A Symposium on US, India, China: Triangle Common Issues and Concerns was held in the India International Centre, New Delhi. Prof. Walter Anderson, the Director of the South Asia and India Studies at John Hopkins University, USA and Shri Kanwal Sibbal Former Foreign Secretary of India spoke on the occasion. This was held in the evening of 7th March, 2012.
USCIRF’s Criticism of India: Ill- informed and Prejudiced is a report published by the India Foundation is a rejoinder to the 2011 report of the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom. Upon a detailed reading of the 2011 report of the USCIRF as regards India, it was found that the Commission clearly singles out the BJP and the RSS as perpetrators of communal violence, especially against religious minorities. It was found that the Commission seemed to have glossed over many other riots, including those of the Congress party workers against the Sikh community, in addition to stating erroneous statistics, which seemed to be shockingly cavalier.
With inputs from P.N. Benjamin, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman and Lakshmi Kanta Das, this report written by researchers at India Foundation in February 2012, was a comprehensive point to point rejoinder to every detail in USCIRF’s report, in addition to exposing the bias in favor of certain political groups that the USCRIF tends to betray.
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The CSS of the India Foundation organized an International Conference on PoK and Northern Areas: The Way Forward on 22 February, 2012. Shri PC Dogra, former Director General of Police in Punjab and Shri Yashwant Sinha, Former Union Minister for External Affairs spoke at the Inaugural Session of the programme. With presentations in 4 sessions by various eminent Professors and strategic experts, this Conference was held in the IIC at New Delhi.
Supreme Court Advocate, Shri. Bhupender Yadav’s presentation on the problems that come with the implementation of the Census of India and the National Population register.
He says,
For both the exercise, Census and NPR being entirely different and both being governed by entirely different statutes with different purpose and objectives and such activities being carried out together may result into bane than a boon. By thus quoting a different Act, the Census can perhaps avoid the legal consequences of disclosing the individual information collected in a Census, but it cannot avoid the consequent loss of sanctity of the Census operations.
The presentation can be read here.
This publication reproduced the speech delivered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly in September 2011. This speech highlighted the fact that he wants peace between Israel and Palestine, but not at the cost of unrest within Israel itself. He takes the example of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza before and how while the whole world had applauded this decision at the time, there has been no actually progress or improvement in the situation. He suggests in fact, that a sense of civil unrest has probably increased with militant Islamist elements taking power within these regions.
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A short documentary on the sensitive situation in Kashmir, revolving around issues such as AFSPA, lynching and the greater issue of National integration.
Year: 2011
Source: India Foundation, New Delhi
On December 6th 2011, India Foundation organised a talk with Prof. Ifraim Inbar on the Middle East Peace Process and Israel’s Security with Mr. Yashwant Sinha, former Union Minister for External Affairs as the Chief Guest. Prof Inbar was an ex member of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and was at the time, the Chair for the Academic Committee of the History Department of the IDF. This programme took place at the India International Center on the evening of the 6th of December, 2011.
A two-day National Tribunal was organised in Lok Kala Manch, on 5th and 6th September, 2011 at New Delhi wherein over 150 representatives from various tribe groups from all over India participated. They voiced their views against the phenomenon of ‘forced conversion’ into Christianity by aggressive Evangelist groups.
The Tribunal was led by Shri. P.C. Dogra, former Director General of Police, Punjab. The members of the Jury were:
The findings, observations and excerpts of the transcript have all been compiled and published by India Foundation. This report can be found here.
This publication highlights the futility of the Communal Violence Bill by the Government that will dampen the communal harmony of the nation. Also, a view of various scholars has been brought out in this Report.
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This was published in April 2011 and is a collection of select articles by various authors, detailing the rise and sustenance of radical Islam in Kerala. In his article, T.G Mohandas details, from history as to how this spread had begun, while Girish P. details several recent and contemporary anecdotes that elaborate this premise. There are reports taken from Tehelka’s studies, as well as an article from the Washington Post (February 5, 2011) authored by Emily Wax that elaborate various strands of arguments to this effect.
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This report by P.N. Benjamin details the facts, fiction and politics behind the incidents of violence against churches in Karnataka. This report published in June 2011 also details the facts that the Somashekara Commission gave a ‘clean chit’ stating the apprehension that the Sangha Parivar, BJP or politicians were involved in the attacks against the churches was baseless.
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This publication was authored by Shri. Arun Shourie and published by the India Foundation. Having been the Minister of Disinvestment, Communication and Information Technology, Mr. Shourie tries to expose and counter the many allegations that were leveled against the policies of the NDA regime that were seen as the starting point to the many Spectrum allocation scams that were seen throughout the UPA II’s tenure
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