- Signatures: 192
- Goal: 100
- Deadline: 10-28-2004
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We, Non-Resident Indians, join other people of India in urging the Prime Minister of India to stop "political vendetta" by the State Government of Gujarat and the police against Dr Mallika Sarabhai
| Number | Date | Name | Organization | Any comment? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 199 | 2:49 pm PST, Feb 16 | Anton Oscar Iorga | ||
| 198 | 10:24 pm PDT, Mar 25 | Munib Kadri | None | I seriously think people who are against democray should not be allowed to threaten people who without any selfish interests are fighting for the riot affected irrespective of the religion they belong to. The President of India and the Central Government should take all possible steps to ensure thay democracy in its true meaning is practised in Gujarat. |
| 196 | 12:52 pm PST, Mar 13 | rajendra sharma | vjp | nil |
| 195 | 2:31 pm PST, Feb 10 | Wendy Horn | ||
| 193 | 10:16 am PDT, Apr 13 | C senn | ||
| 192 | 10:31 am PST, Apr 1 | Rohan Joshi | It is a pity to see these Hindu fascists posting here too. Isn't it? I for one, have NEVER seen anyone as hypocritical of these people. Why were they born at all? They make me feel ashamed to be a Hindu. | |
| 191 | 12:54 pm PST, Nov 11 | Anonymous | I congratulate Mallika for supporting uniform civil code at Stanford University. | |
| 190 | 8:52 pm PST, Nov 10 | Anonymous | ||
| 189 | 11:09 pm PST, Nov 7 | Anonymous | ||
| 188 | 12:04 am PDT, Aug 28 | Bimal Ghose | The brutal force used by Narendra Modi to suppress any thinking opposing the Hindutva formula must be stopped. People believing in Human Rights and Secularim must unite against his neo-Nazi rule. | |
| 187 | 10:39 am PDT, Jul 7 | nadir yar khan | ||
| 186 | 9:02 am PDT, Jun 15 | Tony Thomas | ||
| 185 | 10:57 am PDT, Apr 30 | Anil Srivastava | AcrossWorld Communications, Inc. | Mallika represents a family (on both sides) who have contributed to a lot that we all cherish about India. India needs to honor and respect her work, even when we disagree, rather than persecute her for what she believes in. The charges don't bear scrutiny and it behoves the Prime Minister to gracefully withdraw the charges and apologize to her for all the pain caused to her. |
| 184 | 8:14 am PDT, Apr 18 | Madhukar H. Daftary | I read the news. What surprised me is that the State Government has taken up the case of individual claiming to have been cheated. How can a case of an individual against an individual be a State subject. If that be the case, then State Governments should be filing thousands of cases every day.This seems to be a clear case of political vendetta. | |
| 183 | 9:57 am PST, Mar 14 | Anindita Ghose | ||
| 182 | 4:59 am PST, Mar 4 | Madhu Palepu | Even in developed countries injustice (I mean the absence of 'equality of justice'), discrimination, racial and sexual prejudices are on the rise. We are with you in your fight against these and against those organizations / departments harassing you. Bravo! | |
| 181 | 6:52 am PST, Jan 29 | Chetan Ingole | Dear Dr. Sarabhai, what about all others who suffer from the harrasment by Police in India, and they dont have any Influential friends like yours, Let the court decide yourfate and nottry to become Judge yourself. We know every coin has two faces, let the public see that other side of yours is as clean as the seen. | |
| 180 | 7:48 am PST, Jan 18 | hassan ba | Dakar Senegal | Good Luck! |
| 179 | 5:02 am PST, Jan 11 | Bharat Mehta | We are with you and congratulate in your fight against these facist | |
| 178 | 8:16 am PST, Dec 19 | Anonymous | ||
| 177 | 11:28 pm PST, Nov 22 | Fathima Hassan | President Kalam was cultivated as a scientist by Vikram Sarabai. Now when his family that has made great contribution to our nation is harassed he is keeping blissful silence. The tyranny of hindutwa fascism is swallowing the nation. Mallika is only a symbol. Let us raise up and protect the nation. | |
| 176 | 4:02 am PST, Nov 20 | Ritika Jain | ||
| 175 | 2:02 am PST, Nov 20 | Elisha Saigal | ||
| 174 | 12:33 am PST, Nov 20 | Jyotika Jain | K. C. College | |
| 173 | 11:50 am PST, Nov 19 | Nisheeta Mehta | KC College Mumbai | |
