By TCN News,
New Delhi: Social activists Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand have launched a re-invented online version of Communalism Combat, on www.sabrangindia.in on the occasion of Constitution Day.
The website features include the ‘In Fact’ section, which de-constructs propaganda and myths; image stories from India’s best photographers, investigation and opinions pieces. It also has a feature called “the peace map” which maps, at regular intervals, structural violence and conflict on www.peacemap.in.
“In response to the concerted campaign to transform secular democratic India into a Hindu Rashtra, we the undersigned quit our jobs in the mainstream media to channelise our professional skills in fighting the cancer of divisive politics. The launch of a monthly journal, Communalism Combat in 1993 was an outcome of that effort. It was our conviction then, as it is now, that a free media cannot be value neutral. A free media is only conceivable in a society that values freedoms, can only flourish in a secular democratic environment. It follows that those with claims to being part of the free media must walk the talk, ” said Setalvad and Anand in a press release.