The Preamble to our Constitution specifically states that India is a Secular; Socialist State. The Supreme Court of India has held that “Secularism” is the basic feature of our Constitution and any state government which fails in upholding this basic feature has no right to continue. In fact in Bommai Case, the Supreme Court upheld […]
What it Means to be Religious
While there seemed nobody except the Bangladeshi government which was willing to let in the close to four lakh Rohingyas being driven out of Myanmar as a result of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine which had the tacit support of the government there including the famed Aung San Suu Kyi, now thoroughly discredited, an international Sikh […]
Sweeping of Country by Hindutva – What to be done?
Sweeping of Country by Hindutva – What to be done? by Ravi Kiran Jain, National President, PUCL. Describing the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya as “Crimes which shake the secular fabrics of the Constitution of India”, the Supreme Court on April 19, 2017 put the senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and […]