| 172 | 10:15 am PST, Nov 19 | Nisheeth Ranjan | Stanford University | I'm not sure if the checks and balances in India's legal system (at least at the state court level) will work to ensure that Mallika gets a fair trial. I'm not sure if this petition will help either. I think what is needed is for Indian journalists to investigate this independently and come up with an assessment and, if the allegations are baseless, to try and push public opinion against the Gujarat government. The media reports I've read till now just report the news, there's no background investigative stuff at all. |
| 171 | 8:58 am PST, Nov 19 | manizeh. shermahomed | ||
| 170 | 6:40 am PST, Nov 19 | Anonymous | I want the law to take the due course in Mallika's case.She should not be given any special treatment just becuase she's a secularist.Let the law enforcement agencies go thru the investigation and decide her fate.Let's not preempt the agencies. | |
| 169 | 2:49 am PST, Nov 19 | shivangi ambani | student, KC College | |
| 168 | 8:47 pm PST, Nov 18 | Anonymous | ||
| 167 | 10:54 am PST, Nov 18 | Ajit Bhalla | ||
| 166 | 4:25 am PST, Nov 18 | Riddhi Shah | student, KC College | |
| 165 | 10:59 am PST, Nov 15 | Anonymous | ||
| 164 | 12:30 pm PST, Nov 14 | Anonymous | ||
| 163 | 10:58 pm PST, Nov 13 | agniva banerjee | ||
| 162 | 5:49 am PST, Nov 12 | R Iyer | I watched Mallika dance at the Philly art museum a couple of years ago and her stage presence and performance mesmerized and inspired us all specially my children.Stop this outrageous harassment and let her continue her work as India's greatest cultural ambassador. | |
| 161 | 10:43 pm PST, Nov 9 | Erach Bharucha | ||
| 160 | 9:24 pm PST, Nov 8 | amit anshu | before harassing someone like mallika,our politicians like laloo,narendra modi,advani and such(or shall i say all of them)shalll be arrested and looked into.it seems normal citizens have become easy targets. | |
| 159 | 1:18 am PST, Nov 8 | Anonymous | Protest against commumnalism and Mallika getting harassed because of it. | |
| 158 | 4:57 pm PST, Nov 7 | Ali Asghar | COVA | |
| 157 | 4:52 pm PST, Nov 7 | Anonymous | ||
| 156 | 6:22 am PST, Nov 7 | Varna Sri Raman | Saarthak, Jagran | Why is it that only the sane voices get harassed? |
| 155 | 5:39 am PST, Nov 7 | Anonymous | Indo-American Arts Council | Stop harrassment of Mallika Sarabhai |
| 154 | 3:01 am PST, Nov 7 | Karuna Muthiah | ||
| 153 | 12:38 am PST, Nov 7 | Saurabh Sinha | MICA | Transperency demanded !!! |
| 152 | 9:57 pm PST, Nov 6 | Chaitanya Kumar | ||
| 151 | 9:11 pm PST, Nov 6 | Anonymous | Stanford University |
Petition to stop harrassment of Dr Mallika Sarabhai
Stop harassment and intimidation of Dr Mallika Sarabhai
To
Hon’ble Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India
New Delhi
India
Dear Hon’ble Vajpayee:
You are urged to take immediate steps to stop the harassment and intimidation of Dr Mallika Sarabhai, who is the Pride of Gujarat. Times of India of Tuesday, October 28th 2003 has headlined a story entitled “Mallika Sarabhai Is Being Framed” and it has put the Government of India and the State Government of Gujarat in a very bad light.
As you very well know that Dr. Mallika Sarabhai has been very outspoken in condemning the massacre of innocent human beings in the State of Gujarat after the Godhra incident of February 2002.
Dr. Sarabhai has refused to withdraw her case against the State Government of Gujarat for lack of failure to prosecute the perpetrators of the senseless violence and also the failure of the State to provide adequate relief and rehabilitation of the survivors in the Supreme Court.
Dr. Sarabhai has categorically denied any wrongdoing and the charges of human trafficking against a person of her stature is absurd. Despite this she did co-operate fully with all the inquiries of the authorities.
Efforts of Gujarat Government to deny her bail is gross miscarriage of justice. Many prominent citizens of India such as Rajmohan Gandhi , Kuldeep Nair, Shabana Azmi, Asghar Ali Engineer, J B D’souza, Dolly Thakore Alyque Padamsee B G Verghese have already protested this outrageous effort to silence one of the few voices of sanity in the State of Gujarat.
We respectfully ask you to take immediate steps to reverse the misguided effort to force Dr Mallika Sarabhai to withdraw her public interest litigation, otherwise irreparable harm will be done to India’s reputation that got tarnished in all parts of the world.
