South Asia Citizens Web

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  The anniversary of a divide | Gopalkrishna Gandhi

  26 June

  This year, the 70th anniversary of India’s independence is also the 70th anniversary of India’s partitioning. The division was not neat. It was a giant, bloody mess. Uprooted from their homes, some 14.5 million human beings, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, left the new Pakistan for India, or India for the new Pakistan.

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  The Scramble for Houses: Violence, a factionalized state, and informal economy in post-partition Delhi | Rotem Geva

  26 June

  The article investigates the spatial aspect of Muslim minoritization in the city, namely their ghettoization, resulting from ongoing struggles over Muslim houses. It traces the gradual encroachment on the Muslim-majority neighbourhoods designated ‘Muslim zones’.

• India: Abuse of law / How is it seditious to cheer the Pakistan cricket team?

  26 June

  Providing more evidence that the sedition law – Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code – is prone to serious misuse, several people across the country have been booked under its tough provisions when all they were doing was celebrating the Pakistani cricket team’s victory over India in the recently concluded Champions Trophy final.

• India: Lynching mobs, repressive regime and glamourisation of war!

  26 June

  A society made habitual of violence, intimidations, suspicions where killings, torture, sexual abuse and pellet-gun related blindings are the norm is so brutalized that it will try to respond with its own idiom of brutality. Humanity today, sadly so, stands throttled in Kashmir and there is need to reflect and introspect, if this trend is to be reversed or even arrested.

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  India: Hate and prejudice are heavy burdens to put on our children; why not teach them to question? | Subhadra Sen Gupta

  26 June

  So, there are parents who are filling their children’s minds with prejudice and hatred of the other — Muslims, Dalits, dark-skinned people, women, the people from the North East, the LGBT community, and, now, everyone who eats beef. Have you noticed how the list keeps growing? I would like to ask these parents — how are you different from the Islamic fundamentalists teaching children to kill?

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