,would become prime minister if the party won enough seats in parliamentary elections next summer with support from its political allies. His rise to power is deeply troubling to many Indians, especially the country’s 138 million Muslims and its many other minorities. They worry he would exacerbate sectarian tensions that have subsided somewhat in the last decade.
Supporters of Mr. Modi argue that an investigation commissioned by India’s Supreme Court cleared him of wrongdoing in the riots. And they insist that Mr. Modi, who is widely admired by middle-class Indians for making Gujarat one of India’s fastest-growing states, can revive the economy, which has been weakened by a decade of mismanagement by the coalition government headed by the Indian National Congress Party.
There is no question that the Congress Party has failed to capitalize on the economic growth of recent years to invest in infrastructure, education and public institutions like the judiciary. And instead of trying to revive itself with new ideas and leaders, it is likely to be led in the coming election by Rahul Gandhi, the inexperienced scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
But Mr. Modi’s strident Hindu nationalism has fueled public outrage. When Reuters asked him earlier this year if he regretted the killings in 2002, he said, if “someone else is driving a car and we’re sitting behind, even then if a puppy comes under the wheel, will it be painful or not? Of course it is.” That incendiary response created a political uproar and demands for an apology.
Mr. Modi has shown no ability to work with opposition parties or tolerate dissent. And he has already alienated political partners; this summer, an important regional party broke off its 17-year alliance with the B.J.P. because it found Mr. Modi unacceptable.
His economic record in Gujarat is not entirely admirable, either. Muslims in Gujarat, for instance, are much more likely to be poor than Muslims in India as a whole, even though the state has a lower poverty rate than the country.
India is a country with multiple religions, more than a dozen major languages and numerous ethnic groups and tribes. Mr. Modi cannot hope to lead it effectively if he inspires fear and antipathy among many of its people.
Meet The New York Times’s Editorial Board »
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Kindly Sign this Online Petition URGENTLY..DO FORWARD and post it on FB and TWITTER. Thanks
Please join this campaign: http://chn.ge/H7Kn3L
URGENT!
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Kindly Sign this Online Petition URGENTLY!
Do post it on your FB page and your TWITTER
and do FORWARD it to AS MANY AS POSSIBLE!
Thanks
Fr. Cedric Prakash sj
Director
"PRASHANT" (A Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace)
Hill Nagar, Near Kamdhenu Hall, Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052,Gujarat, INDIA
Tel :+91 (0)79-27455913/66522333
Hill Nagar, Near Kamdhenu Hall, Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052,Gujarat, INDIA
Tel :+91 (0)79-27455913/66522333
Cell : 9824034536
Fax:+91 (0)79-27489018
Blog: www.humanrightsindia.in
SAY" NO" to Violence, "YES" to Justice and Peace
Table the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice &
Reparations) Bill in the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian Parliament
Please join this campaign: http://chn.ge/H7Kn3L
Sign the Online Petition Above…..
To protect the Lives and Properties of Disadvantaged Citizens who are Victims of Targeted and Mass Violence during which bouts, officers of the state have shown overt ot covert complicity; in short to breathe life into Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution (Right to Life and Right to Equality Before the Law)
Support the Justice for All Campaign
Ensure an End to Impunity,
Ensure Accountability from Public Servants
Breathe Life into Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution
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Teesta Setalvad
'Nirant', Juhu Tara Road,
Juhu, Mumbai - 400 049
http://teestasetalvad.
www.cjponline.org
www.gujarat-riots.com
www.sabrang.com
Table the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice &
Reparations) Bill in the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian Parliament
Please join this campaign: http://chn.ge/H7Kn3L
Sign the Online Petition Above…..
To protect the Lives and Properties of Disadvantaged Citizens who are Victims of Targeted and Mass Violence during which bouts, officers of the state have shown overt ot covert complicity; in short to breathe life into Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution (Right to Life and Right to Equality Before the Law)
Support the Justice for All Campaign
Ensure an End to Impunity,
Ensure Accountability from Public Servants
Breathe Life into Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution
--
Teesta Setalvad
'Nirant', Juhu Tara Road,
Juhu, Mumbai - 400 049
http://teestasetalvad.
www.cjponline.org
www.gujarat-riots.com
www.sabrang.com
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Friday, September 13, 2013
TODAY WE PLEDGE
TODAY WE PLEDGE
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That we will do ALL WE CAN to preserve the LOFTY IDEALS
Enshrined in our sacred CONSTITUTION
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That we will strive to ensure for ALL-specially the poor and marginalized
JUSTICE, LIBERTY, EQUALITY and FRATERNITY
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That Democratic values and SECULARISM
Will ALWAYS be the corner-stone of our country
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That we will do ALL WE CAN- legitimately and non-violently
To prevent fascist and fundamentalist forces from ruling our country
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That we will continue to strive for JUSTICE
Till a mass murderer and other perpetrators of injustice are brought to book
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That we will continue to wipe the tears
And heal the wounds of the victims of all violence,particularly communal hatred
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That corrupt, vested interests who thrive on lies, myths and propaganda
Will no longer dictate or make us pawns in their divisive,selfish agenda
TODAY WE PLEDGE
That despite apparent odds we will not be cowed down till
JUSTICE AND TRUTH TRIUMPH!
Fr Cedric Prakash sj
Fr. Cedric Prakash sj
PRASHANT (A Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace)
Hill Nagar, Near Kamdhenu Hall, Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052,
Tel :079-27455913/66522333
PRASHANT (A Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace)
Hill Nagar, Near Kamdhenu Hall, Drive-in Road, Ahmedabad - 380052,
Tel :079-27455913/66522333
Fax:079-27489018
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