10th Anniversary Issue
August - September 2003 

Year 10    No.90-91
POLITY


 


‘Target: communalism’

Romila Thapar

It is not often that a magazine devotes itself entirely to one problem in Indian society, focussing with both intelligence and sensitivity on that problem in each issue, and thereby creating awareness about the ramifications and manifestations of the problem. Communalism Combat does just that. Whereas other magazines might take up the question of communalism occasionally, this is the exceptional magazine that targets communalism relentlessly month after month.

Not only does it aim to point out the existence of communal attitudes in contemporary Indian society, but what is even more pertinent, it also demonstrates how pervasive they are in areas that are often overlooked, as for instance, the educational curriculum particularly at school level, discussions about changing legal codes, popular entertainment and some projections about social values.

There are also specific problems on which Communalism Combat zeroes in. I admired the systematic way in which information on the genocide in Gujarat in 2002 was made available. One would like to read even more detailed presentations in the future on situations and conditions that are the potential promoters of communalism, so that there is an awareness of the implications of these.

One looks forward to the increasing effectiveness of Communalism Combat in challenging the perspectives of a communal view of Indian society.

(Romila Thapar is an internationally renowned historian).


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