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[10] From: yogi sikand <ysikand@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Jul 4, 2006 Subject: Girls' Madrasas in India: Book Review Book Review Name of the Book: From Behind the Curtain: A Study of a Girls’ Madrasa in India Author: Mareike Jule Winkelmann Publisher: University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam Year: 2005 Pp: 175 ISBN: 90-5356-907-3 Reviewed by: Yoginder Sikand http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada ------------------ [11] From: yogi sikand <ysikand@yahoo.com Date: Mon Jul 3, 2006 Subject: Kashmiri Prisoners in Tihar Jail Harrassed Kashmiris in Tihar complain 7/3/2006 1:05:14 AM - By Yusuf Jameel, Asian Age Srinagar, July 2: Kashmiri inmates of New Delhi??™s Tihar Jail have complained of harassment by a select group of convicts and undertrials who they claim "enjoy the patronage of some jail officials." They have named RJD MP Pappu Yadav, himself an inmate, as being in the forefront of running an extortion racket within the jail premises, and said that it was mainly the Kashmiri prisoners who were at the receiving end of his "arbitrary actions and high-handedness." "A hate campaign against the Kashmiri inmates is being spearheaded with the connivance of some jail officials. We are being harassed and blackmailed too on flimsy grounds. Pappu Yadav, lodged in Jail No. 3, is using various unlawful and inhuman tactics, including blackmail, to extort money from the Kashmiri prisoners," a letter written to this newspaper alleged. The latest victims of his "criminal activity," according to the letter, have been Sahil Zaroo, the 22-year-old Kashmiri who was briefly lodged in Tihar following his arrest by Delhi police in connection with the Rahul Mahajan incident, and another inmate from the Valley, Nasir Mir. The letter is signed by Muhammad Ahsun Untoo, lodged in Cell No. 21 of Ward No. 10 of Tihar Jail. Mr Untoo was heading a local human rights group in Jammu and Kashmir before the Delhi police arrested him a couple of years ago on various charges, including receiving funds from abroad through illegal channels and for "waging war against India." It has on it the names of 17 other Kashmiri prisoners. The inmates have also alleged that jail officials openly demand money for permitting interviews with their visiting relatives. The Kashmiri inmates, the letter adds, can get nothing, not even essentials, from outside their cells without paying a bribe which is not the case with most other prisoners "who get in anything and everything that they want." It further says: "Before being incarcerated, we had read in newspapers that Tihar is not a jail but like an ashram, but here it does not seem to be any different from Abu Ghraib for us Kashmiri inmates. The conditions here are very bad, at least for us who are being discriminated against, (and) all this is happening because of religious and political bias against the people of Kashmir," says the letter which was written on June 19. It has sought the intervention of human rights organisations both within and outside India to pressure the jail authorities "to be, at a minimum, humane with the Kashmiri inmates." ------------- [12] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Jul 3, 2006 Subject: Recent Developments in Nepal: The Endgame May Still Be Some Distance Away I./VIII. http://kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=78493 Shut ‘people's courts’, Oli warns Maoists BY LILA BARAL BIRTAMOD, JHAPA, July 3 - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday said that the government would take administrative action against Maoists if the latter didn't close its "so-called People's Court" immediately. II. http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-239/0606286861144303.htm Nepal's Maoist leaders meet Indian ambassador New Delhi, June 28, IRNA Nepal-Maoists-Indian envoy III. http://66.116.151.85/?p=3617 29 June 2006 The Hindu Towards the endgame in Nepal Siddharth Varadarajan Ed. Click on link above IV. http://66.116.151.85/?p=3598 The historic agreement in Nepal and the immediate challenge ZNet | South Asia by Pratyush Chandra; June 19, 2006 V. http://kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=78490 Madhesis protest exclusion Kantipur Report VI. http://kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=78555 UN calls for increased women’s participation in peace process Kantipur Report VII. http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2006/jul/jul03/news09.php Maoists not to operate "people's courts" in urban centers, asked to raise donations only "voluntarily" (5:30 PM) VIII. http://kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=78551 CoM readies govt policy, programmes Kantipur Report ------------ [13] From: kashif <kaaashif@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jul 4, 2006 Subject: IndianMuslims.info: The other side of the Ajmer controversy The other side of the Ajmer controversy<http://www.indianmuslims.info/articles/warisha_farasat/articles/the_ other_side_of_the_ajmer_controversy.html> By Warisha Farasat The recent controversy over permitting women to enter the dargah (shrine) in Ajmer, speaks to the gradual reforms shaping male dominated religious institutions. Resistance to reform is not a new phenomenon. Different religious institutions around the world keenly resist change. Does the repeal of the ban signal a significant change? The story of the Ajmer dargah is intriguing. It encompasses complex realities, which are often contradictory. At first glance, it is similar to any male dominated religious institution in India. Looking deeper, it holds a few surprises. http://www.indianmuslims.info/comment/reply/2275 http://www.indianmuslims.info/articles/warisha_farasat/articles/the_other_side_of_the_ajmer_controversy.html For News and Views : http://www.IndianMuslims.info/news_front/ -- |
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