Chitrakoot to Ayodhaya padyatra came to an end
yesterday on June 21. Below is a piece by padyatris
themselves, with a little additions from our side.

We are scholars of South Asia and human rights advocates in the U. K.
who are deeply perturbed by the genocidal violence unleashed against
Muslim citizens in the Indian state of Gujarat.

The Indian government's bid to haul up Time
journalist Alex Perry, the author of an unflattering article on Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has sections of the media crying foul.



For my part, I tried. But I could hardly find a “full interview”! All what I read is a long story written by the assumed interviewer of the Palestinian leader, Akiva Eldar! Inside the story, were slyly scattered hither and thither some extracts from Arafat’s assumed declarations. But of a “full interview”, I have seen none!

So what’s all that fuss about?

We invite you for the release of two reports concerning the recent communal carnage at Gujarat by Justice Hosbet Suresh (Retd.).

PVC is not unavoidable - the Sydney 2000 Olympic stadium seating and plumbing were PVC-free.

WWW.JENIN.ORG

Hamare mathe pe nahin likha hain ke hum Pakistani hain ki
Hindustani hain (Whether we are Pakistanis or Indians is
not written on our foreheads)

Zionazi terrorists in tanks opened fire with machine guns Friday on the market in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, targeting and killing four Palestinians, including three children, hospital officials said. The zionazi filths claimed their terrorists had "mistakenly" machine gunned a group of curfew violators.

EPW
June 15, 2002
Letter to Editor

Lakshmi Sahgal was born Lakshmi Swaminadhan on 24.10.l914 in what was
then still called Madas.

World Refugee Day (20 - 6 – 2002)

Stop IFC Loan for Cuddalore PVC Factory!

The 17 years long struggle in the Narmada valley has now reached it's peak. And what lies ahead is an unprecedented challenge. It has been established that the height of the demonic Dam "Sardar Sarovar" will be raised to 95 mts + 3 mts humps before this monsoon which will affect more than 60 villages of Madhya Pradesh, 33 villages of Maharashtra and hundreds of families in Gujarat. More than 8000 families face the danger of submergence in this year's monsoon.

THE RESOLUTIONS PASSED IN THE 'COMMUNAL HARMONY'MEETING HELD AT
Chennai ON 17-06-02

We are shocked to hear of the brutal killing of human rights activist
Navleen Kumar on June 19, 2002 at Nalasopara on the outskirts of Mumbai.

Ngawang Sangdrol, a Buddhist nun, is the longest serving female
political prisoner in Tibet.

By Nityanand Jayaraman
CorpWatch India
May 28, 2002

Globalization

The Policy Institute for Religion and State in Cooperation with many other think tank groups and advocacy organizations (visit www.pifras.org for a complete list of cosponsors), will hold a Symposium on South Asia, on July 18, Thursday, 2002, in the Cannon Caucus Room at the Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.

Testimony of Robert M. Hathaway
U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
HEARING ON COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN GUJARAT, INDIA AND THE U.S. RESPONSE
JUNE 10, 2002
LONGWORTH 1302

COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN GUJARAT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES