Sunday, May 03, 2015

India's crackdown on 'anti-national' activism...

The Ford Foundation has incurred the Indian government's wrath for funding "anti-national activities". Last week, the home ministry put the organisation under a financial surveillance regime in order to ensure that only "bona fide welfare activities" are carried out.

If the government is to be believed, Ford Foundation is bankrolling the disturbance of communal harmony and thereby endangering India's national security, all because it funds Teesta Setalvad. And Setalvad, claims the government, has been indulging in treason and fraud.

Setalvad's NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace, has been relentlessly knocking on the doors of the courts to bring to book all the high-ranking government functionaries for their culpability in the 2002 communal carnage in Gujarat.

It took the Supreme Court's intervention to prevent her arrest. That many of India's educational institutions also benefit from the foundation's munificence, or that a concerned US is repeatedly seeking clarification, remains purposefully ignored. Full story...

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