We the undersigned Non-Resident Indians both individuals and organizations are awaiting your confirmation that the right steps have been taken to set the wrong that has been done to Dr Mallika Sarabhai.
Sincerely yours,
Individuals:
Shrikumar Poddar, USA
Dr K S Sripada Raju, USA
Uma Balakrishnan, USA
Kaleem Kawaja, USA
S.M.Bhagat, USA
Hari Sharma, Canada
Rasheed Ahmed, USA
Ruchira Gupta, USA
Imtiazuddin, USA
Gautam & Urvi Desai, USA
Amit Shah, USA
Zubair Patel, USA
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, USA
Sami Uddin. USA
Dr. Chander Balakrishnan, USA
Srividhya Venkataraman ,USA
Dr. Jawaid Quddus, USA
Mayurika Poddar, USA
Dr. Satinath Choudhary
Zafar Iqbal, PhD
Organizations:
International Service Society, USA
Vaishnava Centre for Enlightenment, USA
India Development Society, USA
India Foundation, USA
Seva International, USA
Bharatiya Educational Foundation, USA
Assn of Indian Muslims of America,, USA
Develop in Peace, USA
Gujarati Muslim Assn of America, USA
International South Asia Forum, Canada
Am Fed of Muslims from India, USA
S.Asian Network for Secularism & Democracy, Canada
NRIs for Secular and Harmonious India
CC:
The President of India
The Deputy Prime Minister of India
The Chief Minister of Gujarat
The Speaker of Indian Parliament
To
Hon’ble Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India
New Delhi
India
Dear Hon’ble Vajpayee:
You are urged to take immediate steps to stop the harassment and intimidation of Dr Mallika Sarabhai, who is the Pride of Gujarat. Times of India of Tuesday, October 28th 2003 has headlined a story entitled “Mallika Sarabhai Is Being Framed” and it has put the Government of India and the State Government of Gujarat in a very bad light.
As you very well know that Dr. Mallika Sarabhai has been very outspoken in condemning the massacre of innocent human beings in the State of Gujarat after the Godhra incident of February 2002.
Dr. Sarabhai has refused to withdraw her case against the State Government of Gujarat for lack of failure to prosecute the perpetrators of the senseless violence and also the failure of the State to provide adequate relief and rehabilitation of the survivors in the Supreme Court.
Dr. Sarabhai has categorically denied any wrongdoing and the charges of human trafficking against a person of her stature is absurd. Despite this she did co-operate fully with all the inquiries of the authorities.
Efforts of Gujarat Government to deny her bail is gross miscarriage of justice. Many prominent citizens of India such as Rajmohan Gandhi , Kuldeep Nair, Shabana Azmi, Asghar Ali Engineer, J B D’souza, Dolly Thakore Alyque Padamsee B G Verghese have already protested this outrageous effort to silence one of the few voices of sanity in the State of Gujarat.
We respectfully ask you to take immediate steps to reverse the misguided effort to force Dr Mallika Sarabhai to withdraw her public interest litigation, otherwise irreparable harm will be done to India’s reputation that got tarnished in all parts of the world.
We the undersigned Non-Resident Indians both individuals and organizations are awaiting your confirmation that the right steps have been taken to set the wrong that has been done to Dr Mallika Sarabhai.
Sincerely yours,
Individuals:
Shrikumar Poddar, USA
Dr K S Sripada Raju, USA
Uma Balakrishnan, USA
Kaleem Kawaja, USA
S.M.Bhagat, USA
Hari Sharma, Canada
Rasheed Ahmed, USA
Ruchira Gupta, USA
Imtiazuddin, USA
Gautam & Urvi Desai, USA
Amit Shah, USA
Zubair Patel, USA
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, USA
Sami Uddin. USA
Dr. Chander Balakrishnan, USA
Srividhya Venkataraman ,USA
Dr. Jawaid Quddus, USA
Mayurika Poddar, USA
Dr. Satinath Choudhary
Zafar Iqbal, PhD
Organizations:
International Service Society, USA
Vaishnava Centre for Enlightenment, USA
India Development Society, USA
India Foundation, USA
Seva International, USA
Bharatiya Educational Foundation, USA
Assn of Indian Muslims of America,, USA
Develop in Peace, USA
Gujarati Muslim Assn of America, USA
International South Asia Forum, Canada
Am Fed of Muslims from India, USA
S.Asian Network for Secularism & Democracy, Canada
NRIs for Secular and Harmonious India
CC:
The President of India
The Deputy Prime Minister of India
The Chief Minister of Gujarat
The Speaker of Indian Parliament
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