The Coalition for an Egalitarian and Pluralistic India is a community-based organization of Indians, other South Asians, and everyone else with an interest in South Asia and South Asian diasporic communities in the United States. GOAL The Coalition's most immediate objective is to keep the South Asian community in Southern California apprised of events in India and the sub-continent, and offer ­ through public symposia, seminars, and other forums -- a perspective that is commonly found in neither the mainstream American press nor even in South Asian journals and newspapers published in the United States. PHILOSOPHY The Coalition strongly believes in the democratization and pluralism of the Indian polity, and is pledged to contributing, in its own exceedingly modest ways, to creating a political and social framework for South Asia that would remove the injustices and liabilities faced by such traditionally disempowered elements as women, tribals, and ethnic and religious minorities. The Coalition shares in the Gandhian view that no one is truly free until everyone is free. Freedom is indivisible. SOLIDARITY Members of the Coalition also agree that, having settled down in the US, they are bound to work towards the improvement of relations between South Asians and other minorities in the US, and that carefully crafted solidarities will transform America into a more equitable society.The Coalition for an Egalitarian and Pluralistic [formerly Secular] India was established in mid-1993 by Dr. Syed A. Samee and Professor I. K. Shukla in an endeavor to create, for the Greater Angeles area, a public forum to discuss contemporary politics in South Asia, and to voice informed concern about alarming developments in India and elsewhere in South Asia which pointed to the increasing influence of certain social and political formations in South Asian nations that are opposed to pluralism, democracy, secularism, freedom of speech and expression, and the social, political, and cultural rights of religious and ethnic minorities. About the Coalition- continued Web site created by: Vinay Lal, UCLA and designed by Anju Relan, UCLA Please send comments on the web site to: vlal@history.ucla.edu