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In support for victims of torture

MADURAI: Indigenous folk forms of ‘parai aatam,’ drama and folk songs were performed with a strong social message against torture here recently.

The cultural night was conducted to create awareness among the public to unify and fight against injustice and exploitation.

Organised by Citizens for Human Rights Movement of People’s Watch, the cultural night depicted earlier incidents of violence like the police attack on an all-party procession in Tirunelveli where 17 people were killed, the Nandigram imbroglio and atrocities committed against Dalits in various forms.

Sharp satirical comments were made against the State. Incidents of fake encounters and lock-up deaths were also portrayed through songs and dance sequences.

The cultural night was juxtaposed with a public lecture on ‘Communalism in India’ delivered by Ram Puniyani Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Powai.

Mr. Puniyani spoke on the dangers posed by communal politics to democratic rights. He said the modern political dream of democracy, which is based on an ideal of autonomous subjectivity, an offspring of the equality, liberty and fraternity is in threat because of the tangible communal violence and intangible communal politics, which needs to be understood.

Speaking late in the night on ‘communal politics and minority rights,’ M.H. Jawahirullah, president, Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam charged the media for playing a partisan role and projecting Muslims in bad light.

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