Posted By Meenu Chopra On Dec 9, 2009

NATIONAL MEET ON THE STATUS OF MUSLIMS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA
 
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MUSLIM IN INDIA TODAY
OCTOBER 3-5, 2009
Delhi

Anhad is organizing a National Meet on the Status of Muslims to document the continuing ways of discrimination, exclusion, persecution of Muslims in India today, to document overt as well as low intensity violence and the insecurity that they live with, and to prepare a charter of demands for the present government. We also plan to develop a strategy paper for voluntary organizations who are working for the minority rights.
During the three day meet senior activists, academicians, grass root workers and victims would present and listen to testimonies and reports, and reflect on these conditions. 
Panel of distinguished jury members will come up with recommendations on the last day.
Panelists:

Admiral Ramdas, Ahmad Saeed Malihabadi,  Asghar Ali Engineer,  Colin Gonsalves,  Gagan Sethi,  Ghanshyam Shah,  Hanif Lakdawala,  Harsh Mander,  Justice Bhargava , Kavita Srivastava,  Mahesh Bhat,  Prashant Bhushan,  Ram Puniyani,  Rooprekha Verma,  Sandeep Pandey, Shahid Latif,  Tarun Tejpal,  Uma Chakravarty, Zafar Agha,  Zahid Ali Khan, Zoya Hasan
Speakers:
Abu Zafar,  Ajit Sahi,  Amit Sengupta,  Apoorvanand,  Arshad Ajmal,  Ashish Khaitan,  Avinash Kumar,  Azam Khan, Aziz Mubaraki, Baharul Islam,  Farah Naqvi ,  Harinder Baweja,  Hozzefa Ujjaini,  Iftikhar Gilani, Irfan engineer,   Jawed Naqvi, Jyoti Punwani, Manisha Sethi,  Manoj Jha,  Mehmood bhai,  Minakshi Ganguly,  Mohd Azam Khan,  Mohd Shuaib,  Nagma Nadaf,  Naseem Ansari ,  Nihal Ahmad Ansari ,  Nishat Hussain,  Noorjahan,  Poornima Joshi, Rajendra Y J? Clifton ( to be confirmed),  Rajiv Yadav,  Rashida Khan,  Sarwar Raza,  Shafeeq Mahajir ,  Shahnawaz Alam,  Shesh Narain Singh,  Sohail Hashmi, Vidyadhar Gadgil ,  Vineet Tiwari,  Vrinda Grover,  Yogesh Diwan,  Yusuf Shaikh ,  Zaheer Ali Khan,  Zakia Soman
Note 1.: Victims will also be deposing. Their names have not been included in the list
 
NOTE 2.: Apart from the speakers, panelists and victims who have been invited by Anhad for the Meet, we will not be able to arrange for any accomodation in Delhi  or travel for outstation participants. Those out station participants wanting to attend the Meet must arrange their own travel and stay and also must write to : anhad.delhi@gmail.com to register as there is limited space available. Delhi particpants are requested to inform us so that we can work out the logistics.
 
Note 3: The sessions will start at 9am and continue till 10pm on October 3 and 4th, 2009.
 
Note 4: All presentations will be 10-15 minutes and testimonies: 5-7 min only.

Schedule
 
October 3, 2009, 9.00am- 4pm
Session 1
Persecution in the Name of Terrorism
 
 
October 3, 2009, 5pm- 10pm
Session 2
Social, Economic, Educational, Political Discrimination, and limited access to the impact of govt schemes
 
October 4, 2009, 9.00am- 4pm
Session 3
Faces of Discrimination
What it means to be a Muslim in today's India
Hate campaigns
Appropriation of Muslim religious and cultural spaces
Negative Images in Media
Rise and infiltration of right wing organizations in the Indian Society
Discrimination against Muslims by law enforcement agencies both Police and judiciary
Systematic Appropriation of the Waqf properties and Qabristans
Failures to Control organizations spreading hatred
Impunity and Failures to implement Enquiry reports and punish those guilty of Communal Crimes
Ignoring the large scale terror links of the Sangh
Hate Campaigns around Cow slaughter
Politics of symbols and words
Emergence and role of new age gurus      
 
October 4, 2009, 5pm-10pm
Session 4
Communal Violence and State Impunity
 
October 5, 2009
11am- 2pm
Panel: Working out the recommendations
 
3.30pm- Press Conference

 
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