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| name        = Javed Anand
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| caption     = At a meeting of P.A.D.S. in Delhi in January 2014
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| birth_date  = ca. {{Birth year and age|1950}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]]
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| nationality = Indian
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| known_for   = [[Sabrang Communications]] 
| occupation  = Journalist
}}
'''Javed Anand''' (born ca. 1950) is an Indian journalist and civil rights activist who founded the Mumbai-based [[Sabrang Communications]] in 1983.  He is married to [[Teesta Setalvad]] and they co-edit the monthly ''Communalism Combat''.{{sfn|Varma|2012}}

==Early years==

Javed Anand attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, graduating with a degree in metallurgical engineering in 1971.
He worked for the Front for Rapid Economic Development of India, a social action group, then became a writer for ''The Daily'', a Mumbai-based tabloid newspaper in 1971. In 1983 he met Teesta Setalvad, and they married four years later.{{sfn|Varma|2012}}

==Sabrang Communications==

Shortly after the [[Bombay riots]] of 1992–93 that followed the demolition of [[Babri Mosque]] in December 1992, the launched ''[[Communalism Combat]]''.{{sfn|Varma|2012}} They started Sabrang Communications and Publishing Pvt Ltd in the hope of undertaking professional assignments that would generate revenue to sustain ''Communalism Combat''.{{sfn|Anand|Setalvad|2004}}
The first issue was published in August 1993.{{sfn|Peer|2007|p=229}}{{sfn|Punwani|2003}}

The magazine struggled at first, with friends pitching in. Some regular ads pulled them through.{{sfn|Punwani|2003}} In the run-up to 1999 Lok Sabha elections, ''Communalism Combat'' came with an ad campaign featuring 18 fact sheets/backgrounders pitched against the Sangh Parivar. This campaign was funded by the Congress, CPI, CPM and about 10 prominent individuals. BJP and RSS unsuccessfully petitioned to the Election Commission against this ad campaign.{{sfn|Pestonji|1999}}
By 2003 the magazine was printing up to 10,000 copies monthly.{{sfn|Punwani|2003}}
{{sfn|Chaudhury|1999}}

In 1998 Sabrang published ''Damning Verdict: Report of the Srikrishna Commission'' on the riots in Mumbai in December 1992 and January 1993, and 12 March 1993 bomb blasts.{{sfn|Breckenridge|2002|p=80}}
Following ongoing communal violence in [[Gujarat]], in 2000 Sabrang published ''Saffron on the rampage: Gujarat's Muslims pay for the Lashkar's deeds.{{sfn|Ghassem-Fachandi|2012|p=304}}
In 2002 Sabrang and South Asia Citizens Web published ''The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva'', which investigated how funding raised by the [[India Development and Relief Fund]] (IDRF) in the USA was being distributed in India.{{sfn|Tow|Chin|2009|p=289}}

Javed Anand was a founding member of Citizens for Justice and Peace.{{sfn|Koppikar|2008|p=49}}
In October 2003 he was a participant in the first national meeting of "[[Muslims for Secular Democracy]]", 
and was chosen General Secretary of the group.{{sfn|Akhtar, Javed et al 2003}}
{{sfn|Anand|2011}}

==Opinions==


Talking of violence, he has said: "Put bluntly, do groups and organizations whose rights we defend themselves believe in democratic forms of mass mobilization? Is it ethically right and politically tenable that rights groups focus their entire attention on violations by state personnel but remain mum when 'militants' maim, rape or kill fellow citizens".{{sfn|Hardiman|2003|p=63}}
Speaking of the [[2008 Mumbai attacks|2008 terrorist attacks]] in Mumbai, Anand said: "They (terrorists) claim to be doing this in the name of Islam. We have to tell them, 'Not in our name'".{{sfn|Kapur|2008}}

Anand writes columns for mainstream newspapers such as ''[[The Indian Express]]''.{{sfn|The Indian Express}}
In a November 2009 article for this paper he slammed a UK-based Muslim charity for insisting that only Muslim willing to follow strict Shariah rules could receive their help.{{sfn|Anand|2009}}
Writing in the ''[[Deccan Chronicle]]'' in April 2011 on the proliferation of Muslim parties he said "Ideologically speaking, it means secularism by daylight, Sharia after dark. Politically speaking, at best they'll cancel each other out; eat into votes of mainstream parties that swear by secularism. At worst, they'll provide propaganda fodder to Hindutva, feed Islamophobia".{{sfn|Anand|2011}}
As a columnist for the ''[[Asian Age]]'' he has written a number of articles on Muslim-related topics, all generally hostile to India and pro wahabi fundamentalism.{{sfn|The Asian Age}}

In September 1998 Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand published a paper on ''Saffron Army Targets People of the Cross'' that documented forced conversions of Christians to Hinduism with the assistance of state agents.{{sfn|Sarkar|2002|p=217}} 
Talking of a police probe of radical [[Hindutva]] organisations in November 2008 he said "I can't see a serving IPS officer going after an army officer or saffron outfits unless these is concrete evidence".{{sfn|Koppikar|2008|p=49}} 
He has singled out the [[Students Islamic Movement of India]] (SIMI) for attack, describing it as an extremist organisation that rejects democracy and secularism and espouses violence as a means to achieve a new Caliphate.{{sfn|Mishra|2008|p=73}}

==Legal issues==

In January 2014 the [[Ahmedabad]] Crime Branch registered a First Information Report that alleged that Javed Anand, his wife Teesta Setalvad and others had embezzled Rs.15 million intended for construction of a memorial for riot victims.{{sfn|SC stays Teesta Setalvad's arrest 2015-02-12}}
They were accused of misusing funds they had collected for making a museum for the Gulbarg society.{{sfn|Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand face arrest 2014-03-26}}
The accused denied wrongdoing and said the case had been filed with "ulterior political motive".{{sfn|SC restrains arrest of activist ... 2015-02-12}}
In March 2014 a local court in Ahmedabad denied the couple anticipatory bail in the case.{{sfn|Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand face arrest 2014-03-26}}
On 12 February 2015 the Gujarat High Court refused to grant anticipatory bail. Later that day the Supreme Court stayed the arrest of the couple in the alleged misappropriation case.{{sfn|SC stays Teesta Setalvad's arrest 2015-02-12}}

On 8 July 2015 the [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] (CBI) filed a case against Setalvad and her organization for accepting foreign funding without first obtaining permission from the Home Ministry, a violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. The filing also named Javed Anand and Gulam Mohammed Peshimam, both Sabrang directors.
Setalvad told reporters she had assured the CBI she would cooperate fully with them, but had not been contacted by the CBI with any requests.{{sfn|PRI|2015}}

==References==
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