Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad
Teesta Setalvad is a senior journalist, educationist and activist. She is co-editor of the monthly Communalism Combat, along with Javed Anand. Setalvad is involved with broadening the boundaries of history and social studies teaching through KHOJ, a programme for secular education, and has worked extensively on exclusion and communalization in school curricula and textbooks. She has analyzed and documented the communalization of India's law and order machinery, and the building up of communal conflict in Gujarat, since the early 1990s. Trained also in law, Setalvad was convenor of the Concerned Citizens Tribunal – Crimes Against Humanity, Gujarat 2002, headed by Justices V.R. Krishna Iyer, P.B. Sawant and Hosbet Suresh. She is secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a civil rights group set up by her and other concerned citizens of Mumbai in April 2002.
The visceral hatred directed against Gandhi and the denigration of everything he stood for need to be recounted if we are to understand the political nature of that dastardly act. This book attempt...

Foot Soldier of the Constitution
Who is Teesta Setalvad?
For the Hindu Right, she is a dangerous impediment to India's onward march to 'glory'. This is the story of the real Teesta – inheritor of the best and most prog...
Foot Soldier of the Constitution
Who is Teesta Setalvad?
For the Hindu Right, she is a dangerous impediment to India's onward march to 'glory'. This is the story of the real Teesta – inheritor of the best and most prog...
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